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By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on October 29, 2003
Posted in learning technology creativity

Spending time at TVNZ

I have been spending the last three days working from the TVNZ buildings during my tour of New Zealand to explore creativity. At TVNZ I am working with Liz Donnelly on a proposal which would see television content created by young people for broadcast on the ‘TV2’ channel. The work we are doing builds on

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on October 10, 2003
Posted in learning technology creativity, Ultralab New Zealand

Ultralab New Zealand Summer School 22nd and 23rd of October

I have spent the past two days working in Christchurch New Zealand with colleagues from our Sister Ultralab to roll out the labs Summer School model as part of potential pilot with TVNZ’s TV2 channel. The project was to find out what children’s television made by children could be like, using some of the research

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on March 17, 2003
Posted in BBC Children's BBC, BBC Future TV, learning technology creativity

Input CBBC project participants from Sheffield and Hull celebrate in London

All the young people who took part in the ‘Input CBBC’ project in Sheffield and Hull headed on coaches to BBC Television Centre to spend the day celebrating the hard work undertaken on the project. Late last year the young people from schools, city learning and community centres were invited to participate in an Ultralab/BBC

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on February 3, 2003
Posted in BBC Children's BBC, BBC Future TV, learning technology creativity

Input CBBC project completes in Hull

Today I headed off to Hull with Richard Millwood to visit the schools involved in the Input CBBC project. The young people have now completed their film work and presented it to us. For the past four months the young people have been making films for the project, which is research by the BBC and

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on January 31, 2003
Posted in Blog

Ultralab's Digital Creativity Project mentioned in Publication

This year saw the ‘SummerSchool’ and ‘Input CBBC’ projects quoted in a chapter written by Professor Stephen Heppell in Whither Assessment?, a QCA publication addressing how the educational community could improve the ways in which it assesses students. An extract coving the creative wins from SummerSchool: Here is an extract: LESSONS LEARNED: This annual feast

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on September 16, 2002
Posted in BBC Children's BBC, BBC Future TV, learning technology creativity

Input CBBC and the Blue Peter Garden

Ultralab has been working with young people for the past two years using the latest free movie making software and Apple computers. The BBC attended the 2001 V&A Event at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Greg Childs, head of BBC’s Future TV spoke about how the BBC would need to adapt to meet