City Academy Norwich Sand Pit

The digitalcreativity.org team have been working at City Academy Norwich to turn an old school hall into a creative learning space incorporating creative use of technology into teaching and learning. The space was part of Earlham High School, which is due for demolition and will be replaced by new buildings. Until then, our role has

Rugroom Learners film 2009 Asperger's Conference

Matt from our team spent today supporting learners with Asperger’s Syndrome from RUGROOM at City College Norwich filming a conference abou Asperger’s. For this project the learners had to learn how to use the broadcast quality camera and how to record sound. Matt has had a long relationship with the RUGROOM project helping to embed

Rugroom Celebrates winning Beacon Award

Rugroom is a learning space for learners with Asperger’s Syndrome. Matt and Hal have been involved in the project since 2007 and have helped work with learners and staff to embed creative use of technology into the teaching and learning. The project has just won a Beacon Award for widening participation, which means it is

NHS Mental Health Filming

Hal and Matt do a lot of film work all over the country and to give you a flavour of one of our projects, here are some photographs of the filming we conducted for the NHS: Our team often work with chroma technology, and teach this to learners in schools too. We were pleased to

Rugroom Learners demonstrate Creativity at BETT

Since 2002 our team have been showcasing the best creativity in learning projects at BETT Show, the UK’s largest technology in education show. This year our team worked on a stand with RUGROOM Asperger’s Syndrome learners showcasing the technology in learning projects we’ve been working on together which includes Radio, Television and Animation. Some images

BBC Wales 2W Christmas Idents by Six Year Olds from Caerleon Infant School

The 14th, 15th and 16th of November now stand out as some of the best days in my career so far. We’ve worked long and hard to persue governments, broadcasters and education institutions to promote the fact that children are very creative when united with the power of enabling technologies. BBC Wales initiated a pilot

BBC Blast, 21CC, Ultralab, Apple, BETT Show and EastEnders

Today, (Saturday) Maureen Gurr and myself headed to London to the BBC Broadcasting House bringing together the young people from Saffron Walden County High School and King Harold School for the planning day for ‘Create at BETT 2006. For the past five years Ultralab have been working in conjunction with Apple Computer and other partners