learning technology creativity | Matthew Eaves

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on December 20, 2001
Posted in learning technology creativity, SEEVEAZ

2001's Digital Creativity Summer School films celebrated at V&A in London

The results from the 2001 project are amazing, with 17 excellent movies. The movies were turned into a DVD and exhibited at the V&A (Victorla and Albert) museum in an evening celebration of digital creativity managed by the Ultralab team. Click to watch the audience arrive. The film ‘Tacky’ stretched the possibilities of iMovie 2,

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on December 1, 2001
Posted in learning technology creativity, SEEVEAZ

2001 Ultralab Summer School DVD Production complete

Ultralab’s first ever DVD production has been completed and pressed 1000 times. Congratulations to all the team involved in a day and night production. The disc contains all the work from the 2001 SEEVEAZ Summer School and will be given out at the 2001 V&A event, one copy to each researcher involved in the project.

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on November 19, 2001
Posted in learning technology creativity

Lifeboats.TV heads to St. Helier, Jersey

The second of our two pilot studies with young people. The lifeboats.tv team and some of the researchers from Ultralab’s notschool.net project worked together to test pilot the filming. St. Helier is on the island of Jersey, it was in ‘interesting’ flight in a six seater plane. The journey home was less bumpy. The objective

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on July 19, 2001
Posted in learning technology creativity, SEEVEAZ

Emotions Film Research Project starts with SEEVEAZ

The next Summer School project called ‘Emotions’ has begun with a new batch of ‘Researchers’ had to ‘tell an emotional’ story about a word. Each child picked one word out of a hat out of a possible 100 words. The first challenge, in groups of 4, was to decide which of the words picked out

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on July 10, 2001
Posted in learning technology creativity, White Court School

White Court School Students get creative at Ultralab in the first 30 minute film school

We experimented with a ‘One Hour Film School’ assisted by children from White Court School in Braintree, Essex. The plan was to find out if it was possible to teach how to use Apple’s iMovie software and Canon cameras in 30 minutes and for the children to then make a film without any adult help

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on June 7, 2001
Posted in learning technology creativity

Lifeboats.TV Burnham on Crouch

The Lifeboats.TV team rolled into Burnham-on-Crouch today to begin the film research for the RNLI’s Lifeboats.TV website. Thanks to all the team from Burnham involved in the pilot filming. Team: Matthew Eaves (Ultralab) Colin Elsey (Ultralab) George Variopoulos (Ultralab) From the initial footage, George Variopoulos made this initial film (it will take a while to

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on January 19, 2001
Posted in learning technology creativity

RNLI calls on young people and Ultralab to explore image and brand perception

On 19 January 2001 the very creative SEEVEAZ Summer School researchers came together at Burnham-on-Crouch Lifeboat Station to assist with Ultralab’s joint project with the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) to come up with ideas how the lifeboat service could be made ‘cool’ in the eyes of young people. Ultralab used the research findings to

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on December 12, 2000
Posted in learning technology creativity, SEEVEAZ

Transformation Digital Creativity Project concludes at the Millenium Dome

SEEVEAZ (South East of England Virtual Education Action Zone) approached Ultralab to ‘do something creative’ with children during the month of August 2000. The ‘action zones’ were set up as part of a government initiative to support schools within regions who had not fully adopted technology within their teaching and learning. SEEVEAZ became the only