global digital creativity research & workshops

Today some of the Ultralab team spent their time working at the big ‘Be Very Afraid’ event at BAFTA. Ultralab played host to a morning celebration of student and children’s digital creativity.

The event was supported by funding from the DfES and showcased stunning digital creativity.

Students from ten schools, colleges and universities invited questions from the visiting guests, BAFTA members, and from the media to discuss their achievements and demonstrate why the audience should be very afraid of them.

Apple Computer provided equipment for the event.

Professor Stephen Heppell managed the celebration expressing his ideas for next steps.

View some of the pictures taken at the event.

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 of the pilot was to find out what young people who were out of the formal education system thought about the lifeboat service and to also find out how to engage them using the latest technologies.

Team:
Matthew Eaves (Ultralab)
Jonny Dyer (Ultralab - Notschool)
Jean Johnson (Ultralab - Notschool)
Micky Slatford (RNLI)

Eight Notschool.net researchers were involved in the research process and provided valuable information. The notschoolers also manned cameras and filmed on behalf of the project.