In March, KMi’s Ben Hawkridge lent his expertise on ADSL and webcasting technologies to a unique event. Documentary film The Planet was simultaneously screened in cinemas around the world. After the showing, a panel of leading environmental scientists, chaired by Dr Mike Bullivant, answered questions from around the world from the Berrill Lecture Theatre. Questions…
KMi hosted another very successful Making The News Day. Seven pupils from St.Mary’s School showed off their newsmaking skills to a number of visitors including the DfES’ Doug Brown. The new graphic design for the site, from Peter Devine, was also shown for the first time. Photos: Teacher Julian Gabe supervises the download of an…
I recently attended the Fifth International Research in Music Education Conference at the School, of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of Exeter. Those of you who are familiar with my PhD studies will know that my research concerns encouraging creative learning in music composition, therefore, this conference was ideal. It also gave me…
Today saw the formal launch of the Making the News project formal evaluation report "Transforming learning through online storytelling". The evaluation team, lead by Dr Fiona Brooks of the University of Hertfordshire presented the findings of their independent evaluation study. According to their work, the MTN project had a significant impact on learning, particularly with…
They do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. The BBC’s own project School Report, running today to encourage students to learn the skills of journalism and "make their own news", shows remarkable resemblances to KMi’s Making The News project (based on our ROSTRA technology). Twelve and thirteen year-old children from 100 schools…
Peter Scott and Dr Paul Lefrere (senior lecturer in IET) attended two out of three sessions during Global Info Day, joining participants from a number of sites around the world including Madrid, Lima, Ottawa, Brussels and Budapest, to hear of and discuss projects that are part of the Seventh Research Framework Program. Framework programmes (FPs)…
Pupils from Year 6 of St.Mary’s School, the big winners in this year’s annual Making The News Competition, were invited to BBC Television Centre in London this week as recognition for their media and reporting skills. Making The News, based on KMi’s ROSTRA news disemination agent, is in use by hundreds of schools across the…
Pupils from St Mary’s CofE VA Primary School in Cambridgeshire almost swept the board at this week’s Making The News competition awards ceremony, hosted by EasyNet and presented by actor Warwick Davis at the BETT show in London’s Olympia. The children from this particular school are so keen on the system, they have even had…
Italian climber and now long-time friend of KMi, Lorenzo Gariano has successfully climbed Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia – the six of his seven summits challenge. The photos shows him with Cliff Dargonne, who in climbing Carstensz, as now complete all seven peaks – the highest mountain on each continent. Related Links: Lorenzo’s Seven Summits website
The Faculty of Science have chosen the ERA (Enabling Remote Activity) project as their nomination for the annual Open University Teaching Awards. Jessia Bartlett of Earth Sciences asked KMi members Lewis McCann and Chris Valentine, together with Phd student Mark Gaved, to lend technical expertise to the problem of involving disabled students in summer school…
