About Ultralab

   
Ultralab People and Project Timeline

(  What happened to the paper version of the timeline taken from the Team day last year. I remember someone photographing this... someone has it!   It would be really helpful to have this

anyone have dates for matt sisto

Here we go, add when you joined and what you know.....please.....this is
for the website....

BC (before community)

Based in a demountable hut at the Brentwood Campus of what was the Chelmer Institute and then the Essex Institute of Higher Education, soon to become Anglia Polytechnic and finally Anglia Polytechnic University

1988

ERTEC (Eastern Region Teacher Education Consortium) project for 5 years

Sam Deane starts as an A level student

HEADNet (HyperCard Educational Application Developers Network) run and
organised by ARIC (Apple Regional Education Centre)

1989

 ARIC becomes Xploratorium

Hydra developed (our html site editor)

Workrooms  - give away educational software.  Distributed across US by Apple

HyperCard Educational Participatory stack for teachers

First CD ROM produced "Tools for Multimedia"

Ann joined Stephen in the October of this year.


1990

Jan - Stan Owers joins as Industrialist in Residence

Richard Millwood joins the team

Rennaisance project

1991

Lys joins (is this the right year?)

1992
Teleste (Richard will probably have real date?)

Tom Smith joins Xploratorium

Kris asked (as student) to sequence and produce music for Insights (Carnaval Des Animaux)


1993

Carole joins Xploratorium to run Learning in the New Millennium (LiNM)

Kris joins Ultralab (Xploratorium?)

Xploratorium becomes Ultralab

April - Sept  LiNM starts (partner Nortel)

Greta joins Ultralab

Workrooms win MacUser educational award

"Insights" CDROM produced

1994

Newton software developed by Ultralab

1995

CarnaudMetalBox Schools project (2 year project working with schools)

Schools Online project (2 years - 64 schools online covering curriculum
subjects)

Relationship developed with Whipps Cross hospital

1996

Multimedia in Health Education Association project (1 year research
project)

Jonathan joins the team, whilst training as a teacher

Spinalot developed to run Schools OnlLine phase 2

Andy Simpson joins to run the Chestnet project with Whipps Cross

Sept - Ultralab moves from Brentwood to Chelmsford

1997

LiNM Phase 11

Tomorrows World Live - We developed all the software and activity for the Nortel stand ( How much TV can you handle, Sound Story etc...)

World Health Organisation - Jakarta conference (development of phone
server technology)



July 17th-  Leonie joins team from oz and launches OLN Sept 22nd

Sept 1997- Alex joins the lab on a gap-year from Kingston University

Sept 1997 - Tom Stacey (& Matthew Eaves) visit Ultralab to learn about "The Internet"! Tom tells Richard how he is gaining free access by hacking into a Library email server from a room in the student village.  Richard gives Tom the first of many disapproving looks...

Neil arrives on work experience

1998

Poems Pictures and Music finally released as CD (the last of the CD-ROMS)

eTui project starts

Notschool.net project starts (a year early?? - well all the Newspaper cuttings on my desk say 1998 and there were 2 project leaders before Jean but it is true that Julia did most of the planning work and Theresa got LEAs in place so start date is confusing CC)

Tesco SchoolNet 2000 started 42 advisers appointed to support the project. (InFo: Really the 42 never attended the lab. We were all seconded to Tesco through HTI and used to meet with Stephen at Ponsbourne Management Centre. -Martin)

 Some continued into Talking Heads (see 2000/01)

Leonie helped write bid and was then seconded to the SMILE project with APU's E&I unit (sme internet learning experience)

Speciifcation for Gridclub produced (DfES sponsor this 12 week project)

Development begins in partnership with Oracle on community tool, 'Codename
Scoop' (later to become think.com) which is trailled and tested by Ultralab in UK schools and community centres

Weiya Wang joins Ultralab to work on eTui

Claire arrives on work experience

1999

LiNM Phase 111

Broadband in Education - Ultralab helped organise, run and present this demonstration to the government promoting broadband for all schools in the country.

Jean Johnson joins Ultralab to run Notschool.net

Sodium formed and join Ultralab

June - Oracle 'Scoop' team visit UK to work with Ultralab on software development

Community overview (6 month research project for Orange)

Jonny Dyer starts working with Ultralab

Scoop renamed think.com

Dec  - Talking Heads (TH) project started

Dec - Rex and Lindsey first come up to the Lab as 1st yr Multimedia students to do a presentation on the emergence of digital music and mp3 downloads - powercut in the middle causes this demo of digital wonderfulness to be done via old-fashioned paper instead...

2000

Jan 7th TH team's first day: Pete Bradshaw, Tony Browne, Martin Doherty (part time), Jane Down, Alison Gee, Sarah Jones, Geraint Lang, Malcolm Moss, Simon Patton, Stephen Powell, Gill Roberts, Hamish Scott Brown, Kevin Thompson
By February, 1200 newly appointed headteachers were enrolled into the online community, all with new laptops and a facilitator. Hal was in this group, facilitated by Malcolm (Lordy!)

Neil helps to rescue Leonie from database blowout and assists with mailouts etc

April - Rex and Lindsey visit the Lab with fellow multimedia students to be shown the wonders of stitching panoramic photos in QT by Richard....Rex appears twice!

Touchdown - videodance performance at at the 5th Annual World Festival of Videodance in Argentina, 2000.

June - LiNM finishes

Manoah analyses data from the initial TH survey

Ultralab team (ie Sodium + Alex) visit Oracle in Washington to work on the design for think.com (skin for TH)

CreativeNet project with Design Council

May - Maureen Gurr Joined Ultralab as Administrator for The Talking Heads project
August - Martin Doherty joins Ultralab and TH full time

31 August - Malcolm Moss returns to teach in school
September - Lindsey Wingate starts on the Online Soap as a 2nd yr Multimedia Student

November - Matthew Eaves Joined Ultralab to work on NPQH
November - Our NPQH team launched Virtual Heads
November - Anthony Russell, Michael Hartley, Pip Bailey, Alan Sargeant join Ultralab and  Talking Heads
November - First NPQH centre managers meeting, followed by regional training events

Andy Simpson left

2001

January - Lesley McGuire and Tim Williams join Ultralab and the TH Team - from mPowerNet. Malcolm Moss returns to TH. Hilary Messeter and Shirley Pickford join Ultralab and TH from the tesco SchoolNet 2000 exhibition at the Millennium Dome.

Triad - collaborative dance project run on Think.

Pax Excelsis - telematic performance for BBC Wales

Sharing Innovations project starts with Design Council (run on think.com)

m-Learning project starts

Snugfit started as part of m-Learning

February Andy Cunningham starts as Project Adminstrator for Notschool

March - first cohort of online learners for new NPQH
April - Online Soap launched
New Project - Lifeboats.TV with the RNLI to build a new future image of the lifeboat service
July - Claire Gregory joined Ultralab
August - Mark Constable joins the team as a Researcher.
September - Hal joins the Lab officially as the Fasttrack project facilitator
September - Brightlingsea team day sees the first Eisteddfod (after catching crabs, of course).
September - Neil joins the Lab officially as Systems Administrator

2002

Jan - Ian Terrell (looking harried) co-opted from the faculty of ed
Jan - Bett goes to the Movies is a roaring success with Ultralab taking children along to the show to work on digital video whilst there
 
Eurodans project in collaboration with Leeds, ran through the year and concluded with a performance in Dublin.

Tom meets Richard again when he gives a presentation to MSc DACS students, Tom hacks Richard's powerbook onto the DACS network (gives unapproving look) and informs him of a job going at Ultralab.

New Project - Input CBBC with Childrens BBC to look at the future of childrens BBC

Feb - Vicki Swan joins Ultralab as part of the Notschool team
Andy Cunningham changes job to become Ultralab Team Administrator
April - Kevin works on a new project 'Heads Together' - a Scottish version of Talking Heads
June - Michael joins the Heads Together project
July - Gina joins Ultralab to summarise Talking Heads conversations (she didn't know Vix had only just started too!)

August- Toni Coppen joins Talking Heads as project logistics co-ordinator

eVIVA project begins


2003

Building Learning Futures report for CABE (1 year research project)

Jan-Aug - Development of NCSL's Leading from the Middle with ultralab consulating on online learning and community aspects


April - Ultralab conference held in London  "Learning Spaces, Virtual Places"

July - Blueprint for "Every Object.net" is written at least 12 times between January and July.

14 July - Cohort 1 start year 1 of Ultraversity

Sept - launch of Leading from the Middle.
Sept - Pip Bailey leaves, Alan Sargeant, Hilary Messeter and Simon Patton leave to join NCSL
31 Oct - Pete Bradshaw leaves for a short time...
Dec - Talking Heads and all NCSL online communities handed over to NCSL

Certificate in Digital Creativity project starts (oct time)

2004

Between January and December the Digital Creativity events take place worldwide, leading to a double DVD set and a massive event in the V&A museum where children showcased their work. Participants from Tasmania conferenced in on the night to share in the celebration. The events took place in New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia, Singapore and the UK - Norfolk, SEEVEAZ, Ayr College, Cardiff, Derry and virtually with notschool.net


European Respiratory Society research pilot begins and ends
Numerous seminar/workshops ran for a variety of NHS organisations on Online Learning Communities
Created Demo of the NHSU Virtual Campus
Limited consultancy work with the World Health Organisation

m-Learning project concludes

January - Pete Bradshaw returns as a freelance to work on the DfES Vision paper on MIS systems
Easter- Toni Coppen leaves for Essex University
1 May - Pete Bradshaw returns to the 'team'
20 April - Cohort 2 start Ultraversity
May - DfES Vision Paper produced
Jul - DesignMySchool.net begins with the Design Council
Aug - Ian Terrell leaves for Middlesex
September - Andy Cunningham leaves for London

Certificate in Digital Creativity (now with an International at the start) concludes it's exploratory phase.

November - Manoah leaves

November? BBC vision paper produced - the future of the BBC's learning provision

Cogs Project Starts with Edunova and UCA Middlesbrough

Involved in various EPSRC/AHRC clusters for Designing in the 21st Century.  Including the performance and design cluster managed by Leeds.

Work with CP Basildon on Ignition and Transmission projects starts (ongoing)

2005

January - Stephen Heppell leaves
17th February, designmyschool.net is launched at the Design Council's 'From the inside looking out' conference in Birmingham.
28 February - Cohort 3 start Ultraversity
July 20 - Everyobject.net is launched at the V&A Museum
21 July - Awards Board confirms first 6 graduates from Ultraversity

July - Notschool team (Jean, Jonny, Jean W, James, Vicki, Weiya, Beverly) leave Ultralab
July - Designmyschool reaches the end of the contract


9 September - begin work on International Masters in Child and Adolescent Health & Development
19 September - Cohort 4 join Ultraversity

12 November - Ultraversity's first graduation ceremony