Matthew Eaves Part 2
I've since followed project management roles and now work with organisations, broadcasters, governments and charities defining real world issues, researching and implementing new and emerging technology solutions from inception to completion.
Some projects I've managed include:
- Lifeboats.TV - A research project to explore the aging reputation of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in the eyes of children and provide a vision for the future, complemented with an online solution to ensure understanding of the important work the RNLI does saving lives. Lifeboats.tv ran for two years and helped the RNLI focus on its volunteer force as a method of reaching support for future understanding and funding. Lifeboats.TV hosted 467 movies online focusing on stories from life savers and enabled people who lived inland to visit a virtual lifeboat station online.
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Digital Creativity (originally called: The Summer Schools Project) - Major five year action research project exploring how evolving video and sound creative technologies can be used to increase learning opportunity, engage, re-engage and disseminate findings. Each independent project has resulted in celebration events, multi-press DVD productions and in some cases dissemination on television.
Some of the work for this project has drawn on projects and partners in Thailand, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland. This five year project is concluding in the form of a publication which I am co-authoring.
Examples of some of the mini-projects undertaken to support the research include:
- re-engagement of gifted and talented young people not achieving their full potential in the classroom
- bring challenged communities together, beyond just talking (Northern Ireland, Thailand)
- integrate international cultures into the British education system, no matter the language
- explore the future for children's television to discover future potential for programme making
- bringing together Rural communities online
- engaging technically challenged personnel to achieve the requirements of strategic organisational change requiring a focus on technology use in teaching and learning
- supporting the transition from Primary School to Secondary School through film production
- provide opportunity for young people external to the education system to develop creative skills
- Input CBBC (With Richard Millwood) - Research commissioned by the BBC's 'Future TV department' to explore the future of children's television researching the outputs children would create if they made television themselves. Research pilot with the BBC resulted in national work produced by children during the project being broadcast on BBC channels.
- cTVNZ - Creative pilot study to explore output by children for Television New Zealand in the Maori and English languages.
Each year you will find me working on the 'Create at BETT' stand at the BETT Exhibition in London. Our stand is the only stand staffed by children and demonstrates to an audience of 27,000 creative use of the latest technologies available to the classroom.