Knowle West Media Centre meets Sally Clements
December 4, 2006 Posted by Roz in : Digital Challenge, Community Media, Skills , add a comment31 October 2006
I went to the Health Park where I met with Sally Clements. Sally explained her role at the Health Park to me. She told me that she is employed by the NHS as a local health trainer, which is about working in the community with people at risk to support them to make positive changes in their lives, if they felt they needed to. Some of this support was through signposting people to other local agencies and organisations. However, the role has changed and Sally’s work now focuses on working with people who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, chronic heart disease, diabetes and those awaiting surgery by offering them support to stop smoking.
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Geeks in the Park on Accessibility
November 30, 2006 Posted by Laura in : Digital Challenge, Innovation, Media, Learning, Skills , add a commentHello Accessible Web Developers and those who want to be,
This excellent podcast from the “Geek in the Park” event on accessibility.
If you’re looking for some good in depth discussion of accessibility then this is brilliant. Topics include:
- Accessible browser technology
- Web developers adding accessibility functionality where perhaps User Agents should fulfill the role
- Accessibility vs business/branding requirements
I could go on but I don’t want this to turn into an essay, anyway I thought I should pass this on.
Main site (recording surprisingly not available here)
http://www.geekinthepark.co.uk/
Recording available here
http://www.archive.org/details/Geek_in_the_Park_27th_August_2006
I hope you enjoy it and find it useful.
Knowle West Media Centre meets Chris Pickering
November 21, 2006 Posted by Roz in : Education, Digital Challenge, Wireless, Community Media, Media, e-society, Learning, Skills, jobs, Technology , 2 comments26 October 2006
I travelled to KWMC where I met with Chris Pickering, Director of Future Learning, a social enterprise providing training opportunities in Knowle West. Chris told me about his involvement with Knowle West Web and how he has worked closely with Kevin and Diane Jeffries to support them in putting local people on line.
Chris talked about Knowle West and said that the day has gone when you could get local people to go into spaces for training. He told me that he thinks that local people want less consultation and more action. He said that, instead of trying to get people to attend training sessions, the emphasis needs to be on going into people’s homes to work with them.
Chris told me that he has recently obtained funding from UKonline for someone to go around door-to-door to do training in internet and email and also to help people work out how they can use digital technology to ends that are useful to them. He said that Steve Woods of Bristol Wireless has been doing this to a certain extent already.
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What about older people?
November 20, 2006 Posted by Clare in : Digital Challenge, Mentoring, Skills, Connecting Bristol , 2 commentsLast week’s visit from Stephen Dodson and Bert Provan (Chair of the Digital Challenge judges), seemed to highlight the need for us to look carefully at what we are offering older people. There are some fantastic and diverse projects going on already:
Mobile Bristol and CLASS
Members of CLASS, a self-directed group of older people, have recorded and edited their wartime childhood memories based in Southville, Bedminster and Redcliffe to create a landscape of digital stories using mobile technology. The software for the project was provided by Mobile Bristol, a project that enables people to augment their neighbourhood with sounds and stories.
