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Knowle West Media Centre meets Lester Freckleton

by Roz 19/12/2006 in Bristol

18 October 2006
I went to the Park where I met with Lester Feckleton, music tutor, and head of levels 1 and 2 in music at The Park and City of Bristol College. Lester told me that his work is about engaging young people in music, and that the young people he works with range from [...]

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Knowle West Media Centre meets Simon Willis

by Roz 14/12/2006 in Bristol

6 November 2006
I met with Simon Willis who told me that he has worked for seven years as a detached youth worker in Knowle West and adjacent areas. He told me he had worked in Merrywood and Hengrove with young people on the brink of exclusion. Simon highlighted that detached work is very different from [...]

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Knowle West Media Centre meets Pat O’Hara and Anne Micciche at Filwood Library

by Roz 01/12/2006 in Bristol

10 October 2006
I traveled to Filwood library where I met with Pat O’Hara and Anne Micciche. Pat began by talking about how needs of local people, as are reflected in the services they require from the library, are never static but change with circumstances over time. For example, at the moment there are regular visitors [...]

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Geeks in the Park on Accessibility

by Laura 30/11/2006 in Technology

Hello 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 [...]

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Knowle West Media Centre meets Lesley Belgium

by Roz 24/11/2006 in Bristol

Lesley Belgium
30 October 2006
I met with Lesley Belgium. Lesley told me that her children help her if something goes wrong with the computer, or if she has any issues with using it, such as accessing different things on line. She said that she really relies on her children, especially her daughter, to access the internet [...]

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Knowle West Media Centre meets Chris Pickering

by Roz 21/11/2006 in Bristol

26 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 [...]

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Knowle West Media Centre meets Matt Little

by Roz 16/11/2006 in Bristol

13 November 2006
Conversation between Carolyn Hassan of Knowle West Media Centre and Matt Little, Director of Creative Partnerships Bristol
Creative Partnerships (CP) is a government initiative focussed on making schools more creative places by establishing partnerships between them and the wider community and creative sector. CP have been working with schools in Bristol since 2003.
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Joining the Dots between Media Education and Community Engagement

by Shawn 13/11/2006 in People

I thought the Fresh 6 film event at the weekend was excellent and a real credit to Sam Burkey and all who helped organise it from Calling the Shots, Knowle West Media Centre, Suited and Booted and Firstborn Creatives, and all the young people who made the final decisions. At various times I was [...]

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Home help in Knowle West

by Woodsy 13/11/2006 in Bristol

Innovative developments just seem to keep happening south of the Avon with news that Knowle West Web and Future Learning have succeeded in securing funding to employ a part-time tutor to teach Knowle West Web users and residents in their own homes how to surf the internet and use email, as well as answering [...]

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