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Barbara Wilkins Speech Writing: How To Write A Good One?

Speech writing is in lots of ways similar writing a paper, apart from that there is no penalty for spelling and punctuation mistakes. You should not try to write words in your speech that you are not relaxed pronouncing or don't know the meaning of because it can lead to a less fluently delivered speech. To be able to write a high-quality speech is a lot like making a good cake. Having the right elements is key for it's success. Every… Continue

Added by Barbara Wilkins on November 19, 2009 at 12:05pm — No Comments

Pat Jewett Using Technology and Social Media as an HR Training

I am just curious if you have seen many successful implementations of HR departments delivering employee training via new technologies like social media. We are creating a pilot social media site for my corporation aimed at providing employees with information about our Medical and Dental insurance, Short term insurance… Continue

Added by Pat Jewett on October 8, 2009 at 9:11pm — No Comments

John Popham Event: - Developing the Microsoft Digital Skills for Citizens Programme - 30th September

A free one-day workshop which will allow you to be in at the beginning of an exciting national initiative which is making recycled computers available to people on low-incomes. You will also hear about "Britain Works", Microsoft's £45 million programme which aims to get 500,000 people back to work. The event will take place: 10am to 3:30pm Wednesday 30th September 2009 at Leeds City Museum, Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 8BH. Details of the venue can be found here:… Continue

Added by John Popham on September 23, 2009 at 10:20pm — No Comments

Bryony Taylor How do we make the online world less intimidating?

I was struck today by something a friend said to me today about finding the idea of posting on a social network intimidating. I realised that it is a rather intimidating thing to do, to write a blog, comment on a post or even tweet for the first time. I suppose that joining any kind of online community/social network isn’t altogether different from joining an adult education class or enrolling at a college or university. Many people find this really intimidating, particularly if they have had a… Continue

Added by Bryony Taylor on August 21, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

John Popham Event: Using ICT to Engage with NEET Young People

Digital 20/20 presents "Using ICT to Engage with NEET Young People" Registrations are now being accepted for this free event for NEETs practitioners. Date: Tuesday, 16th June 2009, 10am - 3:30pm Venue: Galpharm Stadium, Huddersfield Register here

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Added by John Popham on May 25, 2009 at 7:40pm — No Comments

Tim Home/School links crucial for developing adult learners

Coming from a very poor area where there is about a 70% unemployment rate, the first contact that the adults have with learning after they have left school is with the local children's centre or the primary school. All schools must examine how they are working with parents in light of the recent government announcement that by September 2010 all primary, and September 2012 all secondary, schools will be required to offer parents real-tim… Continue

Added by Tim on May 13, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Wing Yin Chan Support for Digital Literacy?

After our series of training and consultation events with college students, I am now working on the footage and data collection from the raw materials. One initial and common response from students, when we asked them how they used technology for college work, was to “research with tools such as Google and Wikipedia”. While this is understandable and most of us do that to quickly retrieve information, is it good enough for more serious academic pursuit? A student from Ireland conducted an “expe… Continue

Added by Wing Yin Chan on May 13, 2009 at 12:44pm — No Comments

alison oldfield Online survey for 14-19 year olds - Pass it on!

Futurelab’s Greater Expectations project has set up an online survey for 14-19 year olds and I'm hoping you can help me distribute it! Greater Expectations is a 3-year project I'm working on that will create an online resource that supports young people to explore their aspirations and entitlements and engage with the information, networks and tools that can help put these into practicethat will help development of the project’s online resource. The online resource aims to connect young people’… Continue

Added by alison oldfield on May 7, 2009 at 12:40pm — No Comments

Wing Yin Chan Becta/NUS Networking and Policy Residential Events

During the last two weeks, we have organised four training and consultation events in London, Nottingham, Bristol and Leeds, which aimed to better understand students' view and experience of technology inside and outside colleges. 73 students have joined us from different parts of the country, and here are some interesting highlights from our discussion and activities: - Social networking sites, particularly Facebook, are popular among students and for students' unions' communication. - Despite… Continue

Added by Wing Yin Chan on May 1, 2009 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

Laura Overton A vision of FE & Skills in 2020 – can we afford to wait?

Learning and development staff within businesses (employers) today are finding that a catalogue of courses no longer addresses the fast changing needs of their organisation. As a result, many have been experimenting with different approaches, enabled by technology, to identify new types of learning and performance solutions that keep their organisations agile and responsive to change. In a demand led system of FE & Skills, can we afford to wait until 2020 before we see the changes outlined i… Continue

Added by Laura Overton on April 30, 2009 at 6:00pm — 5 Comments

Bryony Taylor The impact of new technologies on learning institutions

Having just become an avid user of Twitter and just attended the National Digital Inclusion Conference, I have been reflecting on the revolution currently taking place around new media and its impact on learning. Here are some observations. Look at what's happened to the music industry The proliferation in filesharing and music downloading has turned the music industry on its head. Younger people are less and less likely to pay for music, havi… Continue

Added by Bryony Taylor on April 29, 2009 at 3:53pm — 1 Comment

Jennifer Poole Themes of the day and how they might apply to FE

I have been reading Becta’s ‘Harnessing Technology Delivery Plan’ which makes for interesting reading after some of the issues stirred up at #ATN09 In this fast-paced world, 2005 seems a veerry long time ago but the principles of what we are looking to achieve through better use of technology, social media and the internet remains broadly the same:  Transforming teaching & learning to help improve education outcomes.  Better supporting ‘hard to reach’ learners e.g. those with special n… Continue

Added by Jennifer Poole on April 2, 2009 at 12:06pm — 2 Comments

shurwin harewood/web2.0 StrangerFestival seeks 16-26 year old video savvy ambassador to represent the UK in Europe

Hi I thought I would post this and get it out there WANTED: young video ambassadors for StrangerFestival 2009 What is StrangerFestival? StrangerFestival is a competition and event for young video makers from Europe. We organise video workshops, an exhibition and a festival in Amsterdam. We want young European video makers to upload their self-made video stories on www.strangerfestival.com to join our competition. What is a Stranger ambassador? You are aged between 16 and 26, make videos yours… Continue

Added by shurwin harewood/web2.0 on March 31, 2009 at 10:57pm — No Comments

Annabelle Simmons A portal to media literacy

Here's the link to the Michael Wesch film on teaching using new technologies. Michael Wesch is assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University and his film explores using Twitter to condense world history into 5 minutes. A portal to media literacy Continue

Added by Annabelle Simmons on March 30, 2009 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Steph Gray Ruby Pseudo's tips on engaging young people

One of the enduring sessions from the event in my mind was youth consultant Ruby Pseudo's talk on the reality of how young people use technology. In her own words, from her blog 'Ruby Pseudo Wants a Word':
Ruby Pseudo is a lucky girl who works with a network of young minds across the globe to find out what they want, wish for and need. It's also stuff they hate,
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Added by Steph Gray on March 30, 2009 at 12:10am — No Comments

Annabelle Simmons 'being human is all about learning'

I really enjoyed Ruby Pseudo's presentation which I found very inspiring. I loved her answer to the question 'is age what it's all about with social networking?'. Her reply (if I've noted it down correctly) included the comment 'it's about having manners, and about helping people'. This theme of social etiquette on social networking sites interests me - how people organise themselves into communities online. The first example of this that I knew about was ebay which I think based its business mo… Continue

Added by Annabelle Simmons on March 28, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Annabelle Simmons Ivo Gormley's film

Some points I noted from Ivo's film ... - Social networking re-establishes community - Social media brings the gift economy into the open - Social media facilitates connecting to one another through similarities; and trading on similarities - 'Public services start with people and what they can bring' - People are naturally collaborative and cooperative - Social media enables us to co-innovate and co-create Continue

Added by Annabelle Simmons on March 27, 2009 at 7:52pm — No Comments

Daniel Gane Imagination

I really enjoyed the conference, so many interesting ideas. And it's all too important. Duane Melius said he dropped out of school at 15 and approximately 25,000 young people have disappeared from full time education (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7906278.stm). That's a terrifying number who just don't feel education has anything to offer them. New technology has broken down so many barriers perhaps it will be the key to reinventing education so that 25,000 will go back to school. Mole… Continue

Added by Daniel Gane on March 27, 2009 at 5:16pm — No Comments

Jennifer Poole 10 interesting points made yesterday as Sam and I remember them...

1. Steve Moore: Focus on the philosophy over technology and the now rather than the future. 2. Ruby Pseudo: Kids are connected & collecting; and that applies to everything. 3. Ruby Pseudo: For a generation that might appear to be vain, kids are surprisingly unconcerned with perfection. Scruffy round the edges is fine - they don't expect everything to be perfect first time round. It's a generation raised on 'updates' 4. Duane Mellius: The way we see excellence in young people needs to be r… Continue

Added by Jennifer Poole on March 27, 2009 at 5:02pm — No Comments

Steph Gray Us Now: a film about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet

If you missed the screening of Ivo Gormley's film 'Us Now' (or want to watch it again), there are clips, rushes and transcripts available at: http://usnowfilm.com/ and a highlights clip on YouTube: Continue

Added by Steph Gray on March 26, 2009 at 11:13pm — No Comments

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