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 Click to Enlarge In the year 2000 we saw the very first online pubquiz between Skinningrove in Timms Coffee House and the Black Bull in Trimdon. Skinningrove won! This was a great boost for Skinningrove for a number of reasons. Firstly Skinningrove were just recovering from two massive floods. The other reason was that the Black Bull had what they thought was an ace on their team – Prime Minister Tony Blair (pictures below).. This led to a whole string of Community Challenges which grew in size until it covered the entire country. There was even a Euro Challenge. We had a TV crew with us at the time so you can enjoy the atmosphere at Timms in the video below. Find more videos like this on The Digital Village Social Network
 Tony Plays for Trimdon (click to enlarge)  Tony Plays for Trimdon (click to enlarge) This event was in the very early days of UK online and captured the interest of the network and came to the attention of BECTA and in particular a guy named Alastair Clark. Through Alastair of Becta and Teesside Uni through Steve Thompson and Dave Eagle who developed some software the idea grew and grew.  Click to enlarge After the first one there was a challenge across the UK.  Click to enlarge Then there was the Euro Challenge – Click Here For Skinningrove Eurostars .  Click to enlarge And then there was a 52 team UK wide community challenge and the moderators were trained in Skinningove  Click to enlarge Ten UK online centres with expertise in community media have been chosen to become ‘beacons’ for the rest of the network. Community websites have helped people to interact, given them access to communication technologies, and replaced facilities that were unavailable to them. For example, one ‘digital village’ website in Teesside provided links to recruitment websites, Royal Mail and travel information, for people living in an area that had no JobCentre, post office or train station. They’ll share their tips and experiences with other centres and help develop a national strategy for community and social media. Ofcom is supporting the scheme and the ten centres were officially awarded Community Media Beacon status at a ceremony at the Ofcom London offices on Thursday, 29 January. Ofcom’s Head of Media Literacy, Robin Blake, said: ‘New technologies are empowering all of us to produce our own information, talk about the issues that matter to us, gather support and make real changes not just to our own lives but to the lives of those around us. ‘Making sure everybody, everywhere can get expert support in understanding and using those technologies is vital, and UK online centres can play a major role in opening up new media options for more people in more communities. ‘It’s vital we capture and share best practice, and I’m looking forward to seeing the Community Media Beacons light the way for other communities.’ The ten UK online centre Community Media Beacons are Leeds Central Library, Destinations@Saltburn and Hendon 2000 in the North East, Knowle West Media Centre in Bristol, The Engine Room in Somerset, Dingle Online and Kensington Community Media Centre in the North West, Living Archive in Milton Keynes, BCB in Bradford and Foresight in Grimsby. Pictured below are Steve Thompson of the Institute of Digital Innovation, University of Teesside & Paul Davies of Destinations @ Saltburn receiving the award from Ofcom’s Head of Media Literacy, Robin Blake.
(click image to enlarge) Professor Mike Lockyer of CMAD (Community Media Applications Developers) University of Teesside demonstrates his fabulous new software tool “This is My Community” to groups from Margrove Park and Redcar. The software allows groups to generate community information and digital stories linked to geographical locations. Margrove Park want to map the 1891 census to their homes and the Friends of Redcar Cemetery are mapping graves of note in Redcar Cemetery and telling the story behind the person laid to rest. Mike said “the software is in it’s infancy and I want to talk to as many groups as possible at an early stage to tailor it to the users needs, ease-of-use is the keyword here”  The Mela Mega Weekend was a huge success. This is the first year we have taken the two events of Saturdays Sports Mela and the Sunday Main Mela and turned it in to ONE two day event. Saturday started really well but we had heavy downpours. We were obliged to position the large screen on hard standing rather than the prime position beside the stage but it still worked really well and the Abbingdon Road School animations went down really well. Student and community volunteers made up the camera crew providing footage to the big screen as well as a group of stills photographers contributing the flavour of the Mela from across the park. Podcasts of the main stage musical performances and the images were successfully added to the site LIVE from our “community media van” by virtue of a bank of laptops and a USB modem. The Mela management committee were delighted with the great success of the two day event and will most certainly carry the idea forward to next year. Figures for Saturday were close to 5,000 visitors and 26,000 people on Sunday. We had the usual excellent vibe and atmosphere. The website got just over 800 visitors and we will continue to get hits for a week or so as visitors to the actual event return to the “Digital Mela” to look at pictures (hoping to see themselves there) Things to do while you wait for next years Mega Mela Weekend. (1) Go to the news section and find out when it is ! (2) Fill in the feedback form to tell us what you thought of Mela 2008 (3) Join the email list for news of developments (4) Listen to the 2008 podcasts (5) View pictures from the 2008 Mega Mela Weekend. |
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