http://mywebconnect.info Community Reporters in Manchester Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:00:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ordsall Community Café have now established a Community Reporters Club, in which local people can join. We are currently attending training with the BBC with the producers of Look North West News; which is very exciting and informative. One of the items from the ... http://mywebconnect.info/blog/2007/04/30/community-reporter-news-desk/ On Tuesdays from 11:00am to 3:00pm Ordsall Community Cafe are running a multimedia club in conjunction with the MCIN community reporters programme. You can learn how to use a computer for the first time, or how to use programmes or media equipment.  You can learn how to turn you videos into ... http://mywebconnect.info/blog/2007/03/08/multimedia-club-at-ordsall-community-cafe/ The Club has created a new blog to be used to share the history of the Whitemoss Club for Young People, past and present. It aims to give the local people and people that attend the club the opportunity to share memories, video and pictures about the club and surrounding ... http://mywebconnect.info/blog/2007/02/15/new-blog-whitemoss-club-for-young-people/ About four and half years ago I was in a job that I hated, so I considered learning I.T. I knew nothing about computers, not even how to switch one on or off. I looked into it but did not follow it up, until last year. How I ended up doing ... http://mywebconnect.info/blog/2007/01/09/if-it%e2%80%99s-going-to-happen-it-will/ In October 2006 Fare Pak Hampers went to joint administrators. Martha H Thompson and Shagun Dubey. A staggering 150 million families saving up for Christmas lost a lot of money. What made this even worse was the fact that a lot of people knew that this company was in so ... http://mywebconnect.info/blog/2007/01/09/fare-pak-hampers/ This is the story of my experience as an IT beginner. I wanted a change of career and I thought that in order to improve my job prospects I thought I should get some IT skills. However I was worried that as an adult returning to learning I ... http://mywebconnect.info/blog/2007/01/09/a-learning-journey/ Following on from our blogging workshop we have set up a media club at the Whitemoss Club for Young People.  People attending the media club can brush up on their IT skills and get help in using a number of software packages.  Most recently we have been giving people help ... http://mywebconnect.info/blog/2006/12/01/media-club-at-whitemoss-club-for-young-people/ We have held a number of workshops at Chatterbox (a community group in Blackley) and have set up a media club.  Some of the local residents are producing a book taken from their experiences with the cook and taste sessions being held at Chatterbox. The media club at Chatterbox takes place ... http://mywebconnect.info/blog/2006/12/01/media-club-at-chatterbox/ November has been a busy month for us here at the Community Reporters project.  We have run blogging workshops at Whitemoss Club for Young People, Trinity Church Welcome Centre and Manchester Foyer. We are planning a blogging workshop at Cheetham Surestart and will be helping them to transfer their existing website into a ... http://mywebconnect.info/blog/2006/12/01/project-activity-in-november/ A Free Event is being held at the Ordsall Community Cafe on Wednesday 6 October from 5pm to 7pm to explain how Manchester Community Reporters works as well as giving people the chance to try out some equipment and techniques that reporters can use. Free Basic Skills Assessment Create a Personal Website ... http://mywebconnect.info/blog/2006/11/20/community-reporters-ordsall-community-cafe/