Blogs
By: gaia.marcus@rsa...On: 14th January 2013
Happy New Year from the RSA Action and Research HQ everyone, and please join me in wishing a slightly belated Happy First Birthday to the Social Mirror project
By: info@aliveactiv...On: 8th January 2013
iPads can be used in guided reminiscence sessions to give a more enhanced personal experience to care home residents. When I'm out and about, if I happen to spot something happening in places of historical interest, I film it on the iPad (keeping it as still as possible). Then, when I meet people who may have spent time in that place, I show them the footage.
I filmed a couple of minutes of the ship The Balmoral coming into port at Bristol harbour entrance last week.
It’s been a year since I started blogging here at Nominet Trust, exploring the research around new technologies particularly in education. There probably hasn’t been a more exciting time in the Nominet Trust year for me as they’ve just announced a new fund with the Education Endowment Foundation – it’ll be great to see what’s funded and what outcomes they achieve. I’m going to use this final blog of the year I’ll sum up what I’ve covered so far and how it’s all related.
By: jennie@aunehead...On: 21st December 2012
A group of older volunteers - some with dementia, and some carers, and some just interested in the issues of ageing and addressing the changes in life as we get older - have been making a regular fortnightly radio programme with support from the Nominet Trust and others.
The programme airs on SounDart Radio 102.5fm in the Totnes and Dartington area, online at soundartradio.org.uk, and is made available as a podcast at eva-radio.net. The programme airs every other Thursday at 10am.
By: bigdanbroOn: 18th December 2012
This is the first of a three part blog post looking at the three 'classic' challenges in evaluation: measurement, attribution and aggregation. Each blog post starts with a brief summary of the challenge, and then concentrates on trying to offer a different way of looking at the challenge and the issues that surround it. At the end of each blog post I hope to offer some practical tools or ideas that could be used by organisations seeking to effect change.
By: James.Barradell...On: 17th December 2012
YouthNet has completed the first stage of a research project funded by the Nominet Trust that looks at how young people use mobile devices to meet their support needs. The research, involving more than 1,000 young people, consisted of online focus groups, an online survey, and offline workshops.
By: Geraldine@grans...On: 13th December 2012
The run-up to our first training day with the Local Editors was, to put it mildly, busy. Putting together a site of this scale is a huge undertaking and our tech team have been working all hours to get it up to scratch.
By: sally@highamcon...On: 11th December 2012
Two years ago, I decided it was time to do something really ‘big’ with my career. My daughter was growing up, my consultancy business had also grown nicely but reached its limit in terms of my own capacity. It was time the whole consultancy team needed a new challenge.
So I awarded myself a month to be as imaginative as possible. This involved clearing whole days in the diary and challenging myself to think of a brand new idea for a business with social purpose. This is the top motivation for all my work.
Whenever on my own I thought about what I knew about, what I was good at, what I didn’t like and then took the sum of those thoughts and forced myself to imagine possibilities. It was mentally exhausting and until then I had never considered myself to be a creative person.
By: flipOn: 10th December 2012
We’re over the moon to announce that we have received funding from Nominet Trust to develop our 360-degree strengths feedback tool for young people. Alongside this award we are launching FLiP as a new social venture working with youth-led organisations to deliver scalable digital solutions tackling youth unemployment. It’s exciting times!
Mapping what we search for
In my last post, I said I’d talk a bit more about knowledge mapping. I’m particularly interested in this area because while information retrieval through search engines is rather well supported for individuals engaging in fairly short factual retrieval, longer and collaborative tasks have relatively less tools for their facilitation. So this is an interesting area from an information management perspective in general.
Mapping for the 3rd sector
