Weevles Updates Disabled Bloggers Team
Weevl Bloggers Corner
Park View Project encourage the local community to confront the fact that there are many older, disabled people excluded from having an online presence. A short biography gives a flavor of what we are about and how to get involved either as a Volunteer Online Chum or as somebody seeking assistance in getting an online presence.
https://www.parkviewprojectne.com/
Further awareness of defining the nature of a bully from Cheriewhite . Vital that we all understand the harms of bullying and call it out for what it is.
Often times we ran into people who are just jerks and are rude to random people. Just because a person is rude to us does not mean that they are bullying us. Anyone, at any age, can become a target of bullying, and there is evidence that child and teen targets are more likely to…
Is it Bullying or Is it Incivility — Chateau Cherie
Both locally and nationally many organisations play a role in using digital technology to benefit people – It is potentially a Quality of Life indicator!
New parents, unpaid carers, the homeless, young people and cancer patients could benefit from digital solutions as part of the TechForce19 challenge | Department of Health and Social Care People who may be particularly vulnerable or isolated during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, including new parents, the homeless, unpaid carers, young people and cancer patients, could […]
Digital innovations to support vulnerable people during COVID-19 outbreak #covid19rftlks — Innovation & Improvement News
Accessibility is an absolute for those with physical or intellectual challenges.
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. And at no time has web accessibility and inclusion been more important for older people. Bloggers can learn from M365 May.
Three presentations on web accessibility and inclusion that benefit bloggers — Write Into Life
In conjunctions with Master Card and The Good Things Foundation a campaign is launched to tackle digital poverty by those both ‘under-banked’ and those on the digital periphery. The aim is to confront the consequences of this latest pandemic by enabling more people to access the internet through digital ‘upskilling’ and access to digital items. Park View Project are a local centre based in Shiremoor, North Tyneside acting as a conduit in which this campaign can be felt at a local community level. Here are links providing details of the campaign and how this can make a difference to so many ‘starved’ of the variety of local support offered by having access to the internet. If you live in North Tyneside do let us know. https://fintech-alliance.com/news-insights/article/4195/mastercard-joins-leave-nobody-in-the-dark-campaign/financial-inclusion
https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/news-and-blogs/news/leave-nobody-in-the-dark
Online Learning and Visual Impairments –
This is a guest post from Anna Pilson. Anna is a PhD student at Durham University School of Education. Her ESRC-funded project aims to create a participatory action research model that positions children with a vision impairment as knowledge producers and change agents. She tweets as @pilsonanna. Now that the Covid-19 pandemic has radically altered the […]
online learning for all — patter
Park View Project was created from a cry for help from older and disabled residents of North Tyneside who were frustrated, confused and, for many, in fear of using the internet because of the negative press relating to fraud, abuse, bullying and lack of privacy. Yet many older people are aware of the acceleration of digitization, but this only adds to the sense of being ‘outside looking in’. Does the public perceive this as a problem! It is not broadcast so it’s ‘unheard’ and ‘unseen’ by many agencies, organisations and businesses who, in turn, only reinforce this mind-set by assuming everyone has access to e-resources.
‘Starting as a volunteer steering group in 2013 we collected evidence about individuals not online and how this created difficulty in managing day-to day tasks. Adopting a traditional community development strategy to seek out solutions, we were able to reach out to those not online and attempt to gain an insight into the realities of ‘digital non-compliance’. The outcomes then are as now, which involves: –
Our aims are to tackle social & economic isolation; increase awareness & understanding of the applications that digital media can be used for and strive towards integrating life experience with that of learning 21st century digital services. Our proposal for developing a volunteer Online Chums service, alongside our active learning module, will address social and economic isolation which individual’s experience, including practical help in using everyday digital gadgets and their applications. Importantly, the social goal is to integrate our digital methods in a way that provides a community development tool which acts as a focus for promoting mutual support, ownership and, importantly, participation in local neighbourhood & borough-wide activities. In this small community we draw on volunteers from across our local community to take on a variety of roles such as digital mentoring (no special skills needed just people skills and commonsense); attending our outreach sessions (C19 emergency excluded); website design and content management; social media championing; updating contacts; promotion/marketing. We also welcome volunteers who enjoy online tutoring in a vast number of subjects – free – which engage people in a way that encourages inter-generational community-based activities. Central to all our work is a social one where we want to not just support to manage your online presence but increase social circles of support at a community level. You can register your interest in becoming a volunteer if you live in the North Tyneside area:
Since our community organisation came into being we had access to a website provided by SocialEngine. Unfortunately over the recent months both technical and cost issues meant we had to make the difficult decision to mothball the this site and archive personal content. We are now faced with the challenge of securing a purpose-built option that addresses the accessibility features we have previously not been able to maximise for our members or to develop those safe areas where interactivity of users and project support providers could be nurtured or where a secure social space for vulnerable groups and individuals could share their life experiences in a rapidly changing technological world. However, funding is also an issue in that gaining traction in a competitive market where larger charities may have the level of infrastructure to develop donor relations, we rely very much on word of mouth and picking up local information about agencies/services wanting to support a focused approach to support people on the digital periphery. Crowdfunding is a possibility, but may not fit the limited scope of what we want to achieve, which is to support disabled folk young and old to develop strong community ties through inter-generational, community based activities using technology as the stimulus. Might any of our readers or members have some insights they would wish to share with us and help us forge our future goals? https://www.parkviewprojectne.com/
Following on from Mart’s blog about his involvement in this series of programmes depicting the way our digital project addresses the needs of those with intellectual challenges. This video feautures Marc Froggatt, Simon Schofield and Mart Lee, who are volunteer Online Chum Mentors working with others like themselves to guide them through using digital processes in a safe and secure way, especially when increasing their social circles of support. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-43798237/we-made-a-social-network-to-escape-trolls
Our group of volunteer Online Chum Mentors have been refreshing our website and, where possible, attempting to make it as accessible as possible. However, there is much that still needs to be achieved to address shortfalls in accessible content. Yet, there is much to do and hopeful we will have additional funding to assist in addressing this important need. Anyone with observations that help us achieve this, please leave a comment. https://www.parkviewprojectne.com/
Weevles Updates Disabled Bloggers Team 