Mind Map

 The above is a basic mind map showing the main sections of a proposed website to bring together the initiatives that have been set up in North Wales. This is not to replace this digital practitioner blog, or to undermine or weaken county blogs or web initiatives, but to strengthen them, and provide a central North Wales 'hub' for initiatives, practitioners and other stakeholders.
           The url will be - Updated here before long!

First Task - Project Idea

Sorry for the late-ness! My idea is to introduce the use of Edmodo in a couple of settings. With a group of young people who are creating memory books for Elderly people in a residential home. Edmodo will allow me to keep in contact with the group between sessions and post taks/polls. I've also set up a 'Classroom' for the volunteer centre, to share good practise and resources, instead of laborious e-mails where you have to copy everyone in.

First Task (Task 1) - 27 March 2013 - Face Book Closed Group

My project is to get a group of keen residents of an ‘extra care’ residency in Prestatyn, where I am volunteering at the moment, onto Facebook and to create a ‘Closed Group’ page for their sole use.

My idea is that they could use their ‘closed group’ page as a meeting area for chat, sharing of photos/links, and to discuss their hobbies and interests.  With the residents being of ‘extra care’ they sometimes perhaps don’t feel like coming down to the public lounge area, this page would mean they could keep in touch with their friends and up to date with any news without it being on full view on facebook.

I will be creating a Blog and posting information on how a ‘Closed Group’ is beneficial and the safety of using social network sites, this information will be aimed at the residents, but you may also find it of benefit.

(hopefully I have done this right, fingers crossed) 

First task - Alex Fairclough, idea 2

My second project idea is a blog dedicated to teaching people how to play basic musical instruments. It is a collation of useful sites, blogs, forums, videos and tutorials.
I taught myself to play guitar and banjo using Internet forums but found I had to research and constantly go back and forth between sites so I felt by embedding useful media within this blog would make it easier to get around.

First task - Alex Fairclough

My project idea is to create a group page on Facebook which is a help page for users. Beneficiaries will learn how to sign up and use a Facebook account within their training, and will add the help page as a group. This help page will be used by all project beneficiaries and therefore when people post problems they encounter with their digital technology, there will be a wealth of knowledge shared. Not only will this encourage interaction and improve self confidence, but it will also reinforce the learning from the training session. 

First Task Deadline 27th March - Gwenan Griffith

I'm going to create a blog containing simple user guides, screen casts, and YouTube videos on computer basics, internet, social networks, online safety and so forth. I've created this videos outlining my project idea. I've already started the blog on my project - www.penllyndigidol.blogspot.co.uk - but bear with me, it's still in it's early stages!

First Task Deadline 27th March - Lon Vaughan

My project involves creating screen casts to provide an introduction to Facebook for beginners.

It will follow 5 subheadings -

1. Sign up and security
2. Searching for friends
3. Different aspects of Facebook
4. Uploading photos and videos
5. Sharing links

These screen casts are aimed at an user who wishes to use Facebook for private use but could be expanded to include the possibilities for small companies or local groups.

Introduction to Facebook - Mindmap

First task Deadline 27th of March 5pm

Here are my first thoughts for an advertisement I wanted to do for G2G. It's not aimed directly at the end user, but rather at people who might signpost end users to us. At least that's the idea.