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- Learn & display literacy project
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Good literacy development from an early age is an important asset in every child’s life. Reading serves as the major foundational skill for all school-based learning – it is a multifaceted process involving word recognition, comprehension, fluency, and motivation. Our idea is a collaborative venture created to provide a new perspective, build on knowledge and develop important life skills. “Learn & display literacy project” can materialise by uniting children, young people, parents, cultural leaders and museums in Tower Hamlets, London. Participants develop a cultural storybook outside of school in order to increase literacy rates, community engagement and parental involvement in children’s reading development.
- 01/25/2012
- The Thing Tank
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A mobile application and online platform, ‘The Thing Tank’ will help young people not in employment, education or training to easily record, collate and present ‘things’ they’ve done to create a narrative of relevant experience. The process is supported by a youth worker (and in many cases by peers) and experiences will contribute to agreed challenges which can form part of an accredited youth qualification. All ‘things’ or experiences will also be automatically synced into an online multi-media CV template. ‘Things’ can be recorded in a variety of ways (by photo, video, text, audio) and can even submitted by others. Young people also gain important social media and multi-media skills while sharing and learning with their peer group. This will all result in increased employability and chances of access to further education.
John - 01/25/2012
- Portfolio Fusion
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An activity portfolio tool enabling the measurement, visualisation and analysis of an individual’s transferable knowledge and skills.
Neil - 01/25/2012
- Valuable internships found easy
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We propose a social search platform for internships, which helps finding paid and valuable learning opportunities easily. It is social, because interns can make pay-level and quality of learning experiences transparent by adding such information to the platform.
Martin - Evert - 01/24/2012
- Cloud Gaming as Personal Tutor (C.G.P.T)
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Lack of interest and motivation or/and lack of knowledge of how to achieve desired goals, are some of the most important reasons for unemployment and illiteracy. A personal tutor and motivator is exactly what young people need in such situations; to help them fix things up and get back to the track. Young people require personal tutors who are ready wherever they are, whenever they need some help.
mahmoud - 01/22/2012
- Peer-to-Peer Learning
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Software designed for teaching and learning on the web. Free education and qualification for anyone with the Internet.
Michael - 01/22/2012
- EntrepreneurFinder.com - Feeding Entrepreneurship
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EntrepreneurFinder is a free interactive resource designed around the needs of entrepreneurs, students, skilled individuals, professionals and investors. The idea behind the site, is to give our users the ability to take control of their professional and entrepreneurial careers from start to finish. And, provide them with tools to find employment or create ways to become self employed. The site assists everyone from students looking for mentors to recruiters and entrepreneurs looking for professionals to investors looking for the next great company in search of funding. By bringing these people together, EntrepreneurFinder will start to act as an online feeder system for entrepreneurship, funneling all the key resources needed to a single freely accessible platform. 20% of new jobs come from start-ups. We need to do all we can to give motivated individuals the tools that they need to build a successful company and employ others.
Luke - 01/19/2012
- YourPosition
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YourPosition enables young people to locate places that have current job positions available, these are sent as a notification alert on their mobile device. As soon as the user enters into a certain location, the app searches for vacancies over a certain mileage of radius from their current position. As well as sending vacancy alerts it also rates them in urgency or importance, for example it would be of a bigger brighter alert if the application date was near or after setting up the app with your dream job specification it will also search for aspects of your spec that will relate to sending urgent attention alerts that are related exactly to the users needs.
Rebecca - 01/13/2012
- A "What's Going On?" Info Stream of Youth Activities/Job Opportunities w/ Custom RSS Subscriptions
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"Wouldn't it be great if young people could find out about jobs or skill-building, mentoring & learning opportunities, entrepreneurship, and, say, rock-and-roll-camp for girls - through a single RSS feed? And what if the feed was customizable - so that said young people (or parents/guardians/mentors) could subscribe to an organization (that hosts such activities), a venue (near home, for example), or a specific firm where said young people might really, really want to work?"
Kristin - 01/06/2012
- SKILLED
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This idea aims to highlight the skills that young people possess to increase their confidence and to address the myth that young people don’t have the skills needed in the workplace.
- 12/23/2011
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Organization : NOISEfestival.com
Role : Operations Manager
Interests : Creative, Art, Design, Debt-Free Learning, Skills, Enterprise
Organization : Housing trust
Role : IT Engineer
Interests : information architecture, information technology, innovation for inclusion, innovation platforms, innovation problem solving, internet solutions, knowledge management, local, localgov, local government, local government communities, london, network society, networks, older people services, older people, old people, online learning, operating system, problem solving, public, public access computing, public administration improvement, public and voluntary and community sectors, public engagement, public participation, public sector improvement, public sector innovation, public service, public service transformation, public technology education, social media and other innovative channels of communication, social interaction design, user experience and usability, user experience design, user involvement, web, web accessibility, web development
Email : sueblythe@cox.net
Organization : FutureFlash! Project
Role : Author / Teacher
Interests : learning to create a sustainable, just and peaceful world
Organization : Enspiral
Role : Connector
Interests : action, activism, apps, asset transfer, change, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-working, collaboration, collaborative consumption, communication, communities, communities of practice, communications, community development, community engagement, culture, design, design thinking, Conscious Consumers, disruption, digital, e-learning, bio-mimicry, energy, enterprise, entrepreneurship, enviroment, filmmaking, graphic design, infographics, innovation, innovators, inspiration, internet solutions, local, local food systems, open innovation, open enterprise, organic, participative design., community sector, emancipation, regeneration, service delivery, social, social business, social change, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, social gaming, social innovation, social media, social venture, sustainability, technology, tech, transition towns, transformation, user experience design, volunteering, web design, web development, youth
Organization : Chinwag
Role : Founder
Interests : Social, Events, Data, Learning, Export, Online Community
Organization : TheGivingMachine
Role : Founder, Managing Director
Interests : collaboration, community solutions, consumer research, education, Fundraising, learning, local economies, public spending data, social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, social entrepreneur, social media, social networking, social networks, social venture
Email : info@locomatrix.com
Organization : LocoMatrix Ltd
Role : Director
Interests : ageing well, business startups, augmented reality, independent living, old people, yoga, game, digital inclusion, elearning
Email : paul@schoolofeverything.com
Organization : School of Everything
Role : CEO
Interests : education, lifelong learning, community
Email : paul.ray@whatsinmycommunity.com
Organization : whatsinmycommunity.com
Role : Director
Interests : Social cohesion and virtual learning
Organization : feelancer
Role : listener/learner/facilitator
Interests : appreciative inquiry, apps, asset map, careers training and education, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, citizenship, city space, civic empowerment and deliberative democracy, co-creation, co-design, co-learining, co-working, coaching, collaboration, commons, communities of practice, community development, community mapping, community media, complexity, contemporary art and culture, counselling, creating, data visualisation, design-thinking, development (personal; efficacy; confidence; skills), dancing, education, general innovation around making the environment more accessible for everyone, hackspace, healing arts, interaction design, lifelong learning, life skills, life development, local, mapping, mental health, micro-volunteering, micro enterprise, motivation, neighbourhood, new forms and styles of work, open government, organisational behaviour, participative design., performing arts, personal development, pop up shops, prototyping, service design, social algorithms, social enterprises, social innovation camp, social work, sustainable social innovation and design research. specialising in consumer behaviours online and providing new collaborative environments for both corporations and consumers. following the belief that the more complex the world becomes the more creative we need to be and that for a sustainable future and business environment what is required is the ability to be creative, temporary accommodation, town centres, transparency, visualisation, volunteerism, wellbeing