‘Making a Difference’ – WEA Parliamentary Event and Awards
November 11, 2012 6 Comments
This blog is a bit different. I’ve experimented with Storify software to make a narrative out of tweets. It’s my first attempt so it’s very much learning in public.
I’ve collated some tweets about the WEA’s ‘Making a Difference’ Parliamentary event last week to capture some of the comments that people made as the event unfolded. There’s a link at:
I’d be grateful if anyone has any hints and tips about using Storify or any comments on it.
Twitter is still a foreign language to many people so the Storify’s introduction has a link to a site that explains twitter symbols and acronyms.
(The WEA runs social media courses if you want to find out more. You can find regional contact details at http://www.wea.org.uk/local if you’re interested in a course about twitter or other new media. There are many online resources for independent learning too.)
The WEA Awards Ceremony followed the Parliamentary event. It was an inspiring and emotional event.
The winners were:
Olive Cordell Skills for Life Tutor
- Laraine Clark
Olive Cordell Skills for life Student
- Luzayadio Mputo
WEA Volunteer
- David Dennehy
WEA Student – Joint Award
- Alec Buchanan
- Julie Harrison
WEA Learning Group
- Tammy Spriggs, Lisa Harrington and Janine Ginno
Diversity in Practice
- Tandrusti
WEA Campaign
- Why Vote?
Contribution to Sustainability
- Women’s groups at Clovelly
WEA Tutor
- Janet Henson
Innovative Partnership
- WEA and Horizons
Innovative Branch and WEA South West
- Activ8 for Carers
Special Recognition: Education
- Sahira Tariq
Special Recognition: Support services and WEA Eastern
- Kathryn Coles
Special Recognition: Long service
- John Hurst
WEA Scotland
- Bathgate Once More
WEA North East
- Elizabeth Langdown
WEA North West
- Ties to the Past
WEA Yorkshire and Humber
- Beth Deakin
WEA East Midlands
- Learning into Leadership on the Internet
WEA West Midlands
- Shiyalini Mohan
WEA Eastern
- Kathryn Coles
WEA London
- Mike Bradley
WEA South West
- Activ8 for Carers
WEA Southern
- Adler Mosaicists
WEA Ambassador
- Nigel Todd
There’s a wonderful booklet outlining their stories. It should be available soon at www.wea.org.uk.
About Ann Walker
Nice post, as usual 😉
Here’s a cool twitter tool :-
http://tweetcloud.icodeforlove.com/
and here’s a TWITTER 101 I put together for the DAIN project some time ago :-
http://infostocksy.wordpress.com/twitter-whats-it-all-about
Thanks for your kind comments and for the helpful links.I appreciate the feedback and the good reminder of the DAIN project’s work (Digital Activists’ Inclusion Network). The twitter tool is new to me, but I’ve used Wordle – even in WEA Trustees’ development events.
Thanks again for sharing the resources.
Much prefer your blog . I like essays better than 140 character twits ! Peter
Ann Walker posted: “This blog is a bit different. I’ve experimented with Storify software to make a narrative out of tweets. It’s my first attempt so it’s very much learning in public. I’ve collated some tweets about the WEA’s ‘Making a Difference’ Parliamentary event l”
Thanks for engaging with this Peter and for commenting. It’s good to have a range of views and I’m sure that many people will prefer more traditional forms of writing too.
I liked the diplomatic phrasing of your feedback!
Ann, very good effort – great to see a selection of tweets from the day in one place – but I think the story would have more impact if it was multi-media. You could pull in pictures from our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.325499590891599.77601.156754144432812&type=1&l=0a903f9443 and I know Clare White has put images on their Flickr. Match an image to a tweet!
Thanks Tim. Good practical suggestion. Not sure that it’s worth the time to update this version but I’ll try to add multi-media into future experiments. Thanks for the tip – and the link to the photos.