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Cyberworkshop 1 - IntroductionsShipman Centre 1.30 pm, 16.09.06
Staff
Members
It was a very good turnout. Seventeen young people and three staff turned up for this first meeting of the Newham Young People Online Cyberworkshop. All of the members, except Jamal who was already part of NYPO, had been involved in the Summer School Programme during July and August. They had been invited by Gavin to be part of a group that would meet regularly to work on computer maintenance and upgrading projects and on website development Projects. Gavin explained that he envisaged people working on joint and on individual projects. He asked people to say:
Gavin outlined his own goals and said that his goal for the group was that they should become a team that work and that has a role in developing the NYPO project through taking on collective ICT projects. Gavin admitted that sometimes he was not good at maintaining communication and said that one of his personal goals was to improve this. Zavier (13) said that his interests include Sports, engineering, games and acting. His skills include rap, dance, gaming and acting, dance, singing and maintenance jobs on go-karts. As personal goals he included building and networking computers, web design and making his own game. He mentioned 'group networking' as goal for the group. It wasn't clear whether he meant computer networking as a group or networking in it's social sense. Sulaiman said that he had skills in computer maintenance and web design and that he wanted "to gain more skills in order to help the community." Olu said that he was interested in Basketball. Nishant (15) said that he was interested in games, cricket, go-karting, sci-fi, sports and flying. He has skills in animation, gaming, racing and ICT generally. He wants to improve his IT skills in animation and gaming, learn go-karting and learn how to make "pro-style" websites. He said that the group should work as a team to help the community, take on "huge projects" and receive awards. Danielle (15) said that her interests are friends, films, family, MSN Messenger, music and games. Skills include karate, ICT and basketball. Her personal learning goals include making music and gaining her black belt in karate. Abdul (16) said that hi interests were Basketball and ICT. Chi (15) has skills in film, acting and sport. His personal learning goals are to improve in sport, improve his CV and do well in his GCSEs. His interests include the Internet, music, film, acting and sport. He hopes that the group can "work well together". Giovanni (13) said that he has "some knowledge of computer maintenance", that he has built webpages using Macromedia Fireworks and HTML. His interests include, updating his blog, going on trips, playing computer games, surfing the net, using online forums such as http://www.techguy.org/, building and networking computers. His goals are to learn more HTML, CSS and Flash, to create more websites and to build his own computer. Giovanni wants the group to build and refurbish computers, go out on trips, create forums, have gaming sessions, be a good working group and have fun. Gee (13) lists his interests as games, maths, relationships, Internet and comedy. His skills include running and the high jump, archery, table tennis and badninton. His personal goals include improving running and high jump skills, communicating better and improving his CV. He wants the group to work well together and not to "screw up". Syed (12) has skills in art and ICT. He knows "the basics of computer maintenance". Interests include films, learning more about computers, computer games, computer building, networking and repair, and learning more about computers. He says that his personal learning goal is to improve his computer skills and he wants the group to do something together. Bhavik has skills in web design, yoga, maths, playing table tennis and riding go-karts. He is interested in all of these and would like to go on trips to different places. As group goals he would like people to be given responsibilities that they can handle, and he would like people to share whatever they know. Johannes (13) is interested in game creation, music reation, web design and computer maintenance. Jaya (15) is interested in Photoshop, family, web design, computer maintenance, tennis and games. He would like to make his own computer and design games. His skills include composing music, photo editing, art and a little computer maintenance. Aarti (17) is good at accounts and using computer packages, she would like to build a computer and website, to teach people about maths, accounts and computer packages. She would also like to help popularise NYPO, develop it into a larger organisation and introduce NYPO games. Ibraheem (12) is interested in online games, website design, PCs and the Playstation. His skills include website design and football. Jamal (15) lists his interests as MMORPG, MMOFPS, anime, manga, J.Rock, cycling and climbing. He wants to learn Actionscript, PHP, MySQL C++ and advanced Photoshop. Sulthana, Spike and Rizwan also introduced themeselves. They have all worked as tutors and youth workers for the NYPO project but they started as members themselves. Rizwan suggested that a forum could be set up for people to discuss homework and coursework that they might be doing. The forum could either be part of the regular NYPO forum or it could separate. Gavin said that he would set something up by next week. The meeting finished with Gavin talking about the plan for the next session on the following Saturday. Gavin wanted to do two things: First to look at the theory behind building computers and second to come up with an outline of the continuing programme for the group. Spike would lead on the part about building computers and focus on 'planning to build a modern computer'. Gavin will draft a programme 0f activities for the next few months that the group can discuss. The next session of the NYPO Cyberworkshop is on Saturday 23rd at 1.30 pm
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