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Michael Reed - Ferryhill
I want to give everyone with a speech disability a way to SAY the same words that speaking people say everyday.
01/07/2010 16:08:00
25 June Cleary Clan Gathering
Had a great night at Croxdale Club with aunties, uncles, cousins. Good idea Ann! Thank you for making it happen uncle Tommie!
Pics are on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4373863&l=09b602a6b8&id=574347491
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01/07/2010 15:53:00
22 June FaCE @ BACOLL
We invited family, friends, local dignatories and key professionals to a buffet and celebration of our work where we gave presentations, showed our campaign animation The Language Stealers, Jake sang the ABC's of Communication Rights on my Pathfinder, and our friend, 1 Voice Role Model Jemima Hughes, gave a talk and showed the animation she made to promote the 1 Voice Under 13's weekend.
Pics from the event are on Facebook here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=188794&id=574347491&l=8232d7460f
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01/07/2010 15:22:00
19-21 June Willowman Festival
Summer solstice weekend with family & friends at Willowman Festival, Lenthor Farm, Northallerton.
Our pics are on Facebook here:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4384550&l=f5bc0f9aa5&id=574347491
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01/07/2010 15:17:00
15 June DADLG Summer BBQ
Our pics from Durham Area Disability Leisure Group summer BBQ and Quadbike ride are on Facebook here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=188767&id=574347491&l=c5da87b693
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01/07/2010 14:34:00
12-13 June 1 Voice Weekend
1 Voice theme for summer 2010 is Celebrating Our Families. We made and performed a song with some of our dreams in it, and 1 Voice is making a book about us on the theme of Love, Life & Families.
Our pics from the weekend are on Facebook here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=188185&id=574347491&l=28d19846cf
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25/06/2010 14:00:00
Big Challenge – less than two weeks left to apply!
Looking for funding and support to turn your ideas into projects?
Apply to Big Challenge!
Here's a message from Big Challenge Programme and Support Manager, Abby Kegg:
"The Big Challenge competition for 16-25 year olds is closing to applications on 6th July.
To be in with a chance of winning a share of £65,000 along with support to set up your own community project you must apply before this date.
Your project just needs to inspire other young people and involve volunteers so think big and get involved now!
Check out www.bigchallenge.org.uk for full details and the online application and if this doesn’t apply to you then please forward it to someone who might be interested.
IMAGINE, INVOLVE, INSPIRE
IT’S YOUR TURN!
If you have ANY questions then please contact us on bigchallenge@unltd.org.uk
Big Challenge is a youth-led competition run by UnLtd in partnership with Changemakers and with funding from Vodafone and v. We are part of Live UnLtd www.liveunltd.com where you can find more opportunities like this for young people.
Abby Kegg
Programme and Support Manager
UnLtd
123 Whitecross Street
Islington
London EC1Y 8JJ
Tel: 0207 566 1106
Fax: 0207 566 1139
Mob: 075 4593 3796
AbbyKegg@unltd.org.uk
www.UnLtd.org.uk
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15/06/2010 13:33:00
15 Jun: Let's FaCE It!
Our first newsletter Let's FaCE It! is printed and ready to share! It's all about the projects and campaigns we've been doing these last 3 years, and how AAC can be used to help people communicate.
You can download a PDF of Let's FaCE It! or view graphics of the pages on the Diana Award Channel at Radiowaves here:
http://www.radiowaves.co.uk/story/137891/title/28MayLetsFaCEIt
Here's the front page to give you a flavour:
Oops! the link to The Learning Disability Parliament on page 2 goes to the ISAAC site. It should go to http://www.serviceuser.co.uk/ If we find any more typos we'll put the corrections here.
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25/05/2010 22:04:00
25 May: Language Givers Project Log
The last two months we've been working on another animation - Robert, Andrew, Gemma and me. It's called The Language Givers and should be edited and online early next week.
Videos and photos from our workshops are on our Diana Award Channel pages at Radiowaves:
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29/03/2010 13:22:00
Scenes, Core Words & Word Parts
This is one of the core words language displays we use for Word Wall Bingo and for the dialogue in our stories - an activity we hope lots of people around the world will join us in when we sort out how to network and host the idea!
A brief description of the activity and learning outcomes is on my page at the Diana Award Channel on Radiowqaves:
http://www.radiowaves.co.uk/story/122566/title/WordWallBingo
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27/03/2010 01:20:00
05 Mar: Word Wall Bingo
Advocating for Core Language and Literacy - me and Rob word-searching some Song Lyrics for Core Words. We tell you why in the movie info on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhqNcqQfFW8
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23/03/2010 18:14:00
16 Mar: New MacBook Pro!
Our new MacBook Pro arrived today. Now we can animate, movie edit, make presentations and music any time we want. Thank you Big Challenge!
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14/03/2010 18:16:00
14 Mar: Equality Without Words? campaign
This movie is our campaign presentation that I gave to Big Challenge in December and the Learning Disability Parliament in February.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CdzvMGsiyY
I am using the Diana Channel at Radiowaves to promote this campaign and my campaign for AAC Role Models in Schools.
www.radiowaves.co.uk/r/mbr
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14/03/2010 03:13:00
Many Methods, One Goal: To Communicate
This movie is of my PowerPoint talk about how I communicate. I gave it at college in February to help my teachers know how to help me, and is my late entry to International AAC Month 2009 - Many Methods, One Goal: To Communicate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBEMwu8brZU
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14/03/2010 02:53:00
14 Mar: Language Stealers: The Making Of
A slideshow of pics from our project on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhTgu7tS7CE
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11/03/2010 01:26:00
11 Mar: The Language Stealers
As part of the Radiowaves Street Life project, funded by Youth In Action for the British Council, and with additional funding from Co Durham Youth Opportunity Scheme, animator Vivien Peach working with us at Henderson House, Chilton.
We made Language Stealers to promote our 'Equality Without Words?' campaign and the language boards of core words we are making.
To watch on YouTube, an read our long description of why we made this movie, click the title to this story or go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vib2__BDCXc
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02/02/2010 17:44:00
1 Feb: DADLG Steel Drums
This week I started to learn steel drums with the Durham Area Disability Leisure Group. We met up every Monday for six weeks at Greenfield Arts College, learning a new song each session. At the end of the sessions we did a small performance for a few lucky family members.
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02/02/2010 17:42:00
31 Jan: Stomp
This weekend me and my brother went with the DADLG to see Stomp the musical at the Empire theatre in Sunderland. We all had a great time and thought that the show was fun and exciting.
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02/02/2010 17:41:00
29 Jan: Animating with Vivien Peach
Vivien spent this session teaching me and Robert how to use iStop Motion. I made a Ten Pin Bowler and Robert made a Footballer.
Link to Michael gets a Strike:
Link to Roberts First Kick.
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02/02/2010 17:40:00
28 Jan: Tae Kwon Do
I started going to Tae Kwon Do with the DADLG every Thursday at Spennymoor Leisure Centre. The course was supposed to be for ten weeks but since everyone enjoys it so much we have decided to keep it up as a weekly thing.
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02/02/2010 17:37:00
27 Jan: Animation Props
Robert and Andrew both visited after college to help plan the storyboard and make props for the Language Stealers animation.
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02/02/2010 17:37:00
25 Jan: Meet New Social Worker
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02/02/2010 17:36:00
24 Jan: More Art with Andrew
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02/02/2010 17:35:00
23 Jan: Magnetic Word Parts
My brother finished cutting out the word parts and sticking them on to magnetic strips.
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02/02/2010 17:34:00
22 Jan: Animation Artwork
Our animator Vivien couldn't make it today so we spent the day making artwork ready for next weeks session. We also cut out word parts and stuck them on magnetic boards to use in the animation and to practice our literacy with.
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02/02/2010 17:26:00
19 Jan: Big Challenge Meeting
My Big Challenge project manager Jo introduced me and Robert to our project buddy Gillian, who is studying politics at university and has campainged before, and is going to help us make our campaign go international.
We set our tasks for February and March to finish our newsletter, recruit volunteers, make a campaign and petition letter and to create a contact list of people to send petition letters and the newsletter to.
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