Thought of the day

Community Learning @ the OCC

I started doing IT at Ordsall Community Café one year ago and have found it fantastic! I have learned to do digital video, and I am good at it. Thus my video blog (‘JonThm’ on youtube.com) has got 39,000 hits in the last year.

This is my major IT work of late – I used to work in the area, so am far advanced compared to most people. Graeme copes with me though! Without the in put of MCIN and Graeme, I would never have embarked on this work: Which his making videos about my PhD area of Global Warming, and also social matters in Ordsall.

It gives me a vehicle to bend the minds of people out there! The majority of whom I will never meat or even hear from. I used to get 20 messages as day, now I get about 5, saying ‘Wow, I never thought of that!’

I had 30% brain damage in a car accident, so if I do not write stuff down, it is gone. Computers and IT allow me to control and plan my life. Without a diary I am lost.

I may be quite bright, but I have to accept I am damaged goods. The computer does not care! It is unimportant as to how many functioning limbs you have. Even with sever problems, technology has work arounds.

MY pressing need now is to compose house music! This uses samples to make pleasant noises. And is not copyrighted, except to you. Thus you can include this music on your blogs.

I feel that i should carry on with my other blogs to share my thoughts, check out my sites
http://jtvideos.blogspot.com/
http://jonsthings.blogspot.com/
Enjoy !!!

Jonathan Thomason Community Reporter

Thought of the day

The Year Turns! By JT

This time last year, life was in a rut! It was another year that tends to come along until you die, I tried that in a car accident, and being alive is so much better!

Then suddenly I was in the Ordsall Community Café, and I was nabbed for the Community Reporters Group. Graeme comes in every Tuesday at 10 am., to teach us about digital video. He also comes in on Wednesday afternoon to help people get to grips with computers! Everything today needs IT, so this is a vital leg up for people!

This morning I had had 13,600 views of my personal videos! So I think I got to grips with this digital video stuff! My video blog is edited video on You-Tube! And the world is watching.

So, I have got my ideas out there, being watched and commented on by the world, though Americans do have trouble with anything involving more than sitting in a chair watching videos!

Through my community reporters stuff, I got invited to an IT day by Alison who manages the OCC (Ordsall Community Café). The day was meant to be about linking people up, so it was a networking IT day.

One of the things I played with in Salford early on this year was community radio from the Angel on Regent Road.

This has now moved, but Salford Community Reporters Group has a presence on the internet so Steve and myself had a good chat on what community radio needed.

We agreed that they had hours to fill, and they should have a disability hour. This is my thing, due to my accident, but I want to help improve life for all people in Salford! He emailed me this morning, to say we would sort things out for the New Year, when I am not busy at the Ordsall Community Café.

Jonathan Thomason Community Reporter