'Moving Here' training manual helps teach computer skills
'Moving Here' (www.movinghere.org.uk) announces the release of a new
training manual to enable learners of all ages to become confident IT users.
The manual uses the award-winning website to make learning sessions both
interesting and fun. It will help trainers running IT skills workshops, as
well as being an easy-to-use self-help tool to take new IT learners through
basic skills required to get the most out of the Internet.
'Moving Here' is an imaginative learning tool, full of fascinating images,
stories, facts and opportunities to get involved. The website focuses on
the histories and experiences of Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian
immigrants to England over the past 200 years - and includes over 200
stories posted by users from the UK and as far a field as Iran and
Australia. In using 'Moving Here' as a means to teach IT skills, the manual
makes learning sessions of particular relevance to communities who feature
on the site.
Helen Wood, who manages the 'Moving Here' website project, said,
"The training session takes you through some of the 170,000 images,
documents, film and sound clips that have been collated from 30 heritage
organisations now are available online for the first time. By the end of
the session you will have learned basic skills such as how to use a mouse
and navigate around the site, as well as more interactive skills such as
sending an e-postcard and adding your own story to the site."
Susi Woodhouse, Senior Network Adviser at the Museums, Libraries and
Archives Council which manages the People's Network said,
"The People's Network has connected all UK public libraries to the Internet,
as part of the Government's commitment to give everyone the opportunity to
get online. IT training sessions are happening in libraries across the UK,
and the 'Moving Here' manual will ensure people gain a good understanding of
the potential of the Internet for their own lives."
The manual was produced in consultation with Jason Tutin, Learning
Co-ordinator, at Leeds Library and Information Service. He says,
"Here at Leeds we hold free learning sessions that - over the past year -
have seen around 10,000 people walk out of their local library with new IT
skills. The new manual helps librarians to help the public to use the
'Moving Here' site, whilst gaining a thorough knowledge of what the Internet
can offer them.
"Leeds libraries learning sessions give people of all ages and from a host
of communities the skills to make the most of the Internet. From working
with specific community groups, such as the elders of the Chapeltown
community, to school classes, the 'Moving Here' website and training manual
helps stimulate interest in local and family history, and allows personal
histories to be captured for future generations."
Minister for Skills and Vocational Education, Ivan Lewis said:
"This manual helps ensure that the Internet is accessible to all
communities and ages. It is being used in libraries across the UK in free
teaching sessions, homework clubs, reminiscence workshops and IT sessions
for people with disabilities. It is a great resource that is not only
helping teach IT skills, but recognises and celebrates the contribution of
immigrants to all elements of our society - and gives people the skills and
opportunity to tell their own stories on the site."
Rt Hon Lord McIntosh of Haringey (Minister for Media and Heritage) used the
'Moving Here' site at the launch of Archive Awareness Month in the autumn.
He said,
"Archives tell us about our past, but they also have huge value as a
learning resource for the future. I found 'Moving Here' fascinating. I am
sure it will have great appeal to learners of all ages. I welcome this new
manual, and applaud the National Archives and the People's Network for
supporting it."
The training manual is downloadable from the Moving Here homepage
(www.movinghere.org.uk) and through a link from the People's Network website
(www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk).
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'Moving Here' (www.movinghere.org.uk) is the award-winning, interactive
website exploring the last 200 years of South Asian, Caribbean, Irish, and
Jewish migration to England. Recently awarded the 'Best History Website
2003' by Internet magazine, 'Moving Here' makes over 170,000 digitised
sources from 30 museums, libraries and archives in England available online
for the first time. You can read about the history of migration to England,
get guidance on tracing your family history, send images as e-postcards,
contribute your own stories of migration to the website, and download free
scans of original documents and images such as:
* Selected Asian and Caribbean ships' passenger lists,
including the SS Empire Windrush, searchable by name
* Interviews with Caribbean RAF pilots from WW2
* Extensive records, including correspondence from Gandhi,
charting the struggle for Indian independence
* A photograph of Indian suffragettes in a procession of 1912
* Vanley Burke's photographic collection of Birmingham life,
mainly from 1970-1980
* Clips of Calypso and jazz music.
* Cartoon portraits of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw
* A register of named individuals deported from Liverpool to
Ireland, 1834-1835.
* A 1930s pamphlet offering advice to Irish girls emigrating
to England
* A Yiddish-English manual for recent Jewish immigrants from
Eastern Europe
* A collection of letters and photographs of Grete Rudkin, a
Kindertransport child
* Baby's clothing made by girls from the Jewish community in
Baghdad, Iraq
The National Archives www.nationalarchives.gov.uk is the lead partner on
'Moving Here' and the central 'Moving Here' team is based at the offices in
Kew. The National Archives (based at Kew and Islington) has one of the
largest archival collections in the world, spanning 1000 years of British
history, from Domesday Book to newly released government papers. The free
museum and research rooms in Kew, west London, are open to the public 6 days
a week.
The People's Network connects all public libraries to the Internet, as part
of the Government's commitment to give everyone in the UK the opportunity to
get online. Lottery-funded by the New Opportunities Fund and managed by the
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, more than 4000 library ICT centres
have been created.
www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk
Museums, libraries and archives connect people to knowledge and information,
creativity and inspiration. Museums, Libraries and Archives Council is
leading the drive to unlock this wealth for all. Contact: Emma Wright,
Media and Events Manager at MLA on 020 7273 1459 /
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Leeds Library and Information Service has an express enquiry service
contactable on
Tel: 0113 247 6016; Fax: 0113 247 4222; E-mail: [log in to unmask]
The 'Moving Here' partner organisations are: Birmingham City Archives; Black
Cultural Archives; Bradford Heritage Unit; British Library; Croydon Museum
& Heritage Service; Hackney Museum; Haringey Museum and Archive Service
(incorporating Bruce Castle Museum); Hull City Archives; Imperial War
Museum; Jewish Museum, London; Lancashire Record Office; Leeds Museums
& Galleries; Liverpool Record Office; London Metropolitan Archives;
London School of Economics; Luton Museum Service; Manchester Central
Library; Manchester Jewish Museum; Museum of London; The National
Archives; National Maritime Museum; North West Film Archive;
Oxfordshire Museums; Public Record Office of Northern Ireland; Royal
Geographical Society; Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives;
Victoria & Albert Museum; Walsall Local History Centre; Wandsworth
Museum and Local History Service; West Yorkshire Archive Service
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