Title: Portal Editor’s Workshop
Location: The Rix Centre
Description: Regular Tuesday workshop for Borough Portal Editors.
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2010-03-09
End Time: 13:00
Portal Editor’s Workshop
March 5th, 2010Wiki Making Workshop Day
March 5th, 2010
Title: Wiki Making Workshop Day
Location: The Rix Centre
Description: A workshop for all Click Start Wiki website makers. Come along build a website, get help with technical problems and tips on making great Wikis.
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2010-03-26
End Time: 16:30
Free Mini-Course for Borough Editors - On Now!
January 28th, 2010
Short Course for Borough Editors
A free 5-week course is now running, designed to prepare local Click Start Editorial teams to set up, manage and moderate Click Start transition portals in their boroughs. We will share the experiences of Click Start Editors as various teams of professionals and service users organize Click Start in their Boroughs. The weekly sessions will provide the opportunity to reflect on the issues and challenges that emerge as Portals are developed. Technical skills will be taught alongside the different organisational processes, and these will be reinforced with weekly ’surgery’ sessions that respond to whatever technical needs you have week to week. These sessions start at 10am and can run on into the afternoon at the Rix Centre as required.
Rix Centre staff and technical resources are also available for you to book for the meetings, workshops and recruitment sessions in your local area over the coming weeks.
So…lots of resources are available for you to set up an easy read Click Start portal for transition information where you live and work! For more information download the course outline here: Click Start Course Outline
The course will be running between 10am and 1pm every Tuesday from the 26th January 2010 to the 28th February 2010, at the Rix Centre on the University of East London’s Docklands Campus. If you’d like to attend please email info@clickstart.org or call 0208 553 7561.
New Improved Click Start Goes Live!
January 28th, 2010
We are pleased to announce that the new, improved version of Click Start is now live. Those of you who set up your websites during the first phase of Click Start will notice some changes when you visit your site. Don’t worry, these are improvements we have made to Click Start, and you’ll find it now even more accessible and easier to use.
New features for your website include a cool HOME PAGE that makes it easy for visitors see exactly what is on your website and find the information they need, and a simple NAVIGATION MAP on each page so visitors always know where they are.
When the old version of Click Start was converted to the new version some of the information in your old website might have moved. You should probably spend a little time reviewing and editing your website to make the most of the new structure. Don’t worry if things look different, we still have a back up version of your old website if you need to look at it. Try using the new User Guide to update and improve your website: Click Start 2 User Guide
To login to your Click Start website now go to www.clickstart.org.uk/user/login
Click Start 2 User Guide Now Uploaded
January 28th, 2010
Want to know how to log in, set up, build and edit your Click Start Wiki website? Download the User Guide here: Click Start 2 User Guide Don’t have a Click Start website set up yet? Print off the registration from here: Click Start Registration Form
You can post your registration form to The Rix Centre, UEL Docklands Campus, London. E16 4RD, fax it to us on 0208 223 7411, or call us on to register your website on 0208 223 7561.
Make your information accessible right now.
It’s easy. Just Click Start.
New-look portals unveiled at kick-off workshop!
December 1st, 2009
Thanks to all those who attended the Click Start phase II workshop on 24th November. The day went really well and was a great way to kick-off the next stage of the project, with borough editiors representing six London boroughs and wiki editors from various organisations all on hand to get their first look at the new portal designs and wiki templates. Miles Leonard from Ellingham Employment Services said of the new designs “I’d seen the new structure as I’d been involved in the planning, but what I was really pleased about was seeing the new wiki-sites in action. The new design is more effective and a great improvement.”
It was also really positive to hear people sharing the various issues they’ve experienced and the different ideas and approaches they have to implementing Click Start in their boroughs. We hope to see more borough editors at the next workshop, which takes place on Tuesday 8th December 09.
Next Workshop 24th November 09 - Get Involved!
November 17th, 2009
Attention Borough Editors and Wiki Makers! Come along to the Click Start Phase II kick off session on Tuesday 24 November, where we will be sharing the new designs and templates and launching Click Start II. There will be a demonstration of the new look website and opportunities for a hands-on Click Start session. The kick-off session will run from 10am to 1pm. You can download dates for all forthcoming Click Start workshops here: Click Start II Workshop Dates
For more information contact Charlie Saward on 0208 223 7561, or by email at c.saward@uel.ac.uk
Click Start Continues….Phase II
November 17th, 2009
Click Start Phase I
Earlier in 2009 people from all kinds of services and organisations were involved in the first phase of the Click Start project. As a result more than one hundred easy build, accessible wiki websites were created, providing useful information and advice about the transition to independent living for young people with learning difficulties and disabilities.
Ten London boroughs tried and tested the innovative Click Start software and had the opportunity to make easy to understand websites, set up Borough Editorial Teams to co-ordinate them all under one portal website and create a one-stop-shop for accessible transition information in their boroughs.
This first phase of Click Start culminated in a launch event at the House of Lords in July 2009, where Lord Brian Rix called for a nationwide rollout of Click Start, asking where the next round of funding would come from to push this initiative forward.
‘Every borough in the land can do what these ten London boroughs have done and make a great contribution to improving the lives of young people with learning difficulties and disabilities.’
Rix Centre Director Andy Minnion speaking at the House of Lords, July 2009
Click Start Phase II
At the House of Lords event the LSC announced further funding for the project, and as a result Click Start is now moving into its second stage. Learning from the first phase of the project and drawing from the feedback and input of all of those involved, we have refined and simplified the website package making it even easier to use and understand. The new look Click Start website will be ready for launch on the 24th November 2009.
In the second stage of Click Start we will work closely with borough teams to help them establish a robust set up from which to run Click Start fully independently in the New Year. This will be a joint research project with borough teams, and as part of this we will work closely with services and service users to help develop the best model of accessible information delivery for your borough. The second stage of Click Start will provide:
- A package of training & support for wiki website makers and portal editors
- Free weekly workshop sessions at the Rix Centre
- Advice & guidance on technical set-up
- Free training sessions in your borough
- We will help you work with senior staff in your borough to look at ways of establishing a workable and sustainable model for running Click Start.
- We will help you to recruit wiki website makers and organisations that want wiki websites, as well as help establish service user input.
For more information contact Charlie Saward on 0208 223 7561, or by email at c.saward@uel.ac.uk
Click Start Launched at House of Lords!
July 28th, 2009
.The Click Start team outside the House of Lords: Left to right: Brenda Hunt (Ellingham), Charlie Saward (Rix), Jason Wilkinson (Editorial Team), Nick Weldin (Rix), Mary Newman (Rix), Pablo Ettienne (East Way Care), Lee Cornwell (Editorial Team), Miles Leonard (Ellingham), Chris Bailey (Ellingham), Andy Minnion (Rix), Linda Bailey (Ellingham), Gosia Nowicka (Rix) and Ajay Choksi (Rix).
Lord Rix, Chancellor of UEL, hosted the launch of the Click Start project at a special reception at the House of Lords on July 14th. The event was a celebration and official launch of Click Start, which has created more than one hundred and fifty accessible ‘wiki’ websites across ten London boroughs over the past nine months.
The wiki-sites provide service information and useful peer advice about the transition to adult life in the community to young people with learning disabilities. The project aims to increase the number of wiki-sites across the ten boroughs, giving young people with learning disabilities a ‘one stop shop’ web portal to help them in their transition to independent living.
Twenty-four per cent of the websites developed give general information and peer generated advice and guidance; 23 per cent are about employment and training; 12 per cent about learning disability services; and 11 per cent are about day services.
The three young people with learning difficulties and disabilities, Vivek Pillai, Jason Wilkinson and Lee Cornwell, who were employed through Ellingham Employment Services to act as the project’s Editorial Team presented their work and experiences of Click Start at the event as part of a video presentation.
In front of an audience of representatives from funding bodies and the London boroughs involved in the project, Lord Rix asked where the next round of funding will come from to push the initiative forward. He called for a nationwide Click Start rollout of accessible transition websites to help young people with learning difficulties and disabilities lead independent lives.
Andy Minnion, director of the Rix Centre, said: “Multimedia is a really useful tool. It helps people with learning difficulties and disabilities build confidence and improve their self esteem……Every borough in the land can do what these ten London boroughs have done and make a great contribution to improving the lives of young people with learning difficulties and disabilities.”
The Click Start report is available from Charlie Saward on 0208 223 7561.
1 Wiki a day!
May 27th, 2009
The editorial team is working harder than ever and now the guys are actually confident of their potential. The websites building process is a lot faster now than in the first weeks of Click Start and in the last few days the team has been able to build new wikis at a pace of one a day!
Notable websites recently added to Click Start include:
- Picture House: The Picture House is a Cinema in Stratford with 4 screens, full access for people with disabilities and room for wheelchairs.
- Street League: Street League is a charity which organises football games for the homeless and disadvantaged. Every Wednesday, at the “Carpenters abd Docklands Centre”, in Stratford, there is a training session for people with learning disabilities.
- Eastway Care: Eastway care is an independent service for people with learning and physical disabilities and in some cases more complex needs.
- Another direction: Another Direction Ltd is an award winning London based media production company that specialises in work for councils, the community sector, and small to medium sized projects for the private sector.