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If you’ve heard myself or Stuart talk about Five Minute Mentors or had a quick go of the beta, then you probably understand the concept (we hope). If not, then this video should help. And if it piques interest then please give us a shout and we can organise your group beta access. Five Minute Mentors from bounder on Vimeo.

Progress is continuing on five minute mentors, our online mentoring website supported by Becta — here we are using the site to do a quick practise mentoring session. The site isn’t quite user-friendly enough for our liking yet (some tweaks needed — you can for example arrange a session in the past) but the video calling is working really well. The private beta is involving existing learning groups, however info

We Share Stuff recently received funding from Becta as part of the Learning Revolution to develop a web based group mentoring service — it’s called Five Minute Mentors and is based around the idea of quick video chats. 5 Minute Mentors enables co-mentoring within existing groups: Individuals request help and advice from other group members on specific topics. This takes place outside of the meeting/learning sch

Over the last month or so we’ve been doing a series of workshop sessions with brap — who work to promote equality — on giving some of their clients an introduction to the opportunities social media might offer their businesses, charities or social enterprises. Each session was for four hours with around six people — with two trainers. We originally thought that that would be plenty of time and that boredom woul

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Courtesy of the wonderful (and sometimes rude) webcomic XKCD. It’s funny and it’s target audience is web-savvy people who get asked for help on “computers” all the time, and who – mostly – will help people (with a World-weary air), but this flowchart is probably one of the best definitions I’ve seen of what I take “digital inclusion” to mean. If you’re someo

We’ve just heard some good news. The proposal we put forward to run an accredited training programme with Sandwell Youth Offending Team has been accepted. We start delivering our social media flavoured course from September. The course is designed to give young people a range of resources, skills and a qualification in support to them finding employment, training or going into education. Once we have the course

Following on the NIACE digital inclusion conference, we have set up a few ‘guides’ on current Internet usage. It’s really just to see if by providing a simple ‘how-to’ get involved with the social web, we can begin to build adult education related networks, if at all! The ‘We Share…‘ series will be an ongoing thing and hopefully beneficial in understanding some of the b

Time for another quick update on things here at ‘We Share Stuff’. As you can see, we have finally gone live with the website – we had a makeshift photo shoot so you can see who we are – yes real human beings not robots (debatable?) Anyway, the whole web site thing will evolve over time, just like the ‘Net does! While we have the usual web site stuff going on, we also have a nifty blog sy

The Government’s response to tackling the digital divide has them coming up with a new scheme offering “vouchers” to low-income families enabling them to get online at home. This scheme is costing £300 million. Providing these vouchers will not address the problem, let alone overcome it. We’ve said it before and we’ll keep on saying it until somebody with ears in the appropriate places,