Last year Proboscis collaborated with a group of local people and a community run centre (PAG) in Pallion, Sunderland to co-create and co-design a sustainable ‘knowledge network’ that could help people respond to the bewildering array of changes taking place in the benefits system. Our project became the Pallion Ideas Exchange (PAGPIE) – weekly meetings and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'community'
Workbooks for community knowledge networks
February 4th, 2013 No Comments
Tags: collaboration · community · eNotebooks · Pallion
What’s next in bookleteer’s evolution?
May 29th, 2012 No Comments
Following our major updates of last year – the user API, bookreader and integration of QR codes and short URLs bridging the physical/digital divide – we’ve been concentrating on using bookleteer in our own projects like Agencies of Engagement, Material Conditions, Professor Starling’s Thetford-London-Oxford Expedition and Pallion Ideas Exchange, helping others create their own eBooks [...]
Tags: community · crowdfunding · feedback · ideas · new features · ppod · print on demand · sharing · updates
Being 18 in the past and today by Katrina Siliprandi
November 29th, 2011 No Comments
Being 18 in the past and today: using Bookleteer for a museum-based project with young people by Katrina Siliprandi Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service Young people working on ‘Project 18’ carried out and recorded 39 interviews in people’s homes, at Norwich Castle museum and in residential care homes. They amalgamated quotes from these interviews with [...]
Tags: bookleteering · community · feedback · ideas · inspiration · inspiring uses · libraries · tangible souvenirs
British Museum & Bookleteer
July 1st, 2011 No Comments
Bookleteer, archaeology and local history. It is now a year since we launched the short run printing service so now seemed like a good time to reflect on what people in different areas have been using the printing service for. In this post we reflect on its use in two projects connected to the British [...]
Tags: bookleteer · community · events · get bookleteering · inspiring uses · melanesia project · pitch up & publish · Short Run Printing · StoryCubes · Sudan · The British Museum
Case Study – Gillian Cowell
September 15th, 2010 2 Comments
This week’s eBook case study involves the work of researcher and community education worker Gillian Cowell. Gillian first encountered the eBooks online while doing research for her masters degree. She was interested in finding online tools help her to “capture data in a more interesting way for local people.” She was also hoping to turn [...]
Tags: bookleteering · collaboration · community · ideas · inspiration · inspiring uses · StoryCubes
