More and more we find ourselves reconsidering how we communicate in the 21st Century. We know there are lots of new developments around but making the leap to actually using contemporary communication methods is a real challenge. This is Net.Mentor's first blog! We want to talk to other like-minded people about how we can take the sting out of the "new" technology's tail, how we can help organisations to communicate with confidence in the 21st Century. If you're from the digital or pre-digital generation, we want to hear from you! Got any thoughts?
Let's kick it off with a thought provoking experience. I recently attended a conference held at Channel 4 - In the Wild - about reaching young people in education using current and future technologies. The implication for business many not seem immediately obvious. But think about it. How will you and your client's infrastructures change over the next five or ten years as these young people join the organisation and become managers? What will be their demands for communication - how fast, how succinct, how technical? And where does that leave us....the relative Luddites in a fast changing communication world?
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Hi I hear your working with the deaf community please tell us more .
You also might like to check out these resources for BSL
ICT terms http://www.slcresources4ict.net/index.php
Art and design
http://www.artsigns.ac.uk
Science
http://www.sciencesigns.ac.uk
We've been called in as a result of a wellbeing audit amongst the staff in a primary school for Deaf children. They have identified communication as being a big issue. We brought in a BSL interpreter, not to interpret, but to ensure that we covered Deaf culture issues. One of the things we've been doing is to look at how hearing staff can communicate more confidently using BSL and at the same time deal with the challenges of communicating in their second language. We're working with the Deaf staff to develop more effective communication between Deaf and hearing staff as well. So far we haven't looked at any ICT solutions, principally because we've been working on face to face communication. I think it could be very useful to consider a texting option for some elements of communication though.
A very exciting development may be in the offing for the secondary site of the school (which we're not working with). We can't claim responsibility for this but they are looking at using a Plasma screen which could offer them a BSL version of events and information which will allow the Deaf staff to have realtime knowledge of what's going on, rather than having the time delayed version of interpretation.
Hey Andy, forgot to say thanks for the BSL links!
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