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From: Thompson, Steve <S.D.Thomp
...@tees.ac.uk>
Date: 2010/2/10
Subject: [ciresearchers] Live Blogging Event Tomorrow
To:
Hello,
Tomorrow we have a community animation event which features the world
premmierre of a new film "The Force is With You". Shot entirely in Second
Life the film is a collaboration between School Children, Skinningrove
Community, Cleveland Police Force and Teesside University (Institute of
Digital Innovation). The film deals with the issue of community policing.
During the screening we will hook up with Latvia and as a result of this
people anywhere should be able to follow the "live blog" at
www.saltburn.org.uk where the films will be released in synch with the
matinee event at 1.30pm GMT and the evening event at 7.30pm GMT
The Latvian Ministry of Justice issued a press release about this and I have
appended that below
Steve Thompson
Community Media Manager
Institute of Digital Innovation
Teesside University
M - 07795 826953
E - s.d.thomp...@tees.ac.uk
W - www.steve-thompson.org.uk
Children in Latvia and England Video-bridge to Know More about the Police
The ministry of Justice, with support from the Ministry of Interior Affairs
and State Police in Latvia from one side; with the Institute of Digital
Innovation of Teesside University and Cleveland Police in the UK are
organizing the event “The Force is With You”. The event will take place on
February 11th at Friča Brīvzemnieka Primary School in Latvia and Saltburn
Community Theatre in UK.
During a recent International workshop in Vienna about video-bridging we
developed collaboration between the UK (Steve Thompson, Barry Hunt), Latvia
(Laura Pakalne), Lithuania (Thomas Chepaitis) and Finland (Markus Petz). We
discovered, that we we would like to work with similar projects and bring
people together from different countries.
This event will start in both places at the same time – GMT 1.30pm. At the
beginning the police-force will explain to children the importance of the
emergency number 112, and about safety. We will show Steve’s movie “The
Force is With You”, but in end we will video-bridge between Whitecliffe
Primary School and Friča Brīvzemnieka Primary School. We will have on-line
skype conference with police-men in UK and Latvia during the video-bridge
part of the event.
Steve Thompson said: ‘I am really looking forward to our hook up during the
event in Saltburn Community Theatre on February 11th and of course our
possible collaborations afterwards. I think it is exciting for the
communities I work with and in particular the children, to have this
connection with a distant country. The similarity in our work and
experiences and the ability to use technology share these experiences across
vast distances will open up new horizons for our communities in the North
East of England. I look forward to many more collaborative projects with
Latvia in the future’.
Laura Pakalne said: ‘During the recent workshop about video-bridging in
Vienna I discovered, that although people came from different countries we
have the same problems. We share the same topics to speak about, and things
which we can discuss. I am very interested in collaborative projects in the
future, because "the police" is not the only topic we can speak about. In my
opinion topics can include justice, courts and observance of the law. I am
very interested in collaborative work with Steve Thomson, Barry Hunt and
Markus Petz, because they know a lot about communication by using videos in
an interactive way. I believe, that in the future as we develop our
cooperation we will be able to involve people from other countries as well.
That is just one of the ways, how we we can exchange views and find the
solutions to different problems we all face’.
As well as the Latvia / UK Connection people everywhere will be able to
follow the event in a "Live Blog" at www.saltburn.org.uk at 1.30 pm GMT
(Children's Matinée) and 7.30 pm GMT (Evening Launch). There will also be a
Video-bridge back-channel reachable through the saltburn.org.uk website.
MORE INFORMATION
LATVIA (In English or Latvian)
Laura Pakalne
Tieslietu ministrijas
Sabiedrisko attiecību nodaļas
pārvaldes vecākā referente
Tālr.: 67036739
ENGLAND (English)
Steve Thompson
Community Media Manager
Institute of Digital Innovation
Teesside University
M - 07795 826953
E - s.d.thomp...@tees.ac.uk
W - www.steve-thompson.org.uk
ENDS
