Thursday, 19 May 2011

Lord Mayor visits Westminster School's new IT suite


The outgoing Lord Mayor who has a keen interest in all things IT has invited the children to communicate with him at the Lord Mayor's parlour using their new IT facility which he opened today at the school.Birchfield Bugle will have a full feature on the school visit in its next issue

Sunday, 15 May 2011

"Always Palladium" Mystery

We are trying to work out the origin of a coat of arms that appears in a wall on Livingstone Road by the Broadway Dance school.If anyone knows about this please let us know..........
........http://evcwm.org.uk/2011/05/04/four-flip-cameras-to-give-away/

Friday, 13 May 2011

Using a FLIP camera in our neighbourhood

Whilst Blogger was off air, (or whatever the Bloggersphere equivalent is), I popped a post on the site that I set up during the Social Networking workshop with PODNOSH.The clip can also be seen at http://birchfieldresidents.posterous.com/the-value-of-flipping-in-making-us-aware-of-l I am really pleased with the quality of this tool to report community issues and hope to integrate clips into our rather more static website at www.brag.btik.com, although I suspect BT have not allowed for this facilty (video downloads)in their community web site Templates.So here's our first Street Clip..........
>........http://evcwm.org.uk/2011/05/04/four-flip-cameras-to-give-away/

Sunday, 5 December 2010

Birmingham Catholic Diocese still silent 2013 on Video Policy request

http://vimeo.com/8145810
St Chad's New Archbishop 8th December 2009 from AstonVision on Vimeo.

This week,8th December 2010, marks the 1st anniversary of the installation of Archbishop Longley to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Birmingham.We wrote to him at the same time asking for clarification of the Video Policy that was supposed to come in force after we were banned from filming in Birmingham Cathedral Easter 2008 at Archbishop Nicholls' final Easter service.It was Bishop Kenny, who was the temporary Bishop in charge of affairs at the time, until Archbishop Longley was installed, that wrote us the letter saying that a new policy would be put in operation by the new Archbishop.
To date we have had no reply apart from the acknowledgement from his secretary.
We wonder why, perhaps they have just had far too much to think about with all the Papal business and other matters that the media were interested in.
Likewise we have never been told why we were stopped from recording events at the cathedral apart from the fact that "certain people objected".
In the wider view of things it is not important to Aston Vision to use the cathedral for its media training operations with Migrants. There are other locations, and other faith groups who have no such objections to helping us with our aims of migrants media training, which has many positive "spin-offs". Not least of showing those of other faiths how the Christian Church in the form of Roman Catholicism conducts its worship ceremonials.

Sunday, 11 January 2009