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  • Claudia

    Claudia

    It inspires me how the athletes ensure their disabilities don’t stand in the way of their dreams and hopes

  • Jake

    Jake

    I'm interested in how big events like the paralympic games get reported, particularly in using social media

  • Joe

    Joe

    By reporting through social media, I hope to improve my writing and gain filming skills I can use in the future

  • Kimberley

    Kimberley

    I love writing and using photographs to capture my mood. How can we make the London 2012 games our own?

  • Renaye

    Renaye

    I want to develop my media skills, and gain inspiration for my Humanities exam in Culture later this year

  • Steve (A New Direction)

    Steve (A New Direction)

    Steve is a member of the A New Direction team and will be blogging on behalf of the organisation

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Flickr

Five students from Stoke Newington School & Sixth Form and A New Direction reporting live from the Vancouver Paralympic Winter Games (14-21 March 2010)

The group will film and document their experience - reporting back to the UK via wordpress blogs, and a range of social media including Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo, SoundCloud and Audioboo - with all updates feeding back via A New Direction and directly onto this site.

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All You need is Love <3

Posted by renaye at 13 July 2010 15:03

Hey did I ever mention a group of real nice students that I met back in Vancouver ? Well one group was called Sharing the Dream, and the other Students Live. I was looking at one of their blogs the other day, and found a really sweet video. It got me thinking ” WE SHOULD DO THIS IN LONDON!!!” a guy [...]

Told Ya i’ll Be Back!!!

Posted by renaye at 04 July 2010 21:59

Wow, gosh i did’nt realise how hard it is to write in full sentances after being on Facbook… Any way Yesterday was one hell of a day!!  I  went to the to the ‘View-Tube’ with my fellow vacouver ‘peeps’ we got a really amazing view of the new olympic stadium and a not-so amazing view [...]

The craziness that was the 16th…

Posted by knyamhondera at 19 June 2010 16:46

It was completely and utterly not what we had expected but before we get to that lets start with our arrival at the AND offices. The whole crew were almost reunited except for Johnny and Steve (Gene). We quickly settled and finally got to watch the film, which just made me really sad because i [...]

2012 Update:What do you think of the mascots?

Posted by cloud19 at 19 May 2010 22:45

A couple of weeks ago we went back to a new direction HQ and sent,a very ( how shall I say)charming email to Katherine(LOCOG’s education manager) about our feelings towards the age(over 18 by January in 2012) you had to be in order to volunteer for the 2012 Olympic games,in London and how unfair it would be [...]

Get involved

Posted by cakejakesnake at 19 May 2010 10:26

Well, seen as 2012 is coming up, and according to that great film some of you may have seen, the world is going to end, so perhaps it’s time we did something about it ? Well, it seems  http://www.350.org have got the right idea about getting the word out there, perhaps the new coalition government will [...]

Thanks AND

Posted by cakejakesnake at 17 May 2010 19:49

Perhaps a little belatedly I would just like to say a big official , for the world to see thank you to AND, the trip to Vancouver was great and it really helped me gain a lot more focus to work which I have done since and plan to do in the future. Did an [...]

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Audioboo

  • Our friend the student torch bearer

  • Britannia secondary

  • Waffles!!! With Kim , Claudia and Jake

  • Jake's boo-off to sightsee!

  • Renaye and Kim jetlag at the airport

  • Chicago airport

  • Training boo - Vancouver here we come!

  • Grand design

  • Vancouver 2010 - documenting the games via audioboo and other platforms

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