Stroud College ACE students Personal Projects

One of the great things about the Internet is the way it helps people to work together on projects. Many people are able to work from home and have better contact and communication with customers and colleagues that when they travelled to an office everyday.

I do most of my work from home. When I am working on a project I keep in regular contact with my team using lots of different tools.

I use  to make calls from my computer — free to other people on Skype and cheap to phones and mobiles around the world.

I use Email to send messages and files to my team and I develop a project website for us to work together to get the job done.

In this lesson we are going to work in groups to find information and make a group blog to publish the information.

In November 2006 the government launched e-petitions  Petitions have long been sent to the Prime Minister by post or delivered to the Number 10 door in person. The primeminister now has his own website www.pm.gov.uk is some useful information from their website.

Downing Street is working in partnership with a charitable project mySociety to provide a service to allow citizens, charities and campaign groups to set up petitions that are hosted on the Downing Street website, enabling anyone to address and deliver a petition directly to the Prime Minister.

mySociety is a charitable project that runs many of the UK’s best-known non-partisan political websites, like HearFromYourMP.com and TheyWorkForYou.com. mySociety is strictly neutral on party political issues, and the e-petition service is within its remit to build websites which give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. For more information about mySociety and its work, visit its website.

The e-petition system has been designed to be transparent and trustworthy. For legal and anti-spam reasons this site cannot host every petition submitted, but the rule is to accept everything that meets the terms and conditions of use.

No petition will be rejected unless it violates these terms. And even when petitions cannot be hosted No10 will still publish as much of rejected petitions as is consistent with legal and anti-spam requirements, including the reason why it could not be hosted.

If you have any questions about the service, you can email either the Downing Street web team at webmaster@pmo.gov.uk or mySociety at team@mysociety.org.