Youth Work Online

Exploring youth engagement in a digital age

Exploring how youth work and informal education professionals can support young people in a digital world.

Members

  • Ross Little
  • Charlie
  • Taylor Nuttall
  • Roy Smith
  • Natasha Turberville
  • Katie Bacon
  • Hilary Mason
  • Denise Drake
  • David Whewell
  • Harry Harrold
  • Lara
  • mas
  • anna bone
  • Tim Davies
  • Jon Jolly
  • Tony Cisse

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Ross Little updated their profile
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Taylor Nuttall, Ross Little and Charlie joined Youth Work Online
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Harry Harrold added a discussion
I'd be happy to run a session on how social network apps might be useful in youth engagement, and point to some ways of building simple apps for free? Neontribe has nearly finished developing a social network app as part of the Plings project for...
yesterday
Tim Davies added a discussion
The Youth Workforce has a long way to go before there is widespread: (a) Understanding of digital technology, how it affects young people's lives, and how those working with young people can best support them to thrive in a world of blended onlin...
yesterday
Tony Cisse added 4 photos
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The "V' programme (volunteering for young people) has a twitter site which allows followers and friend updates of volunteering opportunites for young people aged 16-25: http://twitter.com/vteamCL
on Tuesday
Hello! I hadn't realised I was being cryptic but I was, wasn't I! I work for Elevate. I go to improvised music, jazz and folk gigs in my spare time, not so much for work! see you, Tania
on Monday
on Monday
which youth charity how come your going to gigs?
on Sunday
hi I am a detached worker in slough just wanted to ask how your finding the monitoring changes?
on Sunday
Roy Smith and kathleen bruno are now friends
on Saturday
JOB ORINA and Cathie Robins-Talbot joined Youth Work Online
July 3
Tony Cisse updated their profile
July 3
I agree. I've used both groups and fan pages and I think I prefer fan pages. Recently Facebook has let you name your fan page with a /fanpagename but only if you have 1000 'fans'. Just an FYI
July 2
Sophie Weeks, Rosie Wilks and Nick Jeans joined Youth Work Online
July 2
Leonardo Morgado and Steve Milton joined Youth Work Online
June 29

From the YWSN Project Blog

Online interventions can change online behaviour

One of our suggestions in the Youth Work and Social Networking research was that youth workers who find young people to have risky or 'unsuitable' information on their Social Network Site profiles, or finding profiles where the privacy settings have...

Opportunity Links: research presentation

I recently presented the findings of the Youth Work and Social Networking research at a conference organised by Opportunity Links. The presentation was videoed and at 20 minutes is probably the best brief overview of the research available to watch...

danah boyd on 'online street workers'

danah boyd, whose work leads the field when it comes to understanding young people's interaction with and experiences of Social Network Sites has just shared on her blog an exploration of the Lori Drew online bullying case in the US...

Voices from practice: how to get started with SNS in youth work...

Much of the learning for the Youth Work and Social Networking project cam from the fantastic work going on in Devon to pioneer and explore new approaches to online engagement with young people, driven forward by the brilliant Katie Bacon....

WiseKids Webcast: youth work and social networking workshop

Cross posted from Tim's Blog If you prefer listening to a presentation over reading a report (PDF) - then you can catch some of the key learning from the Youth Work and Social Networking project in this video from Tim...

Events

 

Connected Generation unConference

Connected Generation 2009 - the unConference

The next unConference face-to-face gathering for members of this network (and anyone else interested in youth engagement in a digital age) will be on the 11th July 2009 in central London.

Booking is now full. If you are registered to take part - please do suggest possible session topics in the forum.

Follow on the twitter hashtag #cgen09 or via blog posts here afterwards.


Youth Work Online is an evolving network of practitioners sharing their learning, their questions, their visions and their ideas about the future of youth work and the web.

Members come from a wide variety of backgrounds - and are brought together by a shared interest in using technology in positive ways to support young people's positive personal and social development.

This is an open network - and new members are welcome to join in and take part.

Blog Posts

Tony Cisse

Youth Volunteering opportunities via Twitter

Posted by Tony Cisse on July 7, 2009 at 10:37am

Tony Cisse

Access to free or heavily discounted training

Posted by Tony Cisse on June 25, 2009 at 12:27pm

Andy Hillier

Weekend working survey flying

Posted by Andy Hillier on June 24, 2009 at 11:30am

Tony Cisse

Nominet Trust

Posted by Tony Cisse on June 23, 2009 at 10:27am

Tash

New self-harm posters available from YouthNet

Posted by Tash on June 10, 2009 at 5:22pm

 
 

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