Exploring youth engagement in a digital age

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Dates for 1 day Social Media & Social Network Training for Youth Professionals

Social media can amplify the positives and negatives of everyday life for young people, and can expose them to new opportunities and new risks. There are undoubtedly both positive and negative aspects to social media – but whatever our views – Youth Professionals need to understand the online activities and environments young people are engaging with. Explore both how to support young people as they engage in these environments; and how to creatively use social media and social networking to enh… Continue

Added by Katie Bacon on January 27, 2010 at 3:11pm — No Comments

e-Inclusion of Youth at Risk, INCLUSO 2010 conference - Belgium

Computers and Internet are omnipresent in our society. Social software sites like Facebook, Netlog, Twitter .. are well known and are frequently used for the development of social contacts. Educators and governments have rightly questioned the impact of these online social networks. The potential adver… Continue

Added by Katie Bacon on January 23, 2010 at 7:31pm — No Comments

It all started......

2004 There were major concerns with this young person she had not engaged with any services Mental health Social services School including mentors Education welfare stepped in and referred her to the project. When she came she would stand and not join in with the group, would not talk only nod head, no eye contact with anyone and insisted on wearing a cap, would not take her coat off. She would not eat or drink during the day. This is not unusual .... the young people who are referred from… Continue

Added by Joanne Jopling on January 20, 2010 at 3:14pm — No Comments

Social Media & Social Networking

Social Media & Social Networking: Exploration day for Afasic http://www.afasic.org.uk/ Afasic seeks to raise awareness and to create better services and provision for children and young people with speech and language impairments. It work… Continue

Added by Katie Bacon on January 17, 2010 at 7:28pm — No Comments

Where to start? One step @ a time...

One step @ a time....I have had numerous conversations with youth practitioners who have expressed frustration about the resistance and lack of interest from colleagues/local authority. Other professionals have expressed interest but feel overwhelmed about how and/or what level of ‘online engagement’ to start with and where to aim… Continue

Added by Katie Bacon on January 6, 2010 at 10:02pm — No Comments

An Intercontinental Conversation on Digital Youth Work

People are exploring Digital Youth Work all over the world - but often there are not many opportunities to bring the conversations together. To link up some of the work going on in different places, I've been talking with Merlyn Horton of Safe Online Outreach in Canada about holding a conference call between youth workers from the UK, and workers from Canada. The idea would be to spend about 90 minutes with up to six people on a call, exploring… Continue

Added by Tim Davies on January 5, 2010 at 10:35pm — 2 Comments

Greater Expectations Update and Branding Competition

Hi Everyone As you may know from Alison's posts before we are currently running a project called Greater Expectations (http://www.futurelab.org.uk/projects/greater-expectations) which is creating an online resource that supports young people to explore their aspirations and entitlements and engage with the information, networks and tools that can help put these into practice. By way of a quick update the project has create… Continue

Added by Kieron Kirkland on January 5, 2010 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

Two opportunities to explore social media & work with young people

(Reposted from Tim's Blog) [Summary: Two day course, and six-month action learning set on social media in youth work and youth participation] Getting started with digital youth work, or with using digital tools in youth participation, can seem daunting to many. It's not enough to just talk about how digital skills are essential assets… Continue

Added by Tim Davies on January 1, 2010 at 7:08pm — No Comments

What would you get if you had £500 to spend on a social media toolkit? (hardware)

I'm putting together a guide for the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council on using social media as part of a youth exchange, and I wanted to include in there an idea of what sort of social media kit you could put together if you had £500 to spend. Below is the list I've put together so far, but I was surprised to find it only comes to £440, and I think covers all the essentials I use in day-to-day social media work. What would you add? What would you social… Continue

Added by Tim Davies on December 31, 2009 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

Online pornography and young people

This blog discusses topics of a sexual nature which some people may find offensive. I have been explicit about the subject matter to prevent ambiguity. I intend no offense, but want to be clear and explicit before you read the blog. One of the areas I am currently exploring is how social media platforms can be creatively utilised to eng… Continue

Added by Katie Bacon on December 18, 2009 at 11:04pm — 9 Comments

can anyone help with information to these questions?

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=189544528981#/anna.l.bone?ref=profile Why do you think it is a good idea to work with young people’s current activities as a start for developing learning opportunities? What is your role when you are facilitating a session? A young person approaches you for help on a particular issue outside of your remit what would you do Name some young people’s issues and give a br… Continue

Added by anna bone on December 12, 2009 at 11:50pm — 5 Comments

Just a Handful of nails

I attended an excellent conference on collaboration recently. There were many words used, but at the end of the day, although collaboration can take our ideas forwards, it can be a very difficult and frustrating exercise. We should be sure of what we are talking about – how we define things – or time can be wasted needlessly. A simple phrase like “child care” will conjure up a different meaning to a Social Worker than to a parent or a Nurse. We all talk different languages – approach things from… Continue

Added by Linda Jane McLean on December 12, 2009 at 7:27pm — No Comments

Social Media Training for Youth Professionals

For the last 2 years I have been researching and developing methodologies and polices in the practical application of online social media platforms to gain the views of vulnerable young people. I have successfully engaged and enabled young people to express their views online and participate with local decision makers in Devon to contribute to the de… Continue

Added by Katie Bacon on December 11, 2009 at 8:09pm — 3 Comments

Your insights needed: Click Clever, Click Safe (UK Child Internet Safety Strategy)

Reposted from Tim's Blog Cover of Click Clever, Click Safe

I blogged on Tuesday about Click Clever, Click Saf

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Added by Tim Davies on December 10, 2009 at 1:25pm — No Comments

We are recruiting an education manager: exiting job with young people and mobile apps

I hope this is ok to post this here, since it is very much in the area of work of the network... Join one of the most successful social enterprises in digital inclusion to create and set-up a new exciting training programme to enable young people in low-income communities to use, design and develop mobile and web-based applications for social change and community action. Founded in 1995 by Rodrigo Baggio, the Centre for Digital Inclusion (CDI) is the pioneer of digital inclusion in the… Continue

Added by Iris Lapinski on December 8, 2009 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

Face to Face Hours

Hello fellow professional range youth workers, How many hours face to face do you do? Here in MK we are working towards 60%; when in West Sussex we did 40-60%. I am interested to see what happens elsewhere in the country, and whether there has been any impact of integrated working and locality working on their ability to do face to face work and what the drivers are? The union just says 10 sessions a week, 8 evenings a fortnight but doesnt explain whether a session means face to face or just a… Continue

Added by Tim Howell on November 30, 2009 at 7:35pm — No Comments

Xtreme

Hey everyone, We run a Youth Radio Station called Xtreme FM here in the wider Craigavon area of Co.Armagh in Northern Ireland and we are currently ON AIR!! Recruiting about 30-35 Young People at a time, this is the 12th project, and ten years since the first where they take part in a three month project looking at Community Relations and Broadcast Training and then they get to go on the radio for three weeks. The station is 24hrs a day with a local national station taking over for the allnigh… Continue

Added by Martin Mulholland on November 29, 2009 at 8:25pm — No Comments

Studying youth work and social networks/social media?

A number of people have asked me recently about recommendations for reading linked to Youth Work and Social Media. When I was working on the Youth Work & Social Networking report (which has a pretty broad bibliography of things worth looking at) I wrote up a summary of 10 Articles that had influenced my thinki… Continue

Added by Tim Davies on November 29, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Bebo Video - useful discussion starter

Take a look at this video. (via @katiebacon): Could you use this as a discussion starter in a youth group. The video is a promotional clip made by Bebo themselves. Possible discussion questions: * What… Continue

Added by Tim Davies on November 28, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments