URConnected

Connecting youth workers with social media and young people

 

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Here are the notes from today's workshop.

 

 

‘The empires of the future will be the empires if the mind.’ Churchill

2007 – 16 year olds have always had the internet.

2001 – News started using user content. One click publishing.

Cup stacking – wouldn’t exist without the internet or youtube.

Who is our audience?  And is displaying video and online profiles self obsession or personal advertising? Or is it just a new way of doing what young people have always done in youth clubs or playgrounds? www.compkid.co.nr

Young People’s Tools

Bebo www.bebo.com , now mobile enabled so young people can update their profiles. 

Kate Modern – online soap with characters having Bebo profiles!

Kids organising against school closure on Bebo.

Habbo Hotel kids social network – www.habbohotel.co.uk

Facebook (www.facebook.com) – more adult, text oriented site. Allows high level of personalisation of content but not of look. Facebook Groups – must keep up to date and make sure it is about people. Interactive. You must be able take part. Something for nothing. Discussion topics that engage. Groups can relate groups to other groups eg. Illicit Still Pub group features things people talk about in the pub. Links to the local community. Relate groups to each other. 

6 Different Spaces 

Secret Spaces                    Text, SMS, IM

Group Spaces                    Bebo, Facebook, Tagged…

Publishing spaces:           livejournal, blogger, Flickr, Photobucket etc

Performing Spaces:         Second Life, World of Warcraft, Home, etc

Participation Spaces:      marches, meetings, events

Watching Spaces:             TV, Gigs, Theatre, etc

BBC Editorial Guidelines

eduBuzz.org

ICO.gov.uk

Podcasting

Audacity – spend time on intro and outro.

Spaces we created today

Wiki – www.pbwiki.com our space is http://urconnected.pbwiki.com

Ning group – http://urconnected.ning.com

Google Docs – collaborative word document (need a gmail email address)

Buzzword http://prewview.getbuzzword.com online word processor which you can share. You can insert images, video, comments.

www.twitter.com – update people on where you are, what you are dong and what you are planning.

www.lastfm.com

www.videojug.com – life explained on film

www.jumpcut.com – movie site with online movie editor.

www.flickr.com – online photo sharing

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