Youth Work Online - Exploring youth engagement in a digital age

Exploring youth engagement in a digital age

Community for youth workers & other youth professionals exploring digital dimensions of their work. Sponsored by Practical Participation.

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Gareth Prytherch replied to Will Lord's discussion 'Course on working with young people/involving young people'

Is it for a group or an individual?

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Barnabas Shelbourne replied to Barnabas Shelbourne's discussion 'starting a webzine'

thanks for your reply.

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Martin Mulholland replied to Martin Mulholland's discussion 'Student Question'

Thanks Mas, its a question we can ask, thanks for the response

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Martin Mulholland replied to Martin Mulholland's discussion 'Student Question'

Thanks Tim for your help - been that busy with assignments - didn't get back onto this site until today. I will say to the group about putting the Powerpoint up - as its a shared project!

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mas replied to Martin Mulholland's discussion 'Student Question'

I think I'd have to turn the question around and ask if never being allowed to use technology would help or hinder young peoples growth in society or their social skills? From that I'd also want to explore whether or not this is a question that wi...

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mas replied to Barnabas Shelbourne's discussion 'starting a webzine'

a different approach could be to use sites like issuu or scribd and just use a basic wordpress type site to promote each issue - then you also have the advantage of being able to email copies to people (if you have/set up a mailing list too)

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Tim Davies just checked out the RSS pages...

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Tim Davies replied to Martin Mulholland's discussion 'Student Question'

Hey Martin Take a look at some of the work coming out from the Digital Youth project which has a great conceptualisation of how digital media can support young people to develop informal learning interests and can contribute to their development ...

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Tim Davies added a blog post

Delete - The Virtue of Forgetting a Digital Age

Reposted from Tim's Blog [Summary: New book provides great discussion starters for youth groups on online content sharing and digital footprints] Last week at the OII we were treated to an enchanting presentation by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger on h...

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katharinefc@hotmail.co.uk is now a member of Youth Work Online

Welcome Them!

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From the YWSN Project Blog

Blog retired

We finished and presented the NYA funded Youth Work and Social Networking report just under a year ago - and whilst this blog has been fairly quiet, lots has been going on to take forward some of the ideas from...

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....

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Welcome to Youth Work Online

The network for exploring youth engagement in a digital age.

This is a space where you can:

Share your questions about the impact of digital technologies on work with young people; and about the policy or practice of digital youth work
Update colleagues about new developments and share your latest work.
Join in in-depth discussions about working with young people and new technologies.
Find out about face-to-face events and activities.

Whether you are looking at youth outreach on social network sites; policies for digital youth engagement; practical tips on e-safety; or ideas on the latest or best digital tools to use - we invite you to join and participate in the network.