Youth Work Online - Exploring youth engagement in a digital age

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.

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Roy Smith and kathleen bruno are now friendsyesterday

JOB ORINA, Cathie Robins-Talbot, Sophie Weeks and 7 more joined Youth Work Onlineon Friday

Tony Cisse updated their profileon Friday

Mark Schreiber replied to Tim Davies's discussion 'Facebook Fan Pages'on Thursday

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

Tim Davies left a comment for Steve MiltonJune 29

Jon Jolly replied to Jon Jolly's discussion 'Policies, guidelines and boundaries for interacting online'June 26

Hi Tony, Thanks for the feedback and for posting the guidelines here - I'm sure they will come in handy for many people. When I've got some time, I'll go through them properly and see how they might work for our organisation. Again, thanks for s...

Tony Cisse added a photoJune 26

Careers in Media 2006 participants & speakers

Event for Careers advisers organised by LECP and The Guardian

Tony Cisse added 2 eventsJune 26

Professional Boundaries for Practitioners Working with Young People on July 21, 2009 all day
Working with girls in gangs on August 5, 2009 from 9:30am to 4:30pm

ade and Tony Cisse are now friendsJune 25

Tom Gaskin replied to Tim Davies's discussion 'Session Idea: Youth Engagement and Social Media Guide'June 25

Sounds good I would be up for contributing to this too!

Tony Cisse added 2 blog postsJune 25

Tim Davies added 2 discussionsJune 24

Andy Hillier added a blog postJune 24

Weekend working survey flying

We have a really good response to CYP Now's weekend working survey from local authority youth workers but not a great reponse from the voluntary setcor. If you'd like to take part, the forms can be found here: Youth worker survey http://www.zoom...

Tony Cisse replied to Jon Jolly's discussion 'Policies, guidelines and boundaries for interacting online'June 23

Jon, I think the issue you raise here about professional boundaries is very important. In my view an online engagement with young people should respect exactly the same boundaries as would apply in face to face practice. It may be useful to look ...

Tony Cisse replied to Tim Davies's discussion 'Youth Work Online: identifying the training needs'June 22

Hi all, Lets discuss this further at the unconference, we can run a session on this. We (at LECP) have the infrastructure to deliver, and have discussed this idea with Tim. It would be great to meet up with any others interested (or who might wan...

Tony Cisse left a comment for Rob ElkinsJune 22

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...

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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.

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.