engagement
My name is Lud Allen I work at ShineSA which is a sexual health agency
I believe that using flexible learning technology can have a huge impact on reaching and maintaining communities of young people, workers, peer educators etc.
At ShineSA we are using a range of technologies to engage our young people: Including blogs, podcasts, moodle classrooms, social networking spaces like myspace, youtube etc.
Others in the online Networks that I belong to are using games and similar places to engage including something called 'second life' which you may have heard of.
In the course of this presentation I will show you examples of all these things and also talk about issues such as safety, moral panic, access; and throw in some terms such as digital native to hilight the way young people are asking to be engaged.
Also at the end of this presentation you will see a list of many many tools, pages etc to explore that give you options for using the net that are totally free.
ONE : Digital Native - This just means that we have to see past our own limitations and engage people on thier level ( as we have always done). It also means that JUST BECAUSE WE ARE USING THE WEB DOESNT MEAN THAT IT IS ENGAGING OTHERS) - As an example my 16 year old son has been looking for work. At the agency he was directed to by centrelink he was given a password to access job opportunites that the agency put on its website for him. The agency's site was boring eg: pages of writing with no engagement. He laughed and said this is a joke: If he wanted to he would have gone to seek.com instead. He needed something else. Maybe a podcast would have helped:
TWO: podcast : At SHine we have used podcasts to liven issues such as when do young people think first sex is appropriate? Or to give information FROM a young person etc.
THREE: Blog - what you are seeing is a blog: But the can be used for sooo much. For example this is another blog. On this blog which I maintain I have put videos and bits of interest to my community such as the dove add or the beats and rhymes video. THESE ARE ALL FREE AND EASY TO USE. The videos came from youtube: Youtube is GREAT for spicing things up and it is what young people are searching all the time. You can make your own videos and put them there eg: How to find a job etc etc. (In England ther is a girl who videos her job search progress and puts it up for others to see.
FOUR: Myspace: What I find incredible is that our politicians, education departments, govt departments block us from accessing myspace YET use it themselves because they KNOW it is where young people hang out.
Attached to the myspace issues is a moral panic that hopes to STOP people from using myspace well there are thousands of spaces JUST LIKE MYSPACE that are not blocked. The moral panic comes from people that DONT KNOW THE WEB and how to engage people. I was just reading research that shows that Teens that engage in risky behavior online ALSO engage in risky behaviour offline. Not the other way around.
I believe that using flexible learning technology can have a huge impact on reaching and maintaining communities of young people, workers, peer educators etc.
At ShineSA we are using a range of technologies to engage our young people: Including blogs, podcasts, moodle classrooms, social networking spaces like myspace, youtube etc.
Others in the online Networks that I belong to are using games and similar places to engage including something called 'second life' which you may have heard of.
In the course of this presentation I will show you examples of all these things and also talk about issues such as safety, moral panic, access; and throw in some terms such as digital native to hilight the way young people are asking to be engaged.
Also at the end of this presentation you will see a list of many many tools, pages etc to explore that give you options for using the net that are totally free.
ONE : Digital Native - This just means that we have to see past our own limitations and engage people on thier level ( as we have always done). It also means that JUST BECAUSE WE ARE USING THE WEB DOESNT MEAN THAT IT IS ENGAGING OTHERS) - As an example my 16 year old son has been looking for work. At the agency he was directed to by centrelink he was given a password to access job opportunites that the agency put on its website for him. The agency's site was boring eg: pages of writing with no engagement. He laughed and said this is a joke: If he wanted to he would have gone to seek.com instead. He needed something else. Maybe a podcast would have helped:
TWO: podcast : At SHine we have used podcasts to liven issues such as when do young people think first sex is appropriate? Or to give information FROM a young person etc.
THREE: Blog - what you are seeing is a blog: But the can be used for sooo much. For example this is another blog. On this blog which I maintain I have put videos and bits of interest to my community such as the dove add or the beats and rhymes video. THESE ARE ALL FREE AND EASY TO USE. The videos came from youtube: Youtube is GREAT for spicing things up and it is what young people are searching all the time. You can make your own videos and put them there eg: How to find a job etc etc. (In England ther is a girl who videos her job search progress and puts it up for others to see.
FOUR: Myspace: What I find incredible is that our politicians, education departments, govt departments block us from accessing myspace YET use it themselves because they KNOW it is where young people hang out.
Attached to the myspace issues is a moral panic that hopes to STOP people from using myspace well there are thousands of spaces JUST LIKE MYSPACE that are not blocked. The moral panic comes from people that DONT KNOW THE WEB and how to engage people. I was just reading research that shows that Teens that engage in risky behavior online ALSO engage in risky behaviour offline. Not the other way around.
If you want to read more about the online comunity issue Nancy White is a great resource.
FIVE: second life - taking the world by storm
All I have shown you and talked about are ways that engage young people: It doesnt matter if it is education, job search, job skills, just having fun or WHATEVER. We need to use the tools that engage the clients we have - above are some of them. (AND THEY ARE FREE).
NOW OVER TO NICK and his work search experiences and a (hopefully) tour of his myspace site.
Thanks for listening: See you
OTHER SITES:
http://del.icio.us/
http://myspace.com
http://www.calendarhub.com
http://pbwiki.com
http://stickam.com
http://pageflakes.com
http://odeo.com
http://www.protopage.com
posted by Lud @ 11:50 PM
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