The 92nd MediaSnackers podcast talks with a young blogger about social media.
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Ethan Bodnar is a 17 year old blogger, entrepreneur and graphic designer from Connecticut, USA.
0.00—0.24 intros
0.25—1.21 background, Ethan’s blog and his projects: Grab Bag Book and The iPhone Book
1.22—1.40 how long Ethan has been blogging
1.41—2.26 Sustainable Education
2.27—3.09 where the theory has come from
3.10—3.43 example of sustainable education
3.44—5.00 sustainable development mashed up
5.01—5.40 participation and ownership
5.41—6.44 how to use the methodology
6.45—7.26 barriers
7.27—8.54 future of education
8.55—9.54 expectations/impact of new media
9.55—10.07 Outro
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August 07, another mouth-watering MediaSnackers Vodcast to devour.
The MediaSnackers monthly vodcast is a fifteen minute shot (more or less) of yummy-youth-media-goodness. Featuring content made, produced or focussed on young people and media from around the globe.
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The 91st MediaSnackers podcast discusses a new report called Watching, Wanting, Wellbeing.
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Agnes Nairn, a UK academic researcher and writer in the field of children and marketing is Affiliate Professor of Marketing at EM-Lyon Business School and also one of the authors of Watching, Wanting, Wellbeing: exploring the links (press release and PDF link to the report).
0.00—0.28 intros
0.29—1.29 background to the report
1.30—3.19 impact of commercial media and screen time
3.20—4.17 the top-line results
4.18—5.29 respondents opinions of their parents
5.30—7.11 interactivity vs passiveness/growing commercialisation of the net
7.14—9.05 who is responsible?
9.06—10.16 affluent vs deprived households
10.17—10.50 impact of report
10.51—11.03 Outro
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The 90th MediaSnackers podcast chats with Rushton Hurley.
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Rushton Hurley is a Japanese language teacher for Wilcox High School and also the founder of the non-profit online video resource for educators called Next Vista.
0.00—1.32 intros
1.33—2.35 background and the birth of Next Vista
3.42—5.42 why not use YouTube?
5.43—7.34 how the platform has been received
7.35—9.22 the future aims
9.23—9.44 Outro
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(GBR) MediaSnackers just returned from delivering two new media taster training sessions to students of Teach First (a government teacher training scheme for new graduates). As ever here’s a short film review of the day:
Thanks to Randall for inviting us to participate and all the fantastic students who really embraced this whirlwind of a training session (unfortunately Randall left the organisation soon after our gig and didn’t get us a testimonial—the only gig we haven’t got one for although you can get the gist from the video above). We’re looking forward to hearing how they adopt their new skills and understading into the classroom.
Steve Moore from Policy Unplugged introduced the day explaining the first half would be presentations and panel discussion then the second half will be an ‘unconference’ session.
Gareth Cadwalladar, Diploma Director for the new course talked about the evolution and development of said course. Lots of input from the industry and employment sector. Talked about what they wanted from school leavers and graduates. Gareth talked through the options available for the programme curriculum.
John Higging, Director General for Intellect UK representing the IT industry. Talked about what skills IT companies are looking for in the workplace and their expectations. Made the point that we have to focus on creatin gthe ‘best students’ as all markets are global.
Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor (New Media) Channel 4 Education, talking about something we like—the pace of change to the whole media infrasctructure and architecture. Touched on mash-ups and ‘hack’ events—creativity, social networking (live and virtual) and low barriers of entry has been the driver of all this change. Pooling talent for specific projects like games—individual at the center of a network with contacts . Touched on ‘passion’ in learning—MediaSnackers likes Matt!
MediaSnackers then delivered a short presentation on the the new media and technology landscape young people are immersed in. It was a fun event and we’ll be watching closely the evolution of the course and its adoption into the curriculum.
It was crucial to have an understanding of the new media landscape the new Diploma will operate in and DK certainly covered covered all the bases with his presentation. It added context and fun to the event – thank you. Steve Moore, Channel 4 Consultant
July 07, another mouth-watering MediaSnackers Vodcast to devour.
The MediaSnackers monthly vodcast is a fifteen minute shot (more or less) of yummy-youth-media-goodness. Featuring content made, produced or focussed on young people and media from around the globe.
Featuring: Aleksandar Stepanovski, Belgrade, theoneminutesjr.org; MediaSnackers News; Shoedoo by Club Flix; My Friend The Cigarette by Mackenzie Weekes; Strike For Freedom By Mark James; music by K.O.L.O..
The MediaSnackers monthly vodcast is a fifteen minute shot (more or less) of yummy-youth-media-goodness. Featuring content made, produced or focussed on young people and media from across the globe.
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If you have any short video content (under two-mins) relating to youth media projects, are involved in any aspects of youth media or are a young person producing digital content (audio/visual) and want to discuss submitting pieces for consideration, please get in touch.
(GBR) Yesterday, MediaSnackers Education Officer delivered a couple of short talks for the BBC in Manchester (thanks to Phil for inviting us along):
In June 2007 BBC Northwest held a Technology and Audiences day aimed at increasing BBC staff awareness regarding our ever evolving audience requirements. Barney Grenfell from MediaSnackers was a key contributor at the event, explaining how content is consumed and communicated particularly amongst our younger audience. Barneys' brief was to assume little or no awareness regarding our online audience and it was evident throughout the presentation that many of the facts and trends presented were an absolute revelation to staff, proving a great talking point amongst staff.
Phil Bromley, Production Editor at BBC Manchester
I managed to make my way up North despite the atrocious weather (there were a few people on my train heading back to Hull from Glastonbury, no idea how they faired). Unfortunately the talks were not as seamless as the journey. I was pretty much raving about all things hi-tech and new media, today I was party to the downside of this, which is that whatever is tech and cool can go wrong and (usually at the worst possible moment) does go wrong (apologies to anyone from my first audience who is reading this, trying to demonstrate new media and ICT stuff without any new media or ICT is a bit like trying to juggle without balls… you get the idea).
One of those things and nobodies fault.
I did get to see HD TV in action on a 26 foot screen though, and it is awesome! Definitely something to watch out for on the media horizon. I also got some interesting insights into how a major media company has to change its approach to production values and indeed production in line with changing technologies.
In my bit (a ‘chalk and talk’ session as DK calls ’em) I mentioned RSS and was surprised by the number of people who hadn’t even heard of it. Surprised because the BBC have a great RSS service and I just assumed everyone who worked there would know about them, like maybe they did a staff announcement or something: “our website features RSS feeds, as do other websites, please avail yourself of this new technology…”
One person asked (paraphrasing): “If RSS is so good why isn’t everyone using it?”
The simple answer to this is people don’t know about it and until they create the technology to do nationwide staff announcements they probably won’t. In the meantime it falls to people like the MediaSnackers team to say, ‘look this stuff is cool, check it out…’!
Here’s the educational link:
If you are someone who knows about RSS your homework for today is to tell someone else about it.
If you don’t know about RSS your homework is to find out more.
The 89th MediaSnackers podcast (presented with DesignShare) features John Weekes.
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
0.00—0.51 intros
0.52—2.35 the future of school design in relation to the past
2.36—4.36 what impact does school design has on pedagogies
4.37—7.40 clients needs vs community needs
7.41—10.38 Reshape School Summit background
10.39—12.35 the reasons behind the format of the event
12.36—15.02 the end vision for the process (which includes the new Reshape Schools website)
15.03—17.20 barriers to overcome
17.21—17.33 Outro
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(GBR) MediaSnackers is at the NYA Youth Summit. We’re speaking later on about new media and technology which should be fun. We’re also live blogging (as much as possible) the event—see below:
DK’s insights into how young people are now using new media and technology capped off the first day of the conference with energy and enthusiasm. A definite hit with the delegates. Steve Moore, Channel 4 Consultant
Kim Catcheside, Education and Social Affairs Correspondent, BBC opened the Summit and challenged the assumption that young people hanging around is not a criminal offense. Government is now focussed on consulting young people on how the set their strategies and commitments.
Played a short film featuring a tour by Parmjit Dhanda MP (Minister for Children and Families) to understand and get the views of young people.
Tom Wylie, Chief Executive of the NYA was next up. Focussed on a new government and changing political landscape surrounding the policies for young people plus the new 10 year spending review. Challenged what ‘good’ looks like. We have to empower young people to be part of the process (especially disadvantaged young people). In the business of promoting the health and devlopment of young people.
Tom also took the opportunity to state what is still needed in terms of a skilled workforce, sufficient and sustained resources, research and development and even a national youth board.
There was a brief panel discussion with John Coughlan, Joint President, Association of Directors of Children’s Services, someone from the NYA, and another representative from The Muslim Youth Foundation—all picking through different points but mainly focussed on the governmental policies and commitments. There were a few questions and responses for the panel to wrestle with but my digits aren’t that fast :-)
After the break is Ben Page, Managing Director, Public Affairs and Chairman, Social Research Institute, Ipsos MORI who gave a presentation ‘What do Young People think of Public Services?’. Woe!Challenged the notion of judging young people as a mass. Gave great quotes directly from young people which raised a chuckle but within provided deep insights. 71% of press coverage is negative about young people. Showed a government survey which illustrated that the need for activities for young people always come out top (for different reasons depending on who you are though) but for the last 6 years.
There are different cultural trends which affect beliefs about the future. Young people believe life decisions are ‘reversible’. They have also become mossivley sophisticated consumers and they know it. Top 4 worries for 7-14 years olds: Exams, schoolwork/teachers, rght clothes and being bullied. You have to get the language right and offer older role models with brand ethos.
There was then three presentations from young people themselves: the Maypole Action Group who showed a film about how they changed the estate where they lived and the park the payed in by carrying out questionnaires and creating a DVD. They also got a lot of respect and were presented awards by the Mayor and local community. Then there was a similar project presented by some young people from Barnet who took a bus and redesigned it with music decks and other equipment which provided them with a touring facility. The final was a group of young people raising funds for something which I couldn’t hear what. Again they had a video to show of their concert. Fun stuff.
Andrew Simmons, Chief Executive for Connexions Hertfordshire to provide a response to the presentations. He talked about how they used to consult with young people. They didn’t think across the services and also they were an assumption for how young people get involved. Now focussed on how young people get involved in every aspect of the services (with resources put aside). Very honestly saying theyy have 20/30 years of a way of working to break down and do it differently with young people.
Currently hosting a break out session (in partnership with Channel 4) with some young people and allowing them to define the conversation.
Went well and here’s the short video we made with some participants:
Just getting ready to go on stage and take on the topic of ‘engaging young people through new media’…
MediaSnackers went down well. We challenged, joked and illustrated the changing world young people are in with new media and technology. Our big take-away was exploring the paradigm shift away from consultation to conversation. Thank you to all the generous people who approached us with nice words. Thanks also to Channel 4 for inviting us to be involved.
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