MediaSnackers

Film review.

(GBR) Mark and I spent the last two days with fifteen youth workers from the Milton Keynes Integrated Youth Service, helping them explore, understand and use social media in their work with young people and in their own professional development.

Here's the short film review:

Milton Keynes Youth Service would like to thank MediaSnackers for not only delivering the most up to date and relevant training over the two days but for also moving us on as a service.  The package delivered, the examples given and the practical application and also the exploration was truly amazing.

The delegates who attended ranged from various backgrounds with equally varied levels of understanding. Some of us knew elements, other little, some were keen, some were hesitant. However, over the course of the two days everyone was taken on a journey that was supportive and understanding of differing abilities.

Ethical issues were fully explored and delegates spent a healthy amount of time investigating their own thoughts and feelings towards social media, the impact and benefits. Fears were explored and discussed leading to better understanding and increase in confidence.

From my point of view I personally gained a great deal out of the two days, learning how to apply new ways of working to my practice, so many ideas have since sprung up! I also enjoyed watching people visibly develop in front of me. The way fears and barriers were reduced or bowled over was incredible. Towards the end of the event watching people show what they had done and how proud of what they had produced was so great to see.

What next? This has changed so much already! The service has formed a social media team in which we are investigating how to best and safely integrate social networking in to practice delivery. We have also begun to deliver projects using social media. Such platforms as YouTube, Facebook and Blogger are proving to be so empowering. Even service managers have got a Blogger going as a way of updating each other to reduce emails. Staff that previously would never had gone near social networking are now working with young people, creating groups of interest online and making videos to promote the positives of youth.

Everyone at Milton Keynes Youth Service is so thankful to MediaSnackers for such a huge impacting course that will and is making a huge difference.

Matthew Barnaby, Youth Participation Team Leader

Related posts: Milton Keynes Youth Service Staff Training Part One and Milton Keynes Youth Service Staff Conference

The hub for learning and virtual worlds podcast series.

(WORLD) The nineteenth RezEd podcast, produced by MediaSnackers with Global Kids.

Featuring a podcast interview with Ryan Clemens, technology support analyst principal for Arizona State University, discussing Google’s new interactive virtual environment, Lively and how a group of students spent several months testing the platform.

0.00—0.24 intro
0.25—3.27 RezEd news from Amira and Rik at Global Kids (any news or events can be submitted here)
3.28—4.59 intros with Ryan Clemens
5.00—6.10 what is Lively?
6.11—8.37 its functionality
8.38—14.09 what Arizona State University has been doing with it (press release link)
14.10—15.45 who else is using the platform
15.46—17.08 what Lively offers which other virtual worlds don’t
17.09—19.10 future
19.11—19.20 thanks
19.21—22.28 Amira and Rik detailing the upcoming events for the RezEd community (any news or events can be submitted here)
22.29—22.37 outro

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A simple metaphor.

(WORLD) Anything to do with social media I jump on: whether it be a piece of news relating to how young people in the UK will all be given the means to be online or funky new platform to sign up to which quickly becomes part of my masterclasses or even a piece of technology to buy and have a play with.

The point is, I’ve become a social media magpie.

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Keeping track of the growing MediaSnackers Meme. 

(WORLD) We probably weren’t the first to apply the ‘snacking’ metaphor to media, although there seems to be a growing adoption in terms of describing the new youth-media landscape—we thought it would be good to keep an eye on the growing MediaSnacking meme:

Now that Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed are giving us “real time” views, I find I’m “Media Snacking” much more. Watching the streams…

One guys take on how Friedfeed is floating his boat.

Social Media Research Snack Facts

A whole set of flickr pics from Beth.

He also explains how to uses Google Reader for media-snacking. He has 500 friends on Google Reader, so every Monday, he has a host of material that he would have never come across—serendipity in action.

A little analysis on how uber-geek Scoble keeps his head fed.

These media snackers are exactly why Marlatt points to putting your recruiting platforms “in the cloud,” not on your desktop, where they can be accessed at any point on the planet with one device (laptop, mobile phone, etc) to reach these consumers who can be found all over the web.

MediaSnackers used within recruitment discussions.

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The MediaSnackers Meme #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10 & #11.

The hub for learning and virtual worlds podcast series.

(WORLD) The seventeenth RezEd podcast, produced by MediaSnackers with Global Kids.

A joint podcast with Global Kids and YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) interviewing Kelly Czarnecki, a Technology Education Librarian, at ImaginOn with the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County. Kelly has been volunteering in a teen jail in the United States, where for the first time incarcerated youth are able to log in to the virtual world of Teen Second Life and participate in Global Kids’ and Youth Venture’s Dream it. Do it. Initiative.

0.00—0.24 intro
0.25—6.19 RezEd news from Amira and Rik at Global Kids (any news or events can be submitted here)
6.20—6.38 intro to podcast
6.39—7.46 utilizing technology to teach skills to incarcerated youth
7.47—9.16 working outside of the jail with virtual worlds
9.17—10.43 why can’t incarcerated youth use Teen Second Life?
10.44—14.39 buy-in and challenges in bringing virtual worlds to a jail population
14.40—17.04 aren’t they just playing games?
17.05—19.18 creating change in their community
19.19—21.20 the dream it. do it. initiative in teen second life
21.21—21.27 thanks
21.40—22.43 Amira and Rik detailing the upcoming events for the RezEd community (any news or events can be submitted here)
22.44—22.51 outro

Subscribe directly through iTunes by clicking on this icon (download iTunes for free here).

Not using iTunes? Then just copy / paste this feed and drop it into your aggregating software.

Want to suggest someone or put your virtual hand-up to be interviewed? Then get in touch here.

Devour our other podcasts.

Speaking and masterclass.

(WORLD) Hightailing it from Swansea after the Young People, Mobile and Internet Technologies 08, I'm here at the Milton Keynes Youth Service staff conference delivering a keynote plus a masterclass.

DK delivered an inspring presentation to over 100 youth workers, Connexions personal advisers and play workers.  He showed them a wide variety of ways to work with young people using a wide variety of technology.  All staff really enjoyed the day and it had excellent outcomes in the Service now having its own social networking group which is further developing initiatives for and with young people.

Sue Payne, Head of Youth Services

We'll also be back next month delivering our two day youth professionals training to some of the staff here so this is a great opportunity introduce the ideas and benefits of using social media.

Milton Keynes Youth Service Staff Training Part Two

MediaSnackers Speaking

Masterclass anyone?

(WAL) This is only my second gig in my fatherland of Wales (even though I've delivered sessions to four continents)—I'm throwing down two masterclass sessions at the Young People, Mobile and Internet Technologies 08 conference here in Swansea.

First of its kind in Wales, the event has nearly 200 peeps attending—should be a good one.

DK's Masterclasses were inspiring and practical, and showcased effectively, in one hour, just what is possible with social media.
Dr Sangeet Bhullar, Executive Director of WISE KIDS and organiser of Conference

MediaSnackers Speaking

Back again

(GBR) Been invited back to Horewood House and the Association for Principal Youth and Community Officers (APYCO) national conference

Last year I was here as the penultimate speaker bringing the whole idea of social media for the first time—this year I'm delivering two masterclasses to this time show rather than tell.

The context DK puts on the use of social media, the energy he displays and the expertise he presents in a 'class' of 'mixed ability' participants is awesome. I could physically witness the lightbulbs switching on around me! Thanks DK.
David Whewell, Chair of APYCO

Related posts: APYCO Conference 2007 and Index Card Explanation

MediaSnackers Speaking

Global Kids with Amira and Rik

(GBR) The MediaSnackers Vodcast presents yummy-youth-media-shots of interviews, insights or event coverage.

During my recent stateside trip I got to make 3D and interview the fantastic Amira and Rik from Global Kids (who we’ve been working with on the RezEd podcasts for the past few months)—check out the vodcast exploring the history and operation of the organisation plus a deeper take on RezEd.

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New ideas in practice.

(GBR) The idea of mobile vouchers were developed for our theatre client, Everyman and Playhouse, who wanted to ‘market’ their new youth production specifically to a younger audience in a different and more relevant way.

We filmed and edited down twenty-second viral videos featuring four of the main characters and they are (as we type) being distributed via bluetooth by the digital journalists, theatre staff, the theatres youth forum and youth theatre network.

The hope is for it to propagate virally with the draw of a £5 admission price when shown at the box office (which is hugely important as the mobile vouchers are instantly measurable).

Check out the Mobile Vouchers page on the production website to find out more and to download the vouchers yourself.

View the ‘Proper Clever’ project page