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I got tagged.

(WORLD) Good friend and two times presenting partner, Ewan McIntosh has tagged me with passion quilt meme—present an image and statement exploring your passion regarding teaching/learning.

A tough one. I could’ve used any of the statements in the manifesto but here’s the one I’ve gone with:

Don’t teach, inspire!

I think that says it all…and the image:

From our gig in Africa last year where I discovered my button theory.

I’m tagging five others:

• Christian Long—mentor and friend in Texas, USA;
• Chris Schuepp—German Pacific Youth colleague;
• Antonio Lopez—Italy-based Pacific Youth colleague;
• David Sasaki—social media global educator;
• Bobbie Gardner—UK-based community musician and music educator.

Retrospective gig posting.

(GBR) Last November I got to work with Antonio and Nick (great guys) from Maverick TV assisting in idea development and project formation for new youth-focussed multi-media project.

All still 'under wraps' at the moment but will let you know when it goes live.

DK is rightly regarded as one of the UK's leading experts in the field of young people and digital media. He is extremely knowledgable, passionate and it's been a great pleasure to work with him. We look forward to doing so again soon.
Antonio Gould, Executive Producer

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Talking with David Sasaki.

(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.

David Sasaki is Director of Rising Voices—an outreach arm of the Global Voices project.

0.00—0.19 intros

0.48—1.28 Global Voices overview

1.29—4.25 the outreach arm, Rising Voices

4.26—6.15 flavour of the microgrants and projects

6.16—9.16 the barriers of using social media

9.17—10.43 the future

10.44—10.56 outro

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Taking a break.

(WORLD) Pacific Youth (the five week online social media pro bono course for twenty youth leaders from Tonga and Papua New Guinea) is having a week off…

The first two weeks have gone off without a hitch although one issue has arisen around the internet speed at the locations. Therefore we are taking a break this week to allow the participants to catch up.

Related post: The Launch and The Start, Ends

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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:

In other words, could our media snacking habit be shifting our relationships and conversations to increasingly becoming wider, but more superficial instead of focused and deep? Or do you find rather that it opens doors to great relationships?
Great questions posed by the media philosopher.

There seems to be two ends of the spectrum of change—on the one hand, media snacking on bite sized movies, the more homemade the better is counter and on ther hand, a thirst for increasingly refined hig end production on entertainment formats like games and cinema—HD is here, 3D is back and full immersion ultra realistic games are fact.
Observations from this years Media Summit.

Media Snackers—Ok… so this is not actually a trend as much as it is a demo, but I had to include it. Consuming large amounts of media in small bit size portions all throughout the day has opened up countless new formats for advertising. We are all snacking on media whenever and wherever we like.
Listing five possible advertising trends this year.

…feeling like media snacking…
A short and sweet tweet.

Kids are early adopters of new technology and at Turner we have realised the importance of fulfilling their digital needs. The enhancements on Cartoonnetworkindia.com were inspired by our target group's evolving media snacking habits and the increasing number of broadband users and Internet penetration in India.
Vivek Krishnani, Executive Director of Marketing for Turner Entertainment Asia Pacific, talking about the changes in his sector/business.

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Talking with Idit Caperton.

(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.

Idit Caperton is the founder of MaMaMedia and creator of the Globaloria Program which empowers and connects aspiring young web developers worldwide (amongst other things).

0.00—0.47 intros
0.48—2.27 Globaloria
2.28—4.17 why game design?
4.18—7.02 how to scale?
7.03—13.30 transparent learning in global communities/future developments
13.30—13.54 outro

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The 103rd MediaSnackers podcast features C4s commissioning editor, Matt Locke.

(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.

Matt Locke is the new commissioning editor for Channel 4 Education, talking here about how how the audience has changed which is in turn impacting on their commissioning strategy.

0.00—0.37 intros
0.38—2.12 a different approach to commissioning
2.13—3.17 the changing audience
3.18—5.58 cross-platform exploration
5.59—6.47 dillution danger
6.48—11.36 six spaces of social media
9.45—9.46 encapsulating project
12.08—12.18 outro

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Our pro bono project kick off.

(WORLD) Today sees the start of our pro bono project, Pacific Youth (a five week online social media course for twenty youth leaders from Tonga and Papua New Guinea)—read more about it here.

Apparently, the project was featured on Tongan TV news the other day—wow!

Related post: The Launch, An Update, Ends

Short training film review.

(GBR) Last week we delivered a bespoke training day for Mencap—a national learning disability charity.

MediaSnackers deliver a great day and their extensive experience and knowledge in online technology and how young people are using the technology is such a great benefit to us. The training is always fun and never boring and they tailored their session so that the young people with learning disabilities who attended the training, were included and had an opportunity to contribute. Mencap are developing projects for young people with learning disabilities all the time and it has been so valuable to not only understand how online technologies relate to young people but also where the future of technology is heading. I highly recommend that if you haven't already, book a training session with MediaSnackers.
Lewis Perkins, Project Manager, Transactive Team.