MediaSnackers

Another short film review.

Music featured: She Has Moved On by The Stubbs.

LG&T worked with MediaSnackers to produce a Technology Day for gifted and talented KS3 students from across London. Attended by 25 students and their teacher the day was hugely successful. The feedback from both the students and their teachers was, without exception, positive and particular complimented DK and Barney for their motivating and challenging facilitation. The students appreciated the opportunity to collaborate with each other to produce work using a variety of mediums. MediaSnackers fostered a fun, creative and safe environment in which the students explored the educational benefit of many socially used e-tools. Working with MediaSnackers was easy: they are organised, dedicated and very talented.

Elly Hobson, Educational Programme Manager, London Gifted & Talented

Related post: London G&T Youth Training: Part One

Short film review of our training and event support.

Music featured: Save me by Showing Off To Thieves.

Check out all the young digital journalists interviews here.

The young journalists trained by mediasnackers for the Digital Media Literacy Summit 2007 held at Channel 4 on November 8th, organised and funded by the Media Literacy Task Force added notably to the success of this event.

Bringing a slice of 'real-life media literacy' to the event, the young journalists, from two inner City London schools and aged between 14 and 16, recorded interviews with delegates, speakers and organisers that enlivened the event and enriched the legacy of the day.

This aspect of the day was truly refreshing and highly relevant to the context of the Summit. It ensured that policy-makers and media professionals encountered young people practising media literacy skills both creative and critical as they learned 'on the job' how to conduct interviews and record and film them in real time.

It is a tribute to the quality of training provided by MediaSnackers that the results were professional and challenging to a considerable degree given the scale of their task and the number of seasoned professionals present at the event to be interviewed.
DR P A Packer, Strategy Adviser, UK Film Council & UK Media Literacy Task Force

Related posts: Digital Media Literacy Summit Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

We're getting around.

(GBR) MediaSnackers is up north and with Music4U, the Humber Region's Youth Music Action Zone, who run a wide range of music activities across the region.

We're here speaking at their AGM plus providing a little consulting session on their future new media and technology strategy.

MediaSnackers really got our team thinking about the future and how we start to use the technologies available. It was great to have someone who has the overview of what is available and with the knowledge about how young people communicate. We are now using some of the technologies demonstrated and are starting to connect to young people. We highly recommend MediaSnackers consulting, particular enlightening to anyone over the age of 18!
Melanie Paris, Marketing Director, Music4U—the Humber Region Action Zone

MediaSnackers Consulting

November 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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Featuring: Disabilities by Darina Severenchuk: theoneminutesjr.org; How To by Radijojo gGmbH Germany; Peak Oil Subvert by Luke Martin/Denzil Monk:
Life Round Here by Ariel: class326.com; Clap Your Stupid Hands by The Teeth.

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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.

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Exploring new media opportunities.

(GRB) MediaSnackers is off to facilitate a consulting session for Oxfordshire County Council and a group of their youth workers.

I would like to commend the work of DK (Mediasnackers) in relation to training of staff in the use of new media with young people. During a recent one-day session, DK enthused staff, worked through practical examples, was alert to local, national and global issues; he has an undisputed wealth of information, knowledge and expertise about new media.

DK works with confidence, inspiring as workers as well as providing sound learning for staff, most importantly he ensured they had the tools and wherewithal to take the work forward in their work with young people and colleagues.

As a result of DK's input staff have more confidence and creativity in their use of new media and this has had immediate and lasting impact on enhancing meaningful access to young people that they engage with.
Ruth Ashwell, Service Manager, Youth Support Services

MediaSnackers Consulting

The little vid caused a ripple.

(WORLD) The MediaSnackers Explained 90sec short (see below) which you'll find here of mediasnackers.com has been used to start a discussion across other markets and operations.

Web strategist and Sr Analyst at Forrester Research, Jeremiah Owyang, featured our short vid in this blog post and used our meme to start a discussion about whether people prefer short-form media and if so, do the creators of such online fodder consider this in their production.

We’ve been following the discussion as it appears on several other sites like: Chris Brogan, Connie Densen, Clay Newton, Connie Reece, Lee Hopkins, Deborah Schultz, Steven Hodson, Geoff Livingston, John Johnston, Cathleen Rittereiser, Mark Cahill, Kevin Dugan, Kami Huyse (and again), Jane Quigley, Sarah Wurrey, Todd Defren, Kyle Flaherty, Gaurav Mishra, Drew McLellan, Andrea Vascellari, Beth Kanter, Ike Piggott, Jason Falls, Rob La Gesse, Doug Meacham, Chris Wilson, Meg Tsiamis, Elizabeth Dunn, Colin McKay, Tamar Weinberg, Martin Koser, Mark Goren, Angela Penny, Heather Yaxley, Sherri Lynne, Luis Suarez, Rich, Valeria Maltoni, Jim Long, Neil Perkin, Shel Holtz, Luca Vergano, Daniel Mejia—we're thrilled to see the meme explored in all these contexts and have enjoyed following the digital breadcrumbs.

One point has recurred (and it's one which has been highlighted ever since we posted the 90sec piece back in our first vodcast): you don't have to be young to be a MediaSnacker! We totally agree. MediaSnacking is not age-specific.

We focus on young people due to our background and experience but also because there are HUGE differentiators for this youth generation (please don't take it personally):

• they can claim to be the first to have a global voice instantly (even though they don't really care)
• they have ubiquitious access or ownership to technology which allows them to digest, connect, share, promote, interact, express etc. which they are not taught about but simply socialised into
• and most importantly, they don't know a world without a media menu of vast proportions across so many different platforms and mediums.

We're looking forward to following our meme spread further.

The MediaSnackers Meme was also used in a Wired article back in March 07—we were trying to get a podcast interview with the editor, Chris Anderson for about 6 months previous and like to think we influenced the seeding of the feature :-)

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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:

To cater to what it believes is the short attention span of online audiences, the network today is launching CBS EyeLab, a digital-production studio that will create and distribute short clips cut together from the network’s most popular shows.
Attempts by one of the biggest TV netweork to win back viewers through the web.

If velocity is indeed one of the prime attributes of Social Media )you can argue the point—but heck, speed is screamingly important these days) then Snackbytes are my way of ensuring that I share my thoughts in the moment so that they retain relevancy with the many topics and conversations I follow and engage in on-line.
From the weblog from Deborah Schultz.

Tweets keep everything short and sweet, perfect for sound-bite nation or media snackers.
John Johnston about his experiences of following a presentation via Twitter.

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Regain control.

(WORLD) One of the biggest challenge MediaSnackers face when delivering (or attempting to deliver) our training are the IT departments. Some have been simply superb whilst others plain stubborn.

One of the biggest challenges our clients face when discussing using technology and new media in their organisation is their IT departments restrictive policies. We always tell them:

The IT department works for you and not the other way round.

Something which Hugh from GapingVoid illustrates beautifully in his image above.