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Rezed Podcast#7 / MediaSnackers Podcast#113

[SUMMARY--The hub for learning and virtual worlds podcast series.]

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

Jeremy W. Kemp is an instructional designer at San Jose State University and started teaching online back in 1999. Talking here about his varied experiences, insights and projects.

0.00--0.24 intro
0.25--4.49 RezEd news from Amira and Barry from Global Kids (any news or events can be submitted here)
4.50--6.43 podcast interview with Jeremy W. Kemp
6.44--8.45 connecting Moodle and Second Life
8.46--10.19 Sloodle and its benefit
10.20--11.43 scale and experience of involvement
11.44--12.22 work in progress
12.23--14.11 what does it offer over other platforms
14.12--15.19 text messaging interfaces crossover
15.20--16.36 SimTeach
16.37--18.20 immersive environments and their opportunities
18.21--19.42 augmented reality progression
19.43--18.56 future use and developments
21.42--21.55 thanks
21.56--24.40 Amira and Barry detailing the upcoming events for the RezEd community (any news or events can be submitted here)
24.41--24.48 outro

Want to suggest someone or put your virtual hand-up to be interviewed? Then get in touch here or send me an audio message by clicking the icon opposite.

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Filed by DK on June 30 2008 | READ IT »

Street Athletics 2008

[SUMMARY—A busy summer ahead.]

(GBR) MediaSnackers is currently down in London today training up sixteen young digital journalists for the Street Athletics 2008 project.

Street Athletics is an amazing project now in its fourth year. It has seen thousands of young people taking part in races across the country. For us it began on the streets challenging other kids from other estates to race against us and if we hadn't have done that we would never have got to where we are today.

We're chuffed to bits to be project managing the media crew (sponsored by Sony) and supporting them as they cover 18 events over the summer period.

You can keep an eye on their work on the Street Athletics blog.

MediaSnackers Training

Filed by DK on June 29 2008 | READ IT »

JuniorSenior Bold Campaign

[SUMMARY—Pink coffins.]

(FRA) We've been fans of JuniorSenior since we conducted a podcast interview their CEO Ab Kuijer last May (and also featured him in this months vodcast). They have a great sense of fun whilst always looking to being creatively bold.

To announce the launch of their new French offices they decided to hold a ceremony for the death of traditional media.

The message to the French market is clear; if you want to reach young people, you need new media and creative solutions.

…and a pink coffin:

JuniorSenior

Filed by DK on June 26 2008 | READ IT »

5th Youth In Community Conference 2008

[SUMMARY—As just a delegate(?).]

(GBR) I can't remember the last time I attended a conference and not be a speaker. Anyway, the ticket was complimentary so good to be at the 5th Youth In Community Conference 2008 (last year it was called the NYA Youth Summit).

Conference Chair, David Walker, Editor of Guardian Public, opened. Talked about the 'stereotyping' which is in the media regarding young people and we have to work together to break down these. Paradox of young people getting blamed and big expetctaions placed on the shoulders. Users shaping the public services they access. Policy arena of joining public services together.

Andrew McCully, Director of Supporting Young People Group (DCSF). His presentation, 'Creating Opportunities, Building Futures', focussed on integrating an approach of services. Their aim is to improve the prospects for all young people. Most young people are on the paths to success already but a significant minority continue to struggle. We must focus on integration to enable further reform.

Jane Todorovic, Deputy Director, Communities and Local Government. Discussed Local Area Agreements and its relevance to young people through a new performance framework (case study). Shown the scariest flow-chart I've seen in a while.

Viv McKee, Director of Policy and Research for NYA covered 'positive activities' and participation. 2020 all young people should be participating in positive activities. Must be more than "bats and ball" (Alinsky quote). Should reflect youth work as a whole (start with where young people are and move them on). Young peoples view: fun, variety, real, and confidence. Communication is key—the content of the offer. Needs to have breadth, relvance, differentiation and progression.

Paul Cohen, CEO of Local Government Association discussed embedding public service agreement into local area agreement negtiations. There is an opportunity here though many challenges. One of them being how we view the world. Danger of the mechanisms becoming the issue. Accountable approach to targets and spending.PSA 14—increase numbers of young people on the road to success (specifically those at the risk of exclusion).

Rosalind Turner, Director of Children and Young People, Suffolk County Council talked about pooling budgets with integrated serivces and maximising the value from each agency (case study). Time for a whole system change. 50% of all budgets should have active participation of young people involved.

James Dunn, Ambassador of the Young Chamber of Commerce talked about their operations (case study).

Carole Aspden, PYO of West Sussex County Council discussed supporting active participation and their families in the commissioning and delivery of services (case study). Explored what commissioning means: operational, strategic, individual—and then the process involved (multi-tiered approach with children and young people embedded in the process).

Virginia Haworth-Galt, CEO Artswork discussing 'the culture offer'—delivering five hours participation to unlock talent and learning. Highlighted the English National Youth Arts Network (ENYAN). Access, resources and embedding were the major themes which kept occurring. Now five hours a week of arts and culture for every child (inside and outside school).

The conference was definitely policy-heavy, numbers were down on last year although was great to catch up with some old friends / colleagues and it was well organised.

There were a couple of development points: 'death by powerpoint' (by using too many bullets) was definitely in play, (no free wifi) the venue wanted to charge £20 for the day and finally quality of speakers (people getting chosen on rank and not presenting capabilities—an issue for any conference organiser).

Related posts: NYA Youth Summit

Filed by DK on June 24 2008 | READ IT »

Pacific Youth Review / Release

[SUMMARY—This years pro bono project.]

(WORLD) Pacific Youth was a five week online social media training course for over twenty youth leaders in Tonga and Papua New Guinea.

In true social media style a short film review from the facilitators can be viewed below (we don't like reports):

Full course details, review, lectures, notes, missions, links, quotes, thanks etc can be found on the Pacific Youth web page—feel free to share and disseminate.

All course content is available under the Creative Commons license which enables other organisations and young people to participate in the course themselves, remix or embellish upon it (as long as they provide us with credit/link):

Let us know what you think, if you are going to us it or have taken the course itself—contact us here.

Pacific Youth

Filed by DK on June 23 2008 | READ IT »

The World Has Changed…#18

[SUMMARY—…and it's not turning back.]

(WORLD) Serving some delicious illustrations of the ever-changing media menu:

• social networking behemoth gets into bed with old school medi;
• the church starts to provide iPod versions of the holy text;
• the net is not as full of perverts as usually reported in the press;
• even the Foreign Office are getting online;
• how credible do the kids think online stuff is;
• Intel predicting the web will become even more personal;

Related posts: The World Has Changed#1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

Filed by DK on June 22 2008 | READ IT »

Episode#018 | Changes in Youth Marketing with Ab Kuijer, CEO of JuniorSenior

[SUMMARY—New social media awards]

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

Interview with An Kuijer, CEO of Junior Senior.

Click To Play

MediaSnackers Vodcast

Filed by DK on June 18 2008 | READ IT »

Wigan Youth Service Conference: Part Two

[SUMMARY—Speaking gig and masterclass.]

(GBR) I'm back in Lancashire speaking at another Wigan Youth Service conference (was here in was here in March).

I'll be talking about the usual social media and young people stuff but also hosting a masterclass session illustrating several platforms and 'trickas of the trade'.

Wigan Youth Service Conference: Part One

Filed by DK on June 17 2008 | READ IT »

Rezed Podcast#6 / MediaSnackers Podcast#112

[SUMMARY—The hub for learning and virtual worlds podcast series.]

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

Tracy Rebe, Assistant Principal at High School for Global Citizenship, Brooklyn NY, discussing the Science through Second Life Program that has met every day this semester.

0.00—0.24 intro
0.25—4.21 RezEd news from Amira and Barry from Global Kids (any news or events can be submitted here)
5.04—6.47 Tracy Rebe explaining the Science through Second Life Program
6.48—8.43 what the program incoorporates
8.44—9.08 length of program
9.09—10.04 students responses
10.05—10.48 faculty/principal responses
10.49—12.23 tracking and measuring goals and standards
12.24—14.46 biggest challenges
14.47—16.36 what has been the outcomes
16.37—17.39 advice
17.40—18.49 future adoption of Second Life
18.50—18.56 thanks
18.57—21.16 Amira and Barry detailing the upcoming events for the RezEd community (any news or events can be submitted here)
21.17—21.24 outro

Want to suggest someone or put your virtual hand-up to be interviewed? Then get in touch here or send me an audio message by clicking the icon opposite.

Subscribe directly to these podcasts through iTunes by clicking on the icon opposite (download iTunes for free here).

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

Check out our other podcasts here.

Filed by DK on June 16 2008 | READ IT »

Research Tagclouds

[SUMMARY—Summarising media research the MediaSnackers way.]

(WORLD) There has been a vast wealth of research coming through my RSS reader of late—a little too much to be honest. So I thought I'd run them all through the fantastic Wordle to get an instant flavour of their focus. Enjoy:

Media Literacy Audit: Report on UK children's media literacy

Background | Download

A Childnet International Research Report: Young People and Social Networking Services

Background | Download

Pew Internet and American Life Project: Teens and Social Media

Background | Download

Universal McCann: impact of social media

Background | Download

Youth Work and Social Networking: Interim report

Background | Download

Thanks Wordle

Filed by DK on June 15 2008 | READ IT »

Saint Olaves Teacher Training: Part Two

[SUMMARY—Back to school.]

(GBR) A little video from our time with the science faculty at Saint Olaves:

Technology is now allowing students to display their work in a number of different formats besides exercise books. MediaSnackers highlighted the numerous ways they can do this, some familiar, some unfamiliar, in an enjoyable, clear and thought provoking way. Their INSET is highly recommended for any school!

Andrew Rees, Head of Science

Saint Olaves Teacher Training Part One

Filed by DK on June 14 2008 | READ IT »

Saint Olaves Teacher Training: Part One

[SUMMARY—Back to school.]

(GBR) We're down in Orpington, Kent to deliver some of our social media training to the science faculty at Saint Olaves.

MediaSnackers Training

Filed by DK on June 12 2008 | READ IT »

Einstein Kicking Ass

[SUMMARY—The MediaSnackers motto.]

Via Dynamic Einstein

Filed by DK on June 11 2008 | READ IT »

Tell Your Story As It Happens

[SUMMARY—How to do PR (web 2.0 style).]

(WORLD) This is for anyone who has ever written or been involved in formulating a press release—normal PR route to try and tell your story is the following:

• compose and send out a press release at the beginning of a project/initiative to all known journalists and media outlets
• wait, make follow-up phonecalls and hope it gets picked up and featured
• compose and send out a press release at the end of a project/initiative to all known journalists and media outlets
• wait, make follow-up phonecalls and hope it gets picked up and featured

This process is: time intensive, energy sapping and devolving power to other gatekeepers. Why not use social media to tell your story as it happens.

Here's an example: this morning I got to tour the offices Cyfle in Cardiff. I got to chat to one of the young people currently taking a three month course that trains freelance animators in digital animation software while working together to make a short animated film (here's a teaser trailer of their production).

More importantly, here's their blog—telling their story in their words, as it happens.

Cheaper than any PR agency. Better use of time. More authentic and regaining your power to ditribute your message.

Filed by DK on June 10 2008 | READ IT »

The MediaSnackers Meme #10

[SUMMARY—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:

Sofia's Diary debuted in March on Bebo, which has blazed a trail with online dramas such as KateModern, and has been running as short episodes described as "snack TV".
The rise of a new short-form hyrbid media production utilising social networking sites and produced televisual content.

People only hear soundbites and that's what they remember (we live in a media snack world).
A random twitterer.

The new bite-size media model is to reduce the news fat, cut back on content, and create tasty treats that requires fewer mental calories to digest.
How even the news are creating smaller digestable offerings.

Now, while everything else she said was brilliant and useful and insightful this just made no sense to me. Where's the longtail? Where's the viral tasty morsels that all those media snacking YouTube junkies wanna stuff down their faces?!?! This is old world thinking people surely it would be better to launch the site with basic content and release regular episodes to encourage stickiness?
A film students response to a visiting lecturer in the industry.

Providing a non-linear storytelling experience will satisfy the desires of people (who hunger for these kinds of stories) by connecting their actions, channel choices and media snacking to the unfolding story directly. Game developers have understood the potential of non-linear stories a long time ago and the IGDA offers a few good pointers to make the complexity work.
Another response to the fading film industry model of production.

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

Filed by DK on June 8 2008 | READ IT »

Technology Changes Humans Don't

[SUMMARY—Sometimes all you need is a graphic.]

Thanks to Hugh McLeod

Filed by DK on June 7 2008 | READ IT »

Mediacology

[SUMMARY—The Book.]

(WORLD) Our friend and Pacific Youth partner facilitator, Antonio Lopez has published a book called Mediacology.

You can read the background of the book here and also here's Antonio giving his a great insight into its content and focus:

Buy it here

Filed by DK on June 6 2008 | READ IT »

Rezed Podcast#4 / MediaSnackers Podcast#111

[SUMMARY—The hub for learning and virtual worlds podcast series.]

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

Linda Burch is Chief Education and Strategy Officer for Common Sense Media, an organisation dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families.

0.00—0.24 intro
0.25—2.21 RezEd news from Amira and Barry from Global Kids (any news or events can be submitted here)
2.22—2.35 Linda Burch podcast intro
2.36—3.36 Common Sense Media
3.37—5.07 learning in and with virtual worlds
5.08—11.22 5 tips for parents thinking about virtual worlds
11.23—13.24 the fast-paced learning curve regarding virtual worlds
13.25—16.56 the role of digital media in kids' lives report
16.57—18.30 the future role of Common Sense Media relating to virtual worlds
18.31—18.40 thanks
18.41—20.55 Amira and Barry detailing the upcoming events for the RezEd community (any news or events can be submitted here)
20.56—21.04 outro

Want to suggest someone or put your virtual hand-up to be interviewed? Then get in touch here or send me an audio message by clicking the icon opposite.

Subscribe directly to these podcasts through iTunes by clicking on the icon opposite (download iTunes for free here).

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

Check out our other podcasts here.

Filed by DK on June 5 2008 | READ IT »

Meeting Heroes

[SUMMARY—Great guys.]

(GBR/USA) It's not often you can meet your heroes.

Dave McQueen does amazing work inspiring young people.

Josh Shipp does amazing work inspiring yuong people.

Check them both out.

Filed by DK on June 4 2008 | READ IT »

Happy 2nd Birthday MediaSnackers

[SUMMARY—All together now…]

(GBR) …happy birthday to us …happy birthday to us …happy birthday dear MediaSnackers …happy birthday to us!

Click below to check out a short video message from myself and the rest of the MediaSnackers family:

Click To Play

YouTube version

MediaSnackers is two years old. Wow. The video above says it all…

The business plan is still fluid. The two underlying mantras still exist. More importantly, it still feels like a start.

I'm starting to measure the little momentum and success we've gained not by how many clients we got this year (nearly thirty by the way) or blog posts/podcasts/vodcasts we've produced, but by the stories we create (and are a part of):

• inspiring the first ever youth worker blogging in the UK
• leading a five week online social media course for young leaders in Tonga and Papua New Guinea
• producing podcasts for our New York-based partners…

…to name just three which stand out for me this year.

Every conference or event which I'm honoured to be part of, each training or consulting session we deliver, all the youth courses we lead on, every one of them has stories and moments which illustrate the connective and expressive power social media offers.

We have created laughs, tears, head nods, head shakes, cries of derision to table-banging support—how lucky we are we make a living this way.

Thank you for readin, replying, watching, listening, participating, suggesting, encouraging, criticising etc.—you are as much part of the story as we are.

Related post: Happy Birthday MediaSnackers

Filed by DK on June 1 2008 | READ IT »

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