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Archive - February, 2010
Youth Work Links for 7th December to 23rd February
These are my youth work, youth ministry, childrens ministry and schools work links for 7th December to 23rd February. For more related links, check out my links page Aiming High for Young People: Engaging through social media – Every Child Matters – DCSF have created a set of materials to help communicate and collaborate with [...]
Aiming High with Social Media
I just read over on the Plings blog that the DCSF has just published two guides and a set of videos on using social media to promote positive activities. The guides aims are: To explain social media technologies and functions using simple language. To provide you with the tools to increase interest and attendance at [...]
Processing
My apologies for the lack of posts this month. My various other responsibilities have been eating into my blogging space – there’s only so many things I can get my head around at one time! There’s some interesting developments in my work role at Arun Community Church with a leadership transition and subsequent reorganisation. It’s [...]
YWN Article: Leave the hidden agendas behind
The following is a short article I wrote that was published in Youth Work Now Magazine (A supplement of Children & Young People Now) this week. In addition to the print copy, it can be found on the CYPNow website here. Leave the hidden agendas behind
Time To Know
Techcrunch ran an interesting article today about ‘Time to Know‘, an Israeli technology company trying to revolutionise classroom based teaching. The basic thesis Time To Know is operating under is that today’s current classroom is following a teaching paradigm designed in the industrial age, i.e., a teacher standing in front of a class, a blackboard [...]
