http://www.breakfastsociety.com Thoughts, ideas & experiences in the world of Youth Participation, Peer Education and Citizenship Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:23:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I touched on this in a previous post here where I mentioned a campaign a group we worked with about 3 years ago which involved young people lobbying Connexions to open at weekends and during evenings. As far as I'm aware the campaign wasn't successful in their particular area. In an ... http://www.breakfastsociety.com/2008/08/youth-work-in-office-hours/ (Guest Post by Hugh Doyle, outgoing Project Manager for the Youth Participation Project (YPP) in Donegal) In the early days of YPP, from our base in a small office in Drumany Old Church in Letterkenny, Bill Vaughan and I, ably supported by Project Coordinator Gerry McGeady, set about our task of ... http://www.breakfastsociety.com/2008/08/participation-whats-the-point/ Heres a short film about the making of  'Hectors World'. You can see the Hectors World films on the thinkuknow website, set up by the Child Exploitation & Online Protection Centre. Whether theres any plans to create something similar aimed at young people I don't know but I always think its ... http://www.breakfastsociety.com/2008/08/educating-young-children-to-go-online-safely/ I hadn't heard of 'Beatbullying' before but had a look at their new website which you can find here Slightly annoyingly on most pages on the site a video automatically plays of some person or another talking about bullying (especially irritating when you see the same film several times as you ... http://www.breakfastsociety.com/2008/08/what-is-bullying/ Just a couple of pointers..... Kirsty will be running a session at a couple of Participation Works events next month with ideas on using practical resources for youth participation - you can find details in the flyer here plus here's the blurb: Hosted by Participation Works, Participation: The Essential Tools and Resources ... http://www.breakfastsociety.com/2008/08/participation-works-course-new-guide-for-social-media/ I'm working on our new website at the moment and playing around with Slideshare to maybe embed some of our stuff on the new site. While playing I found the slideshow below and thought it had some relevance - not only to anyone confused by 'social media', 'social networks', 'sns', 'web ... http://www.breakfastsociety.com/2008/08/what-the-fk-is-social-media/ In low income areas that is. In what the Observer calls a 'controversial move' Oxford University will guarantee an interview for young people that have achieved good enough grades and that live in a deprived area. The University will take into account the schools performance that the applicant attended, as ... http://www.breakfastsociety.com/2008/08/oxford-university-raising-aspirations-for-young-people/ In the last post I wrote about a proposal in the US to make it illegal for school teachers to have 'social networking friendships' with students. Personally I'll be surprised if it actually happens and much more surprised if it happened in the UK, but I think most people are ... http://www.breakfastsociety.com/2008/08/child-protection-online-scenarios/ There were some good discussions over on UKYouthOnline about developing policies for interacting with young people online. In particular there was a debate about whether youth workers should separate their personal social networking profiles from their 'professional' persona's (and profiles) that they use to interact with young people professionally. Well over in ... http://www.breakfastsociety.com/2008/08/appropriate-relations-online-with-young-people/ According to the Office of National Statistics 15.23 Million households (61%) in the UK had access to the internet in 2007 and this was rising at roughly 1 million a year. Of these only 10% didn't have broadband (down from 17% the previous year). At the time of their survey 4% ... http://www.breakfastsociety.com/2008/08/stats-figures-young-people-the-web/