Blogs
Feb 16th, 2009 - 10:40:24 | Jess Wishart
feedHey everyone! I just wanted to talk about the livechat that Saad, Meg and I hosted last Saturday about engaging youth in the Atlantic region. The chat had a few guest speakers, followed by discussion. Our guest speakers included a youth development worker from NB, who brought a couple of the youth he works with in with him to present what they've been up to. I thought this was really cool, as it showed working with youth as a partnership. We also had someone from the Canadian Federation for Students Atlantic chapter, as well as someone in PEI who used web 2.0 to successfully lobby for a U-pass for UPEI students.
There were about 15 people in total at the chat, which I thought was not bad for our first chat (even though many in attendance were our friends), considering the chat was about the difficulty of engaging youth in this region. Although we did have some awkward silences and technical difficulties, overall I think we did a great job, especially because of how new this was to all of us. We definitely learned a lot and the speakers had some really great stories about engaging youth. Hopefully we helped forge some partnerships that can be used in the future, in the Atlantic provinces and beyond!
Feb 9th, 2009 - 23:59:59 | Jess Wishart
This January was a bit of a rough transition after being away in Poland in December, and then eating, drinking and being merry over the holidays. This month I worked on a web 2.0 presentation for public health nurses in the Halifax area. I had a really interesting time putting the presentation together, and learning about the scope and ability of web 2.0 tools to make change. For the next month I’m looking forward to having our Atlantic livechat (woohoo!), launching a new contest, and hosting some more TIG presentations. I’ve been struggling a little it with introducing TIG in the schools, as the site is blocked on school computers, and it’s difficult to explain with the kids not being able to interact with the site. But a couple principals have put in requests to have the site unblocked, so hopefully they will be successful!!
Feb 9th, 2009 - 17:26:53 | Go2GurlTBAY
It seems like FOREVER since I posted a blog -mostly because I am super blog shy and don't know what to write about --or I think WOW! I should blog about this and when it comes time to write I get bloggers block. So my appologies if this is a ramble blog but I wanted to blog to my CLC friends and tell you my new blogging strategy --I have a book (my little blue book) and inside is filled with all the adventures,meetings,network contacts and projects in progress and the newest section is "blogs" the next time I think WOW! I should blog about that --I have already taken notes to help the bloggers block.
That's my advice -if you have bloggers block -start a section in your book called "blogs" or "stuff people across Canada might actually care about" or whatever you want to call it --try it and Happy Blogging:)
The purpose of this blog is to reach out and say HI to everyone involved in the CLC project and to encourage you to stay tuned for my upcoming blogs.
Feb 8th, 2009 - 14:31:02 | Tosh
Hi everyone.
So I just ran the second Web 2.0 workshop that focuses on how NGO's can use web 2.0 tools for their work. This workshop was done in collaboration with the BC Council of International Cooperation and was done in Victoria which is on Vancouver Island. We left friday morning to head over to the University of Victoria (venue of workshop). The flight was less than 30 minutes! Anyways once there, we drove to the university. The participants there were made up of members of local NGO's, a program associated with the university, etc. I ran the workshop and from what I can tell they enjoyed it. I showed them the CBC video on TIG and they seemed to like that. Also, we had access to the internet thanfully and I was able to show them our site which I think they really were impressed with.
The presentation went well and I encouraged them to spend some time on our site.
Interestingly one of the people at the event, Elaina, actually is an advisor to the CLC project and came and introduced herself to me. After the presentation she attended the National Meeting we had which I thought was funny.
Anyways, hope to post the modified power point presentation for this workshop and accompanying notes under the documents section today!
Take care,
Tosh
Feb 6th, 2009 - 17:54:15 | Nyla Obaid
Sorry I fell off the wagon with the blogging for the last couple of weeks. I finally went back to university, after almost 3 months of a strike, so it's been crazy hectic for me.
January was a really awesome month for me. The Dare to Dream conference finally happened, and my workshop went really really well. We did a workshop on how to achieve your dreams, that started off with students "dreaming" about what they want to be, and then using an online concept mapping software to draw out their "path" to the dream, using lots of colors and designs and stuff. The students were gr.7 and gr. 8 mainly and they absolutely loved it, and there were a few teachers, guidance counsellors etc. that were blown away by the use of technology used to engage kids. We also had enough content to stay right on time, and we were able to print out the kids' works afterwards to give them something to take home. I also met some really cool other people from the Toronto District School Board at lunch.
Outside that, I've spent a LOT of time preparing for my upcoming Web 2.0 the Rescue! workshop on social networking. I had about 25 people show interest, but I had to cut it off at 15 people. I marketed mainly using prominent listservs within the Toronto not-for-profit community, specifically the Toronto Youth Cabinet and also OCIC. Then, I went about developing the workshop itself; it's two hours in length and much of it focuses on case studies of what Web 2.0 is and also some hands on training. I have a LOT of really good resources for anybody else interested in putting on one of these workshops, so please just ask me.
Also, we did a pre-evaluation survey and found out that most organizations at this stage, have a fair amount of experience with Web 2.0 tools already. So the PowerPoint that we got at the training is really outdated because all it does is tell us about what the different Web 2.0 tools are, but organizations already know what they are and most organizations are already using many of them. Our workshops should be tailored more towards how organizations can USE different Web 2.0 tools to their advantage, not just WHAT they are.
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