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Feb 6th, 2009 - 16:31:49 | Nikki
feedHi guys. I hope everyone had a good January. This month in Ottawa was for me, very busy but quite boring. An ongoing transit strike put a bit of a kink in the CLC team up here's ability to get out and involved in the community, but at the same time it gave us a chance to focus on the online community and working on our team as well as planning for upcoming months. This month, despite the weather, I was able to attend a Citizen Voices Youth Dialogue event on youth participation in politics with Lynne. I have also conducted phone meetings with some of our main Ottawa partners, in particular YOUcan to check in and keep up to date with what is going on in the Ottawa NGO community, as it seems as though everyone had took a hit during the nearly two month strike with young people and students finding it particularly difficult to get out and involved in events. Some highlights this month include planning a TIG Training/Social Networking for Social Change Organization with Mothercraft Ottawa and seems of their organizational friends. Mothercraft is an organization that works with marginalized families, including a lot of young mothers, helping them with support and parenting programs. This has been a really interesting opportunity because it has given me the chance to work with an organization that would normally fall outside of who we normally work with, and I have been able to learn a lot about marginalization. I have also confirmed with Town Youth Partnership Strategies that Lynne and myself will be facilitating a social networking for social change workshop at their annual conference. This will be a good chance to reach out to rural youth. This month I hope to be able to book at least 3 or 4 more workshops in Ottawa for the last months of the CLC year and to meet with more of our CLC partners to try to begin to determine what the impact of the CLC Canada program in Ottawa has been to make one big concentrated push in the last two months of the program.
Feb 5th, 2009 - 15:32:48 | Julie Rae Diyen
Greetings from the Yukon,
January has been an exciting month up here, and has hosted many youth related community arts events and actions.
Some key achievements (in terms of reach) include attendance at Brave New Words, Brave New Works, the Arts Forum, Theatre Fundraiser, and the Podcasting Webinar
In terms of action, the Yukon Global Resource Center now has space set up in the BYTE (Bringing Youth Towards Equality) office in Whitehorse and we have started resource collection!
Finally, in terms of leadership, I have organized another facilitator training, preparing 15 new youth facilitators to present Right to be Heard, Social Networking, Climate Change, and Anti-Oppression workshops in rural communities across the Yukon.
Some upcoming objectives include:
(Reach) - connecting with various schools regarding interest in Change that Clicks
(Action)- ongoing resource collection and development of the Global Resource Center
(Leadership) - facilitate TIG workshops booked for events in Carcross and Dawson
This has been a great month and has been very smooth. One challenge that is ongoing, that you may be able to help with, is that we need more resources for our Global Resource Center. This is a space serving as a youth resource center, to explore national and international volunteer and employment related actions and opportunities, as well as resources around national and international youth programming, training and financial opportunities and everything in between. If you have any resources on your shelves, or in your closet from CIDA internships, facilitator trainings, or anything else you believe to be relevant - we would be very grateful to receive it!
You can send these items to BYTE at 2-407 Ogilvie Street in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory Y1A 2S5.
Feb 4th, 2009 - 21:49:21 | Daniella1131
Hey everyone!
Today I ran a workshop about Sustainability, Food and Climate Change as a part of International-Week festivities at the UofA. Since I am by no means an expert on the subject, I tried to fashion the workshop as more of a discussion where everyone who came could learn from each other. As such, my two big worries were that A) no one would come...and I'd be left to discuss it with myself, and B) those who did come would be shy, or reluctant to speak in a group of people they didn't know.
I was so happy when over 30 people showed up and the discussion went so well the biggest problem was me trying to make sure that everyone who wanted to speak got to. And the conversation itself was great - thoughtful, intelligent, respectful AND it even followed along the same flow as my powerpoint presentation! I only with it could have been a bit longer...
Hope you guys are all having successful workshops as well! Take Care!
Daniella
Jan 29th, 2009 - 14:49:14 | Julie Rae Diyen
Tuesday evening Yukon winter bikers united for night ride in response to the town of La Tuque, in Quebec, banning winter bicycling related to a recent death. However, the death was caused by a flatbed truck who passed too close to the bicycle and caught the cyclist with the hooks on the side of the vehicle, and not due to poor road conditions (in terms of ice, etc) for the cyclist.
Yukon winter bikers gathered for a short ride through the downtown core in solidarity, as well as to showcase safe riding methods, in order to engage the broader public in better understanding the value of winter cycling. In addition to providing a low cost transportation source that is not dependant on non-renewable resources, and therefore not a pollutant emitter, bicycling is also contributes to good health from the physical activity... which tends to decrease for many particularly over the winter months.
To read a news article about the banning, go to:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Sports/Tuque+seeks+halt+cycling/1186149/story.html
Actions are now taking place across the country. Show your support for your right to bike!
Jan 29th, 2009 - 11:53:36 | Tosh
Hello everyone,
Hope all is well with all of you, your friends, families and colleagues.
So I ran a Web 2.0 workshop yesterday for a group of NGO's and NPO's. It was based on the Web 2.0 - Social Networking for Social Change presentation we have, but modified to focus on how organizations can use web 2.0 tools with their work. Also, I was given an attendance list ahead of time, so I went to some of these organizations websites and looked at what web 2.0 tools they were already utilizing. I then took screen shots of those specific sites and used them as case studies in the presentation. If you are ever doing a specialized presentation and you know of the attendees who are expected to come, I would highly recommend doing something similar to this. It shows that you have spent the time doing your research and its a good networking practice I think as well.
Anyways, I have another one of these workshops to do next week for a group organizations hopefully. After I am done that one, I hope to modify the powerpoint and the accompanying notes that I used and then post them online under our 'Documents & Links' section.
I feel pretty comfortable giving the presentation, but at yesterdays workshop, an issue was brought up that I don't think has appeared before. When taking about some of the specific web 2.0 application services available (facebook, takingitglobal, etc) individuals wanted to know about content ownership. Specifically, if you put something on someones site, who owns it. I know that on facebook, anything posted becomes the property of facebook, but I really don't know anything else about the other applications. Any insight would be much appreciated.
Take care all,
Tosh
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