Totally Wired

Totally Wired - The 2010 Tour
Everything you need to know about young people and the digital revolution still to come. An essential seminar for all parents, church leaders, youth leaders and anyone who cares about young people and the technology revolution.

Totally Wired tour dates...

20/5/10 - Redhill, Surrey
10/6/10 - Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
24/6/10 - Watford, Herts
1/7/10 - Leicester (nearest to us)
15/7/10 - Norwich
23/9/10 - Whitstable, Kent
30/9/10 - Peterborough
7/10/10 - Chichester, Sussex
11/11/10 - Stafford (nearest to us)
18/11/10 - Cheam, Surrey
2/12/10 - Letchworth, Herts

Totally Wired is an essential seminar for all parents, church leaders, youth leaders and anyone who cares about young people and the technology revolution.

Seminar Details

Chris Curtis and Matt Summerfield present this high-quality, interactive, enjoyable and challenging evening event which aims to explore some of these key questions:

• What should parents and youth workers know about the digital world?
• How are young people spending their time online?
• What impact are online social networking sites having on young people?
• How will mobiles and the internet develop over the next few years?
• How can we help young people to stay safe online?
• How can Christian youth and children’s work adapt to the online world?

The evening programme is presented in two halves, each lasting around one hour, with a 20 minute interval in between. This will include an opportunity to hear about how Urban Saints can serve churches in their work with children and young people, plus the chance to look at various resources during the interval.

Tickets

Tickets cost £5* and are on sale now. Contact the venues directly to purchase tickets.

For more information please contact Virginia Boakes on: vboakes@urbansaints.org



* Ticket price at some venues may vary
Join the Totally Wired Facebook discussion group HERE

Social Media

Communication using Social Media

15 July 2010, 09:00AM - 15 July 2010, 17:00PM

Thursday 15 July 2010 in Birmingham
• Would you like new ways to communicate with groups and communities you support?
• Do you want to find and try out different ways to reach your volunteers?
• Have you heard of social media or read about Facebook and Twitter, but not known how to apply them in development of local organisations and volunteer groups?
If you're a development worker in a local support and development organisation helping small groups, or you provide support and advice in a volunteer centre then this workshop is for you!

There's a lot of talk about 'social media', some hype about how useful it is and a seemingly endless and growing list of social networking websites to try out.

Good use of social media can offer ways to strengthen how development workers work with local groups, how organisations reach volunteers, or help communities campaign more effectively. Not considering use of this technology could mean organisations and volunteer centres miss out on its use to support development and help volunteer led projects & groups.

This workshop is part of a series being run for development workers in local support organisations and for staff in local volunteer centres that will:
• Help you place social media in the context of your organisation development work role,
• Consider guidelines for responsible use of social media websites,
• Give you knowledge about a wide range of current social media tools available,
• Feature a practical social media surgery to help build confidence in use of social media websites and show how you can help local groups benefit from them too.
The workshops are being delivered by the NAVCA ICT Champions and Red Foundation as part of the Capacitybuilders' Modernising Volunteering & Regional ICT Champions work.
Cost £35 per person, including VAT

Booking
To book visit Eventbrite and complete an online booking form.
You can also download and complete a booking form (Word, 615KB) and return it to events@navca.org.uk
If you need assistance completing either form please contact Carolyn Ellis on 0114 289 3952.

Pete Read
IlluminateICT
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illuminateict (A CWIC Project) offers a full range of graphic design and ICT services to the voluntary and community sector. visit www.illuminateict.org.uk for training, web sites, graphic design
ICT Champion for the West Midlands
The ICT Champion is hosted by Community First

Children and the Internet

I posted a while ago about Safer Internet Day on 10th February. If you want some resources to work on this topic with children or young people, have a look at Childnet International. There's a video about cyberbullying which is available free to schools. I've purchased leaflets which will be going out with the mailing next time.

Safer Internet Day 10th February

Many people ask me about advising young people and parents onf using the internet safety and others ask about using the internet safely with their youth groups.

CEOP are suggesting a SAFER INTERNET DAY for 10th February and will have a resource pack for people who have registered to download next year.

Internet Safety

The Internet Safety Presentation ‘Think You Know – Do You?’ aimed at raising parental awareness of internet safety will be held at Tenbury High School, Tenbury Wells on THURSDAY 13th NOVEMBER 2008. The event will start at 7pm and will finish about 9pm. Radio 4’s The Today Programme will be present and will be seeking to speak with and get comments from members of the audience.

The presentation is not designed or intended for children.

The presentation is an open session and all our welcome. Organiser Simon Davies says:
"I would ask that those wishing to attend email Simon Davies so I can coordinate numbers. "