NEW Training dates for June & July 2010

Accredited OCN Social Media Training course for Youth Practitioners & Managers

Liverpool

Area – Runcorn, 12 min train ride from Liverpool central train station.

Date: Wednesay 2nd & Thursday 3rd June’10 – 10am-4.30pm

Training location: Grangeway Youth HUB, Grangeway, Runcorn, WA7 5HA

Belfast Northern Ireland

Date: Monday 21st & Tuesday 22nd June’10 – 10am-4.30pm

Training location: 14 College Square North, BELFAST, BT1 6AS

Website – http://www.youthaction.org

Edinburgh Scotland

Date: Wednesday 14th & Thursday 15th July’10 – 10am-4.30pm

Training location: Edinburgh Training Centre,16 St. Mary’s Street,Edinburgh,EH1 1SU

Website: http://www.edintrain.com

Collaboratively Katie Bacon and Tim Davies have been researching and developing methodologies and polices in the practical application of online social media platforms & social networking to engage young people about local issues. The training course below has been developed to bring together both the theory and practice of digital youth work. This is a practical ‘hands-on’ course, there is a great deal of content to work through each day.  A follow up e-mail for each day is forwarded to each attendee with all the presentation slides, notes, handouts and relevant links referenced to throughout the day.

Delegates can choose to attend one day training or both training sessions.

1 day Introduction to social media & social networking sites for Youth Professionals & Managers

Accreditation – OCN (South West Region) Level 2 – Credit 2

Learning outcomes:

Understand how to create a social network profile, change privacy settings, invite friends & change settings to control what information is displayed on front profile page & news feed.

Discussing & identifying opportunities and challenges for using social media in a professional context;

Understand how young people use social media

Understand the key issues to consider when involved in digital work with young people (informed consent, contracting boundaries, verifying identities, safeguarding, parental/career consent)

Learn how to create a short film clip, upload to Youtube and add annotations

Understand how to integrate social media into your work as a youth professional and devise a strategy for how to take this forward

Understand how to promote basic online safety and digital literacy;

1 day Intermediate Social Media & Social Networking course for Youth Professionals & Managers

Accreditation -OCN (South West Region) Level 2 – Credit 4 (if both days attended)

Learning outcomes:

Create an online group and event to promote a youth activity, service and/or an organisation

Understand how to utilise online social network ʻapplicationsʼ to enhance the online profile/ group functions to young people

Understand different social media consultation tools available online for online youth engagement/consultation

Understand how to create a young person online questionnaire and integrate into a social network profile youth

Understand how to facilitate an online discussion forum through a social network profile

Understand the key issues to consider with online consultations with young people (informed consent, communicating whom will have access to consultation data & evidencing what change if any has occurred)

Recognise & understand associate risks & safe guarding considerations with online consultations/forum discussions

Understand appropriate youth professional online interventions and signposting young people to local/online youth services

Katie Bacon is an experienced youth worker, who has pioneered models of online youth work and youth engagement with a diverse range of young people’s groups in Devon. Katie runs Online Youth Outreach and has delivering training and capacity building in the use of the Internet in youth engagement settings to organizations across the UK. Tim Davies is a specialist in social media, youth participation and online social networking, and is co-author of ‘Youth Work and Social Networking’ (NYA 2008) and ‘Social Media & Youth Participation in Local Democracy’ (LGIU, 2009) . Tim is also a member of the UK Council on Child Internet Safety, and currently a full-time student studying for an MSc in Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute.

Pricing:

Statutory Youth Professional – £125 per delegate per day (excluding VAT)

Voluntary Sector Youth Professional – £100 per delegate per day (excluding VAT)

I will charge be charged as I am VAT registered (17.5%)

To retain a booking, please email: info@katiebacon.co.uk