URConnected
URConnected is an ongoing project exploring the benefits of using web based and mobile phone tools to enhance learning in youth work.
URConnected 1.1
Not so much an upgrade as an add on… Two chances for you to explore some nice tools for getting your church / group / self online. We’ll explore WordPress, the power behind this site and iChurch, as well as some social media tools. Both the Glasgow and Edinburgh workshops are limited to 8 people and you need to bring your own wireless enabled laptop. Both workshops are free.
To book a place email me at the address on the poster.
URConnected began as a very practical day of training and discussion on how you can use the new tools and possibilities of the internet and mobile phone technology to enhance your work with young people and churches.
At the first Connecetd training day we set up a number of websites to help both demonstrate how easy that was, how useful it could be and to allow us to widen our discussion about using online apps and tools.
I look forward to connecting with you at the URConnected website or wiki or here on my blog.
Here are some great videos from Common Craft which explain some of these tools.
Social Networking
Wikis
Blogs
Blogging
Want to blog but not sure how or why? Check this great one page How To: Blogging for Youth Workers from YoMo blog The (late) Breakfast Society
For list of web tools check the Resources page.
Our facilitator for our first URConnecetd was Ewan McIntosh.
Ewan McIntosh helps people understand how emerging technologies such as social media, mobile ubiquitous computers and gaming can help them learn better, work better and live better. He is the National Adviser on Learning and Technology Futures for Learning and Teaching Scotland, the education agency responsible for curriculum development, and a member of the Channel 4 Media Advisory Board. As a teacher of French and German in the high school sector and an educational technologist working with children aged 3-18, he frequently gives talks and workshops around the world, trying to find new and better ways of using emerging technologies in education. Ewan also consults for organisations including the BBC, British Council, General Teaching Council of Scotland, RM and Scottish Enterprise, advising on how social media can be harnessed for to improve learning in the organisation, leadership and communication.
More information and previous talks are available on his regularly updated blog.
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