Reflection, resources and musings aloud on supporting, enabling and empowering young people
When Tony Taylor launched some very insightful and detailed discussions in reply to my introduction to the Positive Youth Development model on this blog post, I quickly realised that holding an online discussion on such a complex topic could be tricky.
But - social media technologies do offer a lot of new ways of hold discussions - so I thought I would offer one here.
I've put the presentation that Sarah Schulman and me gave last Monday online as a VoiceThread. That's a sort of online slide-show you can flick through, but with the added benefit that you can hear our narration of the slides, and you can record or type your own comments against each slide.
You can access and join in discussion on the PYD Voicethread at http://voicethread.com/share/45855/.
About Tim Davies
Tim Davies is a freelance consultant and researcher focussing on youth work and youth and community participation.
Tim graduated with a first class BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) from Oxford University in 2006. Whilst at University and for a short while afterwards Tim worked as a trainer and consultant with the Participation team of The National Youth Agency, developed the Hear by Right online shared learning tool and managed the final relaunch of the Participation Works online gateway for NCB/Participation Works. He has designed and delivered consultations for national and local government. Tim was also responsible for developing a national online management information system for YouthBank UK, now providing micro-finance grant management tools to over 80 sites across England and Ireland. Tim has also worked as communications manager for Just Fair Trade in Leicester.
Writing and blogging widely, Tim recently co-authored a chapter in the Open University reader 'Leading and Managing Youth Work' with Bill Badham.
Tim draws on skills as a technology steward and social media specialist to make the most of collaboration, consultation and community building technology in projects he works on - and to support youth organisations in engaging with social media.