Supporter To Reporter (S2R) - The Youth Reporting Team for London 2012
Highlights from Catmose College S2R Team
Free Workshop at the Nominet Trust Dome
S2R is a highly-acclaimed national project where young sports reporters create video, audio and blogs from grassroots games and world finals. They gain confidence, skills and workplace know-how through an empowering new way of learning - their social media expertise and creativity are at the centre.
You will see young journalists from Catmose College demonstrate the amazing opportunities they’ve had, the impact in their school and how you can take part in this multi award-winning project.
You will hear about S2R’s incredible journey to the London 2012 Olympics & Paralympics, where reporters will cover the Games from around the country and the venues themselves...
Safe Secondary - Peer Learning For Digital Wellbeing
Secondary Pupils talk about staying safe online
Free Workshop at the Nominet Trust Dome
Peer education and project-based learning are the most effective way to develop digital wellbeing and employability skills in young people. Discuss.
We will introduce our new Nominet Trust-funded programme where older students teach younger ones about social influence, reputation management and digital footprint. Then they work to solve real-world problems using social media.
Come along to tell us what you think find out how you can help shape this exciting new programme supported by Facebook, Microsoft, Radiowaves, NAACE, The Schools Network and the United Learning Trust.
www.safesocialnetworking.org
Other Free Workshops at Learning Without Frontiers
Wednesday 25th January 13.55 - 14.25: Supporter to Reporter (S2R) & Open Badging
Highlights from S2R
Free Workshop at the Nominet Trust Dome
S2R is a highly-acclaimed national project where young sports reporters create video, audio and blogs from grassroots games and world finals. They gain confidence, skills and workplace know-how through an empowering new way of learning - their social media expertise and creativity are at the centre.
You will see the profound learner impact of this multi award-winning London 2012 project and learn how your students can take part.
You will find out about S2R Badging, an innovative Mozilla-backed way to reward and evidence the 21st Century skills learnt through the project. Badging is a new approach to recognising not just ‘hard skills’ but in-demand ‘soft skills’ like collaboration and coaching.
Wednesday 25th January 11.00 - 11.30:
Safe - The Certificate in Safe Social Networking
Preview to Lesson 1.1 Setting up a Safe Profile tutorial
Free Workshop at the Nominet Trust Dome
Social media stars from Buckingham School show us the skills and enjoyment they’ve got from this hands-on programme in safe social networking. Teachers explain how this positive digital project prepares pupils for the social web, through fun media creation.
Safe has a unique take on social media in schools. We believe that its safe and enjoyable use should be encouraged and taught in the classroom - sometimes by young people themselves.
You will find out how to take part in Safe for free, joining over 1,000 other schools who are working towards the Safe Award.
We will also be giving away a Safe Teacher Pack for free during the session!
Social networking and sharing content are becoming an integral part of family life. They provide enormous opportunities to develop creative, critical thinking and communication skills at home, school and in the workplace. Safe Family, developed by the creators of Safe - the Certificate in Social Networking, has been launched for Safer Internet Day, 7th February 2012.
Safe Family Activities
Inspired by the theme ‘Connecting Generations’, Safe Family Activities encourage people of all ages to share their experiences of staying safe through completing practical tasks together on social networks.
Families can complete the activities at home by downloading the resources from the Safe Family website and using simple on line tools to create profiles, blogs and comments. Schools and libraries will host Safe Family learning sessions for children, parents and grandparents; connecting the generations to help each other stay safe online. The activities are perfect for people new to social networks, both young and old - so get connecting!
Safe Family Activities include: 1. Create a Safe Profile 2. Get Blogging! 3. Connect and Comment
On completion of activities, families can register & download the ‘Connecting Generations 2012’ Safe Family Certificate.
We are looking for Schools and Libraries around the UK to take part by hosting and inviting families along to complete the activities! The first 10 Schools and Libraries to register for Safe Family and quote the promo code 'SIDFamily2012' will receive free Safe Posters to promote your Safe Family event.
If you have already registered for Safe, please email safe@digitalme.co.uk and quote the promo code 'SIDFamily2012'.
Join Safe
Safe is the Certificate in Safe Social Networking and is an easy to follow programme of practical activities for schools. Pupils learn the basics of using social networks and progress to creating their own media and understanding about their ‘digital footprint’. Safe is mapped to the KS2 ICT curriculum and is a perfect match for schools wanting to cover e-safety under their general safeguarding responsibilities. To sign up to Safe go towww.safesocialnetworking.org . If you need a moderated social media platform for your school to run your Safe activities, Radiowaves is the perfect match. To sign up to Radiowaves go to www.radiowaves.co.uk/join
Safer Internet Day 2012 – Connecting Generations
Safer Internet Day 2012 is celebrated worldwide and this year is an opportunity toencourage users young and old to "discover the digital world together safely". Aninspirational array of activity is taking place nationwide, coordinated by the UK Safer Internet Centre (www.saferinternet.org.uk), with all activities focusing attention onempowering all generations to safely benefit from the opportunities that the internet offers.
For further information on national activities taking place for Safer Internet Day, please visitwww.saferinternet.org.uk
