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Ann Boes
ParticipantAn interesting follow up to the article posted earlier in this thread:
https://medium.com/message/an-old-fogeys-analysis-of-a-teenagers-view-on-social-media-5be16981034d
Ann Boes
ParticipantOne thing we are in the process of developing for our site is this glowing twitter beacon:
http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/sparks-will-fly/things-with-stuff/twitter-emblem
I’m not sure if we’ll have it done in time for the conference, but if we do I’ll bring it.
Ann Boes
TSC at Lab:Revolution
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ParticipantPerhaps one way to utilize sites such as Instagram and Snapchat is by incorporating some sort of photo opportunity within the Cafe that the teens would find fun and want to share with their friends. They would be spreading the word themselves.
It seems to me that by the time I am somewhat caught up on how a platform works, my kids have long since abandoned it.
Ann Boes
TSC@Lab:Revolution
4hlabrevo.wix.com/4hlabrevo01/16/2015 at 9:21 am in reply to: Active, problem-based learing, citizen science and teen science cafe #3614Ann Boes
ParticipantIt would be helpful to have a page on the TSC site with links to various Citizen Science projects that might align with Cafe topics, along with commenting capability where TSC site coordinators could share their teen’s experience with a given project.
Ann Boes
ParticipantI hope that some of the more experienced TSC coordinators will respond to this post. This is an area of interest (and concern) for me too.
Ann Boes
TSC at Lab:Revolution
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ParticipantHi Eleanour,
I think your idea of reaching out to those folks at Project MALES is a good one. Chances are they would appreciate any additional educational resources that they could recommend to their participants. In our case, we went ahead and organized our first Cafe without having a YLT. We chose something that we thought would be of high interest, Zombies!, and started talking with local teachers about the idea. They got interested and encouraged their students to come. In our case the middle school teachers were the ones who were most interested and we had a large percentage of 13 year olds at our event. Those students really enjoyed the Cafe and are excited about the next one. Some of those teens have now joined the YLT and are working to produce the next few Cafes.Ann Boes
TSC at Lab:Revolution
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ParticipantWe’ve only done one Cafe so far but it was very well attended – 25+ youth. What worked for us was cultivating a relationship with teachers at several schools in the area. The middle school teachers were excited about the opportunity. They really talked it up to their students and then emailed after the event to let us know that they had the students who attended stand up in class the next day and talk about it. They loved it and wanted to know when the next one would be. They shared it with colleagues as well who promoted it in their classes.
Ann
TSC at Lab:Revolution
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ParticipantI am wondering what you are looking for in a partner.
Ann
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