The Department of Energy and Climate Change has just launched a Youth Advisory Panel. This year, they are compiling a ‘2050 energy pathways report’ and have just created a Youth Energy Pathways survey to help them find out what other young people think. They are looking for as many responses from young people as possible and would really appreciate it if you could forward this message to all the young people you know, complete the survey (if you’re a young person) and forward to all of your youth networks (if you work with young people). Perhaps you could also tweet about it and put it on Facebook? The link to the survey is: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PBXHMRG. It is open until Tuesday 27th July, so a pretty rapid response is needed!
Katie Haywood volunteers with the Worcester based environmental youth project, The Hive, and is also on the DECC Youth Advisory Panel, see her blog at - http://uniceftagd.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-beginnings.html. The Youth Advisory Panel also have their own blog at - http://www.youthpanel.blogspot.com/.
Resource pack aims to encourage young people’s involvement in community organisations Children & Young People Now news | Youth Work The National Participation Forum has launched a resource pack aimed at making it easier for young people to become involved in the running of local organisations and community groups. Sent with Reeder
The nuances of Copyright and Creative Commons and the differences between them can be confusing. I recently came across this neat little video that does a good job of explaining Creative Commons and what Creative Commons licenses allow or do not allow people to do with your works. A PDF of the images in the video can be found here.
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Google Docs, Zoho Writer, and services like them are good for collaborative document and presentation creation. What they lack however is a way for groups to assign tasks to its members and to keep track of those tasks as they’re completed.
This where Kohive comes in. Kohive provides a suite of tools for collaborative project creation and project management. In Kohive you can create multiple group projects and manage each project separately. Kohive provides a desktop-like suite of tools such as stickies, documents, scheduling, and file sharing that all members of your group can access. You can also share videos, share pictures, and create drawings (think team whiteboarding) on Kohive.
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