{"data":{"ID":46,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1319312516,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Youth Voices - Teaching students how to engage in random acts of commenting kindness","Handle":"Youth_Voices_-_Teaching_students_how_to_engage_in_random_acts_of_commenting_kindness","ShortDescription":"Join with us in building a site for conversations. We invite youth of all ages to voice their thoughts about their passions, to explain things they understand well, to wonder about things they have just begun to understand, and to share discussion posts with other young people using as many different media as they can imagine!","Description":"Youth Voices is a school-based social network that was started in 2003 by a group of National Writing Project teachers. We merged several earlier blogging projects. We have found that there are many advantages to bringing students together in one site that lives beyond any particular class. It's easier for individual students to read and write about their own passions, to connect with other students, comment on each others work, and create multimedia posts for each other. Further, it's been exciting for us to pool our knowledge about curriculum and digital literacies.\r\n\r\nIf being part of such a community makes sense to you, we invite you to come to this conversation and join us. We welcome any teacher interested in having students publish online and participate in the give and take of a social network like Youth Voices.","Link":["http:\/\/youthvoices.net"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants will be encouraged to join Youth Voices, find discussion posts of interest to them, and write comments to those students. We will be using the same guides that we often use with students to engender detailed, thoughtful responses. \r\n\r\nThrough sharing what they find on the site, participants will reveal more and more about what Youth Voices is about, then will reflect on how the pedagogy represented by this tool might fit their efforts as teachers.","Presenter":["Paul Allison"],"PresenterAffiliation":["New York City Writing Project","National Writing Project","Bronx Academy Senior High"],"PresenterEmail":["allisonpr@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":6,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"I would prefer to co-facilitate this session, and will look for an appropriate colleague to do that with.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46695,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1}}