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The YouthBet Photovoice Project was designed by YouthBet as an opportunity to give youth a voice by engaging them in a process of identifying and addressing how gambling issues uniquely affect youth through the creative medium of photography.
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Academy Teacher (Nicole Klement) Leads Youth Team to Ghana
The YMCA of Greater Toronto is thrilled to be collaborating with Youth Challenge International (YCI) and Club 2/3 OXFAM in this partnership with the YMCA of Ghana. Canadian youth participant were carefully selected from each organization for their knowledge and skills that support project objectives.
Teams will provide accurate information on HIV/AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Infections, gender issues, interpersonal communications and participative workshop facilitation skills to high school students. The project will be based in Konongo in the Ashanti Region and in the rural community of Denu in the Volta Region.
To stay up to date on the project, visit the team blog.
Articles By Staff
Transferring Knowledge with Technology
by: Peter Skillen
Does computer use lead to knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are transferable to other situations? Or maybe a better question might be, "How can students use computers in ways that will allow for this transfer?"
Reaching Out - Maturing Within
by: Peter Skillen
Because of their involvement in authentic projects focused on service to others, the students mentioned here have learned significant moral lessons. It's hoped that these powerful learning experiences will resonate with them throughout life's struggles. I've been a long-time advocate of project-based learning, and it seems to me we should be revamping our curriculum to pay more attention to projects that serve a public purpose.
by: Peter Skillen
So what has really changed? In the early nineties, I wrote an article focused on helping students to "construct knowledge" using multimedia. It was motivated by my concerns that students were producing visually exciting, yet fairly superficial, hypermedia documents that were, at first, getting raves from teachers. The raves were usually a result of the technical competence of the students, not from the new knowledge of the content area under study. The information presented was often merely "a tantalizing telling" of information without a great deal of higher-order effort in its transformation. So what has really changed? The tools...
MULTIMEDIA - Blogs, Digital Storytelling, Flash, Podcasting Rev1.pdf
Open House Dates
Open House will be held on:
Wednesday, February, 4, 2009, 7 - 9 pm.
Please call Tracey Addison at 416-928-0124 ext 5 if you wish to attend.
Unable to attend our Open House?
Visit our booth at the Our Kids School Fair
at Roy Thomson Hall on October 25.
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