> What particularly about the podcasts interested you?
When one first gets to http://youthvoices.net, there's "about" language
but we don't see the "meat" - which would be young authors, sharing and
commenting on their own work products in shared thematic contexts. One
has to "click on something" to get that sense. Clearly the whole site
needs clicking through by anyone interested in this thread!
But since the site title is "youthVOICES" I thought that hearing the
voices (e.g. the Academic Rants) was the a direct way to connect to the
youth voices here. The sites makes it so easy to hear each podcast, see
who's behind it, see if there are comments - it's very easy-in.
One could just as easily begin with "Popular" and get rich CONVERSATIONS
(rather than voices) between students from different schools, and get
the "social learning" component. That's also quite profound stuff.
And eventually click GROUPS and see how many differently schools have
groups of students using this site (though it's "host" school is
Baccalaureate School for Global Education, Queens, NY, USA
<http://youthvoices.net/bsge>).
-Bram
p.s. Visit http://youthvoices.net/about <http://youthvoices.net/about>to
see some of the organizations and schools behind this. The Writing
Project, for example.....and for tech support, Funny Monkey is the
leading Drupal developer for school sites. Shantanu Saha and I worked at
University Heights High 10 years ago, a flagship student-centered
alternative school (portfolio assessment via community roundtables). So
this site is rich in educational and technological community wisdom.
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