What is Youth Voices? Working Document
Youth Voices is a community of National Writing Project teachers who have joined with WorldBridges and EdTechTalk teachers to create one website, Youth Voices (formerly an elgg site, soon to be a Drupal site) where students, K-12, share wikis, blogs, a twitter-like “microblog,” RSS readers, discussion boards, media galleries, book groups, podcasts, digital magazines, and more.
The teachers involved with this project collaborate on a wiki to create an on-going, ever-changing curriculum that involves students in authentic communication and action with each other.
Over the next few weeks we will be working with Bill Fitzgerald and the folks at FunnyMonkey to make it easy for teachers and their students to join our social network. We want to provide an online community where students who aren’t blogging yet can start and where students who already have blogs can feed their work into our network.
We want to make it easy for teachers from around the world to sign their students up in Youth Voices and to begin to use the Youth Voices curriculum and our Drupal site—or a similar one of thier own—in their classrooms.
Who are we? These are some of the schools who have joined with us in the past couple of years:
Barrow High School, AK
BSGE, Long Island City, NY
BRCS, Bolivar, NY
Boone Middle School, FL
East Bronx Academy, NYC
Eleanor Roosevelt High School, NYC
Florin High School, Sacramento, CA
Hooper Bay School, AK
JFH, VA
Judge Memorial, SLC, UT
Marshall School, AK
Mater Christi College, Belgrave, Australia
Rogers Park, Anchorage, AK
Trenton HS West, Trenton,NJ
Westwood Schools, GA
Wiscasset High School, Wiscasset, ME
Yarmouth High School, Yarmouth, ME
Quakertown High School, Quakertown, PA
