TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Vitalii Volodchenko
The training course that aims to improve the quality of youth work by equipping youth workers with competencies on using digital storytelling in daily work for reaching out marginalised young people, promoting diversity, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, etc.
Objectives:
To improve youth workers knowledge on digital storytelling and ways to apply it in their work.
To improve youth workers skills on developing digital stories for change and dissemination results of their work.
To improve youth workers ICT competencies and encourage them to use digital technologies in daily work.
To develop follow-up projects, by putting in practice acquired competencies during the project.
23 youth/social workers, youth leaders, and educators from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Italy, Lithuania, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom
The project is structured in learning by doing and self experiential way. Working methods will be based on the principles of non-formal education: icebreaking, teambuilding, small group discussions, plenary, games, individual or group tasks, theatre, input from the trainers, group presentations, and expression through creativity and culture, etc.
During the Training Course, the participants will learn the basics of digital storytelling, explore various local stories and issues, create several digital stories about local organisations for change and disseminate them online, as well as prepare follow-up projects for their local communities.
Participants created several digital stories highlighting the issues of the local organisations and people in the community.
Full-time trainer, working in active collaboration in every stage of the project, design, preparation of the activity programme taking in consideration the participants individual and learning needs, implementation of the acitivities, evaluation of the activity in collaboration with the co-trainer