TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Irem Ebru Kuru
The organizors are the informal youth group combined of university students who have been in so many youth in action projects. They applied for this training course to provide young people with the information of basic media tools as a process of non-formal learning and peer education, involving participants from different countries who work with young people.
The main objectives of the project are to increase the capacity of young participants in using media tools in promoting youth work, and to train them with a total 20 hours course given by experts in the field.
The participants are supposed to act as multipliers in their societies and organisations after the project.
The participants were from Bulgaria, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Romania, France and Turkey. Some of the participants had already been and applied for a youth in action project and had some information about YiA. The others had only some idea about YiA.
In the very beginning of the training course, to analyse their knowledge about media, I prepared a power point quiz made of some icons which are very popular in social media. With this small quiz, I was able to determine my way how deep I should go in the topic. Then I introduced what media is and types of media: computer media, social media, multimedia, massmedia and broadcast media with a power point show. Next step was to start from the printed media. To do this, participants designed a youth in action project and prepared a call for partners for their projects to be displayed in the social media. Vital parts are outlined in their sample call for partners. In another session I introduced the terminology of dissemination, exploitation and visibility and how to conduct them in YiA with a small lecture. Later I installed free tiral of fireworks program which helps to make graphics. With the new competences, they we were able to make their logos of their youth projects. After that audiovisiual media is introduced with installing movie maker and I helped them learn how to make a movie with cutting, adding effects to their short movie after the youth in action projects and how to put them in youtube and social media. Then I introduced good examples of websites and blogs of youth in action projects. We highlighted the vital elements which should be in the website/blog. Then I showed the steps how to make a blog in a very simple way by using wordpress. During this training, I handled the topics mostly by brainstorming, group work and lecture.
At the end of the training course, the participants were able to comperehend the process of dissemination, visibility and exploitation of the results of the youth projects and gained necessary tools and competences to use some computer programs fireworks, movie maker, related to media. As a final activity, they could create their media of a sample Youth in Action project.
I was the trainer of this training course and desgined the sessions and course of the sessions. I also collected the necessary materials.