[Air-L] Formal Registration Now Open: Conference Notice - 20th Oct 2008: Young People, Mobile and Internet Technologies 2008 - Maximising Opportunities, Addressing Challenges

[Sangeet Bhullar]

Apologies for cross-posting.

*Formal Registration Now Open* - see  <http://www.wisekids.org.uk/conf>
http://www.wisekids.org.uk/conf

Dear Colleagues,

WISE KIDS and the Wales Internet Safety Partnership (WISP), are organising a
National Conference entitled:

Young People, Mobile and Internet Technologies 2008 - Maximising
Opportunities, Addressing Challenges

which will be held at the Richard Ley Development Centre in Swansea on the
20th of October 2008.

The conference will focus on raising awareness of young people's use of
Internet and mobile technologies, and will examine what issues educators,
youth professionals and policy makers need to address to ensure that young
people have the necessary skills and knowledge to use these media
confidently, and explore the opportunities these present. Challenges and
risks associated with these media will also be discussed, and the conference
will explore the legal and safeguarding issues that schools and other
organisations need to address to minimise risk caused by misuse of these
media.

The key strands will be around innovative use of technology in education,
children's experiences in virtual worlds, digital literacy, e-safety - legal
and good practice guidelines. It is hoped that this conference will
stimulate discussion, ideas and concrete action points that can help the
sector move forward as a whole, in a way that truly supports young people,
and those who work with them.

Target Audience and Speakers

This is an exciting, cross sector conference aimed at training officers,
policy makers, opinion formers, educators, researchers, ICT co-ordinators,
youth organisations, community groups, media companies and other
professionals interested in young people's use of technology in formal and
non-formal settings. Speakers/facilitators will include the Children's
Commissioner for Wales, John Davitt,  Bebo,  Josh Dhaliwal, Mark Blois,
BECTA, Ofcom, WISE KIDS and MediaSnackers. It is also intended that young
people will be involved in presentations and a panel session. Key sponsors
for the event are BT, Ofcom and Fujitsu.

Register

To find out more/ to register for this conference, please visit:
<http://www.wisekids.org.uk/conf> http://www.wisekids.org.uk/conf
Also, please feel free to circulate this notice to any of your colleagues
who may be interested to attend.

Best wishes,
Sangeet Bhullar

Sangeet Bhullar, PhD.
Executive Director
WISE KIDS
Company No. 4572181

WISE KIDS: Promoting Innovative, Positive and Safe Internet Use

Tel: 44 (0)1633-673339/ 44 (0)7900911940
email: sangeet at wisekids.org.uk
skype id: sangeetbhullar
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