[dmya] Distance Assistance for Puget Sound Off
Each month, our Digital Media Youth Advisory meets with people that are doing work in the field of digital media and learning, and this month was no exception. What was different this meeting though, was that the person they met with, Deen Freelon of the Puget Sound Off project, was about 3,000 miles away. Pictured above, Deen joined us from Seattle via Skype video.
Puget Sound Off is a project out of the University of Washington that aims to create youth engagement around local civic issues in their community, from education to technology to animal rights. It's part of a larger initiative to study how youth civic engagement is changing as a result of the digital media. The members of the DMYA spent about an hour and change with the site, testing out everything from building profiles to uploading pictures to leaving comments on blogs. Hopefully their feedback will be helpful to the project, and all the DMYA members wish it luck as it gets ready to launch!
