If you think students spend all their spare time avoiding studying, going out with their mates and having a good time then you'd be right. Well our student bloggers do anyway. While they assure us they don't slack on the study, they've got a lot to answer for when it comes to enjoying themselves while volunteering.

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Wednesday Aug 05, 2009

Lifetracks

The Lifetracks website, developed by the wonderful people at YouthNet is going to be for young people form the ages of 16 onwards giving them information on what they can do after they finish mainstream education i.e. GCSE's. It will feature the three main areas of work, training and study. At the moment, this website is currently in its very early stages and went live on the 24^th of June 2009 for all the members of Lifetracks and was introduced at the House of Commons, but as it's still in progress there's still a lot of online volunteering to be done here. I started off an online project member. I was just browsing do-it.org and looking for some virtual volunteering when I can across this.

The position sounded very important to me as I knew that I would be getting joint responsibility for managing a project. It included involved the group members in the layout of the website, the content, what prizes we should give to users of the website who have achieved their goals, how an article should be set out, what ways should a message be conveyed (e.g. podcast, interview, video, article), what kind of problems do you think there are with current websites about careers, work and study and what do young people really need to know before starting a new job or embarking on study.

You really felt that you were listened to ask the YouthNet members who were in charge of the discussions also commented on your ideas sometimes which showed that they valued your opinion. Even more, you go your own profile page which you could add cool stuff (I added a comic strip to mine!) and you could post your own blog. It involved a look of proofing and editing features of the 'website' as well as analysing and researching for what should go into this new website but the YouthNet team made it fun. So if you are looking for something useful to do in your spare time and are looking to gain some virtual skills and meet some new people, then sign up as either a project team member or even a photographer!

Posted by Rochelle ( 12:01 PM )
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