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Phase 1
(Trial) activities Sept-Dec 2002
A trial internet-based
youth forum started in mid-September and ran until December 2002.
To view this first phase of the forum, visit http://www.sivyouth.org
(with user name view and password only), and click on the button
[ SIV
Youth Phase 1 ] on the top right-hand side of the screen.
The following
schools were involved in the forum:
- Anse Royale
Secondary School, Mahé, Seychelles
- Bequia
Community High School, Bequia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
· Gingerland Secondary School, Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis
- Mindzenty
High School, Koror, Palau
- Nukutere
College, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
- Verchilds
High School, St. Kitts, St. Kitts and Nevis
The goals
of this trial internet-based forum were:
- To find
out the views of youth (in this case 13-15 year olds) on living
in small islands
- To promote
direct interaction between youth in different islands and different
regions
- To test
the potential of an un-moderated Internet-based forum among
schools
Several themes
were selected to form the basis of this trial forum:
- Advantages
and disadvantages of living in my island
- Life after
school in my island
- Drug and
alcohol use among youth in my island
- Sports
and recreation in my island
- The future
for my island
Each school
prepared a short article (500-700 words) on their assigned theme.
These articles were posted on the forum at two-week intervals,
after which there was an interactive exchange among the six participating
schools relating to the subject matter of the article. In the
case of Palau, because of the very limited internet access available
at the school, a special arrangement was made with a local internet
café such that the students could access the internet there on
a twice-weekly basis.
The forum
was successful and an assessment
was conducted by the students and teachers involved. Based on
their input and discussions at the Small Islands Voice Inter-regional
Workshop held in Palau in November 2002, plans are underway for
a second phase of the youth forum to run from January to June
2003.
Read the articles
prepared by students from Seychelles
and the Cook Islands to find
out what the students thought of the youth forum, and a poem,
'Us Islanders' written by Marvelle
Estrale a teacher from the Seychelles.
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