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2.3.2. Popular social networks Facebook (www.facebook.com) is the most popular global social networking website that is operated and privately owned. Users can add friends and send them messages. Many of the users of Facebook will tell their friends about what they are doing every day, and friends have the opportunity to comment on these messages. Blog or weblog is a website mainly maintained by an individual with regular comments, descriptions of events or other material. Many blogs function as a personal online diary; others provide commentary on a particular subject. A typical blog combines text, images, links to other blogs, web pages and other media materials related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Twitter (http://twitter.com) is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. In twitter there is a 140-character limit on message and it is sometimes described as the "SMS of the internet”. Reflection / Discuss Please look up some virtual networks and blogs on the internet. What is their basic idea and function What skills do you think are necessary in order to participate in virtual networks How can they be used for strengthening AEC and cohesion in Europe How can you personally benefit and what can you learn from them Unit 4 Unit in a nutshell Achievements Reflection upon the opportunities for AEC involvement in the future Designing visions regarding the European community and the future development of AEC After this unit you will be able to: design and apply visions for improving AEC and voluntary work in the Europe of the future. Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. (Willie Nelson) Warming up: Agree on song you all would like to sing together – and sing it! (This is an old tradition in Denmark of singing a song before meetings, seminars, training etc. It does not harm anyone, and quite often it results in a very good atmosphere) 50
Module 2 – The Concept of Active European Citizenship and its Relevance for Senior Citizens Listen / Read 2.4.1. The Future Workshop (Shortened version) The Future Workshop (FW) method is not new. It was created in the 1970s by Robert Jungk, a German born Austrian writer and journalist, together with some colleagues. It has been used in many countries over the last decades as an appropriate tool for people willing to develop visions for addressing real-life problems. Originally it was developed as a method to support the political struggles of community groups for improved representation of their interests to create a better future worth living for. Basically, the Future Workshop can be divided into five phases: 1. The preparatory phase, which involves deciding on the topic and making some practical arrangements (preparation of flip charts, papers, markers etc.) 2. The critique phase, during which all the negative experiences related to the chosen topic are brought into the open. In the critique phase the problem is critically and thoroughly discussed and investigated. Brainstorming is the preferred creative technique, followed by clustering and structuring the ideas, thoughts, comments etc. into some main sub-themes. 3. The fantasy phase, in which the participants come up with ideas in response to the problems, by expressing their desires, fantasies and alternative views. In the fantasy phase the participants try to create a utopia, to draw an exaggerated picture of the future. Brainstorming and other creative techniques might be used. The participants should make a selection of the most interesting notions and develop these into a visionary paper. 4. The implementation phase. The workshop concludes with the implementation phase, in which the ideas from the previous phase have been seen with more realistic eyes. The ideas are checked and evaluated with regard to their practicability and a plan of action is drawn up. 5. In the follow-up phase the FW ends with an agreement on the elaboration of a report that collects all the results gained and presents a completed action plan. 2.4.2. The Visionary Workshop The Visionary Workshop (VW) consists of the Fantasy Phase and the Implementation Phase of the Future Workshop. The problem with the FW in relation to training courses is that it can take too long to go through all five phases. We therefore suggest focussing only on the FW’s most important phases which are the Fantasy Phase and the Implementation Phase of the workshop; together they are often called the Visionary Workshop. 1. The Fantasy Phase Warming up: Before the participants start with their work it is advised to get them into a creative mood, e.g. they could listen to some music of their choice, they could play some games or they could use story telling as source of inspiration. Once everyone feels relaxed and comfortable the actual working part of the Fantasy Phase can begin. The work begins: In the Fantasy Phase the participants try to create positive pictures of the future in relation to the subject which the future workshop is addressing, by questioning themselves: How do we wish the future to be if it is not restricted by laws, economics, resources etc The participants should suggest solutions, whilst ignoring these restrictions, such as: How should life be for elderly people if the state has sufficient money to care for all citizens who are not in the labour market How would it be to live in a society in which there is no discrimination of older people How would the EU be if older citizens had much greater power The participants have 10-15 minutes by themselves during which they should try to answer these questions and create suggestions about how the future could be. When they have finished the work, they should write their suggestions as headlines on a blackboard or flipchart. When all have written their headlines each participant should explain what their suggestion refers to. Very important: During this process there must not be any discussions! After the presentation of the headlines the next key question is: Which headlines cover the 51
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