Category Archives: BLOG
Coming Soon…….The Environment Issue
Apologies that you have had to wait so long since our last issue but the next Citizenship Magazine focussing on the environment will be available from September 1st.
There have been some changes at Citizenship Towers and this will be the first issue edited by myself, Andy Davies having taken over from Luke Davis earlier this [...]
AV and ‘first past the post’ explained
With the referendum on the UK voting system now just a month away, we thought this would be a good time to share this excellent animated video produced by the Electoral Commission. It offers a very simple explanation of both systems as well as the referendum itself.
Children’s media buzzwords and trends
To supplement the recent media issue, we have put together a guide to the latest buzzwords and concepts exciting the world of children’s media. Here goes…
Edutainment
Is learning fun? Of course it is. Do kids always agree? Of course they don’t. Media producers, therefore, have taken to dressing it up in a range of ever more convincing [...]
Coming soon… The Media Issue
Citizenship Towers is currently a frenzy of activity as our writers and designers work towards creating what we hope will be our best ever release – the Media Issue!
Here’s a taster of what is to come:
Our editor’s Children’s Media Conference diary featuring all of the latest concepts, products and predictions.
A look at the children creating [...]
Legal graffiti – tool for youth engagement or gateway to vandalism?
This is a feature from sister publication Community Aware that looks into whether legal graffiti projects can have a positive impact on communities…
As the sun dawned on Bristol City Art Gallery, the queue outside had already begun to snake around the metal barriers. Hundreds of people stood in the street, gathered behind a road block, in the [...]
The Fonz praises UK primary school teachers
While attending The Children’s Media Conference 2010 in Sheffield I managed to grab two minutes with actor-turned-children’s author Henry Winkler.
The Fonz, as he is better known, has co-written 17 best-selling novels based on the character of Hank Zipzer – The World’s Greatest Under-Achiever.
Just like his creator, who was diagnosed with dyslexia, Hank tries his best [...]
Children’s Media Conference 2010 – What do you want to know?
With head honchos from major children’s programmers like CBBC and Nickelodeon in attendance and a key note speech from teen pin-up turned best-selling children’s author Henry ‘the Fonz’ Winkler, the Children’s Media Conference 2010 looks set to be a not-to-be-missed event. And thanks to Citizenship Magazine, you won’t.
With the media forming an important part of [...]
Time banking – It’s all about give and take
In the mid-80s a civil rights lawyer in America had a ground-breaking new idea. Edgar Cahn, who had devoted his career to helping the less fortunate, struck upon a concept that would allow every member of a community to help each other while at the same time helping themselves. He called it time banking.
The idea [...]
Prejudice – Take It As Red