LAUNCH: The YouthWorkHacks YouTube Channel

With all the stuck-at-home youth workers, benched students, and digital revolution in ministry taking off, this seems like a pretty legit time to launch the new YouthWorkHacks YouTube Channel.

Who is it for?

I’m aiming all the content in this to begin with at new youth workers, or youth work students. It’s not made for the veteran practitioner. If you find it helpful too – great – but the idea is to stay simple and broad for a while, and just answer the questions students ask.

What’s the content going to be?

To begin with there will be three types of video put into three separate playlists:

1. Q&A

The Q&A videos will all be <5mins answering questions that I’ve heard directly from students, had suggested by teachers, or had emailed in. I’m not making these questions up, so I will run out unless people send me more. So tweet, facebook, email, PM, DM me your questions.

2. Training

The training videos will be longer, but still ‘digest’ versions of longer sessions I do as lectures or seminars. These should still be <30 minutes, but – if you were to do the exercises too – might take you a little longer.

3. Interviews

Coming soon! Staying in the vain of Q&A’s we’ll be doing ‘ask a youth leader’ sections with quality and experienced workers.

Who else will be doing it?

I’m not hugely comfortable on camera to be honest, so I’ll be video casting other voices and leaders from around the block. We’ll also have some of my Youth for Christ team too.

More later?

I will – at some point – expand the content for some deeper, postgrad level engagement, but we’re not there yet, and this is unlikely to ever become the focus. Sorry!

So… examples?