In April, ArtStart coordinators attended a great workshop about using social media in youth art programs facilitated by Joy Suliman from Thinkspace at the Power House Museum. Joy has very generously provided notes, links and other materials for everyone to follow up and read more.

Hi Lucia and ArtStart Crew,

It was wonderful to meet everyone at the workshop on Friday. I've compiled some follow up material for you.

1. A powerpoint presentation with all mindmaps and material we generated in the workshop can be downloaded from this link. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1180984/080411%20ART%20START.ppt

2. We covered quite a lot in the workshops, and there were several requests for follow up links and resources. You'll find lots of links on our Thinkspace delicious accounts at http://www.delicious.com/phmthinkspace/web2.0. On that page, look to the right and you'll the tags we use. Please feel free to browse. Some more specific tags relating to questions you asked are below.

- twitter http://www.delicious.com/phmthinkspace/twitter
- facebook http://www.delicious.com/phmthinkspace/facebook
- podcasting http://www.delicious.com/phmthinkspace/DCpodcasting
- youtube http://www.delicious.com/phmthinkspace/youtube
- interactive whiteboards http://www.delicious.com/phmthinkspace/iwb

3. There were some people interested in Scratch, the MIT programming language. Here's a blog post I wrote about teaching it on the weekend. It's got all the links you need to get started. http://joysuliman.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/3-ways-to-make-any-kid-a-computer-game-coder-in-under-an-hour/

4. Peter Mahony ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) and Thinkspace http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/thinkspace/ - get in touch if there's anything you want to know about the facilities and courses.

5. Our interactive whiteboards are Hitachi starboards. http://www.hitachi.com.au/products/business/it/starboards.dhtml
Tell them you saw them in Thinkspace.

6. I'll be writing a series of blog posts about different aspects of web and social media technologies, inspired in no small part to the response of your group to the workshop on Friday. As these come online, I'll let Lucia know so that she can share them with you, or get there first, www.joysuliman.com .

7. My contact details - email me This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , or any of the places below. If I've missed anything in this email, or if there is anything I can give you a hand with, please get in touch.

It was an absolute pleasure. Good luck with ARTSTART.