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We welcome new members. Call, text, or email, and we will sign you up. +1 917-612-3006 allisonpr@gmail.com
This is a youth-powered social network and multimedia publishing platform that was started in 2003 by a group of teachers from local sites of the National Writing Project.
We merged several earlier blogging projects. We have found that there are many advantages to bringing students together in one site that lives beyond any particular class. It’s easier for individual students to read and write about their own passions, to connect with other students, comment on each other’s work, and create multimedia posts for each other. Further, it’s been exciting for us to pool our knowledge about curriculum, connected learning, and digital literacies.
There are over 10,000 posts and over 17,000 comments by young people on the site on topics as diverse as the American Dream, Shakespeare, and sports as well as original poems and stories.
Youth Voices is a platform for youth to write about their interests, both in school and outside of school: what they are reading, what their hobbies or future careers might be, what they enjoy in their spare time. Like all of us, students follow our national leadership and form opinions. They are also welcome to write about those topics as well.
Youth Voices is fully non-partisan and welcomes youth of all types, from all regions, and with all viewpoints. Educators support youth in writing and thoughtfully responding to each other through the use of commenting guides, using tags to show common interests, playlists to support self-guided inquiry; opinions expressed by writers are their own.
If being part of such a community makes sense to you, we invite you to join us. We welcome all youth and any teacher interested in having students publish online and participate in the give and take of a social network like Youth Voices.
Youth Voices is an open publishing platform for youth. The site is organized by teachers with support from the National Writing Project. Opinions expressed by writers are their own.
Dear Miguel,
It was fun to read your comic “not an actual representation of Miguel” it was pretty funny. But I liked the story you were trying to get at, that even though you and your brother would always argue you guys have learned to get along. Which is always a happy ending and that is usually what happens when you have older siblings.
Dear Miguel,
I’m glad that even though your relationship with your brother isn’t always positive, you still manage to have a good time. One part of you comic book that stood out to me was the buff dude you were talking to. I cannot really read what he is saying but I can only imagine him telling to get buff. Overall it was pretty cool.
Dear Miguel,
I’m glad that even though your relationship with your brother isn’t always positive, you still manage to have a good time. At the end of the day, you guys are siblings and will have each other for the rest of your life. I don’t know how a sibling relationship is because I’m an only child but I do wonder how it would be if I had a sibling. By coming across your comic, I was able to know how about different sibling relationships. I can agree with you in enjoying the road trips because I also find them fun, seeing new people, a new environment.
Thanks for writing.
-Yahaira
Dear Miguel,
I enjoyed reading your comic. It was very nice and detailed. What stood out to me the most was, “In the end of the day we always have fun, and I’m glad to spend time with my family.” This stood out to me because it shows how important your family is to you. That you like spending time with them and have fun with them. This comic also connects to me because I like going to roadtrips with my family and spend time with them. Other people can also connect with your comic. Thanks for sharing this comic. I look forward to seeing more of your work.