Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Well Versed

Year 11 Skipwith student, James Hargreaves, recently entered a competition called "Well Versed" sponsored by Google and the charity Parentzone to contribute 15 seconds of video to a longer film compiled by the Youtube blogger PJ Ligouri. The film is targeted at teenagers, advising them how to be safe on the internet.  James was one of the winners, and  his video has been used in the longer film - it is designed to be shown in schools and to PJ's You tube followers.

James went to the premier of the film at the Google head offices in London last week.  The event was attended by about 20 of the winning contributors to the film, plus representatives from Google, Parentzone and various other charities (Childnet, The Diana Award Anti-Bullying programme, etc).  The 20 teenagers were also given a guided tour of the Google offices - James compared it to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!

The finished film is really pretty good - link here to the project web site and film - http://www.wellversed.co.uk/.