My Workshops at the Taylors Hill Neighbourhood House - Term 3, 2014

Please find details about my workshops for term 3 2014 at the Taylors Hill Neighborhood House below. 

While I pre-plan all of my workshops to ensure we cover all of the relevant topics in an effective and engaging way, I tweak the programs to suit individual groups' skills and interests. 

There is also lots of time for questions.

Please note that the Pro GamerS (PGS) computer gaming group now runs from 4pm to 6pm on Friday afternoons. To book you or your child's place for term 3 2014 (beginning 18 July), please call Melton Youth Services on 9747 5421. 

Cheers,
Emanuel

Sian Prior and Suzanne McCourt with Hannie Rayson: Rotunda in the West

My Workshops at the Taylors Hill Neighborhood House - Term 2, 2014

Check out my term 2, 2014 workshops at the Taylors Hill Neighborhood house. 
 
Book your place asap to avoid disappointment!

Update 02/05/14: Blogging for Beginners will begin on Monday 12 May and finish on Monday 9 June. All other programs will run as advertised. Thanks for your support!

Creative Writing and Book Making Workshops - Term 1 2014

Computer Game Design Workshop for Teens - Term 1 2014

Blogging and Social Media Workshops - Term 1, 2014

My workshops at the Taylors Hill Neighborhood House will be continuing in term 1 of 2014. 

The first is a seven-week course on creating and maintaining a blog. I will guide you through the process of registering your account; choosing what to write about; creating your blog; changing how it looks; writing and editing regular posts; attracting visitors and keeping them engaged so they become a stable readership; and tracking your site visits and popular posts to maximise your hits so your blog appears on the top of the major search engines.

This leads directly into a social media based workshop where I will give you an overview of the most popular social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and others, depending on participants' interests. I will then guide you through the process of creating accounts for the most relevant social media networks and generating an online presence. 

For more information or to book your place in these workshops, please contact the Taylors Hill Neighborhood house on 9747 7200, or send an email taylorshillhouse@melton.vic.gov.au 

Thanks for visiting and please feel free to give this information to anyone who might be interested in joining.

Cheers,

Emanuel

Taylors Hill End of Year Event 2013

Workshop update: Creative Writing, Book Making and Computer Gaming

I've been really enjoying my workshops at the Taylors Hill Youth and Community Centre, Taylors Hill Neighbourhood House and Twilight School at the Rupertswood Mansion in Sunbury. It's been great meeting so many interesting, creative and productive residents of Melbourne's outer western suburbs - my home town. We've shared a lot of laughs and learnt a ton from each other. 

While I've felt confident instructing and engaging workshop groups for some time now, I'm still astonished at the quality and amount of work many of the participants produce after only the first few weeks. Quite often, after I explain a few general principles, talk about common ways to approach a given task, answer a couple of questions and encourage the group to unleash their creativity, the group produces inspirational bodies of work.

If you've been in any of my workshops, thank you for your support and encouragement. Seeing you develop new skills and explore your creative sides has given me the confidence to offer workshops to a number of new community-based organisations. I can't say much about some of the initiatives at the moment apart from *cough* sessional teaching for Victoria University in 2014 *cough* watch this space!

In the mean time, 12-25 year olds can join my FREE creative writing and book making workshop next Saturday (26 October) without missing much from the first few weeks. We will spend the next three weeks making our hand-bound journals, befire the creative writing side of the program begins. While participants are welcome to join any week, they will get the most out of the workshop if they join on the 26th of October, or 16th of November.

If you or someone you know have any questions, or would like to book a place in this program, please call Kat on (03) 9747 5421, or send an email to her @ katrionag@melton.vic.gov.au. I'll most likely return your call or email myself.

Another program I'm currently running is Pro GamerS [PGS], a weekly computer gaming group for 12-18 year olds based at the Taylors Hill Youth Services Centre.

We are playing the most popular PC games (League of Legends, Planetside 2, Starcraft 2: HoTS, Minecraft, Terraria, FTL: Faster Than Light, Civilization V, Tropico 4, Game Dev Tycoon, Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Plainswalkers 2014, Don't Starve) on a bunch of super-fast, top-of-the-line gaming rigs.

If the list of games doesn't impress you, how about a room full of 22inch HD LCD screens and PCs with 2gig graphics cards, Quad-Core AMD processors, 12gigs of RAM and a super-duper fast internet connection.

Still not convinced? We've also got XBoxs, Playstation 3s, and Wiis, not to mention free refreshments and an awesome workshop facilitator: me!

And that's not all! Group members will choose which games feature in our quarterly tournaments and be able to enter for the chance to become the Pro-est Gamer and win a swag of awesome prizes.

If we attract enough members, we can buy even more games and go on excursions to the Melbourne gaming conventions.

Join Pro GamerS NOW by calling Melton Youth Services on 9747 5421!

*Pro GamerS look away!* Parents and guardians can be confident knowing their teens are having fun in a safe setting outside of their bedrooms. The participants will be socialising with like-minded people and becoming aware of the importance of ergonomics, healthy eating, balancing thier gaming with regular exercise and a homework-first attitude.


Thanks for visiting and I hope to see you or someone you know in one of my workshops.
Emanuel

'Creating and Maintaining a Blog' Workshop

I am pleased to announce I will be facilitating a series of workshops at the Taylors Hill Youth and Community Centre, where a fantastic group of people run a number of informative, creative and community-building programs.

During the first of my offerings I will guide you through:
- Creating a blogging account
- Deciding what to blog about
- Identifying your target audience 
- Choosing an appropriate blog design/theme
- Making your first few posts
- Attracting an audience
- Keeping them coming back for more!

By the end of the program you will have a live blog, a few posts and the confidence to continue posting to and promoting your blog.

WHEN: Three consecutive Mondays, 2 – 16 September 2013, 10.00am – 11.30am OR 6.30pm – 8pm.
WHERE: The Taylors Hill Youth & Community Centre is located at 121 Calder Park Drive, Taylors Hill.
HOW MUCH: $25.00 for 3 classes.

Places are limited, so please book your seat asap by calling (03) 9747 5422, or sending an email to taylorshillhouse@melton.vic.gov.au.

Download the rest of THYCC's Term 3 program HERE, and subscribe to their mailing list HERE.


Thanks for reading and I hope to see you there!

Emanuel