A note from the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement at the University of Washington:

After two years work with our community partners, teen focus groups and managers, tech developers, and our talented staff at CCCE, we have launched our digital youth commons.

Here is a quick tour of this wonderful part of our Civic Learning Online project.

> A good intro to the site is available through the video on the teacher page: http://www.pugetsoundoff.org/teachers

> Visit the launch contest, which is generating great energy (including a surprising partnership with the local newspapers who are beginning to see the need to change their ideas about how young people share information): http://www.pugetsoundoff.org/contest

> We have started to post the first in our series of civic media curricula guided by our research on civic learning and aimed at helping kids ramp up the skills they need to get in the game: http://www.pugetsoundoff.org/how-to

> An edgy PSA produced by our teen project managers is on Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24O5u51-miE

We will be blogging about this city-wide digital hub as it develops a life of its own. Stay tuned (and join the blog) at: http://www.engagedyouth.org/