Posts filed under 'administrative'
As a step toward getting the public side of the blog up and running, I have compiled several examples of posts that I think would be of interest to others doing similar work to engage youth civically. Each of the posts below gets at some issue or issues that are not specific to our circumstances. It would be great if you all could offer your opinions on these posts as well as nominate your own in comments. Remember that my list is not comprehensive; that is, a given post’s absence doesn’t mean I think it shouldn’t go public.
Also, I wanted to float the following idea that came to me while going over all the posts: does anyone see any material that we definitely would not want outsiders to see? What I’m getting at is that it seems like the vast majority of posts would be useful for the public blog on some level. What do people think about dropping the password protection and dissolving the public/private distinction entirely? It would make using the blog much easier as well as render moot the selection process for making things public. Let me know what you think in comments.
Chris T’s service learning proposal
Toby’s partnership plan 11/6/07
Lance’s Images of Citizenship and Design Decisions
Chris W’s Model for Future BC Involvement with PSO
Adri’s Reflecting on Teamwork
Toby’s PSO Overall Learning Goals
Toby’s Partnership Proposal 10/18
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November 10th, 2007 at 01:01pm
Deen Freelon
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Since we’re not always together and accessible, I suggest we try using some collaboration tools online. They can be helpful when preparing presentations, proposals, or just pure brainstorming.
Examples:
- Google Docs: basics of Word, Powerpoint and Excel. You can upload docs created in your computer and then share them with people you choose.
- Mindomo.com: mindmapping tool(great for brainstorms and mapping all kinds of things). Click here to see an example of a mind map I’m developing for one of my classes.
A couple more suggestions for the blog:
- Can we create a link list to the existing document databases (like Mindshare, Digital aid docs, etc.)?
- Calendar of meetings? so we can see what’s going on.
- List of people in the project and roles, so we can contact each other easily.
- Email subscription option to receive blog updates
- Login link on the blog to post messages?
- Also as the blog grows, you might want to consider looking at search buttons
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October 28th, 2007 at 10:30pm
Adri
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Hi all, thanks for using the blog . . . I just added a new category
called “decision log” that will allow us to record all decisions made
during our meetings. One way it might work is the following: at the end
of every meeting (whether the entire group is present or not), someone
takes a few minutes to record any decisions that were made. Then,
that person comes back and posts them here in the decision log. The
idea is that we have an easily accessible, regularly updated chronicle
of what has been decided so that we can keep duplication of effort to a
minimum. So, unless anyone is opposed, let’s see if this is worthwhile
by trying it out at the next few meetings
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October 25th, 2007 at 10:58am
Deen Freelon
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We have recently (October 2007) added a member of the team (Adriana Gil Miner) to begin a marketing plan to attract more community youth organizations and individual teens to our digital media project, Puget Sound Off. Her approach was to interview every member of the team while adding their inputs to a powerpoint file that covered the project vision and its intended audiences and outcomes.
The process proved incredibly useful, as she illuminated areas of (understandable) differences among the organizing partners in terms of goals for the project. We also identified areas of the site design that had not been clarified sufficiently for the tech developer (Samantha Moscheck) to proceed with finishing the site plan developed by teens in our summer of 2007 design program.
This experience suggests to me that introducing an experienced marketing person into the process fairly early on can help focus the vision in terms of better specifying: the goals, the definition of audience, the prouct features and functionalities, and ways of presenting it to different user groups with different needs and interests. The marketing process helps the project management team think about its evolving story about the project, and this, in turn helps explain it to others, and to see the physical design in terms of what is being emphasized and what is missing.
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October 21st, 2007 at 07:51am
Lance Bennett
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