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This semester our class (Virtual Learning Environments) worked together with the Social Marketing with Social Media class to create a multi-modal educational project with two NYC nonprofits.

So, we had the opportunity to put the work done during the semester into real-life action!

[edit] Nonprofit info

Here are the nonprofits with which we worked:

  • Globalhood's Global Potential project:
    • Global Potential: http://www.global-potential.org/
    • Mission: "Our mission is to create positive socio-economic change for underserved youth and their communities in low-income urban neighborhoods, and for marginalized rural communities in the Dominican Republic. We achieve this mission by providing comprehensive and individualized mentoring, vocational and life skills training, cross cultural exposure, community development project collaboration, job or internship placement, and social entrepreneurship opportunities..."
    • Globalhood: http://globalhood.org
    • Mission: "Globalhood provides incubation and consultancy services. Our mission is to create innovative international development projects by bringing together people and knowledge from across disciplines."
    • supplemental files (ie, very informative powerpoint, proposal, etc) are available on our Google group forum under "Files" (GlobalPotential_ppt.zip, GlobalPotential_docs.zip and GlobalPotential_pdf.zip)
  • (HAF) Hispanic AIDS Forum's Latino Youth in Action (LYIA) project:
    • HAF: http://www.hafnyc.org/eng/index.php
    • Mission: HAF's mission is to improve health outcomes for Latinos in New York City who are affected by HIV and other chronic illnesses..."
    • LYIA: http://www.latinoyouthinaction.org/
      • "For more than 11 years, Latino Youth in Action has provided leadership training to Latino youth to fight the spread of HIV..."

[edit] Final projects

Below are the final project modules with team member info, project blog links, and presentation media following.
Second Life names follow real life names (ex: "SL:..."). "VLE" indicates the teammate is in our Virtual Learning Environments class, "SM" indicates he/she is in the Soc Marketing for Soc Media class, and "VLE/SM" indicates he/she is in both.

Group 1. Project description: Develop 2 short videos to help LYIA take the "Gozala" HIV awareness campaign to the next level by bringing their outreach and training to life through digital storytelling.
Team: Renee Stork/SL:Cirrus Mimulus (SM), Maria DeLuca/SL:Minerva String (VLE)
Project blog: http://lyiavideo.wordpress.com/
Final presentation media:

Group 2. Project description: Add social media component to HAF/LYIA curriculum that is fun and engaging for 14-24 year olds. Pave the way to put the full new curriculum online.
Team: Jennifer Braudaway/SL:Advena Paulse (SM), Lora Grassilli/SL:Rola Ragu (SM), Caroline Desroches/SL:Dominique Szondi (SM)
Project blog: http://socialteaching.wordpress.com/
Final presentation media:

Group 3. Project description: Devise and implement a lesson plan to help the young adults in GlobalHood's Global Potential program understand ethnography and the practices surrounding it, including teaching them the knowledge of data collecting and analysis which will give them the opportunity to see the Dominican Republic in a different light.
Team: Sarah Haas/SL:Sarrah Finesmith (SM), Emogene Shadwick/SL:Shadwick Sorbet (SM), Billy Paretti/SL:Roman Robonaught (SM)
Project blog: http://4globalhood.wordpress.com/
Final presentation media:

Group 4. Project description: Implement a more user-friendly site for LYIA that provides easier access to rich media and links LYIA and HAF more cohesively.
Team: Oscar Martinez Ruiz/SL:OscarMar Minotaur (SM), Justin Nicoletti/SL:JustinNicoletti54880 Undercroft (VLE)
Project blog: http://webteamsocmark.wordpress.com/

Group 5. Project description: Develop a plan that implements the distribution of weekly text message updates to the families serviced by Globalhood's Bushwick Impact program.
Team: Anhelo Reyes/SL:Hama Quan (SM), Chester Dean/SL:Trout Willenov (SM)
Project blog: http://domrepmobiletxt.wordpress.com/
Final presentation media:

Group 6. Project description: Develop short and long-term social marketing strategies for Globahood and its incubation program Globa Potential. These strategies aim to identify and market to Globahood and Global Potential's current and prospective stakeholders using the social networking site, Facebook and interrelated social media platforms and technologies.
 Team: Megan Galbraith/SL:Bess Juliesse (SM), Lara Michaud/SL:Casynndra Farella (SM), Jon Stobezki/SL:Bun String (VLE)
Project blog: http://changingfaces.wordpress.com/
Final presentation media:

Group 9. Project description: Establish a Second Life presence for the nonprofit, Globalhood, that raises awareness and helps fundraise for the organization.
Team: Theresa Weber/SL:Aiyana Tripsa (VLE), Alison Quigley/SL:AliQuig Mavendorf (VLE), Juan Rubio/SL:Waxakla Voom (VLE/SM)
Project blog: http://vlegroup9.wordpress.com/
Final presentation media:

[edit] Final presentation guidelines

Date for final presentations: sunday, 27 july, 5-7pm EST in Second Life at Funk Soup Theater. Those in the VLEs class that cannot make that session, please update your group and have someone in your group represent you.

Groups will present in following order:

1 instruction - renee, maria
2 multimedia curric - jennifer, lora, caroline
3 Particip rsrch - sarah, emogene
4 website - oscar, justin
5 cellphone text educ - anhelo, chester
6 facebook - megan, lara, jon
9 virtual/SL presence - theresa, alison, juan

Presentation format:

Each group will have 10-15 minutes to present. Give a brief description of the project (2 minutes or less: goal & solution) then answer your choice of one of the following questions:

  • Your project may introduce a change to the way in which the nonprofit engages in outreach. In order for your project to be sustainable, what do you foresee will need to happen within the nonprofit?
  • How does your project leverage and create a richer learning experience that encourages positive behavioral change for your specific target population?
  • How did your project take into account the culture of the target population, its natural resources (i.e., word of mouth, family hierarchy, bilingualism, tightly-knit communities, etc.) and differential access to connectivity?

MEDIA: if you have media which you would like to display during your presentation, please submit the media by 12 noon on sunday, 27 July to Josephine. Media should be formatted - ready to present in SL as such:

  • images in .tga format (or, if you are having trouble, use .jpg format)
  • video in QuickTime .mov format - if the file is large, you can post it on a file storage site like Nakido and send the URL to Josephine. TIP: you can grab the QuickTime compatible versions of youtube videos by watching this helpful video and following the directions

Materials may be screenshots, photos from SL or RL, YouTube or project-generated vids, webpages, and virtually anything else you can use to enhance your presentation and make your project and your answer to one of the above questions concrete for us. If you have a PowerPoint presentation, you must export all slides as individual jpg files (it's an option under File > Export) and send to Josephine. Please make sure you have clearly marked for Josephine the order in which photos are to be presented.

NOTES:
Please be punctual. Because we have a very full schedule, if presenters are not ready at their allotted time, they will be moved to the end of the class session and the next group will be asked to present. Remember to test your audio before class, to toggle your talk button off if you are not speaking, and keep your headphones plugged in at all times. Presenters will stand by the presentation screen and click it to shuffle slides and activate video. Everyone should ensure that they have streaming audio and video enabled.


GUIDE FOR FINAL REPORTS/BLOG POSTS:
For your final blog posts, please post a summary of the project: description, processes, relevant screenshots/images, and the answer to one of the above questions. Even if you've blogged regularly throughout the process, please make the final post a concise summary so that anyone that visits the blog will get a clear idea of your project's processes and outcomes by reading that final, summary post. It will serve as an archiving mechanism for the work you have done over the course of the semester, and the URL to your blog will hopefully be a useful addition to your professional portfolio. This post is due by 1 august.

  • due: 1 august, 5pm EST
  • where: post to your group's project blog
  • who: one final report per group
  • what (two parts):

1. briefly summarize your project objective, obstacles, modifications/solutions, describe project progress to-date, and include relevant processes/screenshots/links.
2. Write out your answer to your choice of one of the three questions listed above.

[edit] Project progress reports

Regarding the project progress postings (due Fri, July 11), we had an inquiry as to whether a particular format should be followed. While we're leaving it fairly open and flexible, here are some guidelines. No need to write anything extensive, just bullet points will suffice.

Guidelines: 1. What has been accomplished so far?
2. What will be accomplished by the end of this semester?
3. If in order to realize all the project objectives, you may need to extend the deadline, then what goals will be reached by the end of the semester and what goals will need to be extended?
4. What platforms has your group utilized to communicate and collaborate with each other and with the other groups? What has and hasn't worked, and why?
5. How have you been documenting and sharing project work?
6. What resources have you tapped into, to achieve your goals?
7. What would help to realize your group's project?

[edit] Original project info

Below are the different project modules, as they were originally proposed, with team member info following.
Second Life names follow real life names (ex: "SL:...")
"VLE" indicates the teammate is in our Virtual Learning Environments class, "SM" indicates he/she is in the Soc Marketing for Soc Media class, and "VLE/SM" indicates he/she is in both.

1. Instruction: provide lessons/create online learning modules on digital storytelling using media (photo, video, web, Second Life, performance)
Instruction: shoot ethnographic/documentary video and edit with youths (apprenticeship learning)
Team: Renee Stork/SL:Cirrus Mimulus (SM), Maria DeLuca/SL:Minerva String (VLE)
http://lyiavideo.wordpress.com/

2. Multimedia Online Curriculum Development: transform classroom learning modules into online interactive learning modules (topics: health, coming out, violence, substance abuse, leadership skills)
Team: Jennifer Braudaway/SL:Advena Paulse (SM), Lora Grassilli/SL:Rola Ragu (SM), Caroline Desroches/SL:Dominique Szondi (SM)
http://socialteaching.wordpress.com/

3. Participatory Research: youths become ethnographers, “data”-gatherers, community archivists. They document individual and social narratives, responses to question to test or not test for HIV? using video, cellphone cameras, blogging, surveys, canvassing.
Team: Sarah Haas/SL:Sarrah Finesmith (SM), Emogene Shadwick/SL:Shadwick Sorbet (SM), Billy Paretti/SL:Roman Robonaught (SM)
blog: http://4globalhood.wordpress.com/

4. Multimedia Interactive Web Portal Development: redesign webpage to house, in addition to health info, the video, photos, and audio files from youths’ participatory research.
Team: Oscar Martinez Ruiz/SL:OscarMar Minotaur (SM), Justin Nicoletti/SL:JustinNicoletti54880 Undercroft (VLE)
blog: http://webteamsocmark.wordpress.com/

5. Develop Cell Phone Text Education and Social Marketing Strategies: develop chain-texts that carry info or consciousness raising messages (can do same with email, facebook, Second Life)
Team: Anhelo Reyes/SL:Hama Quan (SM), Chester Dean/SL:Trout Willenov (SM)
blog: http://domrepmobiletxt.wordpress.com/

6. Research and Develop Productive Use of Facebook or Similar Platform: investigate all affordances and measure against needs and goals of the nonprofits. Create linkages/synergies with other platforms.
Team: Megan Galbraith/SL:Bess Juliesse (SM), Lara Michaud/SL:Casynndra Farella (SM), Jon Stobezki/SL:Bun String (VLE)
blog: http://changingfaces.wordpress.com/

7. Cell phone – Website – Radio Synergy: create interactive games and projects that are housed and tabulated online. Participants respond to radio broadcasts with guesses or votes in the form of text messages (scavenger hunts or the desired outcome of a narrative with a conflict, for example); also: develop less complex online interactive learning games with specific learning outcomes.

8. Virtual Role Play: develop Second Life role play learning modules to target specific learning outcomes (anti-stigma, coming out, intercultural communication, leadership skills, overcoming personal weaknesses/deficiencies, substance use, safer sex, domestic violence, etc).

9. Virtual Counseling Center / Cultural Center / Fundraising Center: Locate low cost/free Second Life land and build virtual presence for one of the nonprofit organizations.
Team: Theresa Weber/SL:Aiyana Tripsa (VLE), Alison Quigley/SL:AliQuig Mavendorf (VLE), Juan Rubio/SL:Waxakla Voom (VLE/SM)
blog: http://vlegroup9.wordpress.com/

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