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Somerville is full of people who forward emails of local resources to each other, but there's no one "hub" you go to to find out what's going on for kids in Somerville. A great listserv is typically in English.


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In July 2010, we had a meeting of "mediamakers" from Somerville and brainstormed some citywide issues of communicating opportunities and information related to young people. [[General anonymized notes]] can be found here.


==Summary==
PHOTOS HERE. CURRENTLY ON A ONEVILLE FACEBOOK PAGE


(Note to documenters: In this summary, quickly tell the reader a, b, and c:
After a group brainstorm, energy was for a community calendaring project of some kind, for event-sharing.


a. Communication we hoped to improve. (What aspect of communication did we hope to improve, so that more people in Somerville could collaborate in young people's success?)
From there, we attempted to assist community calendaring by supporting the district's communications director, since the district was furthest along as a possible "hub" for community calendaring (she also had the District using Twitter actively!). In the end, she spiffed up her the district's calendar on her own.


b. Main communication improvement(s). (What is the main communication improvement we made? What new support for young people may have resulted?)
We supported a [[multilingual video]] made by Consuelo Perez at Somerville Community Access Television, on services for young children available at several community organizations. With the editor, Nina xx, we brainstormed out how to mix pictures in with translation to bring the information alive. The video was excellent, but a bit expensive. The idea: to put the video in public places -- hit up against the idea that there aren't many public screens. Would a bulletin board in public places, like in front of Market Basket, be just as good?


c.  Main communication realization. (What's your main realization about needed improvements to the communication infrastructure of public education? Who needs to communicate what information to whom, through which media, in order to support youth in a diverse community? Which barriers are in the way of such communication, and how might these barriers be overcome?)
We still believe greatly that innovations on citywide info-sharing on opportunities related to youth and families would be much more exciting and, we think, important for young people in the city. We're learning more about related projects underway at the Center for Civic Media at MIT [[xxxxx]]]. We're going to partner with CCM on finishing our hotline; similar software was used in [[What's Up Lawrence]].
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In July 2010, we had a [[meeting of "mediamakers"]] from Somerville and brainstormed some citywide problems of communication. After a group brainstorm, energy was for a community calendaring project of some kind, for event-sharing.  
So, we now know a lot of people in the community who are interested in pieces of citywide info-sharing. We just haven't engaged them in a robust project to date because in the months since our first "citywide info sharing" meeting, our capacity got sucked up into our other Working Groups. We just ran out of time!


From there, we attempted to assist community calendaring by supporting the district's communications director, since they were furthest along as a possible "hub" for community calendaring (they also use Twitter actively!). In the end, she spiffed up her the district's [[calendar]] on her own! 
We'd love to come back to that "layer" of our work in Somerville, esp. because our PI will also be exploring that layer (citywide info sharing) in San Diego.
 
We supported a [[multilingual video]] made by Consuelo Perez at Somerville Community Access Television, on services for young children available at several community organizations.
 
We still feel that some sort of curated calendaring project or other form of citywide info-sharing on opportunities related to youth and families would be much more exciting and, we think, important for young people in the city. We're exploring this for a Phase 2, with the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT. We might also support an [[Open Cities]] initiative in Somerville, where young bloggers participate in circulating events.
 
So, we now know a lot of people in the community who are interested in pieces of citywide info-sharing. We just haven't engaged them in a robust project to date because in the months since this meeting, our capacity got sucked up into our 5 other Working Groups. So, it's a great time to come back to that "layer" of our work in Somerville, esp. because our PI will also be exploring that layer (citywide info sharing) in San Diego.
 
We also believe that tools/strategies for citywide info-sharing can be utilized for schoolwide info-sharing as well, and so we're interested in exploring those two "layers" simultaneously in Phase 2 (while continuing our work on info-sharing around individual youth).
 
 
==Communication we hoped to improve==
 
Say more. What aspect of communication did we want to improve, so that more people in Somerville could collaborate in young people's success?
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==Process==
 
How we realized and redirected things, over time.
 
===Basic History===
 
The groundwork needed to support the current work.
 
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===Communication ahas, implementation ahas, and turning points!===
 
Over the course of the project, we had the following communication and implementation ahas, and project turning points. To read the full accounting, see main article: [[Citywide/ahas]]
 
==Findings/Endpoints==
 
Please describe final outcomes and share examples of final products, with discussion!
 
===Concrete communication improvements===
 
What is the main communication improvement we made? What new support for young people may have resulted?
 
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===Main communication realizations and implementation realizations===
 
What is your main realization about needed improvements to the communication infrastructure of public education? (Who needs to communicate what information to whom, through which media, in order to support youth in a diverse community? Which barriers are in the way of such communication, and how might these barriers be overcome?)
 
What is your main realization about implementing these innovations in education?
 
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===Technological how-tos===
 
Describe "how to" use every tool you used, so that others could do the same. Describe "how to" make every tool you made!
 
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===Things we’d expand/do differently===
 
If you wanted to replicate any of this, what would you need to think about? Contact us to learn/talk more!
 
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Revision as of 01:30, 26 August 2011

Somerville is full of people who forward emails of local resources to each other, but there's no one "hub" you go to to find out what's going on for kids in Somerville. A great listserv is typically in English.

In July 2010, we had a meeting of "mediamakers" from Somerville and brainstormed some citywide issues of communicating opportunities and information related to young people. General anonymized notes can be found here.

PHOTOS HERE. CURRENTLY ON A ONEVILLE FACEBOOK PAGE

After a group brainstorm, energy was for a community calendaring project of some kind, for event-sharing.

From there, we attempted to assist community calendaring by supporting the district's communications director, since the district was furthest along as a possible "hub" for community calendaring (she also had the District using Twitter actively!). In the end, she spiffed up her the district's calendar on her own.

We supported a multilingual video made by Consuelo Perez at Somerville Community Access Television, on services for young children available at several community organizations. With the editor, Nina xx, we brainstormed out how to mix pictures in with translation to bring the information alive. The video was excellent, but a bit expensive. The idea: to put the video in public places -- hit up against the idea that there aren't many public screens. Would a bulletin board in public places, like in front of Market Basket, be just as good?

We still believe greatly that innovations on citywide info-sharing on opportunities related to youth and families would be much more exciting and, we think, important for young people in the city. We're learning more about related projects underway at the Center for Civic Media at MIT xxxxx]. We're going to partner with CCM on finishing our hotline; similar software was used in What's Up Lawrence.

So, we now know a lot of people in the community who are interested in pieces of citywide info-sharing. We just haven't engaged them in a robust project to date because in the months since our first "citywide info sharing" meeting, our capacity got sucked up into our other Working Groups. We just ran out of time!

We'd love to come back to that "layer" of our work in Somerville, esp. because our PI will also be exploring that layer (citywide info sharing) in San Diego.

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