My apologies to everyone for my third absence of class.
I was a guest speaker along with co-founder of TakingITGlobal and great friend Jennifer Corriero in Keith Rushton's Think Tank class introduing TIG to the classroom and drawing connections between social issues and a virtually community of social activism that is one of the most active online communities of its kind.
The site hase over 165,000 members from every single country in the world. The target is informing, inspiring and involving youth to get involved in their local and global communities by using TIG as a resource to come together and use as a tool and networking method to reach others global and inspire others to take action. It's a pretty remarkable, extremely successful and very touching community online, which is why I thought it was very relavent for me to share my experience with you and my reason for missing class. It was a really eye-opening experience for second year Think Tank students -- they are going to be working in groups to problem solve and come up with some ideas for TIG and how we as designers can look at some of the challanges TIG faces and how we can provide growth, increase visibility and sustain this inspiring community of activism.
As I hope you are aware that my thesis project is about actualizing a virtual community that aims to bring together people (now I'm focusing on institutions and different departments) and facilititate communication, access and interaction amongst those fields of study and allowing people to communicate for the purpose of colloboration.
I have also made a huge connect with CEO of Octopz who has created an innovational online platform for project collaboration which I will use toward my benefit for the collaboration feature of my website and use an already existing platform and work with them to better engage the site and its members.
Lots of exiting things here and I will be sharing more visuals with you very soon.
-Ghazaleh
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At this point, I'm having some difficulty sorting out which elements of your community respond to the project in Keith's class and which are addressed to the Virtual Communities themes. I know this will become clearer as the Baycrest work unfolds, and that it is often a good thing to have synergies between classes and projects. I could say that the collaboration spark project for Keith's class has interesting repercussions in terms of Virtual Communities -- check out Bryn's essay on the relative effectiveness of Facebook and Igloo in building community. Martha made good points in class on the importance of including visuals and therefore signalling visual language as well as stated interests in selecting collaborators. I think it would be relavant to think how this spark process could work with a really small group, perhaps prior to an intensive collaborative charette or brainstorming session...
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