internet exploration and research



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INTERNET RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION

Team carne non profit	Team GOurmet non profit 2	Team pesto e-learning
Team cheese e-learning 2	Team Sicilian e-learning 3	Team veggie online community
Team Hawaiian online community 2	Team Mexican online community 3

Shelley This is our first group report out. I’d like to invite the whole team to come up and report out what you’ve come up with. You’ll each have four minutes to report out. click on images below to enlarge
Team carne - non profit
Cameron Booth Ursula Durkalec Norma Frank Maria Costa Laura Barreiro Bernnitta Hawkins
	We have to be conscious of removing barriers. It’s got to be user friendly and accessible to all staff at all sites.



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Team gourmet - non profit 2
Jack Hong Rick Eagan Anica Raskovic Marius Wong Mirela Vukosa Giannidis

	We focused a lot on processes like volunteering. We saw the idea that you can fill out a downloadable template or form on the internet. We looked at internal processes and all the types of processes that St. Christopher House needs to look at. There are lots, like donations, community at large, and volunteers. It was obvious that it all has to be clear and organized.
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Team pesto - e learning
Darcy Christ Eli Guimond Sandy Birnie Ricardo Olenewa Judy Perry
	Rather than developing a generic solution for all people, it’s a customized environment geared for a specific person. What works for one person or group doesn’t work for everyone its essential to have a customized environment for the person who is learning. We have to find the starting point for the learning.




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Team cheese - e learning 2
Derek Brooks Maria Pinheiro Lambrina Nikolaou Sherry Squires Nelson Lynch


	In order to have successful e learning, a site has to be focused, manageable and targeted. Sometimes the range of information is overwhelming.
	Not all websites are accessible or accurate.

	We had a real revelation that the information on a web site is not necessarily true or accurate. The level of detail context and language and the amount of information had to be close to right on, or else the information wasn’t that useful. A lot of the time, we didn’t understand the language and that also made it not useful.
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Team sicilian - e learning 3
Cameron Booth Randall Terada Odete Nascimento Ashraf Mansouri Pedro Cabezas Lidia Monaco

	Universities and colleges are putting whole courses online, but what we have to remember is, they have to be student centred, not teacher centred.


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Team veggie - online community
Jonathan Blumberg Judy Snively Shawn Conway Jorge deAndrade Fatima Valentim Isabel Palmar
	All the sites we went to, you had to be a member, it was a bit frustrsting. You have to find a balance, because its not going to be right for everyone, and not everyone will feel included, we just have to do our best.



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Team Hawaiian - online community 2
Dominic Bortolussi Maria Matias Jean Nogueira Angela Barrass Grace Tsang Susan Pigott
	We discussed our values at St. Christopher House and what we need.



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Team Mexican - online community 3
Songyu Ni Maureen Fair Sandra Almeida
	One the sites we looked at, we found a lack of focus and that created a lack of engagement on our part.
	With web logs, people are going in and writing their diaries- their opinions and thoughts. It seemed to be a kind of therapy. We debated whether it was isolating or community building. Sometimes people can’t reach out, and if this is the only way they can, then it may be community building.
	There didn’t seem to be a lot of factual info. We asked whether online relationships are real. And if an organization is trying to work with a community are those relationships real?
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Key learnings
All things are possible- but not all things are desirable Use a variety of learning styles- capture different people in different ways Focus on the learner not on the teacher We touched on the interaction. How can people add their input? There was an emphasis on ‘starting points’. For example, we envisioned participants from Bang the Drum coming into the St. Christopher House and looking blankly at the computer screen. They can’t get e-learning unless they get a good starting point. They need the access. The integrity and the accuracy of the information are important. We saw an Internal search engine online. You could do a search on sick leave for instance. That was a great example of internal e-learning. The integrity of the connection that we have with the community and making a meaningful connection is important. There are groups that are not interested in working with computer technology. We have to realize that this is a reality. People have to make a commitment to learn and be interested in learning. There is some resistance. The possibilities are always there for everyone and this is important. It can work for everyone, but people have to want to access the information. For a large group in our organization, there is a big black wall of fear. We can get over it by creating a very user-friendly system. I see a lot of seniors who would like to get into it, but they are afraid. We need to provide basic information and allow for growth. Being confronted with the resistance hinders the usage. We are creating a class system of no “hows” versus “not- know-hows”. We are creating barriers. It’s another measure of education and success that people may be afraid of. We should look at the possibilities of having 2 separate systems.
Shelley As you go into your next exercise I want to present you with another axiom that we use here in the ASE. “You can’t get there from here, but you can get here from there.” It’s very challenging to figure out how to create a successful project from where we are today. There are a lot of challenges and obstacles. It is a lot easier to pick a point in time and look at it in the future state rather than the current state. We can choose a point in time when you have achieved great success and look back and determine what it was that got you to that state. What were the steps that you took to create that success?
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internet exploration and research

Team gourmet - non profit 2

Team pesto - e learning

Team cheese - e learning 2

Team veggie - online community

Key learnings