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* Provide support for CCBLA
 
* Provide support for CCBLA
 
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* Develop requirements — ''a social network for CIRAL?''
  
  

Revision as of 00:17, 22 January 2012

E-liberate Cluster

  • Become familiar with deliberate in general, Roberts Rules of Order in particular
  • Become familiar with eLiberate through documentation and use
  • Get e-liberate accounts
  • Hold / test meetings among cluster group (not bugs, questions, UI ideas, etc.)
  • Contact and brief people in an organization who want to use it
  • Set up accounts for the group
  • Convene meetings with the group
  • Identify other groups to use the system
  • Work with them / train or consult as necessary
  • Suggest bug fixes
  • Learn software
  • Fix bugs and add features
  • Market the system (help find other groups who are interested)
  • Write up results
  • Advanced: requirements for next generation system / develop next generation system


ICT Cluster (not e-Liberate)

  • Provide support for CIRAL
  • Provide support for CCBLA
  • Provide support for Community
  • Develop requirements — a social network for CIRAL?


Miscellaneous CIRAL tasks

  • Work with other groups to explore / define and establish relationships (via objectives, projects, mission match, etc.)
  • Identify missing information that we should find or develop (e.g. community partnership agreements)
  • Identify important curricular areas for upcoming CIRAL programs
  • Understand and codify administrative, legal, etc. (and other) environment
  • Conduct marketing, advertising, or public relations work
  • Critique and improve upon draft documents
  • Help oversee e-Liberate meetings
  • Help develop e-Liberate requirements, identify and/or fix bugs, recode (?!?) or port to Drupal module
  • Develop software requirements for creating or improving various tools or resources (e.g. for CCBLA volunteer application)
  • Develop mission statements for CIRAL thematic clusters
  • Identify possible stakeholders and potential relationships


Possible Academic Roles

In addition to preparing people to go into the field (which includes cultural competency, skill-building, etc.), the following research and related activities could be undertaken. Although these are specifically listed in relation to Evergreen's Gateways project, that supports education for incarcerated youth at Green Hill, they are generally applicable to other situations as well.

  • Policy research and development work
  • Public service announcements & other public awareness work
  • Research on economic impacts of incarceration (now about 60 - 70 billion dollars direct expenses yearly in US)
  • Help develop and support institutional memory of the project
  • Curricular development or other training and educational programs for Gateway and Evergreen community members
  • Educational philosophy of the project and Evergreen's support
  • Institutionalization of the project, in general and at Evergreen
  • Exporting model (to other schools and other regions)
  • Researching other relevant approaches (in other regions, countries, departments, etc.)
  • Placement in jobs, education
  • Surveys and other approaches to understanding the problem and evaluation
  • Technical support to project, e.g. logistics, computer, administration, planning, facilitating design
  • Mapping and community studies (e.g. of places students come from)
  • Understanding problem domain, history, economic and political contexts,
  • Maintain relevant reference (etc.) library or other resource
  • Identifying resources and securing them
  • Facilitating conversations, conferences, working sessions, etc. about the problem and possible solutions