Youth-friendly web space for students in Canada and Kenya

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Application ID: 000348
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Project Description
Project Title
Youth-friendly web space for students in Canada and Kenya
What is the central research question you want answered?
What are the objectives of your project?
Objectives:
1. To survey existing youth-linking websites available
2. To recommend a structure which would allow youth to communicate in a secure environment
3. To begin the design of such a website
Project Type
Computer Related     
Creative     
Formal Research     
 Organizational Development     
Survey     
Other    International   
Size of Project (Number of pages, minutes, cm, etc.)
- research on website types
- structure of a website with possibly a secure login procedure?
Project Description (Use this space to further elaborate on the project)
The Rafiki Link is an initiative which links schools in Canada with schools in Kenya. We are part of CTC International (www.ctcinternational.org) which works in Maai Mahiu, Kenya. Our goal is to create a website which allows individual students to engage with their counterparts in Kenya. Check out www.rafikilink.blogspot.com to see what we’ve already created. We have used blogs to have classes communicating with each other. However we want to make the website more fun, more graphic-based, and secure enough to allow student-to-student communication (perhaps a ‘chat’ or ‘discussion’ room?). if you have ideas on how to make our website more youth-friendly and more interactive, please help us out.
How do you plan to use the results of this project?
The website structure created will be developed and then used immediately by students at Bodwell High School in Canada with students at 3 public secondary schools in Kenya.
What larger goal is served by undertaking this project?
By connecting students in Canada with students in Kenya we are promoting global education and awareness for students in Canada. Students can come to realize, as they learn along-side and with their counterparts, that those in Kenya are not as different as they might expect. With that realization of common humanity, and the realization that each student could just as easily have been born in a different place, comes a greater desire to support and assist those who happen to have less opportunity than us.
The Organization
Organization Name
CTC Canada / Rafiki Link
What community do you represent or work with?
Students & teachers in Canada and Kenya
What is your organization/group's goal or mandate?
CTC: Providing hope through relationships CTC is empowering our world. We share in the lives of local communities building mutual understanding and sustainable change. Our education programs, economic projects, healthcare, community development and environmental awareness are creating a better tomorrow.
Are you a registered not-for-profit?
Yes
Contact Information
Contact Person
Mali Bain
  
Position
Education Programs Coordinator - North America
Mailing Address
823 E. 14th Ave
Vancouver, BC
V5L 2N5
Telephone
778-858-6076 (after Aug 19th)
Fax
 
Email
malibain@yahoo.ca
  
Alternate Telephone
011-254-71276575 (in Kenya before Aug 17)
Alternate Fax
 
Alternate Email
 
Project Plan of Action
Duration of Project
Smaller (One semester)
If you know the duration more specifically, please indicate here
- as long as it takes to research, propose, and start a new web design!
What are the specific deliverables that you expect of the student?
May be broken into 2 semesters (if needed/appropriate):

Semester I:
- research on available options
- recommend website structure & design

Semester II:
- begin process of designing website (others may be able to support from this point on)
Estimated time commitment per week
4 hrs per week? Depends on your interest!
Liaison
Liaison Name
Mali Bain
  
Liaison Position
CTC Education Programs Coordinator - North America
Liason Contact Info (If different from above)
 
How much time per week will the
liaison be available to the project?
5 hrs
How will the liaison provide direction and support to the project?
I’d be happy to work closely with whoever is doing this project and provide any guidance/ideas needed in terms of content, purpose, audience, etc. However my web design knowledge is slim to nil!
Student Researcher
Student area of study/experience
Computer Science
Web Design
Student skills/attributes
Creative
Committed
Student related interests
Education / Youth
International connections

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