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(SJRK) April 4, 2019 Partners Meeting

(SJRK) April 4, 2019 Partners Meeting

Apr 18, 2019

  • Present: Dana, Michelle, Tata, Liam

  • Partner activity added to the site https://www.sojustrepairit.org/partners/

    • It’s all on one page right now

    • Might be good to break it up somehow

    • The photos really bring it to life

    • TIG - remove TBD section for now

    • Please provide any feedback on photos, layout, content etc!

    • What about videos? Tata has some videos she made in Fresno, particularly of the state of the road to the schools

    • Same goes for TIG - lots of video content

    • Would be good to add once we create individual pages for each partner

    • Consider the audience - low bandwidth vs high bandwidth

      • Embedded video won’t load

      • Compressed videos

    • Readability score on the content

    • Translated content?

    • Captions for images

    • Videos should be fully accessible

      • Translation into indigenous languages

      • English (at least) closed captions

    • Other thoughts on layouts

      • Partner sections collapsible

      • Organise by themes or categories?

      • Timeline would be nice too (both forward and backward looking)

        • Multi-year, multi-modal projects like this are unusual - would be great to make it visible to all the partners

        • This could change how we report out - perhaps by including more photos etc

      • Seeing all the other partners work is great

  • Future - some talk now about TIG / IDRC event related to Indigenous Rising Youth / Canada service Corps Alumni. Goal of meeting is to discuss how to make  the brand and a ‘culture of service” more resonant with Indigenous communities.

Karisma

  • Tata was in Fresno with Hector the last 3 days

  • Confirmed details for workshops

  • Will start 4th week April, May for the visit

  • Will be collecting the videos

  • Will be visiting same locations as last year but will know more next week

TIG

  • Have started drafting organisational culture budget

  • Staff meetings - more inclusive - Liam has been attending and leading on this

    • Staff members have been revealing disabilities to Liam

    • Providing useful info about how to organise and facilitate staff meetings

    • Wander walk - one of the activities - using as a kind of mini-pilot to run through the process of implementation and test it out

      • This content will make up the “Inclusive Activity Animation Guide”

      • Think it up, send to individuals, staff mtg for feedback, (others are facilitating too), reflection on how it went,

      • Another activity - Setting up priorities using Padlet (?)

      • These are part of the process and the guide

      • We have a remote team - half and half - some remote members want to be a part

      • Aiming to include a glossary - presenteeism - being there but not present

      • About 10 activities maybe

      • Could share the draft

      • Or have reviews at various “gates”

      • https://docs.google.com/document/d/10G7rYrkJcxL4RNgRlHXSwivwvvGdJXL5xsgBwr-1YDw/edit

  • School in Milton for kids with disabilities who reached out to TIG to come and speak

    • Maybe a storytelling workshop? Something with inclusive design principles

      • Let us know if you need help! Caren could help

      • Have to figure out what they want first

    • Doing it at their pace - let them lead

    • Is it related to Bridges Canada? They are a partner on C2LC

IDRC

  • Stories site

  • Sepideh and Caren have been gathering stories about learning, various schools in Toronto, in Halifax with newcomers

  • https://stories.floeproject.org/storyBrowse.html

  • Stories about learning, people on the margins, agency, activism

  • To play with story creation - you can use the demo that gets cleared each night http://staging-stories.floeproject.org/

  • Gregor working on some of the bugs that have been surfaced - continuous improvement

  • Caren working on next round design for the tool - where we want to take it in future

  • Built not just from SJRK, also FLOE, and Coding 2 Learn and Create (C2LC)

    • C2LC is a new project that’s happening at IDRC

    • Working with Beverley School

  • Tools for parents and siblings of the kids at Beverley School - kids with complex needs

  • Potential to connect with TIGs Code to Learn

  • Interim report coming up in May - phonecall with Oak

  • We want to have lots of things to show - e.g. the website

  • Probably also want to highlight the events we’ve done

    • Can we start a list - Dana will create a Google doc and share

  • Netlify - tool for authoring content - using on SJRK site - slightly better front end - with Hugo as static site generator

    • Not the most usable

    • Hoping it improves

    • Stuck on CMS’s for now

    • Prompted for alt-text for images which was good (did we set that up?)