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ChangeCamp Canada > ChangeCamp Toronto > Event Design > Beyond the Event Creating a 'Social API'
Beyond the Event Creating a 'Social API'From $1Table of contentsNo headers (There were 3 topics in this breakout session: (1) Beyond the event (2) Design the after event (3) Engagement strategy we bundled them into one idea) Beyond the Event Creating a *'Social API' *I've added 'Social API' because whatever #changecampbecomes it must draw it's content/agenda from the communities it helps create. Suggested outcome/action: #changecampshould establish a network of community leaders who are committed to organising Mini Change Camps across Canada (aka "Change Camp in a Box") Logistics/Action items forpre-post event: 1. Volunteer Bank coders, designers, marketers, PR, video, hosting etc. 2. 'Make it Sexy' & Make it Relevant: Logo, website/Wiki, and back story (what lead us here), members need professional visual and literary resources to help propagate the idea to themasses Examples: opencongress.org , change.org Long term idea(s): - Create an educational version of #changecamp in a box involve educators. (Edit by @D_Hock Jan 5.09 - any way to integrate this with the Civics class required of all Ontario Grade 10 students under the new curriculum? We should investigate whatever this process may be with individual teachers) - Last, It would be interesting if we could create a social change board game. with the popularity of reality television a reality board game played at school, home, etc could help even export ideas of 'revolution' beyond our borders. A possibility if the rules are defined. (Edited by @ryantaylor Jan.5.09) Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HOt170b0kg
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love the 'social api' addition - think that's the right orientation for what we need to create as the core engine of changecamp now and future changecamps.
I think that the idea of a boardgame is a good one, and that it is targeting classrooms. But I wonder if it would be better if we could work with an educator to try and build a small course that a social studies class could do for two weeks or so that would ask students to identify the leaders in their communities and issues that are effecting their neighborhoods. I know this is pretty far out there, but I think that it might be more effective in getting young people involved in changing their communuities, which I think should be one of the goals of #changecamp. If we can encourage the younger generation to get actively involved at a community level, that we can help raise a generation of proactive changers
Riffing on the game, small social studies class ... what if there was an open course (like watching a slideshare presentation created with educational & political luminaries) with course requirements that include: organising a mini-changecamp, making 10 online contributions to the discussion (i.e. in facebook, on a blog, twitter, wiki or other) and recruiting three more people to complete the course?
Anything we can do to help put this into the mandatory (in Ontario) civics class that every high school student must take? Seems like it's currently ineffective even in generally understanding the government and its different forms; maybe something more interactive and interesting would help accomplish the goals set forward when this was first introduced in the curriculum. That seems to me to be the appropriate target for the classroom ideas.
I like that this API outlines actions put forward - that's what I would like to see ChangeCamp accomplish.