Hello royal subjects,
It’s been another few weeks, and that means more progress on the Tutor/Mentor project. The phase we’ve just completed was the creation of mood boards, which are mockups not of the website itself, but of the feeling and visual vocabulary it might take on. The boards look a bit like large print ads for the website – you might think of them as themes or templates, modeling, for instance, the way the new site might treat a headline or image.
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The Ann Sacks catalog has been requested for permanent collection in the Newberry Library’s History of Print. If you’re not familiar with the Newberry or the collection, it’s absolutely amazing and always an honor when someone like Paul Gehl selects your work. Some info on the collection can be found here: http://www.newberry.org/collections/wing.html
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For the last day or so, I’ve been thoroughly going through tutormentorconnection.org, traversing its many paths and mapping them out. It’s been an incredibly useful thing to do – rather than wondering where the information finally ends, I now feel I know my way around the site and its related pages (the Tutor/Mentor Institute, Cabrini Connections). Here’s how tutormentorconnection.org is currently organized:
It’s a bit tangled up, right? Notice how Donate, in particular, is buried a few levels deep, and is actually located on another website.
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It’s no secret that our friends at Mozilla have a thing for online communities. However, their latest project, Mozilla Service Week, finds them reaching out to their loyal fan base with the goal of helping those who aren’t as fluent with the Web.
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I’ve been working for a few days now on reorganizing the Tutor/Mentor Connection website. It’s been an interesting, and definitely challenging experience so far; I’ve never turned my organizational and design skills on a task so open-ended, or so important, before.
The first part of the process was to print off about 30 pages’ worth of the TMC website, take a highlighter and red pen to the pile, and then tack the results up to a very large board. Having it all spread tangibly in front of me made starting to connect the information and develop a hierarchy and structure far easier. At this point – and I wouldn’t say I’m fully done by any means – I’ve found that the information on the site breaks down into four main categories, those being a) information about TMC and Cabrini Connections; b) information to help visitors to the site understand the issues TMC is taking on; c) information to help those visitors, who fall into several categories (individuals who want to help, individuals who need help, corporations…), find programs and get involved, and d) resources for students enrolled in the programs.
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We have engaged in a working relationship with Cabrini Connections/Tutor Mentor Connection (CC/TMC) that I am very excited about. I volunteered at Cabrini Connections a number of years ago teaching art classes after school to under privileged kids, and found the experience to be really rewarding. However we were just starting to gain some momentum with the Royal Order, and ultimately my commitment waned. I recently reconnected with Dan Bassill, who heads up the organization, and asked if there might be opportunities for us (The Royal Order) to contribute our skills and talents to CC/TMC.
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Hello, fellow royalty,
I’m Jake, the new intern. Tim asked me to throw this blog together today so that the Order has something to write on beyond BaseCamp. It seems that social networking is increasingly a part of everything, everywhere, so here we are, following suit.
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