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Reporting
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Hey everyone!

As I'm positive you all know by you (considering the number of emails I've sent out on the subject), I've been busy the past couple of weeks helping Kimia and Mai with the reporting process.

It's wonderful to have Mai back =)

I've learned that reporting is a pretty difficult process if it's not ongoing and a detailed database isn't maintained. Emails get lost, and it's too bad that we didn't all upload our monthly reports (and we didn't all always necessarily even fill them in) for the months. Keeping records and getting feedback reports and stuff is just a really important way to actually prove that we did what we did, and that we succeeded at it.

I hope everybody else is doing well, as our term comes to and end.. Good luck with exams! I'm still at York going through midterms. Grr!

April 15, 2009 | 3:40 PM Comments  0 comments

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Diversity and Identity Workshop
Related to this project: Creating Local Connections Canada/Liaisons locales Canada

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Hey everybody!

I've been so busy with a billion things recently that I haven't had the chance to get around to this yet, but I wanted to share with you all the recent Diversity and Identity workshop that I did with a group of Quebecois youth on a short trip to Toronto. I know Identity isn't necessarily one of the topics that TIG covers but I think it's a wonderful starting point in getting youth inspired and empowered.
I divided up the workshop into three components: exploring self-identity, exploring others identity, and exploring identity issues that might arise in a diverse setting. After the ice breakers, the first activity had to do with them drawing out how they see themselves and then we all shared this information with each other. Afterwards, I asked them to shout out words and expressions about who they thought I was. This was very similar to the activity we did during CLC training (oh so long ago!) at the anti-O training. I used this to show how we judge other people when meeting them and how we assume their identities. The final activity, which was a huge hit with the youth involved them playing "Identity Musical Chairs". Each seat had a type of Canadian (young male black, or blind middle-aged woman, or native 15-year old girl etc) and I read out some situations (buying groceries at a store where all the labels were in Chinese, someone claiming that Canadians are always white etc) and they had to discuss how they would feel from the perspective of their chair. Then, they moved chairs until they got the chance to put themselves in many people's shoes.
The activities all resonated with them well, and I like to think I made a slight positive effect on how they view themselves. They were all also really interested in TIG and opportunities with TIG. If any of you are interested in running similar workshops, please get in touch with me and we can collaborate!

March 15, 2009 | 7:57 PM Comments  0 comments



Change That Clicks- Update
Related to this project: Creating Local Connections Canada/Liaisons locales Canada

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Hi!

So last Monday, March 2nd actually, I went into an East York Boys and Girls club to just sit in on the Change that Clicks workshop and see how it's going along. I was so impressed! The session had only four attendees and the facilitator informed me that they would have as many as 12 and as little as 3 depending on the day.

They were running the multiculturalism and diversity module that day, and it was really cool to see how well the facilitator interactd with the kids! She went through the powerpoint and the kids listened as though it was their favorite teacher in a classroom. It's been a long time since I've been around that age group (11-14) and their enthusiasm and energy was infectious! Afterwards, she assigned them an activity to do that included navigating the TIG website to find out about different countries, and it blew me away how comfortable they all were with the TIG site! They had step by step instructions on how to get to the specific country websites, but when it came to the Boys and Girls page or the discussion forums, they obviously knew what they were doing (most likely as a result of being trained on it before).

Everything ran really smoothly, and I came away impressed! A lot of it had to do with the facilitators' skils with getting along with the partcipants. It was one of the first times I actually first-hand witnessed a program that was creating a change, seeing as most of the kids in attendance were from difficult lives where they usually wouldn't encounter education on world issues, but given the change in this Change That Clicks setting, they were thriving!

March 13, 2009 | 2:18 PM Comments  0 comments



TIG At IMPACT- Final Thoughts
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Today was the wrap-up of the conference.

I attended a workshop on exploring the role of Allies in the LGBT community. It was somewhat of a personal interest thing, and there isn't much related to TIG that I can say about it.

Outside this, we had the closing sessions at which a representative of STAND spoke about the importance of political activism amongst the youth population and another woman that talked about grassroots campaigning. Both were short, but really interesting. It was interesting in general that all the speakers were youth themselves that were doing big things within the States.

I will be compiling a more internal report shortly with further thoughts, impressions and ideas.

Cheers,
Nyla

March 9, 2009 | 1:34 PM Comments  0 comments

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TIG At IMPACT- Saturday Evening
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We had one more workshop to attend on Saturday evening. At this point, all the tabling opportunities had ended so we packed up our stuff and I headed to a workshop by CIRCLE on best practices for research and evaluation 101.

It proved really really helpful to me! First of all, I got to meet Abby, and she was very excited to have TIG representation at the conference. She briefly mentioned the work she is doing with Kat and Emily as an example of a type of research she was talking about at the workshop.

I felt it was really helpful to attend seeing as a) CLC is coming to an end so there is sure to be many post-CLC type evaluation stuff, b) the Change That Clicks project that I've been helping with has a research component and I wanted to learn more about that, c) our open forums are a method of informal research and coming right up!

The things that interested me most were when we were talking about community based and youth led research- research being learning tools, and giving the power of being able to do that research into the hands of youth with our guidance. It helps involve the people affected by the policies be really involved over the whole duration of the project.

We spent about half the workshop in smaller groups, networking and discussing best practices for measuring the "impact" of something (in this case, the impact of CLC, I'm thinking). Some ideas we came up with:

a) Important to take a wholistic approach and talk to participants, administators and all other stakeholders
b) In measuring impact, qualatitive reports work a lot better than "how many" type questions
c) Questions should be phrased in terms of empowerment, not learning. Basically, if we want to know what somebody got out of a workshop, we should ask "How did it make you feel" type questions, not "Do you now understand the concept".

Using this information, I want to re-do the basic evaluation survey that we currently have. I'd also love to help out with the wrap-up of the CLC program if there is evaluation involved.

Finally, the workshop introduced me to
http://www.zoomerang.com
which is like SurveyMonkey but much better (helps you make a good question and according to a designer present, has a better interface).

March 8, 2009 | 9:48 PM Comments  0 comments

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