Disaster Relief
In that last few years, the world has been rocked by tsunamis, earthquakes, flooding, drought, wildfires, and even radiation exposure from nuclear accidents. In the United States alone, over 50 billions dollars a year is spent on disaster relief and recovery . . . that's a billion dollars a week! With rising populations and larger urban centers, disasters, both natural and man-made, are having a greater impact than ever.
Questions: How can we afford to keep up with the costs of disasters? What preventative measures can we take? How can we be more efficient in relief planning?
Before you jump in to your challenge, get your networks up and running. Visit the E-venture Tools page to get started on building your networks and putting together your digital toolbox.
Now let's take a look at our objectives.
Questions: How can we afford to keep up with the costs of disasters? What preventative measures can we take? How can we be more efficient in relief planning?
Before you jump in to your challenge, get your networks up and running. Visit the E-venture Tools page to get started on building your networks and putting together your digital toolbox.
Now let's take a look at our objectives.
Learn
As you learn, you will start to collect artifacts. Artifacts are the images, videos, articles, and websites that you discover in your e-venture quest.
Google Search: What Do You Love: Discover a wide range of details about disaster relief by using this Google Search feature. Don't forget your community. What are signs of the crisis in your community? What was the most troubling story that you found?
You can find the WDYL search here for disaster relief.
If disaster relief is your cause, check out this list of agencies here.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is our national-level organization that is in charge of federal disaster relief. Check out FEMA and its resources here.
View the Shelterbox video here. See their disaster movie here.
Collecting Artifacts
There are two methods to collect and catalog your artifacts. Artifacts are images, videos, articles, and websites that you discover in your learning process.
Use Blogger to collect your artifacts. Post links to the artifacts that you find on the web. You can link to images and videos or you can embed them on your blogger site. Just give attribution to where you discovered the artifacts.
Use Twitter in the same way. Post links to your artifacts. Be sure to include the hash tag #e-vrelief at the end of your tweet. Disaster Relief E-venture members can search for that hash tag on Twitter and see the evidence that everyone is collecting.
Curating Artifacts
When you add an artifact to Blogger to tweet it on Twitter, take time to comment on the link. Commenting and critiquing the artifacts that you find is called "curating." When you curate an artifact, you add something to it. You add a layer to the Internet's knowledge base by judging and critiquing the artifacts that you find. This makes you a curator. Curators have been described as "information chemists." They mix atoms together in a way to build an information molecule, and then they add value to that molecule.
Collaborate
Edmodo or ConceptBoard: Come together with your group and discuss the problem. Choose one specific problem to work on.
Assign the workload for your team. Remember you must use the expertise from your class that you are representing. If you're representing your French class, be ready to translate and check out the impact of the Grand Challenge in France. If you're representing your civics class, be ready to find out governmental issues and policies that relate to the Grand Challenge.
Join.me or Google+ Hangout: Use Join.me or Google+ Hangouts for at least one online meeting.
As you learn about your Grand Challenge, meet with your group again and discuss the most surprising facts that you discovered. Check on each team members' progress.
Google Docs: Use Google docs to collaborate on documents together. Let everyone contribute either with written content or pictures.
Assign the workload for your team. Remember you must use the expertise from your class that you are representing. If you're representing your French class, be ready to translate and check out the impact of the Grand Challenge in France. If you're representing your civics class, be ready to find out governmental issues and policies that relate to the Grand Challenge.
Join.me or Google+ Hangout: Use Join.me or Google+ Hangouts for at least one online meeting.
As you learn about your Grand Challenge, meet with your group again and discuss the most surprising facts that you discovered. Check on each team members' progress.
Google Docs: Use Google docs to collaborate on documents together. Let everyone contribute either with written content or pictures.
Create
Facebook: Create a press release that details you and your team members joining the e-venture. Use images off this site or create your own to go with the press release.
Animoto: Prepare a stunning promotional video on disaster relief by using Animoto. Get your followers charged up with a high-powered video. Use the images that you've collected and facts from the Tweets that you've posted.
YouTube: Now it's time to create a video the explains the disaster relief problem and your solution. You can create an original film or use Jing to record a presentation from your computer.
Blogger: After you sent a number of Tweets, start working on a longer blog post. Don't look for solutions yet. Just write about the problem. Be sure to post to Blogger any Animoto or YouTube videos that you create.
Animoto: Prepare a stunning promotional video on disaster relief by using Animoto. Get your followers charged up with a high-powered video. Use the images that you've collected and facts from the Tweets that you've posted.
YouTube: Now it's time to create a video the explains the disaster relief problem and your solution. You can create an original film or use Jing to record a presentation from your computer.
Blogger: After you sent a number of Tweets, start working on a longer blog post. Don't look for solutions yet. Just write about the problem. Be sure to post to Blogger any Animoto or YouTube videos that you create.
Connect
It's time to start looking for a solution. You've no doubt read about workable solutions that are being tested in the real world right now. Which one do you like the best? Is there a way you could make it better? What can you add to the solution?
Connect the artifacts that you've collected. Collaborate with your team members to find a workable solution to the disaster relief crisis.
Connect your course to your solution. Connect your community to the solution.
In your solution, talk about scalability. Scalability is how something can be used on a small scale and on a large scale. Some solutions that work for a small community will not work on a global scale. Often expense is a factor.
Blogger: Return to Blogger to showcase your Disaster Relief solution.
Connect the artifacts that you've collected. Collaborate with your team members to find a workable solution to the disaster relief crisis.
Connect your course to your solution. Connect your community to the solution.
In your solution, talk about scalability. Scalability is how something can be used on a small scale and on a large scale. Some solutions that work for a small community will not work on a global scale. Often expense is a factor.
Blogger: Return to Blogger to showcase your Disaster Relief solution.
Badges for this E-venture
Add these badges to your social media profiles! Your mentor will notify you of which badges you've been awarded.
Social Media Influence BadgeThis badge is awarded for outstanding contribution in social media. Winners of this badge increased public awareness for the Disaster Relief E-venture through numerous social networks.
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Clean Water Innovator BadgeThis badge is awarded for significant contributions to the Disaster Relief E-venture.
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Influential Blogger BadgeThis badge is awarded for outstanding blogging during the E-venture. Influential bloggers create informative blog posts the chronicled the E-venture.
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Multimedia Creator BadgeThis badge is awarded for outstanding multimedia creation. Winners of this badge created videos, images, and art that significantly added to the project.
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