NetAid

NetAid took on a handful of students again this year and put them to work in several program areas.

As part of the Global Citizen Corps (www.GlobalCitizenCorps.org) program, and in support of NetAid’s effort to develop an online curriculum for global citizenship among high school students, Matt Dull researched 24 websites that provide online curriculum. He determined which sites were most effective with regard to thematic content and usability, and then designed six wireframe webpage mockups that represented his research and recommendations. He wrote a report on his findings and made a related power point presentation to NetAid staff at the end of the week. NetAid intends to make the resulting curriculum available to educators in high schools across the country, with a plan to launch an Educator’s Website in early April 2005.

Also as part of the Global Citizen Corps (GCC) initiative, Tashira Gibbs researched and recommended several different possible implementations for integrating online learning and action into the GCC’s current online community.

Fenghua Yi worked in the Communications Department and helped create a year-long media plan for NetAid. She collected the editorial calendars of major national newspapers and magazines and designed a NetAid calendar that fits its programs and events within the broader national media outlook. Fenghua also spent some of her week finding and making content critiques of websites that feature NetAid or link to its website.

Cameron Park assisted with the Global Sisters program, which recruits, engages and empowers college-aged women to action around issues related to girls' education. Cameron researched relevant web resources, created a user persona, and made competitive analysis recommendations with regard to a web community structure that would include web navigation, design, and functional design for the Global Sister’s web site. 

Click to see what past ASB students did at NetAid in 2004.

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