We kicked the session off with a group activity. We split up into three groups, were given a scenario and had to come up with a solution using what we had.
Group 1
One of your close friends has passed out. You don't know if it's just that she's been drinking or had her drink spiked but you can't get her to talk. It's 12:50am on a Saturday and you're in Leicester Square with no phone credit. You've heard that it's easy to choke on your vomit when you're drunk but you're not sure what the recovery position is. Using your phone find websites to:
1. Show you how to put your friend in the recovery position.
2. The nearest hospital OR medical phone helpline and decide how to get your friend to safety
Group 2
A fight has broken out in a chicken shop in Westminster between three boys (two against one). The owner throws them all out but you can see that the two trouble causers have ducked round the corner and haven't left the scene. Meanwhile the boy they attacked has a bust nose and is bleeding on the street and you realise you go to school with him. You have no phone credit and you're the only person who's seen what happened and you are worried that the two older boys will come back.
1. Police gang unit support number
2. Basic medical attention guidance
How will you stop the situation from escalating?
Group 3
You're in Camden, it's Friday night and you've just missed the last tube home. You promised you'd be in before 1:30am and it's 12:45am. You have an oyster card with £5, £5 cash and phone credit. What are your options to get back to Westminster? Using your phone find websites to:
1. Alternative public transport
2. Safe mini cab number
What's the best option to get you home in time?
The group activity taught us many things:
- This is why we need to create a website
- Keywords are important
- The internet is useless
- We need to think about what people will search for
- We need to label photos and videos - so they can be found easier
We discussed some keywords that we may need to use for our website:
- Emergency
- Safety
- Problem
- Trains
- Drugs
- Help
- Issue
- Gangs
- Cab/taxi
- Alcohol
- Attack
- Knife
- Fight
- Spiked
- Weapons
- London
- Buses
Our website will be aimed at young people - under 24
We discussed that our website needs to:
- Have no ads
- Be mobile optimised
- Videos are not useful in an emergency
- Short bullet points
- Video messages
- Create a person - to be the face of the website - a boy and a girl
- Text and diagrams - clear!
- Video on facebook and at end click here message
- Want people to know website
- Audio with instructions - it's quicker
- Pictures
- If we use video it has to be useful
- Idea for a name - Smarties at hand?
Group activity 2:
Looking at:
1. What steps do we need to do to create the website?
- Images
- Colour
- Layout
- Steps
- Format
- Text
- Navigation
- Hyper links
- Audio clips
- Logo/name
2. What do we need to do to make sure young people find out about the website? 3. What do we need to promote the website online?
- Assemblies
- Youth clubs
- Share on Facebook/Twitter
- Flyers
- Posters
- Groups
- Tell people - friends and family
- Make a Facebook page/ group
- Ask advertisers
4. What do we need to do to measure success?
- Facebook polls
- We can have a rating that shows you how many people are using it
We are interested in:
- Learning how to create a logo
- CMS
- Get a developer
- Learning about website design
We discussed that out audience to reach will be - 300 people
Updates:
We will be going on a visit to a digital agency in Spitalfields on 13th December 2011.
