Proposal #22: Aktiwiki-Database.
I propose that ERC invest an adeguate amount of money to develop a cooperative framework (e.g. wikipedia) in which registered users (e.g. same friends registration?) could add activities, comment them, categorize them and vote them.
Rationale
If the true unique-ness of CISV are the activities, the ones that are played over and over again in CISV programmes: "Peace-War-Peace", "Lifeboat", classic Trust Games, "Blue and Yellow", CISV International should make an effort to make pubblicly available the tremendous amount of work done by our voluntees on the matter of quality and innovation. If on one side activity templates tend to curb fantasy, critical thinking and reasoning of those planning, nevertheless we cannot expect participants, who have little or no experience with "great CISV activities" to reinvent the wheel.
At the very end in many cases the templates are used as a reminder of activities people had done before, and it is usually difficult to understand what the real clue of an activity is.
Once this tool has been activated should be promoted and leaders should be trained on how to use it, discuss specific, activities during training workshops and exchange of experiences.
Respectfully submitted, Teo (Italy)
{ A Wiki is a website, where anybody can add, edit or amend content, even without much computer skills. The most popular example is the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. CISV juniors have been using the IJBwiki for various purposes, also the IPP taskforce has a Wiki.
A few years ago the CISV activity database was made availabe online, and audited by the Newcastle University }
A few years ago the CISV activity database was made availabe online, and audited by the Newcastle University }
4 Comments:
Hi,
I'm not so sure I like this idea, as I think it might get us in trouble with copy-right. A lot of the games that we play have in fact not been invented by CISVers but are also known in many other organisations and sometimes even are under copy-right there. If we publicise them as ours, we might offend those rights.
In principle I like the idea though, but I would like to know as to how that is different to the Activity Database and how it would be made sure that it would actually be used.
Maybe we focus too much on internet? I always like to go back to my activity books that I have on paper in a folder. I wouldn't search the internet for games, I guess.
I like this idea, especially because I think the current Activity Database is not very useful. I wish CISV would spend a little more time on the true content of our programmes, and that is: CISV-ACTIVITIES.
The discussion with the old gamebook is an old one, and I know many people who think they ought to be banned, because the reduce creativity. Good point, nevertheless, some activities are already out there, and are so damn good, they should take place in every camp. People should go ahead and openly discuss how to make them even better, and what are exactly the crucial points to make them great. And I think the internet is the best place to do just that.
The copyright problem is valid for the old activity database as well, so I'm afraid we'd have to close that one as well, if we would take it seriously. In any case - a new collection of activities could be hidden behind a password, i.e. on CISV friends.
I do agree with Basti, that maybe an electronic Library is not always the best place to research on new activities, therefore I suggest that a new Activity Database allows a printing all activity summaries or all activities for a certain age group.
On a sidenote, I know that outgoing NJR Arno from Germany has started a project like that, however I think he has discontinued developing it. So maybe with a little pushing he would get it going again...
My initial thought on this one is a bit different from the ones pointed out.
I like this idea so much that I think we should expand it. Why not have a CISVPedia instead of an Aktipedia?
I think that it would be fabulous to have a wikipedia that people from all over could just add general content about CISV. How their chapter works, how they manage finance, how the fundraise, how they do leadership training and all that. A true CISVPedia!
Something all chapter could use to learn, get information and just share. I feel that together with this resources, this tool would basically allow the knowledge we produce in CISV be truly spreaded and used.
Activities are great, and I think this could be a great part of the our CISVPedia - but there's so much we can take out of this tool, that I feel that only activities is underestimating what we could actually do.
my 2 cents.
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