Let's divide the conversation into three parts. In the area where you've posted your first work, let's keep talking about ways to display SNA info, and challenges you might be having. Let's also try to recruit others, since it looks like Jonathan won't be able to stay involved.
In this discussion let's talk about how SNA can be used for the conference in May. I'd like to be able to create a presentation/workshop, showing what the potential for SNA is, and how it helps us show the growth of the network being supported by the conferences and the T/MC. Valdis had some suggestions on this, which I encourage him to repeat here.
Then, in a third disucssion, let's talk about how we might map the networks for our teens. I'll copy some of what you wrote into that one, as a starting point, then offer my thoughts.
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Kalyani and I talked about "next steps" and I think we should map the Nov. 08 conference, then create a set of maps that combine May and Nov 08. That will enable us to begin to show repeat participation. After that we'd map May 09, then Nov. 09, then a combination of 08 and 09, showing the combined weight of four conferences. If others can help do that work, that would be great.
At the same time, I'd like you all to work together to create a survey that could be posted on the T/MC conference site, or given to participants of future conferences, to help us understand the way they are connecting to each other as a result of the conferences and the T/MC. Some questions might be
a) what workshop did you attend (which would tell us what speakers they connected with)
b) who did you connect with after the conference as a result of first meeting them at the conference
It would be great if we could get some suggestions on questions from Valdis or other SNA experts. However, I think that as you build the maps, you may come up with your own questions.
Our aim in this stage of map making is to demonstrate the value and attract other volunteers, donors, graduate students, college faculty, and others to help us keep expanding what the T/MC does to help tutor/mentor programs grow. The use of SNA and GIS is an application of tools to help understand our impact, and to help programs expand their own networks of support, so each can do better work.
I have some ideas of how to tell the story of this conference, but I'd like to invite others to look at this and give their thinking first. Please post your suggestions.
I'd like to have someone mapping the growth of Karina and Bradley's networks, using inFlow, to show how this expands from year to year, and to show how this results in more people taking part in the conferences or recruitment collaboration, working with us, or with each other.
2. Did you have contact with anyone that attended the Breakout Session previously? And how closely connected were you on a scale of 1-4, 1 being that you have met, 2 you have had a small?
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I think this should provide us with the information to map the group
I think the outline of what to present looks good. I'd be happy to work on fleshing out a few areas and write up a narrative for someone to work from if that's helpful.
Let me know what you need from me for Friday.
I'm sorry for being so out of the loop as the conference approaches -- I'll do what I can over the next couple of days and will be able to refocus on this come mid-June.
If you can add anything to the handout I posted, please do and then email that to me, or repost it as a revision.
We'll keep moving forward with this and do what we can as we have the time. One thing you and Katie might do is send an email blast out to Dominican to see if other students might want to attend that workshop and see what we are doing. We can give scholarships to anyone who wants to come. This is how Anne recruited you and maybe we can add a couple more people, or even some donors, over the summer.
Dan
For the presentation next Friday, let's put together an outline on Ning. I realize that the total time slot is 70 minutes, but from the description I understand that we will be talking about more than simply the SNA initiative, but also the other computer-oriented programs, both mapping and otherwise, that Tutor/Mentor Connections is utilizing currently. Please correct me if this is wrong. How much time would you like to devote to the SNA portion. I think that talking for about 10 minutes seems appropriate, but we could go longer/shorter.
Three areas I would like to talk about involving InFlow are:
1. Mapping the network of volunteer organizations and it's potentials...
-Showing how attending the conference increases the network of tutoring organizations, helping them to find ideas and solutions to problems, as well as other organizations that can work well together
2. Mapping the students
-I know we don't really have any of the these maps complete, but I think that showing the network that a student enters with and then the network that they exit with can help in multiple ways. On one hand it could help with fundraising as a visual example of the growth some of these children and teenagers are making. It can also be useful in determining what type of support network might need to be built up for each child, because they enter the program with individual histories.
3. Show our small group maps as an example.
Let me know what you think of this. Please add your own ideas and more information.
Thanks!
Katie
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