Lessons learned in e-learning & more from Witness

WITNESS empowers people to use video to expose human rights abuses and create change. Over the past 20 years, WITNESS has partnered with over 250 human rights groups and organizations in 80 countries and trained thousands of activists how to strategically use video as an advocacy tool.

Chris Michael, WITNESS' Video Advocacy Training Manager, will share a new online training initiative designed to help meet the needs of activists interested in its methodology that WITNESS cannot train or partner with. Currently in its alpha testing phase, the Video Advocacy Planning Toolkit will be launched this summer as an online and offline resource. Chris hopes to share the research and great (and not so great) examples of e-learning for advocacy that WITNESS did when planning the Toolkit and share the lessons learned and challenges thus far in the development. He hopes that there can be a group discussion and sharing of related experiences - and that he won't need to speak in the third person.

To learn a bit about the project before, please check this blog series out: http://blog.witness.org/2010/07/training-witness-is-creating-a-video-advocacy-planning-toolkit-and-we-want-to-hear-what-you-think/

Agenda:

7:00 pm doors 7:15 pm welcome and intros 7:30 pm presentation 8:15 pm Q/A 8:30 pm networking About the Host: NWCU
This event is part of NWCU (http://u.nwc.co/ut4good), community-powered learning driven entirely by member participation. NWCU is a curated collection of classes, workshops, Meetup groups, and hackathons, all sharing one core common goal: help existing and aspiring independents build, learn, and share with one another, so more people can lead better, happier lives working for themselves.

NWCU is made possible by amazing supporters of independents and innovation: Google (http://u.nwc.co/gt4good), BlackBerry (https://www.meetup.com/NYC-Tech4Good-a-NetSquared-group/events/”http:/u.nwc.co/bbt4g“) & New Work City (http://u.nwc.co/nwct4g).

About New Work City
New Work City is a coworking space and community center for independents in Manhattan. We gather in a cozy shared environment to work, collaborate, learn, and socialize. All you need is some work to do and a friendly disposition!