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Build understanding between the generations.

Provide entertainment and enjoyment for the residents.

Encourage empathetic social behaviours.

Interactive and fun education medium for the children.

Boost interest in humanities subjects, history and social sciences in particular.

Boost interest in the creative arts.

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Transcript of "Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear"

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TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: Dave Isay opened the first StoryCorps booth in New York's Grand Central Terminal in 2003 with the intention of creating a quiet place where a person could honor someone who mattered to them by listening to their story.

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Stories will be used on the days to teach the children what life was like for the residents when they were children. These stories will be told using multiple mediums including:

Storytelling, Theatrical performances, Cooking classes, Poetry, Games, and more.

Stories told will focus on the daily life of the residents but will include important historical events.

The children involved will range in age from babies in kindy to older primary school children, and possibly even secondary school children, the subject matter of the stories will be tailored in consultation with the teachers and schools to be both, age appropriate and relevant to the curriculum.

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Example of Navigation Bar: Ideas and Inspiration

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Link: http://punkave.com

For the a modern look and simplicity of web site's navigation, I was inspired by this great navigation bar. Our navigation will be designed by placing our own logo on the left-hand side, a horizontal grid design, a short description of each grid. Our background will be based on our colour-themed design in order to keep our design in unison.

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Example of Web design in Blue and Green theme

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Link: www.finavera.com

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Arial Black for all the headlines and Arial Narrow for body text

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Example of Web design in Blue and Green theme

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All the visual elements are based on the same on website design. The poster consists of details of 'Nursing Home Day' Event', for example, activities, date, time, venue, etc.

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Valuable information from the Kindergarten Advisory Support Service (www.kass.net.au) after conducting an experiment between a local kindergarten and nearby nursing home:

After identifying suitable facilities, arrange a meeting with key contacts to discuss possibilities, visiting schedule and activities.

Confirm visiting times and activities are suitable for all participants.

Undertake a risk assessment.

Ask for suggestions about activities both groups might enjoy.

Organise transport for participants and interested parents or family members.

Promote via social and print media.

After each visit, discuss the outcome with participants and ask for ideas for improvements.

Reflect on the final outcome, and create a lasting record that can be shared with other potential project organisers.

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Successful Examples of Kindy in Nursing Home Projects: Seattle USA

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Successful Examples of Kindy in Nursing Home Projects: Seattle USA

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The Intergenerational Learning Centre in Seattle (USA) is an award-winning kindergarten located within the Mount St. Vincent Nursing Home. The children learn about normal aging processes, to interact with people who have disabilities and who are several generations apart from them in age. They learn not to fear such differences, and to give and receive love and attention in what becomes an extended family situation.

The nursing home residents who choose to participate benefit from their interaction with children throughout the day, both emotionally and physically as they play with the children. They serve as role models, renewing their sense of worth and simple fun.

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Discipline: Writing & Publishing

Project Role: Background research, Writing copy for any publicity material, Editing team-contributed material before publication, Interviewing participants and contributors.

A project like this involves convincing someone in authority to support and/or endorse the concept, and to come up with whatever money is needed. While we are not concerned with the actual fundraising, we do need convincing evidence why the project is a good idea. I will be doing some research on this to compile some compelling evidence for councils, nursing home operators, early educators and health authorities.

I will also create publicity material, press releases, news stories, interviews, and gather stories for inclusion in a memento-style document for the participants.

Interviewing the elderly participants, not only for their stories as relevant to the project, but for their impressions of the project, will be a part of this.

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Apart from the main website, we will utilise the popularity of social medias to show feedbacks, photos from each activity, and get instant feedback both from our staff and participants' family.

For example, we will post some pictures of the highlights of an activity on Instagram with #kindyandsenior to get attentions from younger users and to spread our project both locally and globally.

Another example of is spreading the news on Facebook, we will post date and information of our upcoming activity to inform both staff and locals to join in.

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I have considered the design of the project logo. The Logo will be unique and visually represent the project. Our logo design is simple but eye-catchy and memorable. From my first draft logo design, the logo comprises of bright two-tone colors, project name at the bottom of the logo. Our logo represents a sense of consistency the whole range of online and offline design. For Example, our final logo will be appearing on the website, print-outs, or even staff t-shirts.

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I will be considering all these design components:

1. Font Choice: Only one font combination to make the wep page readable on the desktop computers and portable devices, Best choices will be Arial Narrow font for the text and headline will be Arial Black.

2. Colour Theme: I carefully picked a three-tone colour, including navy blue, light blue and light brown.

3. Compatibility: Our website will be compatible with mobile devices such as iPad, Android Tablets, and smartphone.

4. Website Layout: Big Animating background with Illustration and clean look of the navigation

5. A Sense of Consistency: All the online products on every platform and other kinds of other offline printouts will be consistent in terms of design with logo, colour theme, and font family.

6. Elder-Friendly Interface: The entire wep page design will be easily accessed by the elderly

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I will be using this colour theme in web design.

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On the information architecture, the website will include navigations, site navigation on top of the page, about us, project, feedback, staff only login.

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On my design plan, there are some considerations:

1. Audience (Target Group)

2. Visual considerations

3. Online and Office Placement

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Our target group of website will be people from Varsity Lakes and nearby suburbs who want to participate in our project, search more information about the project and activities, staff who run the project, senior residents as well as their family members

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The elderly and children tell each others stories using group collaborative performances.

Using the assistance of a theatre group we will use group performances to encourage interaction between the participants and to tell their stories.

There will be a mix of short real stories from the residents lives, real historical events and classic fictional plays. These stories will be adapted for the stage by the theatre group and the residents prior to the event.

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Brisbane Youth Theatre - Drama Classes and Theatre Workshops for Children and Teens

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Brisbane Youth Theatre drama and theatre classes provide a vibrant, creative and safe environment for kids of all ages to foster their skills in public presentation, self confidence and team work.

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There will be a selection of games used on the days. The games will vary between classic games of the past and modern games. These games will encourage interaction between the children and elderly residents. They will also provide a glimpse into the lives of the elderly for the children and vice-versa for the elderly into the lives of the children. These games will also be structured to tell stories of each others lives in the context of play.

This will build understanding and provide a fun interactive learning medium for the children to learn about the past.

Examples of games will be Group Wii games and classic games such as marbles, hopscotch, and the myriad of improvised games typical of the time.

One great aspect of this will be to show the children the ingenuity and improvisational skills the elderly possessed as children.

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The Kindy in Nursing Home Project is a community engagement project designed to raise community awareness of the potential and wisdom of the elderly. The project will connect older people and young children with shared activities, in the first instance involving residents of The Terraces assisted living facility at Varsity Lakes and local pre-schoolers.

A range of activities have been designed to be inclusive of whichever nursing home residents wish to participate, regardless of abilities or disabilities. It is envisaged that groups of children will visit the nursing home on a fortnightly basis, with return visits to the kindergarten by the elderly.

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Other activities include:

Walk and Talk: Exercise and interaction

Colour Your Life: Arts and crafts

Cooking For Fun: Food from the past

Herb Monsters: Gardening

Show and Tell: Story sharing

Nursing Home Day: This event invites community members to see the outcomes of the 'Kindy in Nursing Home Project". Parents, Councils, school students and teachers, local business owners, and residents' families will be invited to this one-day event. The activities could include a dancing show, poetry, lunch, cooking show, stage performance (Kids, the elderly, and staff), singing etc. The event would showcase all activities to the community, and float the possibility of a discussion about the benefits of merging a preschool centre and nursing home or expanding the event to other centers.

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As the project's Education Researcher I am responsible for gathering the stories, games and activities together that will deliver the desired outcomes of this project.

My role is to find the stories and information that will educate the children about the past lives of the nursing home residents that will build engagement and understanding between the children and residents.

It is also my role to explain why these choices were made and how they will benefit the participants and society.

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"This Preschool Inside A Nursing Home Proves True Friendship Knows No Age" This nursing home is the combination of assisted aged care facility and preschool. The purpose of this idea is to create mutual benefits for seniors and children. The kids will learn how to accept people from different generations and be taken good care o by residents. This unique place will help the elderly to develop a better sense of self-worth and social interaction.

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2015/06/24/intergenerational-learning-center-_n_7639362.html?ir=Australia

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The young and the old connect and learn from one another at this unique facility.

In many ways, Providence Mount St. Vincent in Seattle is a typical senior living community. It's home to about 400 elderly residents and provides them with different types of assistance. However, within the facility is also the Intergenerational Learning Center -- a preschool where children and seniors have the chance to bond.

Two children with a resident at the ILC.
Established in 1991, the ILC's purpose is to allow kids to learn about acceptance while also being nurtured, according to the facility's website. It also aims to help seniors develop a greater sense of self-worth and foster social interactions.

It's this unique mission that is the subject of the documentary Present Perfect, which was filmed from 2012-2013 at the ILC. It's currently in post-production and a Kickstarter has been created to help fund the project.

A resident and a preschooler at the ILC.
Babies to prekindergarten-aged children are placed into six different classes at the ILC, Susan Clark, public relations manager, told The Huffington Post. The kids attend art and music classes, as well as story time and exercise time with the seniors.

Marie Hoover, ILC director, told HuffPost that interacting with the seniors has proven beneficial for the young ones, making them more open-minded.

A child and a resident at the ILC's Halloween parade last year.
"For the ILC children, interacting with the residents is simply part of their day-to-day life here and I think the way aging is 'normalized' for them may be the most important benefit they receive in this program," Hoover said. "I've had parents call me years after their children have graduated from our program to let me know about some incident when their child was the first to warmly greet someone who happened to be in a wheelchair."

As for the seniors, administrator Charlene Boyd says that they're delighted by the companionship the children provide.

"The children bring so much energy and joy to our residents. Many of our residents are widows or widowers and can become lonely. Their adult children may still be working, so they may not get to see them as often as they would like," Boyd says. "Having the children be close by seems to make our residents feel as though they are still part of a community."

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Preschool Inside A Nursing Home Proves True Friendship Knows No Age

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The young and the old connect and learn from one another at this unique facility. In many ways, Providence Mount St. Vincent in Seattle is a typical senior living community. It's home to about 400 elderly residents and provides them with different types of assistance.

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These stories will focus on the everyday life of the elderly from when they were children, to teach the children about the parallels between their lives and to show how society has progressed for better or worse since this time.

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Simple Living 1940s Style

Where we were living, most house blocks were about 30 or 40 perches in size. That is 800 or 1000 sq. meters, much bigger than the 400 sq. meters that developers are now dishing up and Councils are rubbing their hands about, these days. House blocks these days don't seem big enough for one of the mighty Hill's Clothes Hoists of the 60's, let alone the washing lines and mango trees of the 40's. There must be a whole generation of kids that don't know how to build a cubby house, let alone a tree house.

A big part of our 'playtime' in those days was spent building, and then playing in, our 'cubbies'. We had a huge old mango tree which hung over a corrugated iron shed - a perfect place for a cubby on the roof with extra 'floors' further up in the tree. In the yard of our old house, we had two mango trees and a tamarind tree, and at another place we had two big poinciana trees in our back yard alone. I feel a bit sorry for kids that have nowhere to play outside and no games to play except computer games. City dwellers seem to be living in the biggest house on the smallest block of land these days. My Mother always used to say, "Go out and play in the yard." These days there is no yard to play in.

Most yards had room for the odd game of cricket ... and if there wasn't space enough in the backyard, there was always the street.Cars on the street were very few and far between so there were lots of community games with other kids in the street after shcool.

Do you remember when everybody had a vegie garden and fruit trees and chooks or a duck pen in their back yard? Fresh fruit, picked ripe from the tree, fresh eggs and home grown vegetables, all to be had in your own backyard. Who could forget the delicious drake or cockerel roasted for dinner on special occasions.

Safety and Security is another thing that has changed over the last few decades. As I said earlier, all the kids used to walk to school. As far as I know, no one had ever heard of Stranger Danger. We used to walk over to mates places, several blocks away, or they would come to ours. We used to walk to the swimming pool on our own, or go to the pictures on Saturday arvo on our own. As far as I can remember, the only risk I ever faced was being picked on by some bully on my way home from school, and that wasn't very often. Funny thing, as I recall, habitual bullies were bigger than the kids they picked on, but smaller or weedier than others of their own age.

Even when we were away from home and the front door was locked, the key was placed in the first place anyone would look, in the garden at the bottom of the steps. Very often, even when out, people would leave their windows open, and only closed their door to let people know they were out. When cars became more common in the 1950's, and modern style of living encouraged people to drive to work, the common practice was to lock the car doors, but leave the windows half way down, to let a bit of breeze in and keep the car cool. Then, if you came back with your hands full, you didn't have to dig for your car key, you could just reach through the window and lift the catch. Of course, cars didn't have air conditioning in those days.

Push bikes were the most popular means of transport for getting to and from work. The only traffic jams in the 1940s and '50s were at three o'clock when the high school kids hit the street, and at four o'clock when the Railway workers spilled out on to the causeway on their bikes. Bikes going in all directions. I well remember one ex-serviceman who bought his first car in the late 50's. He continued to ride his bike to work. The car was only used to take his family for drives on weekends. Oh for the pace of simple living!

My first bike was a Christmas present in the late 1940's. It was gleaming blue enamel and I was as proud and as pleased as a dog with two tails. I couldn't ride at that stage so I wheeled it all the way down to take it to the Island, where we were having our Christmas holidays. Next morning, I was just at the wobbling stage, when my good friend Johnnie came past on his bike. "A new bike," says Johnnie, "Come for a ride." With that he took off and I took off after him. Around the back road went Johnnie at full tilt with me trying to keep up, but falling further behind. Heading back towards home, Johnnie shot across the narrow foot bridge over the creek, and that's where he made his big mistake. At the far end of the bridge he stopped, and, still sitting on his bike, nonchalantly leant against the rail, waiting for me to catch up. I shot across the bridge after him, but stopping at speed was not in the first lesson, and since there was nowhere else for me to go a collision was inevitable. Johnnie and I ended up in a tangled mess of kids and bikes, with Johnnie spitting chips and saying uncomplimentary things about my riding ability. But at least the superior smirk had been wiped from his face.

Back to living-family-history from simple living

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To build understanding and compassion between the community and the elderly.

Raise the awareness and acknowledge the potential and wisdom of the elderly who live in our community and live in the assisted aged care facility.

Connect between older people and younger generations with fun activities.

Deliver the activities that help residents feel valued while relieving their loneliness and boredom.

Engage people from Varsity Lakes area and nearby to create sense of community

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How connections between generations benefit all ages

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One type of story used will be to tell the story of a typical school day for the elderly residents to the children. This, like the other stories, will be told using a variety of different mediums from the activities list. There will be numerous stories to tell about this subject from a variety of different angles.

They will include: Subjects and subject material, Writing equipment, Traveling to and from school, Lunch, Playtime, and many more.

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School Days in the 1940s

My school days started at the Central State School, at Townsville in 1943. We all walked to school. Girls wore shoes, but none of the boys did. Few kids had bikes and hardly any parent had a car, or petrol if they did have one, so we walked to school in ones and twos and small groups. Little kids tagging along with big kids. Hats on our heads with distinctive hat bands being the only identification of the school we went to.

School bags on our backs contained our lunch, usually sandwiches, with egg, cheese and lettuce, carrot or peanut paste, wrapped in grease proof paper and placed in a brown paper bag. No plastic in those days. That did not come till much later.

Little children at primary school sat at little wooden desks, two to each, with folding seats that squeaked loudly when we stood up. The back of the seat was the front of the desk behind. We wrote on slates with slate pencils until we got up to grade two or three. A thin, smooth piece of slate with a wooden frame to protect it, about the size of a sheet of A4. The pencils were of a soft grey slate material, and we used to sharpen them by scraping them on a cement wall at little lunch. We cleaned the slates with a damp piece of cloth or old towel, kept in a little tin or bottle with a few drops of Dettol to kill germs.

Teachers wrote with chalk on blackboards that were green, shouted a fair bit, and made us repeat tables and spelling over and over again, until somehow they were satisfied that some of them had soaked through our thick skulls. In fact, time proved that most of them had. Teachers used to say, "Sit up and put your hands behind your backs!" Teacher's word was law, never to be questioned. You did as you were told or suffered the consequences, which might be to stand in the corner and face the wall, or stand outside the room until told to come back in.

A few of those early teachers were never to be forgotten. Our grade II teacher, Miss Poultney, for example, was the only teacher who drove to school. She had a smart, blue, 30's vintage tourer, with a dickie seat at the back, which she used to park in the school ground, under a fig tree. A strict but kind teacher, who used to read to us if our work had been good. I recall her reading 'Hereward the Wake', the story of a Saxon hero rebelling against the Norman invaders in the Fens of East Anglia. Rapt attention from the young boys of the class.

Another memorable teacher was Mr. Jim Parsons, who had a strong opinion of the American influence, spreading into Australian culture even in those days. I remember Mr. P. flying for a boy who made the dreadful mistake of answering, "The White House," to a question about the name of the Prime Minister's home in Australia. I wonder how many ten year old Aussie kids would know the right answer if asked the same question today.

Other teachers were the kindly Harry Sager and our Scholarship teachers, Sam Dutton and Gordon Sandbeck. Sammy Dutton, (of course we would never call him that. He was always, "Sir!" or "Mr. Dutton") was a very strict disciplinarian who demanded top results. Boys who failed to achieve at least 8 out of 10 for arithmetic could expect to feel the sting of his cane on both hands. Ouch! The memory lingers yet. There is no doubt in my mind that the threat of getting the cuts was a great incentive for boys to try harder.

The loud ringing of a hand bell meant that it was time for parade. All the kids would rush to get a drink of water or to hang their school bags and hats on the rack outside their schoolroom if they had not already done so. There was much pushing and shoving and there were never enough pegs on the hat racks, which meant that some of the hats and bags would have to lie on the floor, where they might accidentally be kicked or stood on. This overcrowding no doubt led to the old saying, "As full as a State School Hat Rack." Once we were lined up on parade, the Headmaster would make school announcements, the Australian Flag would be raised while we all stood to attention for the playing of The National Anthem, "God Save The Queen", and we would all be marched to our respective classrooms for lessons.

To go back to living-family-history from school.

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My school days started at the Central State School, at Townsville in 1943. We all walked to school. Girls wore shoes, but none of the boys did. Few kids had bikes and hardly any parent had a car, or petrol if they did have one, so we walked to school in ones and twos and small groups.

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I have done the research at the first stage of the project to get the initial ideas from similar websites, and projects. After presenting my design ideas to our project team, I have decided to design the website based on a combination of Parallax and corporate look and feel from McKenzie Aged Care group website.

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With a strong entrepreneurial mindset we partner with businesses and new ventures to help them become relevant, efficient and more profitable.

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Awwards. 2015. "Best Example of Typography in Web Design" http://www.awwwards.com/websites/typography/?page=5

Brown, Evan. 2013. "Discovering the Benefits of Good Logo Design". DesignMantic. http://www.designmantic.com/blog/benefits-of-good-logo-design/

Colour combos. http://www.colorcombos.com/color-schemes/423/ColorCombo423.html

Cousins, Carrie. 2015. "7 Tips for Choosing the Best Web Font for Your Design". Design Shack. http://designshack.net/articles/typography/7-tips-for-choosing-the-best-web-font-for-your-design/

Graham, Andy. 2012. "Planning and Scheming: How We Start a Web Design Project" Big Sea. http://bigseadesign.com/web-design/planning-and-scheming-how-we-start-a-web-design-project

McKenzie Aged Care Group, www.mckenzieacg.com

Miller, Brad. 2013. "7 Critical Web Redesign Consideration You can't Overlook". Seach Engine Watch. http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2282842/7-critical-web-redesign-considerations-you-cant-overlook

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Our website will be a portal hub of all the activities we have created for this project. Both locals and people from other suburbs can find all information from this website, including all the clips, photo from activities we have updated on a regular basis. Additionally, all feedbacks and information of the project can be inspired by other similar projects in the future.

The website design was initially inspired by the fun nature of children and the wisdom of senior residents. The design will be shown the playful features (Parallax) on the mature colour themes (Corporate look and feel).

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I will set up the Facebook page, Instagram, and Twitter to spread our news, activities, project throughout the media.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/kindy

Instagram: www.instagram.com/kindy

Twitter: www.twitter.com/kindy

YouTube: www.youtube.com/kindy

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Project Role: Project Advisor

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Discipline: Education and History
Project Role: Education Researcher

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My contribution to this project is mainly to design and promote activities, event and our information on the project through the social networking sites and official website

Also, I designed some intergenerational programs and activities for senior residents and preschoolers, particularly, exercise related and art activities.

From the beginning, after we agreed all the overall concept of the project, I have done my three main parts, as a designer:

1. Inspiration: get the ideas from various sources both online and books

2. Research: do some design research on our main concept, best choice of visual elements etc.

3. Planning: set a plan to develop website and poster, using Microsoft Project to allocate time and resources.

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Discipline: Digital Art Design
Project Role: Design Lead