This week I couldn't access the admin features of the Resolving Door site, so my work was limited to brainstorming/offline activities.
I came up with some ideas for site navigation, including ideas for tabs, menus, and tagging (see below).
I also write a description of the RD layer, to be submitted to Layar (see below).
Tab suggestions:
Campus Issues
Academics
Student Life
Only in Boulder
Recreation and Outdoors
Student/Faculty Issues
Grounds
Transportation/Getting Around
Environment
Eating/Drinking
Safety
Resolutions
Tags/topics we can seed (I think there's a way it can auto-complete when
someone starts typing in tags?):
skiing, snowboarding, recreation, hiking, campus, student life, facilities, tuition,
textbooks, classes, faculty, professors, parking, recycling, zero waste,
composting, transportation, driving, bicycles, bicylists, skateboarders,
pedestrian, the hill, dining, food, safety, football, basketball, rec center, health,
health services, insurance, housing, apartments, farmer's market, downtown,
pearl street, public transportation, RTD, bus, CU, police, partying, MIP, parking
tickets, cars, mental health, stress, continuing education, adult education,
longmont, louisville, trails, open space, wildlife, energy, gas, alcohol, bars,
nightlife, sidewalks, nightride, saferide, budget, city council
Drop down menu suggestions:
Top:
Home - none
About Us - What is the Resolving Door?, Participate, Project Team, (Grant Info?),
(CU Info?)
Terms of Use - none
Code of Conduct - none
Register - none
Help - Manage Your Account, FAQ, How do I... post a challenge? ...post a story?
(can we have nesting menus?)
Below:
Forum - Discuss Challenges, Discuss Stories
Journalism Resources - Training/Tutorials/Certification (not sure what we are
calling this), Citizen Journalism Links, Walk-through of a sample challenge--resolution (not sure what to call this either)
Challenges - Drop down list of top 10 topics
Stories - Drop down list of top 10 topics
Map
Writers/Contributors
Multimedia - Podcasts, Videos, Photo Gallery (or these could be their own
parent menu, too)
Events - Resolving Door Events, Campus Events, Boulder Events (???)
Layar - layer detailed description:
Resolving Door is a crowd-powered hyper-local news platform that invites members of the University of Colorado at Boulder to untangle community issues
one block at a time. Participants submit challenges -- short descriptions of problems they want to see resolved -- and stories -- citizen-journalist produced reporting, writing and multimedia that seeks to resolve those challenges. On this layer, browse challenges and stories to see how civic news-gathering can strengthen community street-by-street.