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Teacher Support Network redesign

August 19th, 2008  |  Published in Announcements

Yesterday evening I launched the new Teacher Support Network’s group charity website. This has been a long time in the making with a number of revisions that reflects the pros and cons of the group process, but in the end, I think we came up with a stunning design that’s both unique and highly functional.

I worked with web developer Nigel Parry and designer Ken Harper (Iron Clad Images) over the last spring and summer to develop a new look and better navigation flow for the site as well as a number of tools designed to increase the usability and accessability of the site. The result is years beyond the previous one. We moved off of Drupal and over to Interactive Tools’ Article Manager 2.

Teachersupport.info

For more on this project, visit Nigel Parry’s website.

To see more about the creation of this site, visit the Article Manager forum thread here.

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Joined advisory board of International Trauma Treatment Program

March 5th, 2008  |  Published in Announcements

I’m now on the advisory board for ITTP and am truly humbled by the company I’m in. ITTP trains practitioners to treat complex trauma inflicted by torture, war, and natural disasters. The goal of the International Trauma Treatment Program is to undermine the use of torture through establishing an international network of practitioners who fight torture by transforming torture victims into survivors.

From the website:

“Practitioners from war zones who participate in our program become prepared to treat, and to train other practitioners to treat, trauma survivors in their home countries. We thereby seek to leverage our resources by creating a snowball effect that greatly increases the number of practitioners worldwide that fight torture.”

Handling the web technology for this group and consulting on tech issues with the many great people associated with it puts me pretty far off from the experiences that others on the advisory board have, as I sit safely behind a computer screen here in London. Other advisory board members, many of them practicioners themselves, are working in medical facilities, refugee camps and trauma treatment centers in Zimbabwe, the occupied Palestinian territories, Sri Lanka, Uganda and other places where people face first hand the human capacity for brutality and also for assistance in healing.

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