Poster Phase 1

This is poster phase 1! When putting this together, there was so much information and little details written and visually that I feel like we threw it all on. From what we learned in interviews visual audit, and the mood boards we developed a visual language that speaks to children in elementary school. Since we have all the information on the posters it is time to edit and organize the information better. One main part that I need to work on is taking some of the written language and making it more visual.

Review Ivanhoe concept

After talking with Chris today he brought up some really good points about my first proposal. With this type of project I'm still unsure about how I see the end result, however I am excited to find out. Before I got too caught up in the Door to Door Org. Although, it is a great system, it is probably not the most appropriate for the Ivanhoe community. My new objective (and this could always change) but to contact local farmers and see if I can gather an arrangement of fruits, veggies, poultry, perhaps even make goods for the people of Ivanhoe. Within this bag of goods I want the Ivanhoe people to get more excited about eating and cooking. I want to try and create a system that eventually will transition into the community is apart and selling their goods. As of right now there is about three different actions, and with luck, they will come together.

1. The first thing to do is make out a list of different "healthier" foods that one family should be able to support on for a week. Then head off to Sunfresh, Wild Oats, Trader Joe's to compare prices on the basics that a family might need to live by. How much can fit into one paper bag even.

2. Interview or talk to the people of Ivanhoe to figure, how much they usually spend at the grocery store. What types of foods do they wish were more accessible, and how long those groceries can last. I want to first talk with Dina because I feel like these are borderline personal questions and my intentions is not to offend anyone.

3. Do some prototyping, With an estimate of a weekly budget, I got from Dina or resident go back to the grocery store and see if it is possible. What food groups get dropped. This step might seem like I will already have the answers I need, but by experiencing this, it will help my research to find those types of farmers around the KC area.

I'm a little unsure if this is the correct direction to be going in. As much as this will be a great way to get groceries for the residents, it is still a design project. In what ways can I visually communicate with the residents of Ivanhoe.

Possible Ideas could be:

-how they initially hear about it

-how they order the bag of goods. pen/ paper. tear section out of the local newspaper

- what type of bag does it come in, recyclable, size,

- what comes in the bag other than foods, recipe cards, tools for gardening

- more to come

Ivanhoe first proposal

Ivanhoe Project Proposal

Concept: Promote Door to Door Organics to the Ivanhoe community, as well as finding a way for them to order the groceries.

Door to Door Organics is a system in which they delivery groceries to your doorstep with seasonal foods.
- You order a "box" that can range in size and price, from $27-57
- The box includes weekly fresh fruits and veggies, and local produce
- (Online) they have categories that you can also order, baked goods, condiments & sauces, breakfast & cereals, coffee & tea, soups & broths, spices, nut butters,
and sweets
- Week to every other week you can order food
- Plan out weekly meals
-Payment credit or debit cards (trying to see if they can use partially food stamps, work with the new bank)
- With your purchases they also include in your box little recipes to try out that go accordingly to what you bought
- Tuesday's and Wednesday's they would deliver the food. If you have a certain work schedule they will work around it
- No delivery costs!
- With every box it is customizable, swapping out 5 fruits or veggies
- All the foods they offer are 100% organic, coming from local farmers

Ideas
- For Block Captains, since they do a good job, perhaps they get a discount or coupons
- Try to get a local cooking class to come in and do activities surrounding their new foods
- Branding D2D within the Ivanhoe community, making this system accessible for them
- Working with the new bank, perhaps they order there, or set up a way to pay easier for kind of a one stop shop
- Creating a compost with the extras that they have left over

Problems
- How can they order the food if they do not have access to a computer, it will be a challenge if its all printed pieces because they update their menu every week
- Order->mail-> D2D(?)-> Home, how can I make that an easier process
- How to reach the Ivanhoe Community, through posters, cards
- How will the payment system work
- What happens if the family does not cook very much
- In the end, will this help to solve the food desert problem?
- I'm not sure if this will be a huge problem but they do not deliver to P.O Box's
- Why organic? It is healthier but what are the deeper purposes

Hoppeful Outcome
- Better nutrition
- Getting families to cook dinner's together
- Softening the food desert issue
- Plan out weekly meals
- Educating younger kids about seasonal foods
- Support local farmer's
- Harvest Calendar
- Perhaps even having a barter system with D2D to sell their produce too (sense of pride)
- Ivanhoe creating a recipe book of what they cooked with these foods
- Tips on dry foods to stretch budget
- Bringing the community closer, to talk about what they purchased, cooked, didn't like

Contact
- Door to Door
- City Market Farmers Market
- S.N.A.P- the organization that allowed for food stamps to be used in the farmer's market
- Food and Nutrition Service
- American Century- they did something similar to this system this past summer. I would like to find out what some of the struggles and advices when organizing this.

Gathered Facts
- Most places that accept food stamps around Ivanhoe are gas stations and liquor stores
- The average low income family of four spends between $50-75 a week
- 400 million people use food stamps

Visual Audit/ Mood Board

Virtual Language Learning

MX: Interview

Dianne DeNoon, Blue Valley School District Education Support Services Team - World Languages

Why do you feel like foreign language education is important?
Because we live in a global society, not just in the united states, the more cultures they understand the better understanding of the language that is very deep routed to each other. 2 or 3 rd language helps SAT scores and just more intellgenet, important scientifically and humanity

-What is the biggest challenge in teaching foreign language in Elementary schools?
Probably- 1. the natural resource being able to dedicate the costs of a program. 2. The time you have to spend with it

-In general, what is the biggest challenge you face as a teacher in your classroom?
The number of students that they see, 2 or 3 times a week and that can be a lot of students. Only for 30 minutes or so at a time.

-What other subjects could facilitate foreign language learning?
In the area of foreign, it is content-less, we don't have anything to teach
Fo example: social studies is very important, geography, we would have math for patterns, art colors, shapes

-In your opinion, what are a few of the gaps found in public education, specifically regarding foreign language?
Gaps in articulation, corse to course, expressing easy transition, from class to class and not repeat

-In your opinion, at what age should foreign language education begin and why?
Ideally from birth
Or as soon as the student starts schools
Start at the age of 8- like other countries, probably because the other students have a sense of learning and also curious

-What are a few barriers of students that know a second language versus those that speak one? What are the social effects of this in the classroom?
it would be the opposite, students can be disadvantaged later in life, they will more easily a foreign language

Scandia Down Presentation

Sandia Down Presentation 2

1st Mood board