Learning in Action

Being Me
Being Me is Q2L’s contained new media driven social networking website. With a familiar interface and similar functionality to popular online communities, students are able to easily share and critique each other’s work, create blogs, find peer collaborators, and participate in community building, with support from adult mentors. Users share perspective and create dialogue through regular blog postings, debates, and discussion threads.

Being Me was designed by the Institute of Play to support both academic and socio-emotional competencies that are part of Q2L’s curriculum. Students use the site as part of Home Base, their daily advisory where they have a chance to use custom applications targeting specific wellness issues that are being addressed in the school. The site was developed in collaboration with Nichole Pinkard and Akili Lee and was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.