I am Bruce Beach, the founder of the uncommon foundation, an organization
dedicated to developing language teaching for people in Third World
countries and other parts of the world; and I've been a member of an
organization called the 'idealist Organization' since 1997 and I'm making
this YouTube video especially for them but it really for any organization that
is idealistic they can use the materials that I'm presented here the program that
I'm going to tell you about they can come and join in costs nothing cost
knowing anything to join and use this program what this is is an ideal tool to
get people to join your organization it introduces them one to another it
explains to them how your organization works and it gives them practice in your
organization was with any game one starts the game by going down the rabbit
hole the rabbit hole is can be a website that you have or a newsletter that you
send out with a link or an advertisement in a pamphlet that you hand out and when
a person goes into the rabbit hole they get a username something they make up
for themselves that they're going to participate in the game and we give them
an ID number so that we can track them through the game to give them their
scores and rewards and whatever is involved in the game the next thing in
our game is they choose a story now this is can be a story that you make up or
can just be a simple explanation about what your project is about and once
they're in a story they choose a learn I'll learn is the particular group of
people that you are going to be participating with
we try that ideally to have about 150 people and never more than 200 and we
much prefer never less than 100 ideally around 150 because with these people you
through your main dashboard you're going to select two people that your or join
two people that you're going to participate with in a triad fact we'd
like for you have three triads this is to people and two people and two people
separate that don't know each other they're in this but because you're all
talking together and they're joining other triads that forms a network within
your learns and in the learn you have counselors 5 counselors a new counselor
is elected every week and they move up through the ranks so the fifth week then
they drop off and they can't become a counselor again for another week so this
isn't just a click running this organization that you set up your
involving everyone and they are all participating every game has what we
call quests their tasks that people are going to be doing these can be all sorts
of different things I have a friend who diz designing a special little stove for
cooking that's very inexpensive for people to make for third-world countries
it may be some device for making energy or maybe the device for pumping water or
whatever it may be there are some rules for the game and those are explained in
the game and because it's run by a computer program so it has to have rules
so the computer knows how to process it how this works you can find out very
easily by just joining the game going in there play the game join somebody's
quest see how it is and then make up your own quest I hope you can come and
join us in the game we call it the builders of the art and the ark just
build a new and better world it's not a physical thing
it is a spirit of the ideals of humanity once again does kind of parallel what
this thick game is it's two things it's a simulation of what your system does
what what your goals are and what it is that's the game part the other part of
it is because this is not a game is the real world and when you train people in
your simulation and they get to know each other through the game they just
move right on over into your organization in the real world and
accomplish in the real world these tasks that you want to accomplish and so this
is my invitation to you idealist.org to participate in this program and it's
this is also the invitation from bruce beach to all other organizations in the
world who would like to make use of this
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