Kia ora and welcome
We would like to warmly welcome you to the Campaign Page for our non-profit website lightcolourvision.org
We created lightcolourvision.org to be an empowering and inspirational resource for students, educators and researchers of all ages who share our interest and concern for the lives and education of future generations.
As its name suggests the site explores light, colour, vision and how to see more. You can navigate to other pages on the site using the menu at the top-left of the page.
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Even the price of a coffee will help us pay the bills 🙂
2019: Launch and proof of concept
We opened lightcolourvision.org for business with a launch party and crowdfunding campaign in May 2019. 50 supporters helped raise NZ$2745.00 which enabled us to go public and start to map out the road ahead. By the end of the year, the site contained over 550 pages and visitor numbers had grown to 12,000 per month. The table below provides a summary of the resources now available to visitors (all resources are free to download).
| Lightcolourvision Aug 2024 |
Published | Description |
| Articles | 4 | We are in the process of publishing a series of fully illustrated articles exploring light, colour, vision and how to see more. |
| Diagrams |
209 | This library of DIAGRAMS includes the suite of images we have created and supports them with full-page explanations and related information. |
| Dictionary |
513 | The DICTIONARY includes definitions, explanations, summaries and ‘about ‘pages relating to the key terms used across the site. Each term has its own separate page. |
| Questions and answers | 277 | The site includes a library of general-knowledge Q&A’s about light. colour and vision.. |
2020-22: Building on our success
2020-22 is about building on our successes to date. We have big plans with three main areas of focus:
- Content: Adding more content to the site and improving how visitors navigate to the resources they need.
- Fundraising: The first target for each year is to cover our basic running costs. You can see our Budget: Annual running costs here.
2023-25: Building on our success
We continue to build the site, adding new material on a day-to-day basis.
- Navigation: Huge improvements have been made in the way visitors navigate the site and the way content appears. This work is ongoing.
- Content: New content is continually being generated. In the background, work is ongoing on our series of articles.
- Fundraising: Most users are happy to navigate the site to find the information they need. 39,000 visitors have called by in the last 12 months. All resources are free to download. Almost all donations we receive are from personal friends.
- See our blog here for the latest updates
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The price of a coffee will help 🙂
How you can help!
Explore the site and send us your feedback! What you see today is our proof of concept, a prototype demonstrating masses of functionality and a wide range of different types of content. We are keen to receive your thoughts and feedback on our efforts to date! So please use the feedback button on each page, and help us big-time with your comments.
Make a donation! Our first financial target is always to meet our basic running costs. So, we hope our efforts to date will inspire you to support what we are doing and help us build to the next level. You can make a donation using one of the panels on the right (Below on mobile).
Get involved! Become a lightcolourvision.org citizen. Find out more here.
The story so far
Over the last three years, we have developed the original concept for lightcolourvision.org into a fully-functioning website. Important choices have now been made between different kinds of functionality and features, and we have added a huge amount of content to this prototype. Visitors can now see the result of our efforts including pages and pages of content in both the DIAGRAMS library and the DICTIONARY.
During 2020 we hope to spread our wings further and start to build a bigger community around the site. With a little help, we plan to reach out first to organizations and individuals across Aotearoa New Zealand.
The vision
The website celebrates the common ground that binds human beings together in ways that we hope everyone can identify with.
Our approach to developing content is shaped by the fact that our thoughts are focused first on young minds and how to support them to make sense of themselves and their world.
Lightcolourvision.org challenges contemporary threats to open, diverse, inclusive and well-informed communities by advocating and demonstrating an appreciation of and care for each other and our world. To achieve this, we disseminate information and promote discussion of the very real processes that interconnect and sustain us on planet earth.
We are committed to responding to the call for people to make web-content that is rich and relevant to communities that respect civil discourse and human dignity and use the open web as a global public resource for people everywhere.
Lightcolourvision.org is designed as a multi-disciplinary curriculum resource able to function effectively within a range of educational contexts. But it is also designed to play a part in ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated life-long learning. In both contexts, it aims to enhance active citizenship, personal development and self-sustainability.
Thank you to everyone who helped us make 2019 such a success!!
YES!! To all of you, our supporters, THANK YOU AGAIN 🙂
Love and best wishes from Ric, Jules and Melissa
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The core team
We are Ric Mann and Jules Turner, the founders and the initial contributing editors of lightcolourvision.org. You can read background information and our personal statements here.
And in case you were wondering, yes, everything you see on the site today has been produced on a voluntary basis because we are both committed to this project big time!!
GOALS FOR 2024-5
Goals for 2024-5
Three over-arching goals for 2024-5 are outlined below:
| 2024-5 GOAL ONE: Create more content |
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| Lightcolourvision.org is not yet complete. New content is being developed and added all the time. Publishing new material as well as refining existing content is the life-blood of the site!! |
| 2024-5 GOAL TWO: Add more hand-crafted articles |
| Creating articles is a labour of love. It can take up to a year to develop and publish a new article. We hope eventually to produce a package of sixteen hand-crafted, illustrated articles that link our central topics of inquiry – light, colour, vision and how to see more.
Each article introduces and explores the interlinking clusters of concepts and terms that are used across the site. They also help to expose the underlying research interests that motivate us as we develop the site. We have just published an article about electromagnetism. It has been the most demanding enterprise yet. It has taken a whole year of research and development to get to the point where it is ready to publish but is finally ready to share. |
| 2024-5 GOAL THREE: Build a community of citizens |
| In educational terms, an effective community enables its members to set goals, develop key competencies and realize their full personal and social potential.
We hope that everyone who uses our site recognizes that they are valued members of the lightcolourvision.org community. We see the idea of citizenship not as a static concept but as part of the process of growing an online community through a step-by-step process. But in reality it is a challenging aspiration. Around 40,000 people a year visit the site, find what they need and move on leaving no trace. Even feedback is very rare. However the aspiration remains a crucial focus. |
OUR AUDIENCE
Who is it lightcolourvision.org for?
Students
Lightcolourvision.org aims to enable students involved in their own lines of inquiry – writing essays, developing presentations, preparing resources or creating artwork. Others may use the site to check facts or to improve their understanding of the topics we cover.
Educators
The site aims to resource teachers and educators who need to access resources that enable them to engage students with the topics we cover.
Our articles, for example, aim to provide consistently argued overviews of topics that, draw on families of concepts and terms and are supported by a knowledge-base of definitions, explanations and additional information.
Our diagrams aim to provide an engaging and informative visual counterpoint to discussion within each topic.
Researchers of all ages
Our own academic, professional and personal research underpins the website. Our interests span the visual arts, the philosophy of design, visual arts education and curriculum development. We see lightcolourvision.org as a beacon for discussion of contemporary issues in a shadowed world.
We recognise that the needs of these three interest groups differ. With this in mind, the site targets a general readership first. As a result, content is organised so that the most accessible information is presented first, followed by additional content and links to further resources. Terms and concepts follow the same pattern, meaning that new vocabulary is introduced step by step and point by point.
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The relevance of content to different types of users
CURRENT FEATURES
A list of current features and links to examples
| Features | Details | Examples |
| Images | Library of images in the form of diagrams and slides supported by full-page explanations | Example |
| Articles | Library of illustrated articles exploring light, colour, vision and how to see more | Example |
| References | Reference library of key terms used across the site including definition, explanation and bullet points | Example |
| Q&A’s | Pop-up general-knowledge Q&A’s with in-text links to the reference library | Example |
| In-line links | Functionality that highlights keywords and links to the reference library | Example |
| Bibliography | In-line citations and footnotes are used throughout the site and link to the bibliography. | |
| Free downloads | Functionality to download images and articles in formats suited to a range of different uses | Example |
| Citizenship | Functionality to enable and encourage user involvement |
Table showing the existing features of lightcolourvision.org
FUNDRAISING AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Lightcolourvision.org operates under the auspices of MediaStudies Trust, an incorporated society registered as a Charitable Trust in New Zealand. The financial management of lightcolourvision.org, including all forms of fundraising and financial accountability, is the responsibility of the trust.
All funding campaign for lightcolourvision.org are intended to encourage support, involvement and collaboration in the project and help fund project development.
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Lightcolourvision.org is a non-profit project operating under the auspices of MediaStudies Trust, an incorporated society registered as a charitable trust in New Zealand