An Australian first anti-cyberbullying platform

PROJECT ROCKIT Online is an immersive, online learning platform that encourages self-reflection while unpacking bullying, cyberbullying and social leadership, teaching school children effective techniques to deal with toxic culture online and off.
 
At Agency SC, I worked with Project Rockit to create a range of interactive, multimedia, online workshops, that could be delivered using a low-end PC or iPad. The workshop platform also provides lesson plans, tips, and live online reporting to teachers, allowing them to support students and integrate the lessons into their curriculum.
 
In consultation with the students, I developed the UX approach, planning ways to encourage students to get involved and learn through gamified activities that would deliver high-quality educational outcomes, while still being genuinely fun. The workshops feature interactive exercises to build practical skills to deal with bullying (including Project Rockit’s own faux social media platform for students to practice on), and the story is told through a variety of animation, interaction, sound and video.
 
Alongside educational advisors, I created low-fi storyboards and wireframes to explore and test the the experience, and created plans for animation, interactions, and video content, collaborating closely with our dev team to make sure everything we proposed could be implemented. I worked to make sure students felt as though they had freedom within the platform to explore the content, without missing anything important – and had a great time hiding fun “easter eggs” through the workshops for students to stumble on, encouraging a sense of delight at exploration.
 
I worked alongside students to co-design the workshops’ visual and UI style, to make sure it felt really relevant and cool to them, without being patronising. I then worked with young illustrators to develop imagery and animations for the workshops, to really make it an experience by young people, for young people.
 
And after the workshops, 96% of young people said they felt more empowered to challenge bullying.
 
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