As part of a degree project, four female students chose to concentrate on the animal world - and created dedicated websites on the web of great importance.
Get two successful projects that might help you, and surely help the animals.
"My Dog and I" Project
The "My Dog I Am" website was developed in collaboration with the "Animal Welfare Association in Israel" and aims to help reduce the phenomenon of returning dogs to various associations and organizations after their adoption.
The site contains information that can help efforts in making the right decisions, from what it takes to raise a dog to dealing with difficulties and problems in daily life.
The site is intended for ages 18 and up, with a basic digital orientation - and can be browsed via computer or mobile.
The aim is to provide the efforts with the information they need in one organized place, and to give them an understanding of how to raise the dog and hence to reduce the return of dogs to the various associations.
The "My Dog and I" project, Photo: HIT Holon Institute of Technology
The site has six general categories, each of which has between two and four sub-categories that contain a lot of comprehensive content about everything that efforts need to know - how to choose a type of food?
What does the dog's adaptation period include and what does it involve?
How do you deal with behavior problems?
What medical treatments do dogs need to undergo?
And more.
In addition, there is information on different breeds of dogs, the difference between a purebred and mixed breed dog and on the dog selection process and all the different stages of the adoption day.
The creators of the project, Stav Librovsky and Sarit Zacharov: "As of 2018, in the State of Israel there are about half a million dogs growing up in homes. Every year about 700 dogs are adopted. Every year about 30,000 dogs are abandoned. So why are so many dogs abandoned? Change this? The main reason is that there is no support and accompaniment for the efforts and there is a lack of organized information about raising dogs, what does it involve, and how do you deal with problems and difficulties? This is exactly why we created the site: 'My Dog and I'. How to choose the right food for your dog, what medical treatments should be performed, how long the adjustment period takes, to explanations about dog training or needs education. How do you reduce costs and expenses?
The project was developed under the guidance of Yanai Zaguri as part of a final project in the degree of learning technologies at HIT Holon Institute of Technology. link to a website.
BUDDY project
BUDDY is a website created in collaboration with the "Israeli Center for Guide Dogs" in order to accompany the foster families in the process of raising and training the puppy.
The site was developed with the aim of transferring professional knowledge in an efficient and correct manner to foster families in order to provide inquiries to the organization.
The site is intended for foster families, mostly students and young families aged 45-25 with varying canine experience who adopt the puppies for a short period of up to a year.
The site is divided into four internal pages: "Profile", "Everything in a click", "Only health" and "Useful".
Most of the site contains content and information related to various topics when raising foster puppies.
The site also contains ten procedural instructional videos created in collaboration with the center's instructors in order to make the displayed content accessible to foster families.
BUDDY project, Photo: HIT Holon Institute of Technology
Creators of the project: "The Israeli Center for Guide Dogs is a non-profit organization that was established about 25 years ago and aims to meet the need of thousands of blind and visually impaired people in Israel to improve their lives by a guide dog.
As part of the center's activities, more than 600 pairs of visually impaired people and guide dogs have been created to accompany them in their daily lives. "
According to them, "At the age of eight weeks, the puppies are given to foster families who provide a warm and loving home for the first year of their lives. "Most foster families are unsure of themselves and will turn first to the coaches when they encounter situations that are unfamiliar to them."
They added that "BUDDY is a dedicated mobile site that is a supportive and accompanying environment that includes the existing content divided into four topics: required progress across the puppy age axis, practice discipline and ongoing growth, medical questions and useful information. In addition we created 10 instructional videos "A proper understanding of basic procedures is required during puppy training. BUDDY is your friend in the foster care process."
The project was developed under the guidance of Nohar Raz Fogel as part of a final project in the degree of learning technologies at HIT Holon Institute of Technology.
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Yanai Zaguri, final projects coordinator, head of the training development cluster and lecturer in the Faculty of Learning Technologies:
"This year's final projects dealt with a very interesting range of solutions, organizations and products. "Growing organizations create digital learning processes that can be consumed remotely, while still producing a meaningful user experience."
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