Design Plan

Statement of Purpose: I am a student who's hometown is only about an hour and a half away. I am also the first in my immediate family to attend college. Through this situation I have come to realize that there is a lack of knowledge and understanding in parents and family who are experiencing college life for the first time through their children. There is an absence of access, which leads to an absence of literacy, which leads to misunderstanding. I feel that there is an exigence for education and literacy of these families. As I am very familiar with this situation, I would like to share selected parts of my college experience in order to educate and inform.

Description: 

Medium: I would like to share my ideas and stories via a separate blog. I will be creating a  new blog using a blogging service I am somewhat familiar with, blogger.com.

Audience: My primary audience will be the students in my HU2642 - Introduction to Digital Media class. They will be viewing my presentation in the morning in the summertime. Other major audiences will be parents who have not attended college, prospective college students, Michigan Tech students and faculty, friends, and possibly my family.

Production Strategies: I hope this blog will allow me to be opinionated on specific topics related to its purpose. I would like to detail events, stories, and thoughts from my 4 years at MTU. A few major prospective topics which come to mind include: Orientation, Fraternity Life, work load, Graduation/Commencement, career search. I hope that this blog isn't viewed as an insult to my parents or means for me to vent frustration. It will be a challenge to make sure it doesn't turn into something of this nature. I hope that my points will focus on the fact that while my parents were inexperienced, so was I. While others had parents to compare and contrast experiences to, I didn't. Because I had access to this lifestyle the literacy gap grew quickly.


Arrangement: Unless a brilliant idea comes to mind while producing this blog, I don't really think there is need for special arrangement. If I am able to post enough on specific topics I may be able to arrange topics into groups for organization purposes.

Testing: I will share my project with some of my peers in order to gain prospective. I will be showing my blog to some of my friends, roommates, and possibly a couple fellow classmates before I give my presentation and make my blog public.