This may prove to be the death of me but I’m going to do it. I’m working on two projects for the term… That is at least until Pam tells me “Absolutely not, crazy lady!!”
Project 1: Bridging the Gap
This piece is centered around that ever-so obvious technology gap that seems to be growing and in many instances keeping families apart. Theres too much technology and too many new ways of communicating, yet it doesn’t seem as though too many people have said “Stop,” and took a second to think about the people being left in the dust either due to lack of resources or just plain inability to keep up with the ever evolving ways of communicating in a new media driven world–many of these individuals being our elderlies. People with real stories and lifes needing to be shared with people who seem to have forgotten as they fade into a digital fast-track.
Our group plans to tackle this issue by speaking to senior citizens in a retirement/nursing home who have lost touch with their family and friends and attempt to give them the tools to reconnect with important individuals in their lives where communication has deteriorated. We will be documenting their experience with email, facebook, or any other social media site that would prove to be beneficial in bridging the gap.
Certainly what is key to this project is not only these individuals’ new found ability to navigate themselves through the internet at a novice level, but the real hope that there is someone there on the recieving end to return the email, the comment, the status udate, perhaps even the “poke.”
I’m very excited about this project because of how much I know I’m going to get out of it other than just a grade.
