Journal 4

For class today, we had to split off into pairs and present our capstone to someone who knew nothing about it, in the hopes that we could see if there were any problems with our presentations, or if we were in a group capstone, if there were different views on what the capstone should be.  I am in the latter example, working together with two other people in the class and so I'm interested in seeing just how different my description of the capstone was compared to Cabana's and Alec's description. 

I got partnered with Deandra Williams and her explanation of the capstone was rather succinct, this was due in part to the fact that she didn't really have a solid idea of what her capstone would be, but what she did know she explained rather well.

She is planning to work together with some, as of yet undecided, non for profit organization and she wants to incorporate media arts and science with them in order to make them more accessible.  She received inspiration from Steven Manmheimer's Museums and Media class, in which they tour various museums around Indianapolis in an attempt to see which are using media, which aren't, and to come up with ways for them to better utilize it.  After studying two different museums, she realized that many of these places are severely under utilizing information technology and could greatly benefit from it.  

That was about as in depth as she got into her concept since she still has many unknown variables, but she did say that her target audience would be the youth, from college age to about four to five years old, because she wants to involve the younger generation with these great non for profit organizations and she feels that media information technology would be the easiest way to do that with a generation that has been raised on the internet.