One Down, Two to Go

If I thought coming up with an idea for Artifact 1 was difficult, I hit a brick wall for Artifact #2. I know that I want something with a little more writing than my Prezi, but not as much straight writing as my third artifact. I really liked the idea of a brochure, but I'm not exactly sure what information I would want to put on that. I think I'm going to take a more scientific approach to this artifact. I want to look at how the scientists are saying that social networking is affecting our society. I think the brochure would be a great way to break up the larger chunks of information into readable and interesting sections. I'm leaning more towards creating more than one brochure. Possibly one aimed at school counselors and one aimed at their students. The one aimed towards counselors could have more of a technical feel because the counselors would be more education in that specific field. The second brochure will need to be interesting enough to engage a high school teenager and inform them of what social networking is doing. I’ve thought about briefly mentioning the fairly new idea of being addicted to the internet or video games as well as the new type of arthritis that is nicknamed Gamer’s Thumb. Doing this would inform the student that the decisions they are making now could ultimately affect the way they live in the future. The goal of the brochures won’t be to encourage students to delete their Facebook accounts, but more to monitor how much they are using these services.