Yep! That's right!
I went to Office Hours last week and realized I was wasting mine (and our prof's) time by writing about something that I didn't really care about. Therefore, we talked it over and I will now be writing about the organization To Write Love On Her Arms. (TWLOHA)
Below is TWLOHA's mission statement, because I honestly cannot say it better myself.
To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.
Additionally, instead of writing a paper, I am going to create a website about my topic and how it relates to the idea of community. TWLOHA started off as a myspace page. It was an online community for others to seek refuge and help those who were suffering, no matter how far away they were. The very idea that people can be so close emotionally no matter how physically far away they are is an incredibly inspiring one.
I will post information, pictures I've taken, as well as sound bytes of interviews I've conducted concerning the topic. Also, I plan on using ways of expressing information visually that I have learned in my visual communication class such as: mind maps on bubbl.com, google maps, google charts, youtube videos, and many other forms of media.
I am VERY, VERY excited about these new ideas because they directly correlate with my journalism major.
At this point, I am unsure as to which website I will use to create my website. I conversed with my JRN 200 professor about the topic, but since he is an older man, if you will, he did not have much to say about the website part, (he barely knows how to work youtube) but did give me helpful interview tips. I have my JRN 203 class tomorrow at 4:10 where I plan to talk with my amazing professor, Karl Gude. He knows everything internet, everything visual, everything media and more. I am very excited for the ideas that we may come up with together!!!
Your topic sounds really exciting!! I was going to be a journalism major when I started college but my heart wasn't in it. I've found that a lot of what you learn in journalism can be applied elsewhere though, which is really nice in cases like writing a research paper. Make sure to post the link on your blog, I would love to check the website out once you have it up and running!
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