This week I caught up on everything I needed to do last week with the Marketing Plan. Kayla gave me some really good and encouraging notes on my original draft, so I used all of them to put together the final plan. There were a lot of parts where I needed to elaborate on certain ideas and descriptions, and Kayla helped with some of those paragraphs as well. It’s coming together really nice now and is a lot more detailed than the original plan PRINT was using. There are still some things I want to add, like graphics and a list of our collaborators. While the plan is for the 2024-2025 year, I want it to be usable for us going forward with minor changes as needed! Kayla and I are going to find a time to meet with Dr. Beiler next week so we can discuss the plan and where to go from there.
This week I also got the opportunity to attend the presentation PRINT did for LIFE at UCF! My final project for this semester is a news article for PRINT and the CAH, and Dr. Beiler suggested that I write about this presentation. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the crowd was FULL! It was really cool to see.
LIFE is an organization at UCF that invites elders to participate in educational and cultural activities, as well as assist with student research. Prior to attending the event, I wasn’t sure how I would be able to turn it into an article, but throughout the event I realized that a lot of the LIFE leads advertised their upcoming activities, especially those involving technology, as a way to foster conversations with kids and grandkids. It got me thinking about how the study of history in general is typically found boring among younger generations, but younger generations are interested in technology. PRINT, being a digital humanities project, takes these two things and puts them together in a really interesting way that might appeal to both groups and help in advancing both subjects simultaneously. Additionally, since PRINT researches networks of Immigration, it would also be a good way to connect elders with their kids and grandkids as a lot of them might have a personal or family history with immigration themselves. I am excited to see where this article goes, although since I was taking notes and photos during the presentation I will definitely have to go back and revise my first draft since I know that as of right now it is just a mess of ideas lol!
-Kelsey R.
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