Helms/LeNoir 1 Roy Helms, Joseph LeNoir Professor Lynn Raymond UWRT 1102-£01 9 March 2015 Semester-Long Project Proposal ntroduction: Our idea for the semester-long project is to focus on how new technology and social media impaet society today. These impacts are both good and bad, so we will discuss both the positive and negative impacts. We may,also go in depth ancl explain the possibilities of the future, Some specifies will include’ the impact of texting, the use of social media, and the development of communication devices such as smartphones. We plan to appséach this project so that we can inform our audience about how / technology is changing our world. This topic is relatable to ourselves as well as our audience / because wells ein a changing world. The development of social media impacts how people behave in the world, We use it for multiple things nowadays and we continue to make these types of communication bigger and better everyday. Connecting with others is one of the most. important things to people. We plan on researching these changes and presenting our findings. project Pla: GUE a OP oy i cn yee Pht t ADV HG eee : With Microsoft PowerPoint, we will present our findings as well as our personal opinions about this topic, Research included in this project may include the different types of communication available throughout the world and how they are used, Other research willHelms/LeNoir 2 include the positive and negative impacts that these technologies and forms of communication have on the world. Justification: This is a very relatable topic to just about everyone in the world today. All of our audience probably has a cell phone and have used text messaging at some point. The large majority of our audience probably uses some form of social media to “interact” with other people. This is why we want to show how they can possibly change theit ways of using it and show what good can come of using it. Our hope is that the audience will be inspired by our presentation to actually use social media for what it was designed for. We also would like to know of these things ourselves so we hope that this will be appealing to our audience as well as ourselves. Roles and Responsibi Division of work will be equal work between the two people, and each person will contribute the same amount of work. We plan to divide the workload based on the level of our interest in specific categories. Also, if one person already has some knowledge about specific, information, it may be easier if they research that topic further for more information, During the presentation, we will divide the slides and time equally and each person will present the slides they have ereated. Although each will present their own slides, both partners will know what each other are going to talk about so that one is not be completely blind to the other half of the presentation, By doing this, the workload should be distributed evenly.Time! March 9: Submit Proposal March 23: In-Class Work March 29: Find All Sources March 30; In-Class Work April 12: Finish Semester-Long Project April 13: Peer Review Semester-Long April 14-26: Practice April 15-27: Presentations Helms/LeNoir 3