Group Final

Project Overview

Our group formed because we were interested in helping families gain digital literacy and see digital culture in a positive light. We also wanted to help unify families by helping to bridge the gap between children and parents. We set out to accomplish this by holding a fireside for parents, but because of scheduling difficulties we ended up doing webinars for our families and putting a YouTube playlist together. Here is a link to a Prezi we made that goes more in detail: http://prezi.com/ipylfn4efmvt/the-story-of-digital-sweet-home/

Digital Civics

One aspect of our project was to help parents learn how to use modern technologies and websites such as Facebook and Twitter. Part of the reason we did this was to help parents see digital culture in a positive light, but another was to help parents learn how to help their children. We recommended that parents teach their children how to interact and be a good citizen online.

Beta

We were planning a big event at the end of the semester, but Dr. Burton encouraged us to do more of a preliminary event. He helped us realize that we needed to do "beta testing" of our product early, and follow the "release early release often" model instead of waiting for a finished product. We did multiple webinars, starting with only our group and expanding to do a webinar with our families.

Social Capital

We viewed ourselves as a bridge between parents and their children because we were teenagers recently and grew up with the digital age. We wanted to portray digital media in a positive light, which means we give a lot of stock to online currency (not using credit cards to pay for things online). In a way, we were helping to teach others to give credence to online social currency.