When I began this Master’s program, I was not entirely sure what the focus of my project would be, and even less sure about my audience. As I progressed through the program, my interests and knowledge changed. The more I learned, the more I changed my driving question, and so too my audience.
Early on, I had envisioned creating a product that could be equally advantageous and accessible to teachers and students alike. I loved the idea of a website that was pedagogically beneficial to educators, while be accessible enough that my own students could navigate and enjoy. Unfortunately, as my project has moved from theory to reality, I have come to the conclusion that my audience will be much more narrow than anticipated. My capstone project focuses on the strategic leveraging of technology as a means of facilitating and more so, enhancing, student collaboration in order to develop critical their thinking skills. While I find this topic highly fascinating, I must be honest with myself and question how well students would approach such a topic. I do see the irony that students collaborate digitally everyday, but I am unsure of my ability at this time to communicate my research and ideas in student friendly language. I am actually more comfortable with an all teacher audience. I think in order to be interested in what I will be discussing, one would need not only some background knowledge on the topic, but a potential application as well. My goal for my capstone project is that teachers will be able to visit my sight, consider my findings, and apply them with their own students. In that sense, it is as if their students are still benefiting from my project, without needing to visit my site for themselves. I honestly expect that the majority of my audience will consist of educators who are pursuing Master’s degrees of their own. Which brings me to my Learn More pages. I think in order to provide my audience with sufficient background information, I will include information ranging from relevant definitions to resources that they can visit for themselves.
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