Final Proposal
“KIMEP Student Resources – on and off campus”
Goal: To collect journalists work and assemble an online portfolio. These works would be our articles, photos, etc. which we are making during our study in journalism program and stories, which would be written about everyday life in Almaty especially for this course.
Off campus – It will consist of entertainment for KIMEP students – online webblogs of students life and cinema schedules, events and other entertainment means.
On campus – to present KIMEP Students with more news faster and probably help student organizations by covering them more in detail. Add new items like polls, comments and a more interactive forum too. Discuss KIMEP problems more openly. Online news briefs on a weekly basis.
The audience is going to be KIMEP Students. Also, our future employees, partners, students who want to join journalism program in KIMEP, teachers of other departments of the university and everyone who have interests in this field.
Regarding the information preferences there will be two main sections in this website Content: Our site will be divided into two sections.
Off campus, where articles on the issues about everyday life in Almaty and KIMEP. We also will post works that we made for other journalism courses if we decide would be interesting for our audiences and those works would represent the level of KIMEP’s journalism program. We will have links to other relevant sites that we find interesting and useful for the purpose of our site.
On campus, KIMEP Times articles. News briefs on organizations. News updates from different departments in KIMEP including office of register. Interactive forum where you can have a voice.
Mission: We are looking forward to improve our writing and reporting skills by working in a group of journalism students. We will learn a lot through reading each other’s works. We will inform students, citizens and foreigners about what is happening in Almaty and KIMEP. We are looking forward to get lots of feedbacks from our readers. Design: We will make it clear and not complicated and not cluttered with too much information and pictures. For background we will use white color, which is said to be the best for this purpose.
The milestones for this particular website will be:For the Web site launch:
- A whole issue of KIMEP Times.
- Comments and Guestbook.
- Student organizations pages.
- A discussion board – in a forum like manner.
- Number of hits tracking system.
- Entertainment guide for students off campus
- Articles about students off campus
- Pictures of students on and off campus
- Small video clips about students life
- Education abroad opportunities
- Information about Language programs in Almaty
After launching this website we hope to have:
- Regular news updates on student organizations and different departments of KIMEP
- Advertisements with job offers
- Education abroad program links
- Link to Student Government Forum
- Calendar of events ongoing in KIMEP
- Tourism sites
- Educational programs abroad – work and travel
DOs:
Make it simple and attractive
Easy to read and browse
Catchy photos and cartoons
User friendly
DONTs
Add too many things to click
Overload pages with too much data
Confuse the audience with the structure
Add pop-up advertisements
Make advertisements stand in the way and annoy the readers
Copy other – be unique!
Add very big audio files and big pictures – always reduce the size.
We hope we will learn a lot and have fun with this project.
Madina Islamova
Mina Kim
Alina Palakina
Sasha Shegay
Denis Zhukov
Noor Alkhamees
This is a very nice proposal. I have a few suggestions for next steps:
-Do some site reviews with this particular project in mind. Look at a few sites that do something similar to what you envision to see what they do well (and not so well) and how you might adapt (or adapt away from) their example.
-Start putting together a visual site map to help with organization. It may help to create a quick site map of one of the example sites mentioned above as a model.
-Start trying to visualize your project in terms of tasks, dates, and responsibilities: what needs to get done, when, and by whom? Given the complexity and number of participants in your project, you may want to try Basecamp as a project management tool (http://www.basecamphq.com/), but you will definitely need something to structure your work processes.
-And think about your site identity. What will you call your site? And what do you think would be a good URL to use?
Just a few thoughts for now; there will be more.