Collaborative Group Project

For our final project, we are doing a collaborative group project with a Graphic Design class. Our group has decided to focus on the LGBTQ* community on the SUNY New Paltz campus, and the events and resources present to build a stronger sense of community, a sense of awareness and to educate people about this specific community.

We started by dividing the roles in the group:

Project Manager- Nicole

Content Producer- Dan

User Experience - Rachel

Researcher- Lilli

Then, we answered 3 basic questions that professors wanted us to focus on:

1. Inquiry:

• There is not enough awareness for the LGBQT* community.

2. Audience:

• Members of the  LGBQT* community, and those who are interested to learn about this community.

3. Outcome:

• Bring people together and offer a comfortable environment

We are creating an App that is based around a SUNY New Paltz campus map. This map will show different buildings on campus and the different events and resources that are located within them. For example, different resources include Gender Neutral housing and bathrooms in the Residence Halls, Oasis Haven, The Heath and Counseling Center, different majors and minors, such as Women's Gender and Sexuality and more. One of the major events that educate and support this community is TRANSaction which occurs once a year and is put on by Residence life.

I am very excited about this project, and we have received a lot of positive feedback as well!

Being the "mayor of New Paltz", I am a very sociable and friendly person and I was easily able to send out the survey to many friends here at SUNY New Paltz. We received great feedback that we will be able to use in our studies for this project.
 Some feedback we received included some topics that people wanted to see on this campus:

support groups

events on and off campus

appropriate terms

the acronyms

HIV testing

pride events

bringing awareness

micro-aggressions by straight people

activist movements

I will post next week to show some images and the progress we made! I am to post pictures of the graphics and designs, storyboards, etc.

Have a great weekend!