Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Drive-Ride and Walk

The Drive-Ride and Walk Portfolio Exchange is an opportunity for college students to work as a team to analyze and interpret information, think critically, create content, and communicate effectively.

The next session will begin the week of September 12. The group meets 1-2 hours per week (in person or electronically) to explore topics and develop transportation safety programming. The volunteer work experience puts into practice ideas about group collaboration and implementation of projects.

Fall 2011 (9 weeks)
Sept 12 - Nov 10 (1-2 hr/wk)
Topics: Distracted and Drowsy Driving
Objectives:
Program Team (all majors)
1. Examine credible/current online traffic safety information.
2. Identify missing conversations.
3. Work with Google docs to create narrative.
4. Develop safety messages.
5. Create online video and graphics.
6. Report on 9 week experience.

To join a media team, please email getagrip@iastate.edu for details.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Three seconds

What are we investing all this time in? All these hours, all this discussion, the money, the colors of the T-shirt, the design, the minutes and hours of conversation at the table in August.

What do we hope to get out of it? Do we expect immediate change? A drastic moral flip? Do we want the alcohol chugging college kids to immediately become saints and join a nunnery?

Well... It would be nice. To see immediate and severe change, drastically affecting the outcome of the generations.

But this is not what we hope for.

We hope we will buy you three seconds. Three seconds to think. To pause. To breathe.

Three seconds to consider.

Consider the possibilities.
Consider the consequences.
Consider the lives that might be affected by a singular choice.

So, all this time. All this discussion. All this investment. If it buys three seconds, in just one life, it will be worth it.