Website to come!!!

For my English 417 project I intend on creating a Website that caters to both the class, as well as my major (History). Much of the idea actually came to me when posting my first blog, and wanting to talk about history to somebody, anybody, that would listen.

Its going to be basic, with the emphasis on a topic board including a new subject on a bi-weekly basis. Users will be able to sign in, so they can be recognized. I intend on gathering a large group of people including undergraduate students at Ferris State University as well as faculty members and some graduate students I know. Each topic will be able to be discussed in depth, and I'd like to have something like a "drop-box" of topic ideas for the following weeks discussion. Everything is still in the planning stages right now. I hope to have it running in no more than another week or two.

-Luke!

How it could be...

I do not come from a typical writing or journalist background; I am not interested much in some of the necessary components required for many other writing students, but what I do enjoy is research. Researching a topic or an event in history, allows me a decent amount of freedom when writing about the said topic, as well as providing me with a knowledge about something that I may have previously not known much about. It is learning along with loving.

Creating this blog may allow me to explore how other people feel about researching, rather than rigid topic specifications without much room for the writer (student) to fully explore. By writing on a blog sight, it allows readers from all over the world to read what I have to say. Fifty years ago this would be unheard of with the aid of computers in today’s society. 100 years ago we were struggling to find a means of communication through audio. And only 150 years ago, what students are doing right now with this blog would have been the extreme fairytale, with unheard of imagination. Technology has been the past, and it will be the future. What should we expect in another fifty years?

-Luke