Why Technology for Social Change?

What will technology afford this project that other mediums will not?

I think using computers and specifically the web tools of a web site and a blog offer the following affodances:

• The ability to hyperlink text and ideas.
• Being able to present information with video and audio so that it is not solely text based and appeals to multiple intelligences and learning styles.
• For the use of the blog, it will a way to involve the parents intellectually in our social justice project, with relative ease of use.
• To have an online source of information from which to draw - easily accessible to faculty, students and parents.
• Blogs will be easy to update and post information quickly.

Why use Technology for Social Change?

Specifically, I think the technology of blogs present an opportunity for a democracy of ideas. I think blogs could possibly be used to bring about social change and this project will be an attempt to explore whether this is a valid supposition of not.

The Web Site will give all those involved a chance to look at relevant information concerning social jsutice and some common ground.