Month: January 2017

Second Stage of Planning

After speaking with a member of Student Wellbeing at the University of Lincoln and proposing my idea of an online counsellor “forum” that enabled students to talk about and potential receive help/advice for their mental health problems, I decided that I was no longer going to peruse this idea. My main reason for this is due to the fact that many counsellors would not feel comfortable talking to a student on an online platform and would much prefer talking face to face where they can see their emotions and really capture the depth of the students mental health issues.

I decided to start again and begin planning another idea. Here are my thought process displayed as a diagram.

One idea that I thought about initially, (before the mental health idea) was to create a product that would help with translating languages. However, I realised that there is already a very good product on the market called The Pilot.

First Stage of Planning

The first week was all about developing ideas, I used Padlet to create an interactive mood board in order to brainstorm. I used the themes from the European Youth Award to inspire ideas. I looked further into topics such as Mental Health, Language and Animal Welfare. These are all topics that I am passionate about. I thought about considering making a digital media product in relation to language barriers but there are so many Apps and Websites already out there, some of which work really well. Also, there is a new piece of technology that has been created to resolve this problem, it’s an ear piece that translates any foreign language into a language you can understand.

Chosen Category

I have chosen to base my proposal on the topic of Mental Health.

The charity Mind have created an App for students called Emoodji which helps students to cope with the struggles of student life by enabling them to track their mood and expressing how they are feeling.