Monday, January 24, 2011

Student Profiles: How will we do this?

We've all agreed that we want to include student profiles on the website. These would add a human presence, introduce a sense of community, and help make students aware of the good people (good examples, really) that surround them.

The question is: How will we do this? We need to have a specific, rigid approach as we set these up. How would you do it? In the conversations we've had on this topic we've talked a lot about different categories or questions that could serve to create a format for each profile. "Why are you in Honors?" Or, "What are your plans for the future?" I want to make sure that this feature of our website is encouraging to other people and helps them believe in themselves and feel like Honors is a great thing to be a part of; I don't want it to be a forum for anything less. And I don't think it will be.

Here are some examples of profiles. What do you think? What should be our object and how can we accomplish it? Please comment!

http://mormon.org/
http://www.spu.edu/depts/ugadm/etc/my-world-gallery.asp
https://law.vanderbilt.edu/vulslogin.aspx?ReturnURL=/virtual-vuls/index.aspx

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