Texas Tech University offers a program called MentorTech. The artifact is designed to help only freshmen become acquainted with Texas Tech and Lubbock. It provides freshmen with a mentor to help them navigate over "barriers" in Lubbock and on Campus. Mentor Tech's website incorporated video, personal stories and music which made it appealing. The website was easy to navigate, user friendly and involved only two clicks to get to the information needed.
- It is designed to give a brief overview of the program and start the process of becoming a protege with an application/fact sheet that is quick and easy to fill out. The application for a protegee is very specific and asks many questions in an effort to find the right mentor for each freshmen.
- I discovered the artifact after typing freshmen helps on the Texas Tech homepage
- I think the artifact did its job. It conveys the message to freshmen that there is a support network available to help them and by the specificity of the 'protegee fact sheet' shows that they understand the diversity in students and their desire for a mentor with similar qualities.
- For the average freshmen I don't think this is very important. It seems like a big brother big sister program with the mentors helping them personally with college life and tips to succeed at college. It seems like this would only reach students that are overwhelmed with a university and have not had much guidance for academic success. But for those students I give it a 8 and for the average freshmen I give it a 3.
- This artifact for freshmen can be found at the Center For Campus Life's website, First Year Experience.
- The artifact attempts to simply be a map for students who are looking for their resources. The website only offers links to other websites as well as letting freshmen know about the freshmen camps before the semester begins.
- It does accomplish its objective, it is limited in scope seems to be more focused on the camps for freshmen prior to coming to Tech.
- There are many ways to improve this artifact. For example it offers for drop boxes with these metaphorical names like changing lanes and then only gives you about fifteen links to click on. It does not tell you what changing lanes encompasses or what links you will find under this drop box. It is this non-specific for all the drop boxes which are the only actual resources on this website. I did not entertain the websites because they just gave me links to like admissions, the rec etc... It also offered 20 things a red raider should do. These twenty things encouraged them more along the lines of school spirit and pride.
- I give this artifact a 4 of importance only because the camps are probably a good resource for the freshmen and it helps them get signed up.
- I found this artifact on the advising centers website. It was found on the their homepage under the link 'Your first two years'. The Is1oo0 link was easy to find only because I knew what it was from previous exposure.
- The Is 11oo website attempts to encourage freshmen to take the small course by relaying statistics that show success by other students who have taken the class. The homepage is easy to use and appealing both positive qualities needed to hold a freshman's attention. It also serves as a resource for the course and gives links to finding critical things needed for basic survival at Tech like; e-raider, webct, it help and library information. These sites are visited daily by Tech students. I really think it is good that it does not go into the discourse on being a good red raider, 'Raider Power'.
- The site accomplishes it's goal it lets freshman know about the class and how it helps success. It is thorough and some freshmen may be turned off by it but I think it is better to have to much information rather than not enough.
- I think it could be improved by more practical statistics that freshman are interested in, i.e. money after college. Give some facts about how much college grads with G.P.A's of 3.5 make compared to grads with a 2.1. I would like to see our list of Freshman Killers also as a source on this website as well as others. The name alone is captivating and makes me want to look at it to see what it is entails.
- I give this site an 8 it is very helpful, user friendly but I'm not sure of how knowledgeable freshman are about it and its where-abouts.
- I found this link on the admissions website. http://www.admissions.ttu.edu/
- The website serves as a informational guideline for administrative needs. The t's and i's that need to be crossed and dotted after being accepted at Tech. There is a link that takes the students to a Freshmen Checklist with direct them quickly and easily fulfill the requirements needed. It also suggests the Raider Camp for them and links them to that site.
- The artifact could be enhanced by linking them to mentor tech, Is 11oo, PEGASUS and other like minded programs for the freshmen.
- The artiact accomplishes what it is sets out to do. It is dealing with administrative issues and covers those only.
- I give it an 6 for lack of awareness. This is the one artifact that is poised to reach the widest range of freshmen and fails to do so by not meeting any other needs they might have. It woul be good for our website Freshmen Killers to be linked to this. Our website, http://www.freshman killers.ttu.edu/ will have all this and the other links as well as our enhancements that we discover in the class.
- Artifact#5 under construction
3 comments:
I like your evaluation of the IS1100 site. Moreover, I think you were a bit modest in your importance level rating. I would think this topic is exceptionally important to freshman. In addition, it would be interesting to examine the value and/or probability of making this a required course for ALL entry level Red Raiders. Don't you find it interesting how there is no intro to English course? Every other major at Tech seems to have an entry level intro course whereas the English department settles for simply ENGL 1301 and 1302.....weird...
I had heard about the FRYE site also. I think it might be good for freshman bc it has plenty of helpful information.
Very good ideas here about Mentor Tech. If you don't mind, I'm going to put you in contact with a student from another class who is working on this site.
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