Assignment 3

As you already know Information Technology is my major so for this blog assignment I have looked at some of other University's IT department's brochure to see have they handle recruiting people into their program. My first stop is Ole Miss's Information Technology department's brochure.

http://www.cs.olemiss.edu/

This is a very well planed brochure. This website has links to course outlines and degree plans. It also gives an explanation of the whole department's purpose complete with a welcome letter and teacher description. It is not much to look at, but it gives a very good description of Ole Miss' IT program.

Now every nerd dreams of going to MIT, so I thought it would be cool to look up their IT program there. Apparently they don't have a specific IT department online brochure. The closest I could find is the whole School of Computer science website:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-00Fall-2008/CourseHome/index.htm
It is a cool site that offers the option to view online lectures. However it is disappointing that I could not find a IT department website that was not an from the actual IT department that deals with MIT's on site network. And of course USM's IT department's website is just like Ole Miss', not much to look at but gets the job done. http://www.itc.usm.edu/online/

The worst site I came across was the UTEP IT department's IT page.
http://www.cs.utep.edu/grad/mit/
This is just sad, it is a welcome statement and a print of of two documents and the link to the old web site that use to be run by another department. This website has all the information that a future student needs. It is just sad that the new department doesn't update the site to fit their needs.

The remaining part of this blog entry will focus on the answering of the Defining Your Communication’s Objectives document.

If I had to write a brochure for USM's IT department I would write a brief description of our department and provide certification that one would be able to obtain once complete with our program. What prompts me to write is the face that I would like more students to bring their attention to the IT field and the opportunity it offers. The desired outcome is that potential students would call and inquire information about our program here a Southern Miss. The outcome the our reader would most likey desire is that he/she is provide enough information about our program to make a decision. Our primary readers are potential college students. The relationship would be one of a teacher student one. We must assume that our readers are not very familiar with our program and we must provide as much information to that reader without overwhelming them.

I have learned a lot from this assignment. I learned that one must provide just the right amount of information. You must provide enough so the reader can make a decision based on the information, but not too much that the reader is overwhelmed by it, or just doesn't read it at all.