Showing posts with label asu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label asu. Show all posts

Monday, June 21, 2010

How to make Big Colleges feel small

Around the country, most of the big colleges like ASU, Ohio State, Florida State with over 40000 students on a single campus feel amazingly huge. You see so many people walking around that you see for the first time and probably won't ever see again. You are surrounded by so many people who just seem to walk around like busy, going somewhere or chatting in groups. You then tell yourself why is this place so big, I feel like a no one. To bridge the gap, you try to be friends with everyone you can come across, you try to join every club possible. But even after that, you still think the school campus is still super huge. So the questions comes up, how to make your school community appear small. Whatever you try to do, there is always a time that you feel that there are so much more people around that you have never seen. You could just ignore the fact and walk with your group of friends and forget the rest or you can try your best to be Mr. Popular. There are various was to become Mr. popular in school. You could be the star quarterback on the team or the running back. You could be the Basketball team star point guard or President of the Student Government, but for the normal student, the key of becoming this easily lays on the school kiosks system, where about 80% of the cool stuff in school are advertised. Well now you can't start walking to each kiosks trying to write down everything going down in school, but now there is a website that can easily allow you to do that, AnnounceSchool. This is a website that allows students to post up pretty much everything and more that you will post up on a kiosk and even more. So when other students post up a party or an event club event or sport event, all you need to do is to open up your computer and check the website in your school section and check what is going on. As simple as that. With that you will be able to attend much more events and thereby meet much more people. This website thereby a simple way of making huge campuses feel small. Check it out, http://announceschool.com

Saturday, June 19, 2010

What is the use of kiosks in the School community

For most of us in college or those who are in High school and we know those large Noticeboards in the school corridor full of notices. Every time we take a peek at them we see so many things displayed on them such as looking for a tutor or paid surveys as well as common school news like join a certain club. At times it gets dizzy to peak at all the ads posted on their altogether as most of the times it appears as a mess.
Walking around campus, you will easily realize that most of these kiosks filled up with all these ads are never looked at, especially by the college kids. They just walk pass it, before you see someone looking at it, you must be on a lucky date. Even those who take a peek at the ads always take a glance of probably 5 seconds not giving the time to look at the ads on the kiosks.
This just gives the impression that kiosks are easily becoming useless to the school students for posting up events, ads, services or things for sale. Those who post up their ads waste money to post it and those ads never get looked at and are soon torn down or someone directly post something over your ad.
Recently, an ASU student created a website called AnnounceSchool, to attempt to solve this problem. Noticing that most of the things that were in school were being missed out due to the fact that people never read these ads, he created the website to allow students to post their ads instead on the website for free to make much more people to look at it without the need to walk around. The website is very easy to use and it really helps. People ads are read more and are not torn down. Students can post up their services, books for sale, housing, events, club activities, parties and much more for the other students to see. The website is really a great tool for students and looks like a major student accessory for the forthcoming academic year.
http://announceschool.com