Purpose: A
multi-functional site focused on college alcohol consumption. The site is meant to both entertain and
educate, allowing users to participate through submissions of stories and a
message board (forum). At the same time,
the site will integrate useful information about alcohol: its benefits, its risks, its history, games
with which it is associated.
Educational
- Statistics
- Estimated number of college
students who drink in America
- Number of
alcohol-related fatalities each year among college students (compare to number
of fatalities from driving / other top causes of death among college students)
- Estimates from surveys on effects
of drinking on academic performance
- Estimates on alcohol and sleep
loss
- Other Important Information
- Brief
medical summary of what alcohol does to the body
- Bad
decisions made while under the influence
- Device
for estimating BAC (input weight, number of drinks / time consumed)
- Information
on BAC
Entertainment
A key function of the site, as college / high-school age
students who partake in drinking tend to ignore the mass amount of drug
education thrown at them (inferred from the number of college / high school
students who drink compared with alcohol education)
- Games
An important part of college drinking, the site will provide
a basic explanation of some of the more popular drinking games in college,
along with the rules and possible variations.
There is a possibility for the users to submit more games.
- Message Board (forum)
Participation is a key factor in retaining interest, and a
message board could provide polls on various topics and a place to discuss
anything from drinking games to arguing why college students should stay sober.
- Stories
A site about drinking has to have some stories about drinking,
because let’s face it: They’re usually
funny.
Integration
While it is important to integrate the educational into the
entertainment, it is also important to keep the entertaining part of the
website entertaining, so most of the integration will be in the form of links
in the entertainment portion of the website that take the reader to an
educational topic directly tied in with whatever entertainment topic they are
reading about. For example, in the description
of beer pong, there would be a link to a page explaining how much beer you are
drinking in a game of beer pong, and at what speed. The educational page would also discuss
roughly how many games of beer pong you could safely play in a row, by taking
into account roughly how long a game of beer pong is.
last edited: Andrew Schroeder, 06/05/2008
