Sunday, September 27, 2009

Exploring for My Tech Project

I think I have finally decided on working with the Valdese Public Library and the Valdese Tourism Department in doing a Community Walk. With this project I hope to attain an easier way for potential visitors to Valdese to plan a full day trip to the small town. There are plenty of sites to see in town but with my experience at the winery I noticed that many patrons had no clue about the other places available to visit. This project will also help me carry on my attempt in helping preserve a little of the Waldensian culture my family has tried to do for so long. I have contacted the tourism board already and they were excited to hear from me again and that I am working on another project for Valdese. This project will consist of me creating a "community walk" on communitywalk.com. I will take pictures and create descriptions of different sites around Valdese and pinpointing them on the website map. Thus, creating a path that one can follow through the town using and accurate easy to follow map. It can be confusing trying to navigate a town you have never visited before. Hopefully the town will place a link on their website or the tourism board website where visitor can click and see the path they can take to see everything. I have pretty much decided on a loop trail through town that will be easy to follow from Interstate 40 throughout the town and then back to 40 without a hitch. I am still working out the kinks but I really think this will be a way to connect technology, the library, and tourism to help bring in outside visitors to a small somewhat struggling community.

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