Project 2- Map & Intro

I don't know how to do a map for this piece, but I'll explain the interaction. The first screen will be a speech that I found about the No Child Left Behind Act by none other than the George Dubbya. I'm going to interlace this speech with words and phrases from Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden," which is a poem that attempts to justify colonialism with racism. The reader will be able to change selected words and phrases between the two mediums. For example, when the reader clicks on "No child left behind," it will switch to "No Half-devil and half-child left behind," as per "The White Man's Burden. It's a very similar idea to that of Regime Change. I'm still not really sure what program I should use. I'm between power point and googlesites, but unfortunately power point and I don't get along very well. I was thinking of reusing googlesites and formatting it like a hypertext because that's the only way I can see it working (unless one of you smartie pants's wants to help me!) :)

The point of the piece is to draw out similarities between the mindset which put NCLB into effect and what we typically think of as more primitive ways of viewing others, as expressed in White Man's Burden. I want to draw a parallel between colonialism and the current education system. This probably sounds a bit extreme, but as a secondary education major (and one who wants to teach students in an urban environment), I find myself quite repulsed by the standards for students and regulations for aid. My goal is to break the speech down into a rudimentary form and point out some of the NCLB's intrinsic racism.

Thanks for tuning in for another episode of the ramblings of Lisa!