To demonstrate your expanded understanding telecommunications and to underscore the importance of balancing the exploitative use we humans have too often made of technology, your final assignment will combine the two. For it, you must create a storyboard, or if you wish and have time, a prototype of a web site which responds positively to a problem Ponting's work suggested to you, a web site that provides a positive response to some specific aspect of the serious ecological crisis we find ourselves in. Naturally, your storyboard or prototype must be accompanied by a brief contextual document. Each is outlined further below.
Storyboard or prototype Your storyboard, or if you wish, prototype, must be fleshed out far enough to give a good sense of how it would look and be used, operationally. How much linkage is to be embedded, where will sound and graphics be hidden and how accessed, and so forth. It should also suggest how navigation is to occur, including escape, surrender, exit, and so forth. If it is to include integral use of other software, whether that is net resident or platform resident, that too should be clearly evident. If the use of your website in addressing the problem is to include the use of other resources besides those accessible from the platform or net, than clearly indicate that in the document (see below) but also show in the prototype or storyboard how and where the user might branch off to those resources if such detrouring is to occur in mid use of the website rather than altogether outside the user's time on the website (e.g. after logout).
Contextual document This document should be brief, no more than three pages, but, even though these things may seem to be self evident from your storyboard or prototype, it should tell the reader exactly:
Be careful to describe how the problem you address is derived from Ponting. Also, be very specific about the dimensions of the problem which you have chosen to address with your proposed website. If the problem is too broad (e.g. if you argue merely that the problem is that there is pollution everywhere, or that humans have deforested the globe), your solution is virtually certain to be unreasonable. Narrowing down the problem to one or two specific aspects is much more likely to lead to effective change. And whatever you do, do not take some humungous problem and merely design a web site that will "inform humans about the problem so they can act to correct it".