A virtual helping hand - Interview with Information Management/Law student Pradesha Puvanendiranathan
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"I did 'Organising Information for Access' , which I drew upon quite a bit because it was a lot about how websites and a digital interface are put together to be accessible to people. That was the information problem, how to turn this paper-based learning tool into something more virtual.
"I wrote up an article about doing a virtual learning environment which would essentially be like a computer game, it'd be two dimensional and it would sort of create a virtual world in which you can learn on the computer."
Allan Tagliaferro (Cormedius), Shahin Yaghoubian (The Malian Foundation),
Pradesha Puvanendiranathan, Julian D'Onofrio (Cormedius) and
Vice-Chancellor Ross Milbourne.
Reflecting on her winning project as well as her reasoning behind choosing communications, Pradesha says that her Shopfront experience proved both rewarding and enjoyable.
"I really enjoyed doing that because there was such a huge interactivity with the people."I guess getting back in touch with my little inner hippy, it's the idea of helping people. That's one of the reasons I got into law, I had this idea of 'I'm going to save the world.' I haven't done the practical component of my law degree yet but it's funny, it's with the Information Management part of my degree that I actually feel like I've done something useful.
"I found it to be really rewarding. I think it's the sort of work I'd like to be doing when I finish uni, I'd like to be working within an area where I feel useful as opposed to just being a corporate drone...I think just having that knowledge is pretty fantastic, coming out with this sort of understanding of your society and a different way of looking at things.
"I loved Power and Change in Australia and those sorts of subjects that do give you a sense of looking at the world in a new way and questioning the power structures in society."
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