We feel as students, that one main issue that we face is our high stress level that we encounter during academic terms. Therefore for our podcast project, we explored this issue of Stress not from a professional/medical perspective but rather from the students perspective.
We used the podcast as a tool to record students tips of how they relieve their stress. These recordings were then uploaded onto a myspace account and linked to our Facebook group titled “Student Stress Tips”, which is accessible to students of the Waterloo network. We narrowed down the twenty recordings of student stress tips into a list of the top ten tips from students for students.
We thought it was important to contact counselling services at the University of Waterloo, as they are the professional support system available to students at the on campus. On our Facebook site, we have included the link to counselling services as well as a few of their suggested sites for information and help.
Finally, we complied the links for the myspace site, Facebook and University of Waterloo counselling services on a printed poster, which is posted around campus for advertisment purposes. Our hope is that this project will help students create a dialogue regarding stress issues. Overall, the information is presented in an easily accessible way for students to receive information as well as to interact with other students.
links:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9013628537
http://www.myspace.com/studentstressrelief
By: Katie Thiel, Meghan Doherty, Andrea Gibson and Christina Vannelli
