I proposed a Learn a New City app, largely because when I came to Ann Arbor, though I was very excited, I found it very intimidating. I had lived with my parents for the last 10 years and was used to driving everywhere and having very little free time. I went from that to taking public transportation, many things being within walking distance once you were at a central hub, and not knowing where anything was including a laundromat or a grocery store. It's not that I hadn't lived in foreign places before. I've traveled very extensively. I think it was more along the lines of I didn't even know where to look or who to turn to in an easy and accessible way.
My idea of this class then is to create an app that helps you learn a new city. It's kind of a hybrid of Foursquare, Rosetta Stone, and some type of game to add some competition/achievements. The idea is that it would be aimed at anyone who is moving to a new place, teenage and up, and would help them learn language and the place that they are in. There could be preset paths for cities or the user could make their own path.
