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I’ve built a lot of technical skills I more likely that not wouldn’t have otherwise taken the time to develop. Having worked in a variety of different programs and on two different but complementary semester-long projects has observably improved my fluency and comfortability with WordPress for one. I hadn’t realized how much I worked with… Continue reading 04/02/26

It was good fun to revisit common.garden. I had last used it in my first-year for a personal project, and I knew I wanted to do a training on it if given the opportunity. I figured (correctly) that not much would have changed in terms of the site as it is so little known. Most… Continue reading 03/01/26

I will certainly be improving upon my WordPress skills, weather I intend to or not, just by way of my new project assignment. For the purposes of my project this semester, it would be good for me to have a stronger background in Audacity. There may be students working on recording podcasts, and I fear… Continue reading 2/1/26

Looking back on this semester, one of the most important things I’ve learned is that doing this work is not as intimidating as it might initially seem, even for someone without extensive technical experience. I discovered that, even if I doubted it, I am more or less capable of learning a wide breadth of moderately… Continue reading 12/14/25

I like StoryMaps and find it quite intuitive and user friendly. That said, it does seem to limit some functionality (at least on a surface level). I tried the infographic feature which I hadn’t used before and it was awkward at best being awkwardly sided and seemingly very inflexible. Accessibility should be considered in terms… Continue reading 11/23/25

Audacity was somewhat of a struggle for me. I struggled inordinately downloading it to my computer, and I didn’t like how shortcut dependent it was as someone who struggles with even the copy paste short cuts across devices. I appreciated the flexibility of functionality, but it was somewhat overwhelming when starting out. I expected it… Continue reading 11/20/25

Good documentation is needed as projects do not exist in a vacuum. Projects change take time, and are likely to change hands. Without accompanying information, much is likely to be lost during these exchanges. That said, my semester-long project does not seem to warrant extremely rigorous documentation. Should the project lead want to teach another… Continue reading 11/09/25

I had some experience with WeVideo from high school, so I was excited to try and experiment some more with it. I was also keeping in mind the Adaptations class project when doing the training. Three students came in during the earlier part of my shift to ask about video editing, and I did my… Continue reading 11/02/25

My project progress has been rather slow. There have been major developments on the pedagogical side of project scaffolding, namely the development of a project outline, but there has been little in terms of technical development and the actual building of the site. Setting up the site is certainly the next step. I worry that it… Continue reading 10/16/25:

I liked experimenting with Gale, and I would feel moderately comfortable with teaching someone about it. I found the extant database quite interesting as there seemed to be more multilingual texts searchable than the library site. I certainly was not seeing French and German texts on Mapplethorpe when I searched for Mapplethorpe only a couple… Continue reading 10/12/25