Day 1: In our 15-minute meeting Professor Hoskins and I discussed the grade I got in my first submission of my Essay 1. I thought this was really helpful because it made me actually understand what he thought I had to improve. It was like seeing it from his shoes, and it really helped me […]
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Class Glossary
Embodied (Fleming): This signifies when something, somewhere or someone is an example of a certain thing. For example, in Fleming’s City of Rhetoric, he mentions how certain people are the embodiment of the Suburbia. This means these people are the perfect example of the typical Suburbia resident. Situated (Fleming): Situated has to do with […]
Grading My Peer’s Reading Analysis
Over the past weekend, Ana and I graded each other’s third and forth reading analysis’s for extra points. Both of us wrote about the same two articles so we knew what to look for when it came time for grading. Ana did a very good job picking solid quotes and touching on the author’s main […]
Embedded A Button
A new feature that I am very excited about that I added to my edspace site yesterday is a button in the right sidebar that says press me. The button is actually a link that takes the person who clicks on it to the Westin Washington D.C. City Center’s website. I embedded it using the […]
WordPress/ Classroom Technologies Survey
Today I filled out a survey on WordPress and classroom technologies for my college writing class. The survey asked a bunch of different questions about wether or not the technologies were easy to use, would I use them again in other classes, and what support did I think was need. It also asked what I […]
Office Hours Visit November 14th, 2016
On November 14th, 2016 I visited Professor Hoskins’ office hours in order to discuss my built environment exterior essay. I had just gotten the essay back for the first time the weekend before and I was confused on the comments that he had made. We discussed the comments and ways for me to write a […]
Combating Corruption Through Civil Society
This past Friday I attended a panel, put on by the International Development Program Student Association, entitled Combating Corruption Through Civil Society. The panel was moderated by Dr. Jonathan Fox, a professor in the School of International Service, and featured two panelists, Jana Morgan, the director of Publish What You Pay, and Shaazka Beyerle, a […]
Embedding A Google Map… Finally
I finally figured out how to embed a google map into both my general website! After like a week of messing around I finally figured it out! So here are step by step instructions on how to embed a google map with your built environment into your edspace: Open your edspace dashboard On the left […]
Texts and Traditions VI: Views of th other in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
On October 26, I went to a panel discussion called Texts and Traditions VI: Views of the other in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The first half of the panel consisted of each of the panel members presenting a short lecture on how their tradition views the other. Rabbi Berner, the panelist representing the Jewish tradition, […]
Time Management Workshop
On August 31, I attended the time management workshop, in which they taught us how to create effective todo lists, prioritize tasks, schedule your time, and locate when/where you are most productive. The person running the workshop told us to view our time as money. He explained that once you spend your time you can […]