Unfornunatly, countless students at American University do not use Lynda.com which is an excellent free resource that we have at our fingertips that we can acesses at anytime. Luckily, throughout the semester I have learned numerous features about WordPress, Google Doc, and Excel through watching videos on Lynda.com. List of videos (with a brief description): […]
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We Reached the End!
Looking back this semester seems to have flown by, but when we were in the middle of it, it seemed to be never ending. Now that it is finally over, there are surveys and exams everywhere. I love giving feedback to encourage progress or so that future students don’t have to suffer through confusion. One […]
Google Map Locations
Adding pins to the class Google Map was an ingenious way to visualize the expansiveness of S Street Rising by Ruben Castenda. When going through a section of the book, I was able to find and add six different locations to the map! They are all sited by “Michaela Kirby” in the name field, but they are […]
Google Maps Everywhere
While reading the EdSpace’s of other students, I finally figured out how to insert a google map into my website! I had been wanted to but an interactive map on my EdSpace for a while now, but it was not until I visited other websites and started looking around that I discovered how other students […]
EdSpace Comments
At the beginning of the semester I got a couple of nice comments on my EdSpace posts. These comments were pretty meaningless and empty, but I appreciated that someone had taken the time to read my blog and actually got someone out of it. After experiencing this (having comments on my blog), I decided that I […]
Reading Analysis Struggles
I have learned a lot about collaboration through this class; between study groups, writing center, and now peer review, I feel as if working with peers is much more beneficial for the success of my writing. I have always loved peer review, because it allows you to gauge how you are doing before the “real” grade […]
Study Group
After struggling on the first two reading analyses, I decided that I would need as much help as possible from then on out. So, I decided to create a study group with Will and Sofia. When we meet, we go over the most recent assessments and try to make sense of all of our confusion. […]
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 […]
Technology/ WordPress Survey
I completed a survey which questioned the advantage and disadvantage of the WordPress site and other technological applications such as Slack. I asserted that I like using both; however, I would like an introduction session which explains how to use and navigate each website. I think that would be helpful because WordPress can be difficult […]
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 […]