Building Your Digital Identity, Literacy, and Network
Shardae White In his book, Smarter than you Think, Clive Thompson discusses memory, and how much we value it although it is oftentimes incomplete. He observes how our memories are selective, and when recalling we tend to fill in the details that have long since gone with our short term memory. It’s pretty interesting. I’ve thought a … Continue reading A Bit on Memory
For my second DS 106 assignment, I decided to write an interactive story! I love interactive storytelling and “choose-your-own adventure” type games, so this was a great opportunity for me. My goal is to write one with a great story that somehow works well in print. I’m not sure how that’s gonna work as of … Continue reading DS 106 Exercise #2: Interactive Stories
For my digital story exercise, I decided to take lyrics from Helpless by Lin-Manuel Miranda from the Hamilton Soundtrack and put them through Google Translate. It’s especially interesting because lots of these lyrics aren’t literal and definitely play with language, as rap often does. First, I translated from English to Spanish, and it still made … Continue reading DS 106 Exercise: Google…Translate?
It goes without saying that I’ve got a new appreciation for Wikipedia and its contributors. I could talk about how this experience went, but it’d just be a chronology of tears. Personally, I think learning to make changes to Wikipedia (without the headache) could be its own month long class, and it might be interesting. … Continue reading Contributing to Wikipedia: A Lesson in Humility
So, we had to find three blogs that we thought would be beneficial to follow. My first, without a doubt, is It’s Akilah, Obviously by comedian and writer, Akilah Hughes, whom I’ve followed on YouTube for a while. Her personality is delightful, and she has the talent to discuss everything from intersectional feminism, to natural … Continue reading Branching Out: Expanding our Network
!!!CLASSMATES!!! (That’s my intro) So, I checked out Keara’s blog, and was especially engaged by her knowledge artifact. I thought it was beyond creative and unapologetic. Keara’s blog is welcoming, relaxed, and just honest overall and it’s refreshing to read her posts. I read her latest nugget, which also concerned Levine’s article (find my nugget … Continue reading “Connection in an Isolating Age”: Connecting to Classmates Assignment
