Building Your Digital Identity, Literacy, and Network
“Six years was a long time to be in jail, but it is an entire era online. Writing on the internet had not changed, but reading – or, at least, getting things read – had altered dramatically. I’d been told how essential social networks had become, so I tried to post a link to one […]
Perhaps my mistake lay in picking something too concrete–not really “an idea or a theme”–but I decided to read about sonnets. I am an English major; I write poetry sometimes. Starting on Wikipedia was the obvious thing, but it sounded like an equally obvious dead-end. A simple Google search led me to a collection of … Continue reading ““Associative Trails” Post: Found Poetry”
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The quest: to spend an hour clicking on links and letting the internet take me on a journey. Here were the stops along the way: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/spring-fever/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/obama-to-talk-up-gun-measures-at-town-hall-tonight/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/in-2016-clinton-and-sanders-turn-to-gop-rivals-to-woo-democrats/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/whats-ahead-in-the-long-long-road-to-the-2016-presidential-election/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/16-global-developments-you-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-in-2016/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/oregon-residents-in-packed-town-hall-want-armed-militia-to-leave/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/for-disabled-children-making-the-world-a-custom-fit-out-of-cardboard/ I think the biggest thing that I learned from this exercise was how it’s difficult to leave a website once you’ve entered it. […]
There is a type of writing called “stream of consciousness” where the author records any and all thoughts that come to his head; it is effective in developing what the priorities are in a writer. Our latest project in “how the web works” was to translate this into the web and follow any links and […]
My ambition in life is to have my own startup company, I decided to google app creations first because I hope to have my own app start up company. I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do but I feel like having some more ideas would also be nice. One thing … Continue reading →
International digital marketing has become easily accessed more over the last decade or so. Businesses in the past could market to local areas, but now are able to create their own presence on the web. They are able to create their own websites to market around the world. The lack of error is a benefit […]
I started my search with the general topic of neuropathy. However, then I read something about how drug use enhances neurotransmitters and so I trailed off into that subject. After looking into 3 other sources of the topic, I realized I ended up reading about behavior in relation to brain functions. Then I began to […]
Recently, I did an assignment that pertained to finding relevant links to a topic or theme that I found interesting. Being a biology student interested in the field of Neurosurgery and the process it takes to get there, I decided to research specific statistics on medical school admission, MCAT results, research opportunities, and the process […]
Our class “How the web works” has been asked to put on a post about how we did a research online about whatever we found interesting. I googled “language within communication”. Personally, my mind was a blank so I started with the origins of languages and it went on. Google gave me lists of results where…
