Looking back on learning: what are the most important things you’ve learned this semester? What advice would you give your past self about becoming a Vivero Fellow and learning how to do this work? One of the most important things I’ve learned this semester is to take advantage of the flexibility of pen and paper…

Reflect on the experience of inventorying the skills you have developed in Vivero. What new skills have your learned in Vivero? What existing skills have you expanded or strengthened? Were there any skills you realized you had that you hadn’t thought of before? What is one area you would like to build new or better…

I used StoryMapJS to create a traveling map of my normal day at Grinnell. I thought that this tool was fairly simple to use, as I was able to upload photos and populate text quite easily. One part of this is the interface from the backend. For example, I could input the media on the…

For the month of February, I elected to do an online typography course, where I learned more about the history of typefaces and fonts and considerations to make when employing these characteristics. The course was geared more toward creative designers, but I think there are still elements from the course that are applicable for engaging…

Accessibility: Something you learned from experience videos, one identified technical feature, one identified conceptual feature, one feature you hadn’t considered before, what errors your portfolio site included (if any) and how you fixed them or are still figuring out how to fix them. From the experience videos, I learned that some people can only access…

Looking back on learning: what are the most important things you’ve learned this semester? What advice would you give your past self about becoming a Vivero Fellow and learning how to do this work?  I think one of the most important things I learned this semester is how important it is to draw things out…

This past week, I’ve been researching the interactive, hypertext-focused app Twine. Twine is used for online, non-linear storytelling. I’ve been intimated by this tool because it seemed rather complex and required a good amount of commitment and troubleshooting. The template I used was Harlow, the default and requires no coding experience. I was right about…

After both reading and writing documentation, what do you think is necessary to create good documentation? What documentation will you and your project lead need to create for your Vivero project – and what steps do you need to take to make this happen? I think good documentation needs to be specific. This means citing…

Reflect in a blog post in your portfolio site on your project work so far, and on your plans for the rest of the semester after Fall Break (at least 300 words). What have you accomplished? What are your next steps? What issues or obstacles have you encountered that you have resolved or that you…

Rather than re-doing a previous training, I elected to try a new one–Lumi Education. It’s a tool that Tierney and Libby recommended I try if I wanted to make an interactive word game. There are many features, which makes it good for idea generation and for trial and error. I personally had a fairy easy…