Category: Learning Digital Tools

  • Week 8: WeVideo

    Reflect on the experience of learning how to use WeVideo for video editing. How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use it? What did you find most interesting? What did you find most frustrating? What questions do you still have, and what parts of the tool do you want to explore…

  • Week 7: Project Reflection

    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…

  • Week 6: 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? To create good documentation, I think that it’s necessary for the writer to not assume. I can…

  • Week 5: Gale Digital Scholar Lab

    How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use Gale Digital Scholar Lab? What did you find most interesting? What did you find most frustrating? What questions do you still have, and what parts of the tool do you want to explore more deeply? I found Gale Digital Scholar Lab to be…

  • Week 4: ArcGIS

    Consider some of the reflection questions embedded in the training. For example, what do you notice about the data and how it could be mapped? What do you notice about your visualization as you change its drawing style and customize its appearance? ArcGIS, as a mapping tool, is rooted in geospatial data but can also…

  • Week 3: Omeka

    How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use Omeka? What did you find most interesting? What did you find most frustrating? What questions do you still have, and what parts of the tool do you want to explore more deeply? I think I would feel comfortable helping someone else learn how…

  • Week 2: Excel

    What types of visualizations were you able to generate in Excel using PivotChart? How could those visualizations shape or impact your understanding of the data? Did you generate any visualizations that were confusing or misleading? Alternatively, did you generate any visualizations that were unexpected or illuminating? Through Excel, I could generate a variety of charts–pie,…

  • Week 1: WordPress, continued

    What is your reaction to the idea that this job involves learning how to do your job, on the fly? I began my job last week, and a good majority of it has been learning. From what I understand, the training period is not the only time I will be learning. The work that I…

  • WordPress & cPanel!

    As a Vivero fellow, I am learning new digital tools. I will log my progress with blog posts like these. This is my first post.  Today, my Vivero peers and I began our work for the new semester. We started off with configuring our domains and customizing a WordPress website. We are building off of…