Final Reflection

Web 2.0 practices and discourses have created significant shifts in American and global civic life by enabling new forms of communication, collaboration, and participation. Some of the ways in which Web 2.0 has influenced civic life include Democratization of information. Web 2.0 has made it easier…

april 7 blog

Apologies advance because I feel like this blog is going to be a little bit short and that’s because the lessons in class are so straightforward. Where I feel like I’ve benefited the most this week was going back and looking at my pitch and putting comments on it. Going back and looking at some thing a…

Feb 24

The main rule of thumb I thought was interesting and most helpful was checking the source of a website and make sure its not loop sourced in a circle back and forth between the same 2 articles. Also I have come to check the authors credetinals using the wikipedia trick to see if they have a trustworthy background…

free write feb13

what community or groups do I belong to? i have 2 off the top of my head, the gym community and the car community. The car community was one that was big for me in highschool. Once all my friends started drinking and partying I didn't find myself wanting to associate with them often. But I always…

Exercise, the unspoken mental health antidote

Intro

When it comes to treating mental health issues, the focus is often on medication and therapy. While these are certainly important and effective tools, physical exercise is often overlooked as an option that can provide…

free write friday

I thought it was super cool how the author learned how to code as she was learning a computer. She learned how to create a website and “I learned HTML and “little Javascript trickies.” Which is something little to know one knows in 2023 and we have whole majors in school about it but she was just…

writers blog 1

The topic that caught my attention most was in our Friday class in which we spoke about how hyper links changed the way we digest information. Over the course of the week we spoke about how the internet completely reinvent the way we digest information When I thought about that generic sentence I was…

writers blog 8

This weeks lesson on how you could make money as a writer or bloger was very interesting to me. For some reason, I never thought that websites would outsource for content. I found it super cool when talking about applying for pitches and ways to make money online that you could just scour the Internet…

free write 1

Digital tech and media has changed my literacy practices in that I dont have to know how to spell any longer. When writing on paper you never know if you are correctly spelling Wednesday or not, but with tech everyone gets help. The playing field for high level words is also increased. Their are programs…