It’s Been a Good Run

Wow! Can you believe this is our last post of the semester! I can’t believe how fast it’s gone by. I swear we just talked about what the expectations were for our first post, and now we just finished week 13?!

Anyways, time is flying, but we knew this already. This week brought us a lot of reflection and in class work sessions.

On Tuesday, we did a Verification guide reflection in class. The questions included:

1. Through both this project and reading Verified itself, what have you learned about navigating information and misinformation online? What new practices have you developed, or could you develop to do so effectively?
2. What have you learned about writing? In other words, what new skills, moves, or strategies have you practiced as you’ve written and revised this project? That can include both HTML/CSS stuff as well as less technologically specific aspects of your writing.
3. How can you apply what you learned while doing this project as you continue working on the Interactive Nonfiction project?

My responses were as followed:

1. I was always a person to ignore any news on the internet, mainly because I never truly believed it, but if I did believe it, I would share it with friends without checking if it was real or true. Since this project and reading verified, I have learned to SIFT effectively through sources and social media claims. I have practiced and developed the skills of tracing claims to the original sources, as well as how to use Wikipedia as a starting point for research. 
2. I learned the very basic uses and methods of HTML and even less/ more basic tools of CSS from this project. I was starting to get the hang of HTML! Which was shocking. CSS is still overwhelming to me, but I made my page look how I wanted it to look, which was nice. My writing overall didn’t change all that much, but it was helpful to write HTML and CSS and see my progress on the piece as I went. 
3. With my group’s interactive nonfiction, the basic skills of CSS have been helpful in making the game look visually appealing. I think most of my applied knowledge that I have carried to this project has been through CSS. I feel my group has implemented a lot of CSS into the piece, which is new, but exciting.

A lot of people in class expressed how they felt they learned a lot from the projects and readings. I think our class grew to be more technically savvy, which WOOHOO, good for us! I am not to the point where I would put that I know HTML and CSS on my resume, but if I did enter a job that needed a little bit of it, I think I would feel fairly confident to step up.

Other than the reflection, we worked in class with our groups on our Twine games. We have the big PWR showcase on Friday, November 22nd. My group has been preparing all week for it, and I am so proud of us for our work. I think it will be a good showcase!