Experiments in digital creation.

Week 9 I’ve been on the internet long enough to know that advertisements are now as inescapable as death and taxes. There is no existence on the internet that does not include some sort of ad break. They have become an obnoxious presence that we willfully accept due to our free access (mostly, don’t get…

With applications like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, it is easy to waste time mindlessly scrolling through the myriad of short videos uploaded. Though interesting and grabs our attention easily, it is not always what it seems. There are a few steps to consider before believing what is being seen. It must be observed thoroughly, and…

“Verified” by Mike Caufield was a great read and definitely very interesting. There were many challenging perspectives such as questioning peer-reviewed journals or learning to trust WIkipedia. I was also guided to do a further dive into topics I felt I already knew about such as lateral reading and to continue to just keep questioning. …

Liam Justiniano Who Are Our Peers? Being an English-major and just someone who enjoys random deep dives for information I thought that I knew more than my fair-share about peer-reviewed journals and academic journals. After reading Mike Caufield’s Verified on peer-reviewed journals I realized how much more there is to know. I never knew that…

We all remember it. The repetitive drone of every elementary and middle school teacher’s voice reverberating through our skulls while we hastily look for any source that seems legitimate. “Don’t use Wikipedia as a source!” I’m sure by now this phrase is so engrained in us that a small etching of it can be found…

Verified, written by Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg, is a book about, as the cover states, “How to think straight, get duped less, and make better decisions about what to believe online.” It is very informal and digs deep into subjects that you thought you knew about. Chapters 6 and 7 are particularly important because…

Week 8 As I’ve continued working towards a larger HTML project, like a website, I have started to get familiar with CSS, a style language applicable to HTML. Similar to HTML, you write CSS in a markup or code software. Besides the technology aspect, which I struggle with, the syntax for CSS is quite simple…

Week 7 In middle school, I was obsessed with blogs and set on the idea that all of my friends and I should have one. But a paywall or lack of web knowledge was always in my way, as I could not create a fully working website myself, and lacked the financial resources to pay…

Liam Justiniano Christina Truong walked me through HTML in probably the best way ever. There were never moments where I had to go out to another tab to look up a term she was talking about or ever needed any other supplementary tutorials. With her Linkedin Lesson she very thoroughly and clearly explained HTML. her…

Christina Truong’s videos on LinkedIn Learning teach us lessons on how to create an .html file. For someone who is unaware of what markup is, this would probably be extremely confusing. Truong makes it easy to understand for those who do know and want to learn more about HTML. Last week’s videos and this week’s…