Happy Halloween from the English Department party! 

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The only thing I’ve really done since last class is that I began looking up stats and facts to try to decide which ones to focus on. I’ve looked up things such as the job market, graduation rates from college, how many students stay a fifth year, and things like that. I also began researching […]

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I really wanted to do something like the gay rights video that is fact based, but I couldn’t think of a current issue that I’m really interested in. So, I decided to go with Peter Pan. I’m going to focus on the fact that Peter Pan doesn’t want to grow up. I’ll make his character […]

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I think I would be most interested in Prezi. I have been a part of a group project that has used it before, but I’ve never done it myself. It looks like such an easy way to present information in a more interesting way than Powerpoint. I really don’t like doing presentations, so I think […]

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“A global public library of human experiences” That description of cowbird is what initially made me interested in the site. I really like using Storify, and this seems like a different, yet similar form of the same type of tool. From what I can tell, Storify looks to be more news oriented and Cowbird is […]

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From the presentation in class today, I decided that I think PicMonkey is something I would be interested in learning more about. The presentation outlined some major benefits of bringing your own photos into PicMonkey. I love working with photos (Instagram is my favorite social media app) and I think that being able to do […]

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What I Did: Today, I worked on formatting details for the project. I made a new menu with pages and I took some screenshots for visual the aspect. Why I Did It: I wanted to make sure I could include all of the information that I thought was necessary into the Interrogate and Interface page on […]

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What I did: Today I researched more about my tool, Dipity. I also made my own account. By working through the google spreadsheet questions today, I was able to narrow down some facts. https://docs.google.com/a/vt.edu/document/d/1tJ6SOBuV-tRP2tAK50uyNC4OCv-Aan9M4j8S18cq8n4/edit?usp=sharing Why I did it: I think it’s important to have my own account on Dipity so that I can follow certain […]

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When I wake up and there is still a pig in my apartment…. I thought maybe Stanley the pig was a dream or a joke. But no – I woke up this morning, and there was still a pig snorting around the living room. So, with that in mind, this GIF is an extension of […]

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For the meme assignment, I went a little out of the box. I used a less popular photo and added my own caption to create this masterpiece, which is up for interpretation:   My meme can be taken in multiple ways. It can be taken in a figurative sense, where the expression on the dog’s […]

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