This week’s exercise was challenging in both novelty and scope. I have never had to envision a ‘web’ of connections in this manner, and it’s not that I haven’t used data. As a school administrator I use surveys and assessment…
Task 8: Golden Record Curation Assignment
What a terrific and daunting task it is to, from an armchair, critique and determine the most significant ten songs to include on a hypothetical scaled down version of the Voyager Golden Record. I have known about the Voyager spacecrafts…
Task 7: Mode Bending
Podcast link here! For this week’s assignment I tried to push out of my comfort zone a little. I’m one of those folks that struggles to hear themselves over a recording, but I challenged myself to make a podcast-style, recorded…
6.4 An Emoji Story
The biggest challenge in this assignment was changing the purpose of how I might usually use emojis or visual images. This task was to relay information, and fairly specific information, to a reader in as clear of a way as…
Task 4: Manual Scripts
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hxu413I14QesDXm6i2_45_DeP9eQg0U4/view?usp=sharing Returning to writing, in an extended manual form, was refreshing to me in a way. In my life, both professional and personal, most of my manual writing comes in the form of lists. ‘To Do’ lists, checklists, meeting minutes,…
2.3 Does Language Shape the Way We Think?
Lera Borditsky’s lecture on the ways in which the language we speak connects with the way we look at the world was an engaging, humorous, and thought-provoking exercise. As I watched it I had to pause the video several times…
1.7 What’s In Your Bag?
For this first task I want to note that, if I had completed this task a month ago, I would have a very different narrative to share. Over the holidays I received a new backpack and that allowed me to…