Post #3

I feel pretty comfortable with most of the standards. My thesis deals with consuming media and analyzing the different ways a variety of forms of media presents one topic. I could, however, feel more comfortable with creating media, specifically those dealing more with quantitative data.

I want to teach at a college level so I would deal mostly with Web 2.0 and 3.0. I myself have worked on projects using Palantir, which integrates Web 3.0 by allowing users to make a visual map/web of concepts, images, ideas, etc. I used the software to help a Ph.D. student make a map of the Porajmos, the Roma-Sinti Holocaust during WWII. The work I did connected her research to other researches, to documents, to monuments dedicated to the Roma-Sinti, and so forth. It can now be used as an educational resource and I'd like to see more students spend time on it. Because I'd want them to be contributing to content that would educate others, I would need to emphasize the importance of using only credible sources, giving complete citations. and clear links to other related topics.

For the newsletter, I'm not used to working with two columns so it took some tinkering to make it look the way I wanted it to. I expected to be able to click over into the second column, instead of having to wait for it to carry over to the other side, which definitely influenced how I formatted things. I wasn't the biggest fan of this assignment, mostly because I couldn't really make it relevant to my preferred teaching grade (aka post-secondary). I made it for 10th but even then I had a hard time believing that a tenth grade class would actually have a newsletter. That said, I could definitely use it for some of the organizations I'm involved with on campus.