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Final Thoughts & Reflections

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      With the spring semester coming to a close, I often look back and reflect on personal growth throughout these last fourteen weeks. This class was not what I expected. The course, Exploring Your Digital Portfolio, has taught me many different skills that I will be able to apply towards building a fulfilling career. We developed our digital presence, curate content, experience blogging, create a website, explore new technology and apps, and learn how to make the internet work for yourself. The different tools and skills introduced to me within this class will allow a stable foundation to expand my reach within my field. This class had a diverse class, with people from many different fields. The different tools were able to be applied to everyone in the class, with slight tweaking for our own field. It was really eye opening experience.       One of the first things we did was create a professional Twitter profile . This was the platform which we developed our own digital presenc
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Makey Makey Learning For All Ages & Careers

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What would you think if your professor asked the class to bring in aluminum foil, cardboard, sliced celery, bananas, and Play-Doh? With a special note of coming to class hungry? A huge noticeable question mark above your head. With instructions to watch a basic circuits video, you could think of possibly making something creative electrical work. Once the class was settled, we were surprised with Makey Makey Kits. We were given the task of using the materials we brought to class and the kits to complete a functioning controller for the game Frogger . With a surprising curveball, we couldn't touch the circuit board to move the frog. Insert the image of all students with open mouths here in your imagination. Makey Makey Kits Via Google The kit was composed of the circuit board, a USB cable cord to plug the board into the computer, alligator clips, and lead wires. First, our team tried to connect the lead wires into the headers and used alligator clips to t
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Interview Advice From Professionals

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Via Google: Interviews We had three guest speakers during class. They were individuals experienced individuals within their fields to go into the interview process. We explored what makes a good interview and how to show your best self. One of the topics are resumes or CV's. The next are behavior during your interview. The last is the follow up. The interview process is to see if you are a good fit for the job and a team player. This is not only for yourself, but to see how you interact with people. Resumes are the highlights and skills of your professional career. These are showing off your hard work to have the interviewer ask the right questions and showcase yourself. There are some caution with over embellishing what you can or cannot do. This can come back to bite you in a negative way. When exploring the workforce straight from your undergrad, it is better to try and keep your resume at a one page maximum. Within your resume, list interesting proj
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Expressing Yourself Through Website Design

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When creating your online presence, one thing to build is your branding website. There are a few different things to look for when building a website. The main point is to remember your target audience. The different aspects of layout, flow, esthetics, information about yourself, your goal statement, and a modified version of your CV. We went over five different websites in class that are easy to use and free to build up your own brand. These different websites are basic layout websites that you can drag and drop your own information. The first is Weebly . This is one platform that many students have been using to build up their online presence. This website is easy to use and have add-ons both free and through purchasing. The linking and organization through different sites are easy to arrange, such as the RSS link to your own blog. With Weebly, you can use Google Analytics to monitor your site traffic and change the layout to fit the majority of the traffic server user
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It's All About Your Reputation

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In lol...OMG!, by Matt Ivester, Chapter 7 explores the safeguards to help protect and manage your online presence. This are tips to help with long term safeguards for your online reputation. These seven steps are Google yourself, clean up contents on your accounts, update on privacy settings, ask for content to be removed, update and strengthen passwords, set up Google alert for your name, and claim your name. First is Googling yourself. This allows you to understand what type of information is out there about you. Ivester points out that Google only contains about 66% of the informatal searches, and for thorough results would be to check other search engine sites, such as Yahoo! and Bing . The next step is to go through your accounts and clean them up to best represent your best self. Ivester suggested going through Facebook first, looking at the different pages you "liked" and what they can be associated with, go t hrough your photos, vide
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Augmented Reality Evolving Our Minds

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Augmented reality definition is a technology that superimposes a computer generated image on a us er's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view. This is the new age of wonder for everyone. There are easy ways to create a world of your own at the tips of your fingers. With the help of different apps, the world of both exploration and learning is attainable. Anatomy 4D is an augmented reality that uses a prompt from printed paper which allows human anatomy on different levels. You are able to rotate, zoom in and out, a nd add the different types of systems within the human body. By adjusting the settings for the image, you can look at individual systems or just one within the human body. This is a great tool for visual base learners and can create a complex system into a more manageable concept to students. We also were able to explore the Seattle Space Needle in a similar fashion. Seattle Space Needle App Anatomy 4D App Anatomy
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