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Deliverable: Reflect on the following questions in a blog post on your portfolio site (at least 400 words).

The most important thing I learned over the semester is patience is key. With using new software you have never used before you have to be patient with figuring out the details/tricks on how it runs. This takes a lot of time, not only that, but a lot of trial and error. I will also say it’s okay you don’t know anything. When starting, mostly everyone in Vivero Fellow was telling me “it’s okay you don’t know how to do something, you’ll learn along the way”, but I was sure to actually believe that or not. In the end, it ended up being true. 

Something that worked for me was the little mini projects and videos given to us in our training. I think they were really useful and the videos helped give a visual representation with the software to know what was going on. The mini project that was given to us in our training also allowed us to engage with the software which I thought was nice. I also liked how the Wiki Vivero page was set and organized, helping me stay on task. Some things that I found confusing were some of the training guides for the software were a little outdated, or confusing with the wording, but other than that everything was fine.

Since I will be studying abroad I will not have a project next semester, but looking forward to next fall I’m excited to see what new project ideas are going to be available to work with. The documentation that I created was finished to do my project only being a semester long. I created something specific enough to get the user ready to work with the project and help them get familiar with the tools that we’ve been using. In a way catching them up to speed on what we were doing. Later on I provided things I personally had trouble with giving that future person a guided on how to go through the tool. I also added some tips and important information they should know to always have Alt text on images and always give credit to the image owner. Obviously it depends on what they’re going to be helping with the project, but overall I think I helped them understand the basic importance of the project and what to do.

The scholarship tools I’m interested in exploring are WeVideo and something that has to do with content creation, around that realm. I’m also interested in helping students with their study methods in allowing them to access resources quicker and more efficiently. Not sure how, but in some way make their stressful life a little easier.

How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use it?

I feel somewhat good helping any other person with this tool. It’s difficult at beginning, but I think I learned to a couple of things along the way when working on the training.

What are the benefits and limitations of this tool?

Benefits it has a lot of features you can work with. Even with those features some things are still limited with how creative you want to when making your page.

What sort of accessibility concerns should you consider with this tool?

Sometimes the color options, their aren’t enough choices. Sometimes it lets you choose/create your own color and sometimes it doesn’t.

Look at the StoryMap examples provided below. From what you can see, what makes a good StoryMaps? What is something to avoid?

Something to avoid is using drastic colors that make it difficult to see/read for the viewer. When writing you text can be too long or too dull. As well as images, images have to be clean/clear/and visible. If you have bad images than no one wants to continue with looking at your. cite. Something that makes a good StoryMaps is doing the opposite of whatever makes a bad StoryMap. Have good colors, have interesting text where it intrigues viewers to keep reading, but not too long it looks like an essay. As well as having interesting and clear images that go with your cite.

In a blog post on your portfolio site, reflect on the experience of learning how to use WeVideo for video editing. How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use it? What did you find most interesting? What did you find most frustrating? What questions do you still have, and what parts of the tool do you want to explore more deeply?

I think I feel pretty confident in helping someone with using WeVideo. Some things I did found interesting was the amount of options even for free users there were in order to make your video much more interesting. They had the audio, cool transitions, different style of text, etc. was something I found really nice functions to have. Something I found frustrating was how some of the video boxes are too small for you to edit anything, like the audio,. Thankfully there is a button to zoom in into your videos so you can be more precise with what parts you want to edit in your video. I also taught it was very tedious to edit, but once you get the hang of it, it’s can go very smooth. Overall I don’t have any questions as of now, the video was very helpful in seeing how to manage and use WeVideo. Something I want to work more deeply is creating longer videos and playing more with the audio.

After both reading and writing documentation, what do you think is necessary to create good documentation? What documentation will you and your project lead need to create for your Vivero project – and what steps do you need to take to make this happen?

After reading and writing a documentation is having a good explanation on details that are relevant instead of vague responses. It’s important to have a good insight on your project and stepping into the new users shoes on what is information that is relevant and issues they may run into that can help them solve it. We will need to create a documentation Documentation your Work Log, do to a lot of this is trial and error, as well as your learning a lot of information in order to put in the site. I think it can also be a mix of Documenting Work Flow do the featured Elementor we use in order to make it look nice. The steps I will need to take and making sure what steps are useful, keep note on the things I did with Elementor with all the features it has. As well as I will create different sections on how to use specific tools needed to continue with the project. I will write based on what I did and how I managed doing it as well as tips and tricks they can benefit from it. I also will talk to my Project Lead and ask her what she thinks it’s useful to mention. Once more thing I will mention is all the things we use in order to communicate and keep the information we need to create our site.

Deliverable: reflect in a blog post in your portfolio site on your project work so far, and on your plans for the rest of the semester after Fall Break (at least 300 words). What have you accomplished? What are your next steps? What issues or obstacles have you encountered that you have resolved or that you are still thinking through? What lingering questions do you have about the project or about your next steps?

So far with my project it is coming together. We have a domain and a cite up and ready to go. My project lead and I also been having meetings in order to see what is the next step with our project, so overall we’re on the right track. My plans for the rest of the semester with this project is to continue meeting the expectations given from my project lead, have really good effective communication, and being a step closer in finishing up our project in time.

Somethings I feel like I accomplished a lot based on starting of my project as well as getting to know and work with the tools when creating the website. My next steps is to continue working on the project, have effective communication with Project Lead and have fun with the layout and design of the project. Some issues I encountered with is just getting the website looking pretty. As well as having some of the functions overlapping one another on my page and it being a mess, but overall is something I can always work with and do trial and error. Some questions I have about the project is that in the end of the semester will we have a showcase where we give introductions or present our projects that we been working with or is that in the Spring?

Next week I will be going into Fall Break so I’ll post back in a week!