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Deliverables:

What digital tools and/or methods do you hope to explore this semester, and what skills might you like to develop or refine? What specific steps might you need to take to achieve those goals, and what support might you need from Vivero to do so?

I hope to explore on WeVideo and work on understanding WordPress + Elementor with seeing how I can design the cite more to my liking. Specific steps I might need in order to achieve my goal is continuing on using the software and maybe having projects that way I can practice on how it works. The support I need from Vivero is in being patient with me, thank you!

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About me

This month we had the opportunity to do “next level” Vivero task where we can do any form of contribution towards Vivero. I choose to do the social media graphic and with this route initially I had a lot of plans in creating a video, where we can share and announce the space to other students in order to let them know where it is, and what resources the space has to offer. Another ideas was where I would help design and create a name tag in order for student to identify who’s a Vivero and who’s a student just hanging out in the space. So I created that and I also recommended the idea in creating an Instagram for Vivero, but later found out that Library has it’s own where we can share with. Overall, share my designs with Liz and I had a great time creating something fun and hopefully useful for Vivero. Here you can see one of the cool designs I created to be put up when a Vivero Fellow is on shift.

Deliverable: Reflect in a blog post on your portfolio site on the feedback you have on the training you selected: do you recommend any edits, additions, or subtractions to the training? What tasks and/or features would you recommend future Fellows focus on to “level up” their skills?

The training that I would be reviewing is Documentation. The reason for my decision is because I’m working on creating a users guide for my Project Leads site and I thought this would be perfect timing to do that. Just to get a refresher and at the same time trying to get started with my project. I overall do think the main points are there on what a good documentation should have, and then we have a reference on what a good vs. bad documentation looks like and how you can differ between the two. I like the images with the examples provided and the pictures are something I think is really important to have. If I were to recommend any features to do for the future fellows is to add pictures, it just helps the visual learner. Other than that I think the instructions are pretty straightforward, I think just to mention for Vivero Fellows (depending which project they have) to have a clear mindset of someone who’s not familiar with it and give a detailed explanation about the site. Under Basic Project Documentation just emphasizing that you’re recording all the details necessary and needed in order to create proper documentation so when the new person takes over they know what to do. 

• What is the biggest area of growth you have experienced so far as a Vivero Fellow?

One area of growth I feel that I have experienced as a Vivero Fellow is the concept of trial and error, how this job is going to be a learning process, you might not everything but that’s okay. I feel like I learned so much through my errors, as well as working and communicating. This job is all about communicating, staying in touch with your peers and project lead. Even though the majority is done on-line and we’re not seeing each other as much, we’re still staying connected with how well we communicate. If we’re talking more on the technical side I would just say familiarizing myself with the tool and different software’s used.

• Are there any areas (technical, methodological, practical) that you feel are areas of weakness for you as a Fellow?

I think my areas of weakness for Vivero would be technical, specifically ArcGIS. For me using that software is very difficult even when I rewatched the video. I still had some trouble working with the program, but I think I just need to practice more and more of an objective. More of a purpose/mission on making the project come to life. 

• What has been your favorite thing to learn as a Vivero Fellow so far?

I really enjoy working with WordPress. I think it’s super fun creating a site however you want and learning the process of adding different elements.

• Considering these three areas (things you have gotten good at, things you would like to be better at, things you have enjoyed learning), which area would you most like to focus on in your training and professional development going forward? This could be a specific tool or method (eg mapping, ArcGIS Online), a skill area (mentoring/teaching, project planning), or anything else related to your work as a Fellow and your interests in digital scholarship.

I’m in between things that I would like to be better at and things I have enjoyed learning. Overall, getting better at things is still a process of trying to learn and I get some enjoyment from that. I want to really get better at ArcGIS because my project is around that tool and I really want to make sure I know how to use it as best as I can.

• What are some specific things you would like to achieve in this area (ie, master Elementor if you want to become a better web developer)?

I want to master Elementor, become a better web developer, but also just be able to navigate through ArcGIS and story maps without a hassle. Knowing what each function does and being able to envision my project and making it happen through the software. As well as with my project I want to make sure I can make her visions come through as best as possible.

• Which of these things do you want to do first, and what is the first step to doing that thing?

Definitely ArcGIS is one of things I want to get better at, as well as Story Map, but more so ArcGIS.

My steps in making sure I can accomplish this goal is

1. Look into ArcGIS tutorial
2. Look into StoryMap tutorial
3. Watch YouTube videos and other people work to see what they did
4. Get hands on my project
5. Work more and more on it every week 
6. Ta-da! Hope you improved using the tools

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Deliverable: Reflect in a blog post on your portfolio site on the feedback you have on the training you selected: do you recommend any edits, additions, or subtractions to the training? What tasks and/or features would you recommend future Fellows focus on to “level up” their skills?

I selected in doing the ArcGIS because I forgot on how it works. I would definitely recommend future fellows to play around with the feature “pop-ups” seeing if they can make any changes and improve the data demonstrating on the map. I will also recommend just doing the step-by-step instructions with playing with the data so they can remember how it’s done and show them what each function of the tool does.