Author: Emily

Autocorrect Mishaps

What Happened: Just this morning I had an autocorrect flop. There was a lot of black ice on the roads and sidewalks this morning in Foxridge. I am in the process of training my dog Max because he has separation anxiety, and this requires me to leave my apartment for 4 or 5 minutes at […]

Fine Tuning My Blog [Part Two]

What I Did I added a link in my about page to all of my published columns with the Collegiate Times. Also to that page, I added a photo of Albus Dumbledore sitting in his office. I also added a “Contact Me” page to the menu. Why I Did It I added the link to […]

Peer Review

What I Heard In Peer Review The one glaring problem with my blog is that I did not include placeholders for the upcoming projects. Other than that, Hayley liked my title and layout. She also thought that the header photo was very interesting. She liked my “About Me” and the widgets that were included. What I […]

Editing My Blog

What I Did Today I edited my about pages (about me & about the site). Why I Did It I wrote my about pages last class, so I didn’t have much to do today. I simply went through and edited them a bit to make them more clear and concise. I didn’t want my About Me page […]

Digging For Multimodal Texts

These are the multimodal texts that I found in my backpack: Peet’s coffee cup (Visual, Spatial, Linguistic) French textbook/workbook (V, S, L) Writer Designer (V, S, L) Notebook (V, L) Agenda (V, L) Chapstick (V, S, L) Cash (V, L, Gestural) Gum (V, G, S, L) Pens & pencils (V, L) E-mail on laptop (V, […]

Fine Tuning My Blog

What I Did I wrote my “About Me” and “About The Site” pages to add to the menu bar. Why I Did It I tried to keep both of these pages short and to the point. In the “About Me” page, I brought in some elements of my Online Identity Statement, but some of it […]

Customizing My Blog

What I Did I chose a theme and customized my widgets and menus. I also chose appropriate colors and photos that make my blog coherent and aesthetically pleasing. I chose the Hemingway Rewritten theme, created one menu, chose a photo with a lot of books in it, and chose warm colors that match the photo. […]

Creating My Blog

What I Did Today we set up our blogs that we will be using for the rest of the semester. I chose to name my blog “Books Aren’t Dead.” I included a tagline which is just the name and semester of this class. Why I Did It I chose to name my blog “Books Aren’t […]