Wednesday, October 28, 2009
692 Review
For the most part, I took this class because I was in need of one credit. I had very low expectations, and thought, "well, it can't hurt with my thesis coming up". On the contrary, this class has been one of the most beneficial courses I have taken. While a couple of the things we covered I feel like I came in with a good handle on, such as blogs, video/audio recording, many of the others I had never heard of, or knew that something existed but had not had the chance to look into them (bibliography managers, survey websites, etc.). Zotero has been the most exciting thing I have encountered through the class. I had been using Refworks, but in no way did I find it as easy and useful. I very much appreciated the respect that was given when I did already feel comfortable with something that was given, and at the same time feel comfortable asking questions and did not feel talked down to when something was confusing (like the goof-up regarding the video materials). Overall, very positive!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Qualrus
There are three categories of pricing
Student: $179
Academic: $399
Standard: $1099
Qualrus offers the ability to analyze most type of data (video, audio, text, and images). Information can be shared between projects (such as scripts, links, etc.). One project can also be worked on by multiple computers.
The program learns your coding patterns and makes suggestions to aid in speed and reliability. You can color-code margins, add descriptions to codes, and memos to sources.
The screen views all appear to logically set up so that the programs seem very intuitive.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Two Short Trials
1) zoomerang!
This was the first of my three trials. Creating the account, free and easy. Creating a survey, not as intuitive as I thought it would be. By no means is it difficult however, buttons are not where you first think to look for them and it is on the trying side to scan for them. A couple of things are set up in a strange way, such as to add a heading or to change the title of the survey you have to add a question and select the answer type "heading" from a drop down menu of things such as "Choice: multiple answer- bullets", "Free response", etc.
When the survey is finished it looks very nice, although you do need to make sure that a large font has been selected because it is set to "1 (size point 8)" which is small for most eyes and last time I checked surveys are supposed to be easy to read so people don't dislike filling them out.
Overall I feel like this will be very helpful for my research.
2) zotero!
I have never been one to understand quite why some people love mozilla. I have never downloaded it because I felt that it was an equal to IE. I downloaded it and am now suffering some from small differences. So far my only real complaint is that Outlook Web Access acts up a little in it. But I have to say that I am starting to love some aspects of it myself, one of which being Zotero!
I did not have a long chance to get used to it, but importing information was easy. I have an ipod, and the interface was logically set up and I never had to go searching for features or buttons. I have a feeling I will be wondering what I ever did without it very soon.
This was the first of my three trials. Creating the account, free and easy. Creating a survey, not as intuitive as I thought it would be. By no means is it difficult however, buttons are not where you first think to look for them and it is on the trying side to scan for them. A couple of things are set up in a strange way, such as to add a heading or to change the title of the survey you have to add a question and select the answer type "heading" from a drop down menu of things such as "Choice: multiple answer- bullets", "Free response", etc.
When the survey is finished it looks very nice, although you do need to make sure that a large font has been selected because it is set to "1 (size point 8)" which is small for most eyes and last time I checked surveys are supposed to be easy to read so people don't dislike filling them out.
Overall I feel like this will be very helpful for my research.
2) zotero!
I have never been one to understand quite why some people love mozilla. I have never downloaded it because I felt that it was an equal to IE. I downloaded it and am now suffering some from small differences. So far my only real complaint is that Outlook Web Access acts up a little in it. But I have to say that I am starting to love some aspects of it myself, one of which being Zotero!
I did not have a long chance to get used to it, but importing information was easy. I have an ipod, and the interface was logically set up and I never had to go searching for features or buttons. I have a feeling I will be wondering what I ever did without it very soon.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
About Magistra
Salve!
Here is brief background about myself starting with the most recent notable events and working backwards:
(1)I designed and taught a summer course for middle school students through the Granville Rec Commission entitled Ancient Worlds. This class was a brief introduction to Ancient Greece and Rome, focusing on history, art, mythology, and archaeology. It ended with a mock archaeological excavation. Materials were provided by a grant through ETC.
(2) I participated in the Gabii Project. This is an on-going archaeological dig located just outside of Rome, Italy.
(3) I am working towards an MA from Ohio State University in Foreign and Second Language Education.
(4) I studied at Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome.
(5) I am the advisor the Granville Latin Club. The club focuses the educational value of Classical languages and service to the community.
(6) I teach Latin I, II, III, and AP at Granville High School.
(7) I graduated with a BA in Classics; Latin from the University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
(8) I studied abroad through Temple University Roma.
Here is brief background about myself starting with the most recent notable events and working backwards:
(1)I designed and taught a summer course for middle school students through the Granville Rec Commission entitled Ancient Worlds. This class was a brief introduction to Ancient Greece and Rome, focusing on history, art, mythology, and archaeology. It ended with a mock archaeological excavation. Materials were provided by a grant through ETC.
(2) I participated in the Gabii Project. This is an on-going archaeological dig located just outside of Rome, Italy.
(3) I am working towards an MA from Ohio State University in Foreign and Second Language Education.
(4) I studied at Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome.
(5) I am the advisor the Granville Latin Club. The club focuses the educational value of Classical languages and service to the community.
(6) I teach Latin I, II, III, and AP at Granville High School.
(7) I graduated with a BA in Classics; Latin from the University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
(8) I studied abroad through Temple University Roma.
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