Emma's Portfolio

In April, I primarily focused on training in Adobe Photoshop. This skill proved especially useful as I worked on the layout for this semester’s edition of The Sequence. One of the most valuable features of Photoshop was the ability to remove backgrounds and re-layer images. While I used InDesign for the overall magazine layout, Photoshop…

For the This past month, I’ve been playing around with Twine, an interactive storytelling software. I decided to make a story for the upcoming Titular Head Festival, which was a really fun challenge. At first, it was tricky—especially figuring out the coding. But once I got the hang of type macros, timing, and embedding codes,…

Today, I focused on learning Elementor in preparation for the upcoming Arts, Media, and Communications workshop. I went through the training videos Tierney provided, and I found the platform surprisingly intuitive—honestly, even more so than Block Editor. One of the features I appreciate most about Elementor is the ability to drag and drop widgets, making…

The three videos I watched were the text-to-speech, colors with good contrast, and closed captioning on videos. Text-to-speech is important for those who are blind, have difficulty reading, or simply want to multitask. As someone who likes to multitask, I hadn’t realized that many websites offer this affordance–I will definitely be taking advantage of this…

It’s been a long semester, but kind of a fantastic one. Being paired with Dr. Ferguson was an honor. Our weekly meetings are always educational as well as entertaining. Most recently, we talked through where she’d like some revisions on the site, as well as our plans for next semester. For next semester, we hope…

1900 Grinnell Male HOH Employment and Living Children Map During today’s training, I used ArcGIS to map the employment of male heads of households (HOH) in Grinnell in 1900 and the number of living children in their households. Initially, I hypothesized that farmers might have more living children, based on the assumption that farming families…

Worked on my Omeka site “Best Poems in My Opinion”. I added a few poems. On an Apple-Ripe September Morning · Best Poems in My Opinion

Today was StoryMap training, which is my favorite tool thus far. Some benefits of this tool include being able to bring to life a story through images. StoryMaps offer a visally immersive experience, which I find more engaging than a simple page on a website. However, this also means that text should be more concise…

I am currently trying to figure out how to align images on WordPress so that they go alongside the text rather than in the middle. The Laetitia site has a theme that has a column of space to the left of the input text, so I am trying to see if it is possible to…

I have never had that much fun in my life. WeVideo is EXACTLY what I will be using to make films for Grinnell’s Titular Head Film Festival. I appreciated all the videos and audios that Grinnell has to offer; I need to practice the transitions a bit more, but the features are fun to play…