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Week 11 Summary
This week contained a lot of learning from a lot of different sources. With another round of peer teaching, I found it to be very enjoyable once again. Being at a table with some very interesting, respectful, and engaged students helped to create a lovely experience. Starting off the week, -
Week 10 Summary
AI and Ethics The following is a response to this given prompt: Using your experience with the simulations — and taking for granted that we all hopefully agree that AI should behave ethically when possible — how do you think designers of AI should account for potential ethical decisions? 1. -
Week 9 – Self-Ev(AI)uation
Artificial Intelligence This week, we dug a bit deeper into AI and how it looks in the real world compared to how it appears in fictional media. It feels very fitting to be touching on this subject at this time as just the other weekend I watched Free Guy with -
Week 7
To begin the week, we took a look at Colab, learning a bit more Python to create a Magic 8 Ball. Ultimately, the code is quite simplistic and understandable, but the real fun comes with inserting custom responses. For my 8 Ball, I’ll admit I approached it a bit immaturely -
The Soft Truth About A Radical Week
The readings and activities for class this week were very interesting and engaging, covering a wide variety of genres and topics. We read a short story called “The Soft Truth” this week, a story that fits into the “algowave” genre of writing. In the story, the main character works for -
Week 5 – Algorithms and Bias
While I may have had a poor understanding of what he was trying to say, I feel like I was able to make a real connection to Rushkoff’s SXSW talk. By referring to things like government and religion as programs, touching on the fact that we build new programs on -
Week 4 in Retrospect
This week was unlike most weeks in a semester, as the majority of it was spent on peer teaching. Initially, I’ll admit that I was nervous about the idea, but after looking more into it, and now in hindsight, I think it was an extremely productive experience. Firstly, teaching to -
Week 3 Wrap-Up
Week 3! This was a fun week, diving deeper into older systems such as Geocities and HyperCard stacks. Some of the “plots of land” that people created were fascinating, many of them serving as time capsules for a specific person, place, or thing. While listening to the Geocities episode of -
Stick to the Meta – Week 2
Before anything, I wanted to open with my script/storyboard for a 30-second commercial advertising a UMW education that has been reimagined for the Metaverse. *Commercial opens, pitch black**An image appears in a manner similar to that of turning on an old TV*“Huh?”*The camera is clearly meant to appear as a -
Week 1 – Looking Back
Week 1 served to be a great introduction to things, not only in terms of expectations regarding assignments and effort, but also simply getting to know Professor Whalen and beginning to loosely connect with other students. Even with something as simple as sharing our Wordle scores, I feel instantly more -
Reflection:?Node 3?
Hey guys! This one’s gonna be a bit of a short one (sorry). The unit was a bit shorter since we were working on our projects, and I was only able to spend a limited amount of time on it. Though maybe it’s for the best since all my posts are pretty long-winded (yeah, I … Continue reading "Reflection:?Node 3?" -
Reflection:?Node 2?
This was supposed to be posted on October 8th, but I didn’t want to change the narrative so as to encompass my thoughts and feelings at the time. My apologies for any confusion! Howdy folk! Hope y’all have been well. It is almost Fall Break, and I could not be more grateful to be in … Continue reading "Reflection:?Node 2?" -
Node 2, I’m Through
I really enjoyed Node 2 and I feel like I got a much larger understanding of AI out of it. To pull from my “Impressions on AI” discussion post:  On a broad spectrum, I like to use technology as a creative outlet, but I also know I need break from it for my own mental… Continue reading Node 2, I’m Through -
3rd Times a Charm? DGST 395 Module 1 Reflection
As this is my third time taking this class (sorry mom) and my second time taking it with Professor Whalen, I am proud to announce I actually felt like I was able to accomplish much more this time around. Coding has never been an easy concept for me to... -
Reflection:?Node 1?
Howdy y’all! Welcome back to my blog. This week’s topic is a reflection on Node 1, part of which I explored through my last post. Node 1 encompassed a fair amount of ground, including basic coding with dictionaries and the nature of algorithms. I was surprised at how broad some of these topics can be: … Continue reading "Reflection:?Node 1?" -
Coded by Cailyn
I honestly think… and I’m weirded out by the fact that I’m saying this… I may actually not hate coding. WHAT?! I KNOW. Before this semester started, coding was quite honestly one of the scariest things for me. I’ve always done well in school, and quite honestly I’ve never really struggled in the classroom. However,… Continue reading Coded by Cailyn -
Just Getting Started…
I’m not going to lie… coding is not coming naturally to me. Usually, I’m good with puzzles. I have my final picture, there are a lot of separate pieces, and I test the placements until I have my final product. However, I feel like in coding I don’t have my final picture. I’m putting together… Continue reading Just Getting Started… -
Return + The Soft Truth
Howdy folk! Welcome to my blog. I see that I have been getting some traffic here in the past few days, which is a really nice surprise. I hope some of y’all will stick around for my upcoming content for DGST 395: Applied Digital Studies. It will be a different kind of work – the … Continue reading "Return + The Soft Truth" -
Applied Digital Studies Final Project
Hello and welcome to my blog! For this post I am going to be discussing the social media page called @umwinsider which I created for my final project for Digital Studies 395. https://www.instagram.com/umwinsider/ In order to complete this project I worked over 40 hours throughout the semester, some time was spent in class but the […] -
Final Project Reflection
For my final project for 395, I decided to do a podcast series with one of my best friends named Anna Rinko. I have always been interested in starting a podcast series, however I truly never had the time to actually record and find content to record about. I was very passionate about this final... -
My Final Project Proposal
My Final Project Proposal For my final project for DGST 395, I originally decided to create a Twitter bot to automatically tweet song lyrics or poetry onto Twitter. However, after actually spending a whole day creating the bot using Whalen’s google doc bot setup, I was able to create my bot in less than 3... -
Learning to Code
I loved doing the learn to code assignment! This was super fun for me because not only did I get to use a learn to code activity that was a game, it also it Frozen themed! For this assignment I used Studio Code’s Frozen game. The link is: https://studio.code.org/s/frozen/stage/1/puzzle/1 So, my first reaction to this was... -
Revised blog: Why coding is important to me
In my last blog post I talked about why coding is important in general, however, I want to touch on why it is important to me. Besides my previous story about how I taught myself to code at a young age thanks to Neopets, another important reason that coding is important to me is because... -
Make America Code Again (lmao)
When I was about 10 years old, I taught myself how to code. Well, sorta. (As much as a 10 year old attempted). My best friend and I used to play this online game that allowed you to make your own CSS and HTML webpage for pets (shoutout Neopets. You showed me how fun coding... -
The Erasure, Abuse, and Sexism in the Music Industry
The music industry has never had a clean slate. From Motown strikes in the 50’s and the struggle to hear colored people on the radio, to now the abuse of women that is silently coming back to haunt producers. Lord knows how the struggle for equality in the music business is very much still a...
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