Power Plug Man, originally uploaded by ahappyjaffee.

Real Simple Magazine, originally uploaded by ahappyjaffee.

I decided to try out Rowan Peter’s visual assignment where you have to “write and illustrate (photograph, sketch, video sample, etc) a two panel story that describes a change of emotion”. I ended up creating two stories because I liked this assignment so much. The first story is about my mixed-yellow lab Abby. The second ...

The sides of the swing make the letter "A" The nearest cloud looks like the letter "L" I see lots of the letter "E" with the windows The shed doors have the letter "x"

My Fiance in Jail Alley, originally uploaded by ahappyjaffee. Walking around downtown this afternoon, I took pictures of many different alley ways because alleys have depth. This one was my favorite

I LOVE the movie UP! I love the animation and couldn’t narrow my choice of screen shots down to six so I chose eight shots to tell the story of UP.

Rappahannock River, originally uploaded by ahappyjaffee.

Looking Up, originally uploaded by ahappyjaffee.

Newsflash: Dog Turns into Elephant, originally uploaded by ahappyjaffee. All day long I thought about what to do for today’s dailyshoot. I walked around downtown earlier today-nothing inspired me. Tonight, I searched my apartment and found a bunch of costume hats in my education resource toy chest. My fiance said, “You’ve got to put one ...

In case you want to tweet pictures from Flickr, here is a helpful tutorial video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wqA5VqBOMQ

If anyone wants to know how to post pictures from Flickr to your WordPress blog, I found a helpful Youtube tutorial below. Also, in your WordPress dashboard under Settings > Writing >Remote Publishing, be sure to check both Atom Publishing Protocol and XML-RPC. Good luck! www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6SN34sZy2I

Web 2.0 Readings on Prezi

I never thought of Microsoft versus Google. I normally think of Microsoft versus Apple. Either way, Microsoft needs to step up their game if they want to stay in Web 2.0 and beyond. Have you noticed that a lot of modern technology nouns have become verbs? For example, “Let’s google”, “Oh my gosh, he friended ...

This whole experimenting with our blog thing is fun but makes me feel like a blonde. One would think installing plug-ins and following the given directions wouldn’t be so hard but many times I found myself saying things like, “Grrr, Google Analytics! Why aren’t you working?!” I sort of persevered though (if anyone found a ...

As a student who is preparing to be an elementary school teacher, I was very interested in Gardner  Campbell’s presentation. For the elementary education  master’s program at UMW, we are required to pick a specialization for our graduate year and do an action research project related to that specialization. I will be starting my graduate year ...

Professors are great. Excuse me, University of Mary Washington professors are great. Thursday morning, I am in Phonology (Linguistics 309) with Dr. Fallon and about 25 other students. I know Dr. Fallon pretty well…he’s my adviser and I’ve had a class with him before. He’s really nice and a great lecturer. On this particular Thursday ...