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I have long used technophobia as a shield to avoid using technologies that I considered to be complicated. It wasn’t hard. My husband is a very tech savvy guy who has spent the last two decades selling specialized hardware to the government. In the past, whenever something went wrong that couldn’t be resolved by simply…

For Sandbox # 7 I chose to spend an hour learning the basics of coding. I had no experience with coding and was a bit intimidated by it. But after working my way through the readings I was determined to change that. I began with Kano Harry Potter Hour of Code because A) everything is…

Introduction This summer I am working as an Instructional Assistant for the Fairfax County Public Schools Extended School Year program. It is a four week term designed to help special education students retain skills they might lose over the summer. The school I am assigned to is Kilmer Middle School in Vienna, Virginia. The school…

Introduction The City of Fairfax Regional Library is not my local library but it is my favorite Fairfax County Library branch. It opened when my children were babies and we spent many enjoyable hours in the bright, sunny children’s area. I drove past it when I dropped them off at preschool and would often return…

Introduction Work, classes, and family commitments have made carving out time to visit libraries in person challenging this summer. While I managed to visit a school and public library in person for this assignment my special/archives library visit was entirely virtual. For my academic library I decided to blend the two. I have visited the…

Introduction I am not musical in any way, shape, or form. I can’t read music and I can’t carry a tune. In fact when I sing, my children ask me to stop. So choosing the Marvin Duchow Music Library as the subject of my Special/Archive Library research probably seems like an odd choice. I discovered…

I explored several different virtual tours for this Sandbox. I travelled the globe from Amsterdam to Antarctica. I revisited exhibits in museums I had seen before and others I had not. I visited parks, historic cites, and libraries. For this assignment I chose to look closely at two different virtual tours. The first was from…

Working in the sandbox this week was both interesting and frustrating. I played with all the tools and generally found them straightforward and easy to use. With the exception of Clyp. I created my free account and attempted to upload a file. Immediately I received a message saying I had reached my storage limit and…

If I am honest, I really struggled with our sandbox project this week. I had a difficult time balancing the visuals and keeping to the idea that “the only rule concerning the display of data – besides telling the truth – is simplicity (Reynolds, 2014, p 152).” The image you see above is a scaled…