Putting Vivero on My Resume Reflection
For my February project, I updated my resume to better reflect what I have accomplished and learned in my work as a Vivero Fellow here at Grinnell. I’ve learned a lot through my work, much of which is the particular tools I have been trained on and the skills associated with them. Compiling these together, […]
Start of Spring 2026 Semester Blog Reflection
I think that the set of tools I am interested in exploring this semester will become more clear over time, but at the moment, I am interested in learning more about text analysis. Certainly the Vivero materials for AntConc will be helpful for this, as will refreshing myself on the Gale Digital Scholar materials. There […]
End of semester reflection fall ’26
I feel like I leaned a few things this semester, though not as many as the last one. Last semester was my first one as a Vivero Fellow and I did all of the basic trainings and so learned more in the most basic sense. This semester though, I learned some more nuanced things, like […]
November Professional Development
For this month, I learned to use StoryMapsJS. This meant completing the basic Vivero tutorial and a more advanced Programming Historian tutorial. I found the basic tutorial to be highly instructive and, because StoryMapsJS does not have a super high number of options for what to do, I think it taught me most of what […]
October Professional Development
My professional development project for October was learning how to make Pivot Charts in Microsoft Excel. I really enjoyed this and felt super productive the whole time I was working because of how useful the skills I was developing are, and because of how nice it felt to have different techniques click. As it turned […]
Revisiting Gale Digital Scholar
For this week’s training I revisited Gale Digital Scholar. My main recommendation is that there are currently no Level Up sections (at least that I could find) in the training. I think that something that could be added as one could be guiding through analyzing with different options than just the Ngrams. In addition, I […]
Goal-Setting Reflection
The biggest area of growth I have experienced so far as a Vivero Fellow is probably my ability to work one-on-one with someone to complete tasks. The way I worded this may make it seem like I don’t really have something specific in mind, but I do, I just am not sure of its precise […]
Revisiting ArcGIS Online
My feedback for the ArcGIS Online training I re-completed today is mainly that it is good for getting used to the basics of using ArcGIS Online. However, the one area for growth I might offer is that, at least for the purpose of training a Vivero Fellow, it could be more guided. It says one […]
Relearning WordPress
I am looking forward to investing more time into making my portfolio site into more of a site that feels like mine. I still am learning about working with the limitations provided by the non-pro version of Elementor but I am sure it is flexible enough for my simple needs. I guess that would also […]
End of Semester Reflection
The thing with the most value that I have learned this semester has been how to make a WordPress site. This has been mostly through the Elementor site I have built for my main project with Professor Purcell about Grinnell’s concerts history under event planner Georgia Dentel. This itself had several elements, the most important […]