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Creating Websites, Handling Negative Posts, and Wrapping Up the Semester

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When promoting yourself, what is the easiest way you can think of for someone to get the full picture of what you are capable of? How about a resume, a portfolio, or preferably both? While controlling what you post on social media, creating an online personal learning network, and creating a professional portfolio can be created with the help of a variety of programs and concepts that have been discussed in blogs thus far, one of the most powerful professional tools is a website. Creating a website allows you to promote yourself in ways that other programs and digital projects cannot, in the sense that everything you would want a professional contact to know about you can be made available in an easy to access and streamlined format. Creating Websites: The first step to creating a killer personal website is the idea of deciding how that website is going to be created digitally. If you are like me (and many other professionals from different backgrounds), computer programming and coding
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Interview Tips, Social Media, and Employment: How to Stand Out From The Crowd

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When you have an upcoming employment interview, how would you prepare? Do you think you would feel confident in your abilities to nail the audition or would you be nervous about cracking under the pressure? Many young adults feel that they do not have the interview experience or skills of many adults who are further along in their careers. While one may lack interview experience, preparing yourself by acquiring knowledge, understanding, and exhibiting traits and skills that employers look for in a new candidate, it is possible to improve upon these skills and put yourself in a better position to nail the interview and get that dream job! Interview Skills: General Skills: This week during class, we had the opportunity to speak with Jennifer Lee, Shannon Sienrukos, Lisa Simmons, and Ayrnn Yaeger. They spoke to us about a number of interview tips and tricks that, as professionals who often interview others for positions, or have been interviewed in their respective workspaces. Ms. Sienruk
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Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Privacy Online: What is it all about?

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When thinking about some of the most influential technology available in the 21st century, what do you think of? Do social media and cell phones come to mind? How about Facetime and the ability to communicate with others from around the globe at the click of a button? Some of the most powerful and sometimes overlooked technologies that somewhat combine many of these elements and more advanced processes are Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Augmented reality and Virtual Reality provide users with a way to learn about and showcase information through sceneries, models, and experiences that may not be directly possible in a physical sense, but can be completed through the use of technology.  Augmented Reality: Augmented Reality (AR) can be described as the ability for an app or program to project a rendered image or moving motion picture into the real world through the phone’s camera lens, making it seem as though that item is actually visible in real life. In class, it was mentioned
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Presentation Tools and Curating Your Personal Search Results: How to Stand Out Amongst the Crowd

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When you are watching a presentation, what jumps out at you first? Is it the busy slides with too much writing? Is it the tacky transitions or the presenter's lack of knowledge about the subject? When giving a presentation, it is extremely important to create your visual aids and perfect your knowledge and speech in order for your audience to stay engaged in the information at hand. One of the best ways to ensure that your presentations are the best they can be is to use some of the newest and most improved presentation tools (other than the base version of PowerPoint). While the base version of PowerPoint (and even the similar Google Slides ) has been the standard and accepted, many of the features are available on new sites are helpful in making presentations today better than they ever have been before.  Office Mix (PowerPoint but improved)?: While the base and older versions of PowerPoint are not the best in the market nowadays, Microsoft is working to improve the baseline pro
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Social Media Etiquette, APA Format, and Technology Takeover: How do we act and use the internet appropriately?

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Have you ever posted something online that was insensitive or not your own information without thinking and realized later, "Wow. I really should not have posted/included that?". Have you ever scrolled on social media for far too long without realizing it and have wasted hours that could have otherwise been productive and wondered "How did I get so addicted to scrolling?". Both of these scenarios are more common in people than one might think and while sometimes seemingly harmless, can have large negative impacts on your own life and the lives of others. With social media and the internet growing more and more intertwined into the daily activities of our lives, how we use the tools provided to us is key to keeping the internet a safe and productive place. Not only is it important to give credit to those who create content and research certain topics, but it is important for us to use social media responsibly (including how much time we spend on social media and know
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