Exploring Your Digital Portfolio with Erin

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

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