Category: Full Spectrum Learning Research

Growing up, I thought this phrase was really cheesy. Now I understand this cheesy phrase. This week was the week of endless emails. I felt like everyday I was sending out hundreds of emails (that may be a bit of an exaggeration). I was trying to connect and schedule videos with professors, updating interview questions, scheduling time with students for interviews. I constantly was feeling like I was missing something or forgetting something. Over the past few months of working, I am constantly reminded how…Continue Reading “Week 24: Communication is Key” →

One of the main surprises of my job so far has been how many different applications I have used and the ways I have been using them. I mainly use four different websites or applications for my work: Email, WordPress, WeVideo, and Google Calendar. Email is the easiest way for all of us to stay connected and it is extremely convenient to communicate between the team. WordPress was the newest application to me when I first started my journey on this project. All of my…Continue Reading “Week 23: Learning More with Google Calendar” →

This week was definitely a full roller coaster ride and adventure. The week was all thrown off by the second winter storm of the year. Classes were canceled for two and a half days this week. Ruthie and I found a new intro and outro for the videos that feature the St. Norbert arch to make it more personal to the college. Other projects this week included continuing to work on the website and finishing the last week of DigPINS. You can read my blog…Continue Reading “Week 22: Polar Vortex Halts Life on Campus” →

One of the main focuses this week was making a few minor changes to the website. The main page I worked on was the interactive grid. With Ben’s help, I fixed some of the responsive problems I had been having. I changed the media queries holding the mobile and desktop tables by changing the size of the screen where the table changes from the mobile view to the desktop view. The other main change on the site I made was changing the grid on the…Continue Reading “Week 21: Tweaks to the Website” →

Since Second Semester starts next week, I wanted to reflect on what has surprised me the most this past semester. 1. How close Ruthie and I are and how well we work together Going into this experience, I had no idea how much work I would be doing together. We have very different personalities, and I feel like that is the reason we work so incredibly well together. I know she is only a text away if I ever need something or if I have…Continue Reading “Week 20: End of Winter Break” →

My main focus this week was developing the course pages on the new website. I wanted to differ the design of the pages a bit from the four main pages on the menu bar. The way I differed the pages was using a different header. I like the design of the white overlay because I feel like it looks like clouds. Under the first and main block, there is the teaser video and then next I wanted to find a unique way to incorporate the…Continue Reading “Week 19: Course Pages” →

My focus of this week was completely recreating the website. I used the main steps of the tutorial I watched last week and I made the website unique. First, I created a completely blank new sub-domain so I wouldn’t worry about messing anything up on the one already created and also in case I did not like the new website created. Elementor, the plugin I used, is based on a page of block segments that flow together to create a page. Each main page (except…Continue Reading “Week 18: The New Website!” →

This week focused on continuing to update and edit the long videos of professors and students for the interactive grid and course pages. The rest of the week was spent trying to update my sub-domain and also creating ideas for the Full Spectrum Learning Site. Ruthie sent me an awesome YouTube tutorial that explains each step in making a site with Elementor. I tried to update my sub-domain using these tricks. However, I encountered a bit of an issue. It is very hard to use…Continue Reading “Week 17: Updating the Website” →

Lately, it seems like each day I work, I develop a different version of the color grid. I updated the gray version and added a bit of glow around the intersections along with the axes. I feel like this made the intersections pop out a bit more. The other development I made was creating the rectangular version of the block grid. This grid shows the difference in colors more clearly as the mix of engagement and technology differs.  I have also worked on a few…Continue Reading “Week 16: Another Week, Another Color Grid and a New Logo” →

This week officially ended the first semester for me at St. Norbert and also the end of the first semester of work for Full Spectrum Learning. Through this semester I have continued to work towards my four goals and accomplished some things I was not expecting. The main thing I was not expecting to experience were different presentations. I have had the opportunity to present on two different occasions. The first and major presentation was for the St. Norbert Board of Trustees and it was…Continue Reading “Week 15: End of the First Semester” →