Monthly Archives: May 2015

Week 8

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Overall, I’ve had an easier time with this project than I did with the Cultural Research. After being more experienced with finding information, citing sources, and this website in general, I had a better time writing my paper and posting it into WordPress. I am currently still editing my work and uploading it into its specific pages. However I do have everything all set up to just copy and paste so I am currently finishing that up right now.

This project has opened my eyes to the history and development of the auto GPS navigation device. I had never really thought about where this device came from before starting be research for this project. GPS is something that we all can take advantage of and something that we often forget is so incredible! Now, having all this new knowledge, I will never think the same about GPS.

Week 7

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This week I have chosen to do my Gender Lens project on the Auto GPS navigation device. I chose this because I was able to find a good amount of information at first glance, which will hopefully help me to write my project. These have been around for about 15 years and they have made travel a whole lot easier. My research this week has been going well. I have yet to meet with a librarian yet, but it is on my To Do list for this week. However, I did try the online Answerland again just for fun and got the same delayed and not very helpful answers. I plan on finding more information this week when I head to the library and as I continue searching for articles on the web. The bibliography tool I use is called EasyBib.com, which helps generate the citations as well as sort them into order. However, I have to tweak them a little bit for
the APA format, as it only does MLA for free.

Week 6

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This project has been a lot to handle! It’s been a busy week already, and this paper on top of everything has been overwhelming. That being said, the final touches weren’t super difficult. Adding in photos and visual aids to my pages was rather easy. However, a video I chose to add for supplementary information, was from a site other than YouTube, and I could not figure out how to embed the video so it could play right there in my page. I posted the URL, however, so hopefully that is enough and doesn’t knock off any points for me.

Legos! I used to love legos. My family owns a small movie theatre on the Oregon Coast and I remember having a play room inside the theatre and playing with Legos all day long. I liked the basic legos; I was never into the crazy intricate legos that you build fancy ships and things with. I used to babysit in high school and these two boys were always building Star Wars figures with their Legos. It was fun to help, but also frustrating because the pieces are so small and everything is so exact. That’s why I stick with the basic block legos. I think I still have them at home somewhere, too!

Week 5

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This week was crazy. Last minute, I decided to switch the woman I was doing my cultural research project on because I just couldn’t find enough information about my initial choice. This was frustrating to say the least! I hate doing things last minute, but I also am always one to procrastinate. Go figure! I ended up figuring it all out and it all seemed to come together, which I am thankful for.

I found it pretty easy to upload each piece of my paper into my blog pages. Everything looks good to me. It’s readable and the links are right on my main blog homepage to access each section of my paper. Overall, the set up wasn’t too bad for this project.