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Interning with the Smithsonian: Update 8 (Final)

May 5, 2021
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Well, after two semesters and many updates, my time with the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is coming to end. It has been quite the journey and I have learned a lot, but it is time to write my final update post about my experience. In this post, I will...

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Interning with the Smithsonian: Update 7

April 19, 2021
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As we draw to the end of my internship with the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), the culmination of my work since October 2020 is approaching. The Wikipedia edit-a-thon will be upon us on April 23 and we have been able to reach our max registrant capacity of 80(!) people. While I am...

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Interning with the Smithsonian: Update 6

March 7, 2021
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As we progress closer and closer to the edit-a-thon event in April, our agenda and event details are evolving. This update will provide some insight into these changes and how the edit-a-thon is shaping up to be. Last update I spoke on the profile building I was engaging in to create the material...

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Interning with the Smithsonian: Update 5

February 11, 2021
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After a refreshing winter break and start to the spring semester, I am back with a new update on the progress of my internship with the Smithsonian Institute! To provide a brief recap: My main project is working on setting up a Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon centered around expanding the biographies and...

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Interning with the Smithsonian: Update 4

December 11, 2020
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Well, this post has taken a surprising turn of events compared to my last several posts. There are some highlights and some lowlights. Since the last update, I participated in a presentation with my fellow interns as part of the fall final intern presentations held by NMAI at the end of every...

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Interning with the Smithsonian: Update 3

November 25, 2020
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Unfortunately, this update is a bit overdue, but nevertheless, here is the latest report on my internship at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)! These last few weeks have seen my work transition from the planning stages to the execution stages. After...

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Interning with the Smithsonian: Update 2

October 30, 2020
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With several more weeks and several more trainings under my belt, things have started to ramp up for my internship work. Over the last couple weeks, I’ve been focusing on learning more about how to organize the aforementioned edit-a-thon. While it might seem straightforward, this isn’t...

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Interning with the Smithsonian: Update 1

October 8, 2020
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In the absence of recent posts to this blog/portfolio/record of work, I have been developing, organizing, and finalizing the last component of my graduate certificate program at George Mason University (GMU): a virtual internship opportunity at the Smithsonian Institute (SI)! It took some time to...

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Project Update: Challenges and Problem-Solving

July 8, 2020
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As I near the date for submitting my first draft of my final project, the challenges make their appearances in various ways (like they always do at this stage). As mentioned last time, my goal was to focus on the creation of my activities to best facilitate the teaching of the content I am...

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Meeting the Challenges of Teaching in the Digital World

July 8, 2020
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We know that our students are much closer to the cutting edges of the digital revolution than we are, but nothing I have seen in the past dozen years of close observation has altered my conviction that just because they are adept users of technology, that is not the same thing as being adept...

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