Call her.... Erin

I have recently been rummaging around a blog entitled Call me... Erin. In her blog I have found a lot of good ideas and connections.  She has worked hard and made a lot of effort to clearly demonstrate her learning of Historical Content, Digital Concepts, and Learning Labs.

   Erin has blazed a trail of self directed research leaving a wide trail as evidence of her studies of Historical Content.  The first major evidence of all her efforts come from her prodigiously active use of Diigo.  She has left 100s of tags for over 40 linked pages of outside research and exploration.  But more than just tagging, she frequently marks up key sections and concepts with highlights and sticky notes.
   The second major evidence of her studies come from all of her deep historically related postings on her blog.   A majority of her blog postings have a connection to our course studies of historical content with a strong search into the past and an interesting connection to the present future.  She makes a lot of interesting references of different ideas and people; both of their connections and their clashes.
   And last she her self is the first to admit the growth in this area of her research over the first half of the class. In a reflective post she commented "As far as learning and understanding these concepts I feel as though I have progressed more in this area than I had in the previous semester."

   Erin has done a good job of connecting past historical concepts forward to Digital Concepts.  She has studied out all the core concepts covered in class and makes a nice summary of the semester.
“The next area covered in class is the computing concepts. Tied in with these concepts are ideas from the digital culture that has sprung up around us from the internet and the advent of new media in the 21st century. Distributed Computing and Software systems, Software engineering, and Computer Theory are some of the computer concepts that we have covered, while aspects of the digital culture include the differences in traditional and digital economics."

  And last I feel like Erin has made a good effort to consume, create, and connect.  More than just posting a laundry list of tools that she has learned, Erin has demonstrated her mastery of tools by applying them into her post.  She enriches her blog through photo, video, slideshow, and other forms of material integrated in.  She has also demonstrated a superior ability to actively use and apply other tools such as Diigo in her studies.  And I feel no fear in inferring that she has learned far more tools that go into the silent self studies to develop her learning and final product of blog posts.

Overall I feel like she has done well at taking on the core tasks of this class and I would give her an A for both the evident efforts and quality produced.