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During the months of February and March, I continued working on documentation for my own project. There were a few factors that caused challenges and new considerations that I had to make in the documentation I had already written. With Mark’s MDI app having an installable version, the majority of the documentation written for it… Continue reading February + March Reflection

This semester, I would like to continue honing my skills with web design and documentation. These goals are in line with the current state of the project, but also with general skills I would like to keep as I leave Grinnell. Last semester marked the TDPS Archive project reaching a more stable point of functionality,… Continue reading January 2026 Reflection

My project documentation is written from the perspective of general maintenance for the TDPS archive website. Originally, my documentation was focused on development notes for the website, but I shifted gears for a few reasons. For one, many of the technical details of the tools needed for the website are documented by Mark McFate for… Continue reading Documentation and Wrap Up Reflection

Because my TDPS project work picked up a lot this month, my professional development reflection will focus on the things I’ve done for the project and what skills I have built on. Mark McFate has developed a few projects that were crucial to getting the project running smoothly: a new CollectionBuilder template, and a tool… Continue reading November Reflection

This month, my training focus was on static websites. I decided on this topic because it was in line with my current project, as well as with skills I am working on in other classes and that I hope to use in the future to build websites for personal use. To that end, I decided… Continue reading October Reflection

For this week’s training, I looked at the current training for Gale Digital Scholar. I realized the UI changed drastically since the last time I used the program, and I think that contributes a lot to making the process of learning it easier. As for the Vivero training, I do not think I have any… Continue reading Week 4: Training Feedback

During my time at Vivero, I think the main skill I developed, and my favorite thing to learn, was website development. Even though I only worked on the TDPS website itself for about a year, I was still involved in the process of planning the site itself. The time to plan helped immensely with finding… Continue reading Week 3 Training: Goal Setting

For my training refresher, I took a look at Audacity again. Although audio editing isn’t anything I need for my current Vivero project, I wanted to revisit it as I have not worked with audio tools ever since the last time I did this training. Because I have a good handle on how to organize… Continue reading Week 2 Reflection

After being on the Vivero team for two years now, my advice for new fellows would be to go beyond what the written trainings show about a particular program if it interests them. The training schedule is structured so that the trainings themselves are fairly surface level, enough for baseline understanding, but there are a… Continue reading Fall 2025 – Week 1 Reflection

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