Plants and Wildflowers of New England
For a final project last semester, I made a LibGuide of sources all about one of my favorite subjects: botany, namely wildflowers and how to identify them. (link to wildflower LibGuide)
I included a homepage with the New England Wildflower Society’s RSS feed, a plant database, and a slideshow of forests.
There were also pages with book and web resources about exploring nature respectfully for kids and adults, keying out flowers, identifying rare, endangered, invasive, or butterfly-attractant species, finding weeds, plants by state, and more.
My favorite part of this project was finding image examples of New England wildflowers I’d found on hikes in my town forest, including the Latin and common names. I love being able to know wildflowers’ names, and sharing species I saw every day with people who might want to learn more about the subject was very fun.
Information Explication
For a final project in another class last semester, I made an essay kind of LibGuide to define information science and scientists, various parts of information behavior, and information professions. (Information Explication essay/LibGuide)
Citing all my sources with endnotes in each box, I included a homepage with images, 6 navigation tabs, a meme we created for a lab, DIKW (hierarchy model for Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom) pyramids, and more overview info.
There were also pages with essay sections explaining different aspects and author models of information science, such as career choices, facet analysis, Wilson’s “Universe of Knowledge,” and information behavior.
We also learned various methods of portraying information and data, such as creating bar graphs and pie charts to display a visual representation of how many libraries and what kinds of libraries are in each New England state.
This also included an example of a classification schemes in a screenshot of a PowerPoint presentation I did, along with a fun infographic using name frequency to model which New England states have the most libraries.
Google Site
Throughout one of my classes, we added elements with code to our own pages of a Google Site, including inserting various graphics and attachments. (link to Spring 2019 Google site, requires my.uri.edu sign-in)
The project started with setting a consistent color and font for headings, including a screenshot of an avatar and a brief description of myself with a lab comparing browsers.
I got more in-depth with designing the page by adding new headings, images and written elements for new labs directly into the HTML coding.
I added screenshots of labs comparing different ways to model data about New England libraries, slideshow presentation programs, and custom business cards and logo graphics (some of which are also on the information definition LibGuide).
Also as previously mentioned, I added screenshots of labs mapping where every library in Rhode Island is located and an infographic of name frequency for New England states with the most libraries (both of which are also on the information definition LibGuide).
Adding more elements to the webpage became a little difficult with the addition of a Google gadget in the form of a brief Scratch animation, which included the “iframe” inputs I had never used before.
Finally, I created my own infographic on a website designing for doing so, combining several methods of visually displaying the data I’d found and been given.
