Tech Tip: YouTube Playlist

I normally use YouTube for finding music videos, video game tutorials, and other kinds of tutorials. I look up origami videos frequently because it's much easier to see what someone in a video is doing with their hands than looking at a flat diagram. I have also looked up videos on concepts for school if I was struggling, and it really helped. Occasionally I've made playlists of songs I can't buy anywhere. For this assignment I thought it would be fun to make a playlist of videos introducing the Persona 5 characters, and I also added in videos that introduce the many other characters that Joker can have relationships with in the game.

Tech Tip: Reverse Image Search

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The Bishop of Hereford is a character from the legend of Robin Hood. In The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, he is the bishop who was supposed to marry Allen a Dale and his true love.

Tech Tip: Pinterest Sidebar

(Photo from Hello Giggles)

This week I added a Pinterest sidebar to my blog. I decided to use my Persona 5 board since it's the one I end up using the most saved images from in my blog posts. I regularly search Pinterest for images that are relevant to my stories and other posts, and save them so I can easily find and use them later.  Sometimes when I'm bored and already planning a story in my head, I just spend a half hour on Pinterest looking for images that I think will work well with it. Some of them get used and some don't. I think having the sidebar right on my blog will make it even easier to work with both sites together.

Google Define Tech Tip

(Screen Shot from Google Define)

I already knew what aesthetics means, but I was curious about the origin. I think it's fascinating that it had nothing to do with beauty until the early 19th century, and was controversial until the end of the 19th century.  The way word meanings change over time is really interesting. 

I use google to look up words pretty frequently when I'm not sure what they mean, or I need to explain the meaning to my daughter and realize I can't put it into words even though I know how to use it. Another thing I use often if thesaurus.com when I am writing. It makes it much either to not keep repeating the same words over and over, especially descriptive words. 

Tech Tip: Embedding YouTube, Persona 5 Opening

Persona 5 Opening Cinematic and Song

Typing Test Tech Tip

For this challenge I tried two typing games, key hero and ninja cat. The key hero test had you type three different passages. I scored 41.45 WPM with 94.42% accuracy. This feels pretty accurate to me. I never took a typing class so I'm a little bit slower than most people. It was sort of fun, because the passages were from all sorts of things. One of the ones they gave me from the movie The Goonies.

I also tried the ninja cat game. It didn't tell me nearly as much about how well I actually type. I killed 59 dinosaurs and my key accuracy was 86.5%. While I don't think it told me as much, it was really challenging to hit the right keys at the right time to kill the dinosaurs. Also, it was pretty fun. The other game wasn't very fun. I could see myself playing it again, and I think it might help improve my typing skills over time.

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Tech Tip: Canvas Dashboard

I found the tips for customizing the Canvas dashboard really helpful. I had recently figured out how to change the color of the courses. I did that a few days ago because I had two on my dashboard showing up purple and one that was red, and it looked really awful. Now my courses are all colors that don't clash with each other.

What I learned today that I find helpful is how to create a nickname for the course. Since I have two psychology classes this semester, and they are both 4000 level classes, it was getting hard to remember which was which. Not they are labeled as "Personality" and "Capstone" and I won't have to think so hard about it before clicking on the right course.

I also like that you can remove things from the To Do list. I find it really irritating when there are lots of assignments that I don't even control, like weekly participation, but they show up in my To Do list, making it harder to find assignments that I actually need to do. So I have cleared that out for the week and I feel a little less stressed out with nothing on the list.