For Professor Stroud

Hi Readers! 

If you’ve consulted my “About this Site” page, then you’ll know that this blog started out as an assignment for a course at Ivy Tech. Yes, I am taking coursework while I pursue a public library certificate for the State of Indiana. Although I am a political science professor, I love libraries and my early retirement dream is to work in a small rural library after my husband retires as a high school teacher. I’m not sure if this will actually happen for me, but all knowledge is worth pursuing (spoken like an advocate of life-long learning). Plus, believe it or not, I have come across many transferrable skills in this LTA program! I’ve already started incorporating some of the ideas from my LIBR coursework into the classes I teach in political science, public administration, and — in the future — my honors class about gritty women. 

If you are reading this blog post, remember that it was a requirement for my class. If you are here for the WWII content, please feel free just to skip over this post. You have my permission. If you are my professor for LIBR 105, do not skip over the post because I’d like to earn my points for this part of the assignment. 🙂

I choose to use WordPress as my blogging space because I’m eventually going to transfer this to my own domain name and looking at the programs available, this seemed like the most reasonable content management site. Most of the structure was fairly intuitive: I was able to post the required pictures across two pages with no trouble. WordPress also has a “block” that allowed me to connect to all of my existing social media accounts without having to do much formatting aside from editing the html to eliminate YouTube (that was a little fussy, but I got it to work).  I had some troubles with the headers on the individual blog posts, but figured it out after messing around with it for a little bit. 

As for the required widget, I used the “widgets” listed in WordPress to make the Archives List and the Resources Lists. The social media accounts section was also called a widget by the Word Press folks. If you hover over the addresses at the bottom of the page, the Google Maps should come up as well (which is listed as a widget by WordPress). Hopefully this covers me for my assignment. 

As for design: Based on all of our course readings, I opted for clean lines and a white/black contrast to make it easier for people to read. I added the ALT-TEXT descriptions to my photographs as well. The last part of the assignment is to add a YouTube video, which I will do later this weekend after I find something appropriate to the theme of the site. 

Because I am trying to stay to my theme of Gritty, Gutsy Women Who Never Give Up, you won’t see many of these types of course-based posts on here. However, you may find some book recommendations from time to time, based on my readings. 

Sincerely,
MT

PS: I have posted a bibliography on this site under the heading The Women of World War II. If you happen to be a student, feel free to use this as a starting point for finding more information for research projects, etc. I did post a couple of warnings in the list, so take those to heart.

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