Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
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The capabilities I have demonstrated through my work in New Media Lab
I’ve worked hard to take advantage of this opportunity to learn about journalistic conventions in contemporary online publishing. Let me show you.
WRITING
I can write well-developed and supported articles for a general audience.
I can research and evaluate the credibility of sources, and I can present information in an original way that respects and gives credit to the work of others.
WORKING ONLINE
I can find and select images that convey the topic and tone of my writing in a way that understands and respects copyright and fair use.
I can use a variety of online tools such as email, online word processors, social media, search engines and content management systems to communicate, research, write, and publish my work using online conventions such as hyperlinking to sources.
Burnaby high school teacher forced to cancel summer plans
Another summer in quarantine? Or a busting out, finally post-vaccination, after over a year of pandemic blues?
For this Burnaby school teacher looking forward to summer, the future is uncertain
Jack Triumph, a teacher working in Burnaby, says he was looking forward to getting together with some family in the summer. This was because it was his parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. Triumph says, “we were planning to meet up with his family in Penticton, since he thought everyone would be vaccinated by then, and things would be so restrictive.”
He says that his family were half-way through plans,that’s when the Alberta COVID cases blew up. “We can’t really be talking about getting togethers right now,” says Triumph’s sister.
”We need to put a pause on this until things get under more control here.” His sister says.
image credit :TheDigitalArtist
Travelers are fined after breaking COVID restrictions
The federal government has doled out hundreds of fines since Feb. 22 — typically for $3,000 each — to air passengers who refused to quarantine in a designated hotel upon arrival in Canada.
Even so, the government couldn’t provide CBC News with a total number of people who’ve violated its rule that passengers entering Canada be tested for COVID-19, then quarantine in a hotel while waiting for their results.
And when CBC tried to track down the total number of hotel quarantine violators, it found no evidence of fines being issued to passengers who landed in Calgary or Montreal — two of the four cities, along with Vancouver and Toronto, where international flights are allowed to land during the pandemic.
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) told CBC News last week it was “aware” of 513 tickets being issued to air passengers who arrived in Toronto or Vancouver between Feb. 22 and April 25 and refused to go to a quarantine hotel. The agency said that in those cities, both PHAC officers and police can issue tickets.
Read the rest at Morning Brief
Stardew Valley is a fun farming game
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I don’t regret buying it. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
It is one of my favorite games. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
I recommend buying the game for yourself. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
You can play it on a lot of different devices. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Credit for image goes to:How-to Geek
My Graphic Design
I wanted to design my home page to represent what I like best to do – gaming.
I decided to make a compilation of video game characters from the online games that I have either played in the past or still love to play. I used PowerPoint to make the base of the picture. I looked for images of characters that I like and chose these specific pictures because they are my favourites.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is when someone copies someone else’s own hard work without giving the person credit. Plagiarism is copying word for word on someone’s website. It is still plagiarism if you copy the work, then delete some of the words and put your own in. A way to not plagiarize is to put quotations on what someone has said, then after you put the name of the author who wrote the quote. Plagiarism is also a very serious crime when you are working for a newspaper company, you could get in serious trouble or fired from your job. You can avoid plagiarism by looking at the website and after you get an idea of what to do is to close the website after so you aren’t tempted to look back at it. This will improve on how you write other reports and things so that you don’t plagiarize. There are ways to know when you think you are plagiarizing, one way is if you search up a sentence that you wrote and it is what someone else wrote you should change it. Double-checking your work is very important, but you don’t have to search up everything, just to sentences you think would be.
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
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