Blog Updates

Alexine Calienta -  I was able to make a few changes to the blog's background. I used a picture taken from a website called The Edvocate to help make our background relevant to our topic. Once I chose a background that I liked, I customized the blog post's background to a light grey color, which made the blog content easy to read and looked better than white with the color scheme of the background picture I chose.

Keely Kiczenski - I ended up changing were some text elements -- the blog title and description, gadget title and text, post titles, and date headers -- using the font styles 'Puritan' and 'Play'. I hope you think it looks okay and is easily readable; I wanted to keep adding personality/personability while also keeping accessibility in mind. I added a couple links to the Helpful Websites page as well.

Mikaela MacKenzie - I organized the sidebar for a uniform look so we can easily jump between pages without being distracted from the main posts and created this page to keep current with our overall updates

Courtney Canetti - I changed the name "Group Member of Assistive Technology" to Contributors and moved it from the bottom to the right. I also changed the description of the blog at the top. I was able to get the page  "Helpful Websites" Ercilia had created to show up. I then added some websites to this page. I added a page "Print Resources" and put a few resources on that page. I added the gadget, "Search this Blog" on the right side. On the bottom I added a gadget for users to subscribe to the blog or to report abuse. I was able to get Ericilia's Helpful Websites page active under Our Pages and added links that open to helpful websites in a new window on the Helpful Websites page.


Ercilia Guajardo - I moved the sidebar right 2-2 and added the Home page to Our Pages. Work in progress trying to add more tabs to it. I have worked on my Profile an it's all set up.


William Carleton - I just updated the blog header to make it neater. Originally, we had the blog title as "LT130" with an image of the text "Assistive Technology" as a header background. The text didn't match the font and was kind of blurry. I changed the title to Assistive Technology and added the LT 130 context to a description in the header. It now looks a neater and highlights the blog subject more as opposed to the class. I'm looking forward to adding content to the blog!


Carrie Ruano - I added information from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh about what Assistive Technology is. I also added the web address to the Helpful Websites page. I changed the title to all CAPS. Tried to add borders to the posts but it didn't work. 

Monica Lopez -  I started the blog early in the month because I wanted us to become familiar with the formats and to see if we could maneuver ways to improve it. To know nothing of something and learn step-by-step how, was empowering! I also knew if the blog went up early, it would excite and inspire the group to add what they felt was right. As for my first post, I made updates and added a new visual graphic and video I felt was interesting and informative. I hope we continue using the blog throughout the semester!