Gender and Lego Links- The LEGO® Group breaks gender stereotype and encourages girls to ‘Play Unstoppable’ - Inquirer.net
- The LEGO Group breaks gender stereotype and encourages girls to ‘Play Unstoppable’ - Malaya
- Lego's Message to Girls and Their Parents: Ditch 'Perfect' - Adweek
- Language Bias With Kids Entrenches Gender Gaps, Global Study Finds - Forbes
- LEGO says it will remove "gender bias" from toys - AOL
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End of the Term Recap
I learned several things during my time in this class. I learned how to create and maintain a blog which I had never done. I learned a different way to embed hyperlinks. I was actually really excited to learn about … Continue reading
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End of Gender Lens Start of Financial Analysis
Gender Lens: I don’t think that digital cameras require further activism. I feel that digital cameras are marketed well and often by most of the larger brand names. There are many great recycling options for people including sending the cameras … Continue reading
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Gender Lens Updates/Challenges
I am doing my gender lens project on digital cameras. The only challenges I had for the gender lens project was time related. I wasn’t able to really dig in and work on the project before Friday. Thankfully I was … Continue reading
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Gender Lens Digital Camera
I’m thrilled that I got Digital Camera’s for my Gender Lens project. I love taking photos and have a lower end digital camera that is great when it is working properly. I think my research is going well. I found … Continue reading
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Cultural Research Recap
I was able to fix the hyperlink problems I had with my pictures fairly easily which was nice. Overall I really liked the project I turned in. I did use the Turnitin link on Canvas and it found 6% similarity. … Continue reading
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Cultural Research Paper Challenges
I did have a little trouble finding sources for some parts of the paper but once I found all the sources I was able to write the paper with minimal difficulty. I am actually really happy with the paper I … Continue reading
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Librarian Help for Stephanie Kwolek
After a few setbacks in trying to find a replacement person for my Cultural Research topic I finally found Stephanie Kwolek who invented Kevlar. The first thing I did after finding information on her was to write some questions I … Continue reading
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Hedy Lamarr and Frequency Hopping (WiFi)
Hedy Lamarr who was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler to Jewish parents was best known for her acting career. She was born on November 9th, 1914 in Vienna, Austria. She started learning European languages at the age of four was … Continue reading
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News Feed
To get the news feed set up I began by logging into my google sponsored ONID email. Once there I clicked on the Google Apps icon and clicked more then on the embedded News icon. This took me to a … Continue reading
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Week 2
This week there was a lot more to set up for the blog site. I really tried to follow and do just one thing at a time but due to computer issues I think it took longer than it should … Continue reading
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