Vivero Fall Retreat Reflection

• What are you most excited about building out on your own portfolio website? And in your own domain?

I’m looking forward to building out a professional portfolio site that I can use going forward in my career beyond simply using it as a space for Vivero, building on the skills I’ve learned in Vivero to create a site that aligns with my personal vision.

• What questions do you still have about WordPress, cPanel, or your domain?

I’m generally pretty clear on WordPress and cPanel after working with them this year, but I am curious how to transfer which domain is my primary domain on cPanel/the hosting platform. I assume that I can just email Mo about it, but wonder if it’s possible to do on my own.

• How do you think this experience could help inform your work helping your peers learn how to use digital tools?

Going through the process of creating a WordPress site, especially in pairs with your peers in Vivero is really important in my opinion because it provides a good starting baseline for what the process of website creation at Grinnell often looks like. It’s also one of the most common platforms for digital scholarship at the college, likely right behind ArcGIS Storymaps in frequency so it’s a good hard skill to develop as well. It also provides a good idea of what the process of working through a Vivero tutorial looks and feels like, so you can guide your peers on completing the process.