[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][mk_fancy_title style="alt" tag_name="h3" size="13" line_height="18" color="#696969" font_weight="bold" letter_spacing="0" font_family="none" margin_bottom="10" align="left"]DESCRIPTION [/mk_fancy_title][vc_column_text]Tasked with developing and designing a website to house a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for the University of Iowa, I built this site on Drupal 7, resulting in the...
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[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][mk_fancy_title style="alt" tag_name="h3" size="13" line_height="18" color="#696969" font_weight="bold" letter_spacing="0" font_family="none" margin_bottom="10" align="left"]DESCRIPTION [/mk_fancy_title][vc_column_text]I built the Iowa Summer Writing Festival website on Drupal 7. We needed to have data work in multiple ways on several different pages, so Drupal's backend was the...
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[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][mk_image src="http://laurenhaldeman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/iowa-young-writers.png" image_width="500" image_height="400" crop="false" hover="true" target="_self" align="left" margin_bottom="10" animation="fade-in"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][mk_fancy_title style="alt" tag_name="h3" size="13" line_height="18" color="#696969" font_weight="bold" letter_spacing="0" font_family="none" margin_bottom="10" align="left"]DESCRIPTION[/mk_fancy_title][vc_column_text]I built the Iowa Young Writers Studio website on Wordpress. They wanted a basic "pamphlet" layout with a blog...
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Photo Blog: Household Shrines. When my brother, Ryan, died on November 2, 2012, I took to making him a shrine almost immediately and without even thinking: I wanted a place to visit him daily, and I wanted him to be...
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Teaching new media, I focus on Digital Storytelling, with the idea that creating stunning media begins with a solid written base of poetry, fiction, nonfiction or hybrid -- you name it. By starting with a powerful framework of well-written work, the media thrives. We start with a...
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