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Kimberly Frisbee

Kimberly Frisbee was born in California, but has lived in many different parts of the country and even in England for a brief time. She relocated to Virginia in 2017, had her first and only [miracle] child in 2018, bought a home with her mother in 2020, and finally earned her Associates degree in 2022 in General Education, Psychology. She currently attends University of Mary Washington as a BLS student majoring in Adolescent and Child Psychology. She hopes to apply her education background and personal life experiences in her future career as a school counselor. According to Ms. Frisbee, “It [School counselor] is a thankless job that isn’t going to make me rich, but it might just save a life or two and I’m more than ok with this!”

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Claire

Claire is a junior at University of Mary Washington and plans on majoring in psychology and minoring in business administration. She was a competitive dancer for ten years and is now a dance teacher. Her favorite book is The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.

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Erin Dutton

Erin is a student at the University of Mary Washington. She is attending Mary Washington for her first semester as a Junior. Erin transferred from Laurel Ridge Community College where she earned her Associate of Arts and Sciences in General Studies. There she served as Vice President of the Alpha Psi Iota chapter for Phi Theta Kappa, a 2-year college honor society. Through her time in community college, she spent countless hours involved in many student leadership events and activities where she gained her passion for helping students become the best version of themselves. Erin intends to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Digital Studies at the University of Mary Washington. Honoring her commitment to serve students, she plans to become involved in many extracurricular activities on campus and in the Fredericksburg community to include mentoring and volunteering. After UMW she plans to earn a master’s degree in Higher Education with a Student Affairs specialization or a master’s degree in Leadership at an undecided college. Erin wants to make a difference in students’ higher education experience by mentoring, inspiring and motivating the generations that come after her.

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Who is the internet for?

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Openness

Why?

Using openness will create collaboration between different people, possibly on opposite ends of the world. This can help others form new ideas and build off of others.

How?

I believe you can make content more open by allowing more people to respond and interact. There’s plenty of content but not a ton of interaction. Interaction makes it easier to understand and elaborate on different topics.

Accessibility?

Why?

Making accessible content helps everyone. When you make it easier for others to engage and understand your content, you’re opening up conversations and ideas If you think about science, there’s tons of questions unanswered but the more accessible it is, more people can see it and hopefully answer it.

How?

We can make content more accessible by including details, especially for photos/images in the form of alternative text. I believe we can also do it by including larger titles and shorter text that is straight to the point to help people with disabilities. Here is a wonderful example of this. Buttermilk Biscuit Recipe

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Olivia

Olivia Kern is a sophomore at the University of Mary Washington, and is planning to major in Communications and Digital Studies. She grew up in Virginia Beach, so naturally one of her favorite things to go to the beach. She also loves to play tennis, swim, watch movies (her favorites are Knives Out and Emma), as well as hang out with her friends and family!

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Leah

Leah is a junior at the University of Mary Washington studying psychology and business administration. With an interest in working with individuals with exceptionalities, Leah enjoys volunteering with Best Buddies, A Place to Be, and educating the public about learning differences. Leah is from Ashburn, Virginia where she lives with her twin sister and French bulldog, Ziggy.

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Who is the Internet For?

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Openness

Why?

The open web is important because it can start a chain of ideas as anyone is able to see what is posted and build off of it. It creates a collaboration factor that allows people to view anything and become inspired from it, creating their own ideas based off of it.

How?

Openness can be achieved through public posts such as Wikipedia articles, recipes from a blog post, or restaurant reviews. Through these public posts, viewers are able to take the information into consideration when writing a paper, or making dinner, or choosing where to go out to lunch. For example, see if you would want to eat here with this Restaurant Review of Rey Azteca.

Accessibility

Why?

Accessibility is important to ensure that each individual is able to view the content. Making information accessible for all promotes an equality factor, that allows those with disabilities to have the same abilities as those without. Providing accessibility is not only just the right thing to do, but it is also mandatory according to the law in some countries.

How?

Ways to make content accessible can vary from headings and subheadings, to the use of subtitles on videos, descriptive link texts, colors for graphics and more. There is no way a person can make content 100% accessible, however there is always something that can be added in order to allow a higher accessibility level. While those with disabilities will benefit greatly from these tools, others will also find them useful as it is an extra way to gather information needed.

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Rachel

Rachel is a senior business administration major at UMW. She plays on the Women’s Lacrosse team and is also the President of Cru Campus Ministry.

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Who is the internet for?

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Openness

Why?

The open web is a place where innovation and creativity grow. It allows for collaboration between people who would otherwise be unable to connect.

How?

Openness is achieved through public access to information and ideas. Open-source software also helps achieve openness on the internet when people are able to use code others have made.

Accessibility

Why?

Accessibility is important because it ensures that everyone can have access to the information they need. This promotes equality and leads to a more informed society.

How?

Accessibility is achieved through inclusive design choices. Some design choices include the use of heading and subheadings, image descriptions and descriptive link text. W3C Designing for Web Accessibility.

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Who is the internet for?

Openness

Why?

The open web was and is a pioneering discovery of our time. It invented the ability to connect with anyone from anywhere at anytime and share anything- a truly remarkable creation! The openness of the internet allows us to share quite literally anything with everyone who has access to the web. Recipes, solutions to problems, event planning inspo, how-to’s, and the list could go on forever. The openness of content on the internet has created a certain kind of convenience that there has never been before.

How?

Much open web content is made possible through open-source software like GIMP or WordPress. Another example of open content would be blog groups like Reddit, where individuals are able to ask a question they have or state a problem they’re having and people can respond with answers and feedback to help (or just share chicken recipes). Take a look for yourself. Reddit chicken recipes thread.

Accessibility

Why?

To those who have never heard of ‘accessible’ content, it might be hard to understand what it is, and why or how it is made. In plain English, accessible content is going to be able to be viewed not just by people without disabilities, but also people with disabilities. Take someone who is deaf, for example, trying to watch a video without subtitles. That piece of content is inaccessible for them. Creating accessible content allows your content to reach a broader audience, giving you a greater chance of reaching whatever goal you have, and is just straight up the right thing to do, even if it creates an extra step and takes some extra time to do.

How?

There is no straight forward ‘how’ to make accessible content. It depends on things like what kind of content you’re making and what you’re trying to accomplish and it requires you to be considerate and think about how someone with disabilities may or may not be able to view your content. As Professor Cartland said, “Nothing is ever 100% accessible, or 100% open. But creators can make choices about what level to aspire to, and work to reach that goal.” Some common features of accessible content include things like alt text for photos, closed captions on videos, and choosing high contrast colors for word graphics.

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