Spin the Yarn

When reading through the course content this week, I kept seeing Arduinos mentioned and it piqued my interest. I had heard the name before, usually in discussions about projects that use mini circuit boards, like the Raspberry Pi, so I thought that it was a type of single-board computer. Looking into it further thought, I discovered that while they can both be used for similar projects, they are actually two different types of circuit boards that work well in different ways. As outlined in the article, What are the Differences Between Raspberry Pi and Arduino?, “Arduino is a Microcontroller based development board, the Raspberry Pi is a Microprocessor (usually an ARM Cortex A Series) based board that acts as a computer” (Teja, 2021, para. 9). So, the Raspberry Pi is a small computer, and the Arduino is a small circuit board that can be programmed to control operations, like motors, sensors, and lights. While useful for automating robots, Arduinos can also utilize a lot of different sen

I will be honest, before exploring the resources in the current course module on cyberbullying, I had a very narrow concept of what cyberbullying entailed. I thought that it was mostly just people being persistently mean on social media, in comments sections, or on discussion forums. I thought that you could just avoid it by not engaging with it. Like on social media, for instance, you could just block the negative people or set your account to private. After learning more about it though, I see how simplistic that view was and how pervasive cyberbullying can be. Dan Olweus (1993) defined bullying as, “ repeated aggressive behaviours that are intended to cause harm to a victim with relatively less power to defend themselves” (as cited in Faucher et al., 2015, p. 112). Those are three key components of bullying, repetitive, harmful actions, against people with less power. I think what makes cyberbullying so insidious though is the way that it can exacerbate those components. Before the

I think that it is safe to say that social media is becoming an important tool for the sharing of information. According to the Pew Research Center (2021), "Today around seven-in-ten Americans use social media to connect with one another, engage with news content, share information and entertain themselves" (para. 1). Sharing information and engaging users are two very important aspects of library service, so it seems that social media has the potential to help fulfill and improve on a library’s ability to carry out those services. The social media tool that I have chosen for the fictional library that I created is Instagram (username: cedarbayllc ). I have been an Instagram user ever since it was first released for Android. Initially, for me, what made Instagram stand out from other social media platforms was it’s focus on sharing pictures and the interesting filters that you could apply to them. Over the years, they have added more and more features to the program, but I fe