Course: Trends and Issues in Instructional Design Our text gave several different definitions of "Instructional Design." For one assignment, I was tasked with either identifying a definition that resonated with me or coming up with my own. Ultimately, there was one in the text which I felt cut to the core…
Paper and Presentation on Antibiotic Resistance created for a Medical Anthropology course I took for the fun of it. And yes, it was fun—I ended up learning way more about microbiology than I ever anticipated in writing this one! Inspiration came from a podcast I'd heard a few years ago…
Why "Trapped in Love"? In 2010, we had a son, Keith Alton. Our daughter was 7 years old at the time and had long blond hair. She would hover over him in his bouncy seat, making it so it was just her face and his inside a wall of blond…
Paper written for a British Romanticism class exploring grief in three of Wordsworth's poems: Surprised by joy, We are seven, and Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm. [pdf-embedder url="https://www.elizabethmcalister.net/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2020/05/Exploring-Grief-Wordsworth.pdf" title="Exploring Grief - Wordsworth"]
A - Albany, Georgia. That’s where I was born, but I grew up in neighboring Leesburg (home of Luke Bryan and Phillip Phillips!). When asked where you’re from, you still would say “Albany” (pronounced all-BEN-ny). It’s sort of like people who live just outside of Atlanta. It’s easier to say…
Though this wasn’t my first “real” job, it was my first significant job and the one that taught me what career path I did NOT want. I was a cashier at Lowe’s in Albany, Georgia. Because of that job, as long as I know they’re actually trying, I have the…