UF Artificial Intelligence
Project Overview The University of Florida’s Artificial Intelligence website needed a redesign, and as the Web Developer hired to help the Marketing and Communications department with current and upcoming web projects, I was assigned this task. UF’s Artificial Intelligence initiative was being developed around that time, and they needed an updated website where they could present that…
240 Certification
Project Overview The 240 Certification website is a small web project that the company 240 Tutoring set up to provide prospective clients with more information about how to become a certified teacher in Texas through its services. A former coworker of mine reached out to me about an open contract role at 240 Tutoring, asking for a developer…
ACCRP: Truth & Reconciliation
Project Overview The Alachua County Community Remembrance Project is a response to work completed by the Alachua County Historical Commission, as led by the Alachua County Board of County Commissioners. The project is also inspired by the Equal Justice Initiative’s work done to document the unjust lynchings that took place between 1867 and 1926 in Alachua County,…
ToniTalks: Learning Plans
As time goes on and new responsibilities and opportunities appear in my life, I find myself having to constantly alter and update my personal learning plan. Not only do I face personal and family responsibilities that I have to adapt to, but I notice a shift in interests and needs as I come across more…
ToniTalks: Baddies in Tech – Women’s Rights Buildathon Experience
Recently I participated in a buildathon/hackathon for an organization called Baddies in Tech, through a hackathon hosting online platform called Devpost. Baddies in Tech is an organization founded by Allie Joy Tsahey for the purpose of “ creating safe spaces for women of color in tech to belong”. The organization was suggested to me on…
Women Who Code: 30-Day Coding Challenge
So I recently started a coding challenge associated with Women Who Code where women who are along various paths on their technologist career journey have made a commitment to spend at least 30 Days of consistently working on improving their coding and programming skills. They offered some challenges that we could work on just in…
Tech Can Solve It: 4 ways AI can help enhance education
The COVID-19 pandemic unfortunately wreaked a lot of havoc on students and their learning outcomes as the risk of illness understandably kept students, teachers, and administrators at home to prevent further spread. After students returned to school, there were gaps in their learning that the decreased amount of teaching personnel could not properly accommodate with…
About the robots.txt File
Last year, a new project at work called for me to research and familiarize myself with the robots.txt file. When I first heard about this file, I was a little intimidated. I’ve seen the file in WordPress theme directories, but I never saw it being mentioned as a required file by the developers I learned…
The Importance of Diversity in the Tech Classroom
A few years ago, I wrote about the Importance of Diversity in Tech. In general, I discussed how important it was to allow space for, and not dismiss, the contributions of underrepresented groups in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. I was mostly just sorting through some observations I have made reading various…
ToniTalks: Dealing with Grief
I have been away from this blog for quite some time, with every intention of returning. A lot has happened within the past almost two years that has kept me from returning fully. I had to take time to heal, grieve, deal with family affairs, and attempt to manage my life healthily. I recently experienced…
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