Peyton Schismenos

Category: Writing Portfolio

  • Tools for Mis-education

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    Here are some misinformation education tools: The first tool is RumorGuard. I like the way this website fact-checks. The site uses five pillars of credibility. The stories get a rating for truthfulness based on these factors: Authenticity, Source, Evidence, Context, and Reasoning. The expansive investigation questions the credibility of the source and what evidence proves…

  • Go on, It’s Free

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    Simply provide your credit card below for access. I’m Peyton, and this is your reminder that while platforms we use may not cost money, they certainly are not free. Are the alarm bells ringing? Your participation is both limited in some respects and unlimited in others. The former’s entendres lead one to question, is it…

  • Wikipedia Edits

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    Hi all, welcome back! I got to edit Wikipedia today, which apparently is not very difficult. For the last week I’ve been figuring the ins and outs of our most collaborative knowledge-building website, Wikipedia. I made an account, edited my personal page (don’t go there, it is quite scarce of meaningful content.) After I put…

  • GenerAtIve Googling

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    It’s been awhile. I hope all is well in the universe (other than the usual everything). I’ve been busy making content for classes and my clients that I’ll link to when I can! However, it is business time. Today I used ChatGPT to figure out how to replace a flange beneath a toilet, this is…

  • A day with Maya

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    “It’s amazing how the world begins to change through the eyes of a cup of coffee.” – Donna Favors Greg Marlow Learning Today is July 27th, 2024, and I need a job. My degree is in Digital Media Literacy and it doesn’t complete until December. With that in mind, I’ve always wanted to earn a job…

  • A.I. images and an I

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    Curse all the new technological… stuff. Today: a day and age of new machines, and the topic of A.I. is hot! Imagery comes to us often with terrible tales and frightfully foreboding messages, but plenty of it is fabricated! How am I supposed to look outside on the internet (ya know that thing when you…

  • 2008, a literary odyssey; Pandora Locks

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    Welcome back to Pandora Locks, a story of hopefully inquiry. This week we will be talking about a cultural resource (movies, books, media, etc.) and the imaginative innovation that breathes through its pages. Chill out and put on your reading glasses, it is time for today. Today’s cultural resource is the movie called The Hunger…

  • Fear as reality: Trans after media; Pandora’s Locks

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    Hey and welcome back to Pandora’s Locks, the blog where I write, and you read. It’s a beautiful partnership, really. Today we’ll be talking about a few stereotypes. We all have bits of identity ingrained with our sense of self and unfortunately those identities have preconceived notions attached to them. With permission from my friend,…

  • PS Writ; Stick and the Script

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    Hey all,Today we are evaluating a vaccine fear: does MMR (and vaccination en masse) cause autism??? Excellent question, and timely, as I’m sure you remember the covid-19 vaccine fears. I find myself hesitant to see my family as a result. Why? Well, some people don’t want to get the jab, lest they develop some mysterious…

  • PS Writ: Some fact-checking

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    Hello again everyone! Last week we delved into the pit of content consumption over a twenty-four hour period, sharing a personal look at ideas creating algorithms. This week we’ll be focusing on ideas as facts, how they’re made, and how they can be debunked. That is, with a little help from Reuters Fact Check. I…