Women's Contributions

In my Women and Computers course, on April 13, 2011, we looked at many of the different contributions that women have made to computers and the internet.

Becky made a presentation on slideshare.net about Caterina Fake. Caterina Fake is the creator of Flickr, which is a website that is used to build community by sharing photos with others. I really enjoyed Becky's presentation in that it was both very interesting and more aesthetically pleasing than just a plain old PowerPoint.

Hannah's presentation was created on prezi.com. Her presentation was on Corvida Raven, the creator of shegeeks.net and EverythingTwitter. Corvida Raven is super cool in that in addition to these two different websites she has also made numerous other contributions to the internet AND she is very young (still in her 20's)! I also really enjoyed the format that Hannah chose. Prezi is a very unique format and it is actually kind of fun to watch!


Aremy created a voicethread on the women of ENIAC. These were women who programmed a room-sized computer during World War II. I really enjoyed learning that women are not only making contributions today, but were also making them in the past. Voicethread is a really cool format as well...AND Aremy did her own drawing (she is very good, might I add)!

I did my Women's Contribution Project on Jessica Valenti, the founder of the feminist blog feministing.com. I did my project on voicethread as well. My voicethread was different from Aremy's in that instead of providing texts for my audience, I recorded dialogue. I really enjoy voicethread in that it is easy to use and is a unique way of sharing information with others.

There were many other projects on women and their contributions that were created by my classmates as well and the links to them can be found on our class wiki.