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Hi everyone! My name is Caitlin and I am excited to meet you all as well as learn and grow together this semester. I am originally from Florida. I spent my childhood and middle school years in Miami. I moved with my family to the small town of Lake Placid, FL before I started high school. Lake Placid feels more like my hometown. After attending a small college in North Carolina where I obtained my BS in English language education, I moved abroad. I taught English outside of Madrid, Spain for a couple of years. I married my Welsh husband and we lived in Cardiff, Wales, UK for over ten years. I loved living in Wales – it is such a beautiful and interesting place! If you ever have the chance to visit, I recommend checking out Tenby or Hay-on-Wye. Over a year ago my husband, son, and I moved back to Lake Placid to be closer to my parents. While we definitely miss Wales, we are enjoying small town life and the Florida sunshine.

I am now a year into pursuing my MSI, and I am hoping to graduate Summer 2026. Previously, I have worked as a teacher and then as an event/project coordinator for a youth non-profit organization. I am currently doing some freelance work while staying home with my 4 year old son. However, my goal is to work in a public library and I am actively looking for positions.

When I am not playing cars or legos with my son or working, I am an avid reader. I read widely across most fiction genres, but I also love talking about books and am always eager to learn what people are reading. If we were meeting face to face, I would ask you what you’re reading currently and what is one of your favorite books. If you’re interested in seeing what I’m reading, you are welcome to check out my StoryGraph account. I’m not always the best at writing reviews, but I do track all my reads.

For the first few years I worked for the non-profit, I regularly had to create various digital media, predominantly graphics or images to use on social media or flyers. I did not have any experience when I started, so I taught myself as I went and it became one of my favorite aspects of my job. My role changed and I did not get to create as much in my final years there, and I missed this creative aspect of my job. I am excited to get to try these skills again and hopefully grow them this semester. I am not an artist, but I enjoy bringing together different digital elements to create an image or graphic. I am eager to learn more about video and audio editing as those are areas I do not have much experience in.

I am really looking forward to this class! Here’s to a great semester everyone!

Hello, all! My name is Craig Moore. I’ll start off with a quick story. During the final semester of my Fine Arts degree, I was publicly asked by a professor of engineering to define ‘Art.’ Much to the chagrin of my peers, I offered a brief, admittedly ostentatious, response to a deceptively simple question:

“Art is asking questions.”

While my answer garnered some well-deserved eyerolls, it’s a definition I wholeheartedly stand by. Beyond any technical skills or entrepreneurial prowess developed during my three years in FSU’s Studio Art program, the ability to pose and critically analyze complex problems through various lenses was the most valuable expertise I walked away with.

I affectionately reference this anecdote because it lends itself to almost everything I do. I’m beginning my second semester in the MSIT program having completed the aforementioned Studio Art program at FSU last spring. My primary disciplines are video art and virtual environment design, where I combine found and created video with 3D photogrammetry scans and projection mapping.

I live in Tallahassee where I’ve worked on-campus at the FSU Innovation Hub for just over two years as a Computer Technologies Intern, subsequently as an Area Specialist, and most currently as a Graduate Assistant. Across these roles, I’ve developed a passion for connecting researchers, faculty, and students with technologies, concepts, and resources to expand and enrich their myriad creative pursuits and research methodologies. It’s also within these roles at the Innovation Hub where I’ve been able to hone my critical thinking (occasionally overthinking) skills in a meaningful capacity beyond the borders of my art practice.

It has been highly rewarding to have a platform to experiment with and learn from practices in systems administration, computer and VR lab development, technology procurement, technical writing, and skill sharing, all the while applying a knack for questioning everything and learning a ton in the process. Drawing on my appreciation for the work I’ve been doing at the Innovation Hub, I decided to pursue a graduate degree in Information Technology. So far, it has made for an interesting contrast with my undergraduate degree, enabling me to question everything in a fresh context while greatly developing my skills as a writer and editor. 

Looking forward to this class, I’m excited to deliver on some of the skills I developed during my undergraduate education in the context of professional and information organizations. Of particular interest to me are the resources and exercises focusing on copyright and Creative Commons licensing. A portion of my art practice relies on sourcing found media, the majority of which I’ve obtained no legal rights to implement. While this was not much of a concern in educational and not-for-profit contexts, I fully understand that there is a better and more commercially viable process to follow for sourcing media. Up to this point, my primary concern was simply dodging YouTube’s copyright claims on my non-monetized videos. That said, I’m excited to learn about proper methods for obtaining rights to media, especially as I intend to apply my skills in professional and public contexts in the future. 

To leave off, I’ll introduce you to my partner, Sarah, and our two cats, Frankenstein and Lorelai, while wishing each of you a Happy New Year and a fruitful semester to come!

Cheers!

– Craig Moore