Dear anyone,

I joined DS106 formally this summer with some reservations about my ability to participate fully, but I have some distinct goals of my own that I’ll aim for through this experience:

• Experience an open course from the student perspective
• Discover new ways to engage and interact with total strangers in learning scenarios
• Organize some of my own summer activities through digital storytelling

Of course, the DS106 camp counselors have designated these goals specifically related to my latter:

• Develop skills in using technology as a tool for networking, sharing, narrating, and creative self-expression
• Frame a digital identity wherein you become both a practitioner in and interrogator of various new modes of networking
• Critically examine the digital landscape of communication technologies as emergent narrative forms and genres

I’ve bolded those that I self-assess as those skills or areas I hope to hit on.