As part of my coursework in Professor Remi Holden’s INTE 5340 Learning with Digital Stories Summer 2015 course at the University of Colorado Denver, I have looked on my experience as a learner with (digital) storytelling given my participation throughout the semester. This reflection is complementary of my final portfolio and builds on my seven… More Final Reflection and Exhale… #relief

 How and why is it important for you to tell stories? There are a number of reasons that stories are important.  Stories leave lasting impressions with people.  They create something that a person can relate to.  Rather than just listening to words and processing them, individuals are able to make connections to their everyday lives.  This… More Final Portfolio: A look back at MY journey

Week seven was a struggle of time management for me.  This weekend is my birthday and I am currently in LA.  I am officially the farthest west I have ever been in the US!  So many firsts this past month.  I have been trying to keep up at work while I have had school on… More Finding my moment of zen

I strongly encourage you to take TWO minutes out of your day to watch this video. To find this video for my critique, I Googled machinima video which took me to Vimeo’s website.  I then searched Denver, Colorado and that is how I located this video.  I had no idea’s on what to critique and… More From Colorado? Watch this video!!

Click this link to see my finished project!! To complete last weeks assignment, I created a web and started looking at places that I wanted to visit in Denver.  This web has grown to epic proportions, as I realize now, there is a lot ot do in Colorado.  I decided this week I wanted to… More Need plans for the weekend?

I was surprised by how Colin Lankshear and Michele Nobel ended the book New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning .  They provided two large scale examples of social learning in formal education.  I found these two examples to be interesting but too drawn out.  In my opinion, there was not enough information about the results… More We need a remix for that books ending!

I picked a random TDC and the instructions were to make a video of something slow.  This is a video I filmed about a month ago.  It was 70 degrees out and hailing.  This was the first time I experienced the crazy weather in Denver.

Because I obviously don’t know how to follow directions, I ended up reading chapter 6 AND 7 this week.  I have to say that there is something about this book that makes it an easy read for me to pick up and put down without being totally lost.  Chapter seven was an excellent explanation for… More Is that the light I see?

One sentence that really stood out to me in L&K’s chapter 7 talked about “a version of social learning as a process of proactivity for desirable outcomes” (2011 p.210).  This to me, in relation to social media, appears to be a sort of anticipation of what others say, or how they will react to a… More What is a blank slate anyway?

There are two reasons why I chose to review this YouTube video about comic con in Denver this year.  Number one, it fits in perfectly with what we have been reading and two because I really wanted to go this year.  I was eating breakfast at a small dinner in downtown Denver when I noticed… More Examining a local comic con

After watching the screen cast this week, I realized I need to put more thought into my theme.  As I have previously mentioned in my reflection, I probably should have picked a different theme.  I am having a difficult time “exploring Denver” as I work two jobs and I do not know many people.  Upon… More A Web of Future Fun and Frustration!

For todays TDC I was supposed to show a picture of innovation.  For my dad’s birthday we got him a typical cake and sang him Happy Birthday.  I can’t remember why we couldn’t find a knife but my little brother (pictured here) grabbed my older brothers samurai sword from his bedroom.  Clearly a sword like this… More Slicing a cake

Sometimes I can’t tell if I am nervous or excited by this class.  I have been working on trying to be more efficient with my time by using post it notes to jot down idea’s and to add in completing my assignments quicker.  The mash up assignment I completed this week was very difficult to… More How to figure out the “why”

For my Daily Create today I was supposed to draw on a napkin for someone I love and give it to them.  I decided to use a post it note because I have to mail it.  I am dating a guy who lives in Ohio.  Ever since I moved to Colorado,  I have been mailing… More Napkin/Post it note joy

For todays critique I listened to a band called Girl Talk. No, Not the 80’s board game… I came up with this idea after telling my brother about this class. My brother said iGirl Talk was a favorite band of his and they did a great job of mixing together music containing different genres. I… More Need motivating remixed music?

This week’s Mash up assignment was particularly difficult for me to conceptualize.  I read through every option and was not inspired to do any of them right off the bat.  I found one finally that sounded like something I could relate to my Denver theme.  The directions were to mash up a children’s book based… More Snow White visits the Mile High City

This week Lankshear and Knobel highlighted the use of wikis and blogs in chapter 5.  Towards the beginning of the chapter it was stated that blogs are being shared more through social media L&K 2011).  I found this to be a confusing idea because I don’t know where else you would share blogs.  The only… More Exposing yourself to the internet?

TDC had a “pen a tweet” with instructions below What to do? What we would like you to do is this. In every tweet, use the #PenATweet hashtag. If at all possible, ensure that there is nothing else written into the tweet. Let the handwritten photograph tweet do the talking. Be creative, consider a small activity… More #PenATweet day! :)

This week flew by as I struggled to maintain my school/work/life balance.  As fun and relaxing as holidays are supposed to be, it doesn’t always mean having nothing to do.  I attempted to compensate for my lack of time this week by completing my assignments early on in the week. I finally have my Mac… More Chasing Time

For todays TDC I had to use a photo to show something upside-down.  I took this picture when I was on a roller coaster called the Jack Rabbit.  I went to this amusement park last month when I visited Ohio for the first time since I have moved to Denver.  The Amusement Park is Called Kennywood… More Changing perspectives

I had SO much fun watching various fanfiction trailers on YouTube.  I really did not have an idea of what direction I wanted to go when initially searching YouTube.  There are literally hundreds (probably thousands) of trailers for movies people made up.  I began thinking what movie did I dislike the ending to.  Titanic popped… More Titanic 2: Jack’s Alive?!

“Everything’s a copy of a copy of a copy” ask recited by Edward Norton in Fight Club is the theme of Chapter 4. This line above popped into my head several times as I was reading this chapter.  Although he was referring to insomnia, I believe this directly relates to the idea of remixing.  Chapter… More “Everything’s a copy of a copy of a copy”

I was initially excited to see that this week’s assignment was “design.”  I must admit I read what seemed like every assignment and none stood out to me.  I finally found one that was called the little caption.  The assignment was to take a picture and add a caption.  That seemed WAY to easy and… More Rampage: Attack on Denver

For todays Daily Create you were supposed to take a close up of something unusual in your freezer.  Well, I am not sure how unusual this is but I do think it’s kind of pretty if you ask me!

This is a picture of my dog Pilsner.  I have had him for about five years.  He originally came from a shelter, he was a runaway dog whose owners never came to claim him.  Because of this, he has slight anxiety issues when I leave.  When I packed my car with all my worldly possessions… More Love captured in a picture

This week was way smoother than the previous two. I STILL do not have a working laptop which has been the biggest headache for me. I have mostly struggled between work, my roommate’s laptops, and writing notes in my book and on post it notes. I have not been the most ecofriendly but I have… More Remembering to exhale

Today I reviewed a YouTube video about Denver, Colorado.  I did this because I do not know much about the city I live in and I am trying to figure things out (which has been a slow process).  I plan on visiting a few places mentioned in this video over the course of the next… More Schooling myself on Denver

Today I reviewed an article called “Facebook’s new algorithm can recognize you even if your face is hidden” by Mathew Ingram.  I have to say I have always been skeptical of Facebook.  The whole idea of keeping in contact with people from high school that I clearly do not have an active interest has always… More “Face-stalking” taking it too far

What does this picture look like to you? For my Visual Assignment this week I choose to provide a one second look of my over all movie.  If you are staring at this picture thinking that probably a strategic angle, or my camera is wet, or I am in a body of water… you are… More What is this picture?