“Ideas and practices evolve rather than become displaced…” (Lankshear & Nobel , 2011, p. 52) ia an ongoing theme throughout chapter three of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning.   There is not necessarily new technologies but rather a shift it how we use these technologies.  For example, the internet is being used to build… More Approach blogging with caution

For todays Daily Create, I chose to create a beautiful picture with something rusted or crushed.  The license plate on this car is something that I found on one of my runs a few weeks ago.  It was a very flat license plate on the sidewalk.  I thought it was nice looking so I picked it… More Putting trash on “beauty”

Week two, slightly less stressful minus the audio assignment.  I feel as if I did a much better job pacing myself in regards to completing assignments this week.  I finally THINK I know how to do basic functions on Twitter and WordPress.  I am fully caught up on my reading and I have even been… More Week 2: I will never be a Dj

Todays TDC I chose a random one and the directions were to take a picture of your view today.  This will be my day today.  I read that is is going to be 97 degrees so pool time is looking very promising.  I have to go to the gym to run a few miles and I… More Pool Time

After taking several deep breaths (and surprisingly no shots) I have completed my first audio assignment.  I must say that I finally thought I was making progress in this class.  That is FALSE, it took me FIVE hours to complete this assignment.  If that is not commitment I sure don’t have a clue what is. … More Remixing a song while trying to maintain my sanity

“A Thirsty Colorado Is Battling Over Who Owns Raindrops”   by Jack Healy is an article about who owns the right to rain.  After watching a movie about a company owning a patent to seeds I did not think that much else could shock me.  I was wrong.  Apparently,  residents in Colorado have asked permission to use… More Colorado is thirsty for change

To Lose Weight, Eating Less Is Far More Important Than Exercising More by Aaron E. Carroll is a simple article that takes a spin on the whole exercise movement.  For my class I have seceded to try to switch up where I get articles from in order to fully enjoy the digital world.  I review… More To Eat or Not to Eat??

The second chapter of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning, dove deep into a greater understanding of Discourse.  I am not sure I completely understood the talk about anticipation.  A football reference was mentioned concerning how  players learn to anticipate where is the ball is going, or even how other players are going to… More Creating your own world

Todays The Daily Create was to draw a picture of the best moment in your life.  My favorite times in my life were celebrating Oktoberfest in Germany.  I spent hours in a tent singing German songs I didn’t know and talking to people I will never see again.  I felt like I was living in a… More Prost! Oktoberfest

I picked a random daily create and found a picture on my phone from a post season Indians game I went to in 2013.  I was one out of 43,579 Cleveland Indians fans who attended the game. Sadly we lost, but Cleveland is well known for doing that.  The whole point of this assignment was to… More 1:43,579 screaming Cleveland Indians fans

This week has been mostly been waves of stress, anxiety, worry, doubt but most of all pessimism.  Looking back I came out alive and unharmed.  I feel like I went above and beyond JUST to turn in my assignments this week.  I learned how to tweet blog, hashtag, what the @ symbol means and I joined… More Reflecting on my struggle (and oh the struggle was real)

Todays Daily Create was about coming up with a random act of kindness.  As easy as a task as this sounds I was not sure how to exactly accomplish this.  At my second job (Kohl’s) I thought about what I could do.  Every act of kindness I could think of actually just seemed like I was… More Random Act of Kindess

My first visual assignment for class was chosen at random.  The instructions were to emphasize a color from a picture.  I have decided that my theme for the next two months is going to be me exploring a new city.  This picture was taken in July last year when I visited Denver (better yet Colorado)… More I hope I found my pot of gold.

For my second digital story of the week, I chose to watch Mary Lou Jepsen’s “Could future devices read images from our brains?”  I chose this TED talk because I saw somewhat of a link between the previous TED talk about how nonverbal cues have an impact on people and situations.   If you can read… More A scary glimpse into our future.

For my first digital story I chose to watch a TED talk. Amy Cuddy’s “Your body language shapes who you are,” is a fascinating look at the power of nonverbal behaviors.  I was immediately drawn to this video because she spoke about a “free no-tech life hack, and all it requires of you is this:… More Looking for a new job or maybe a new career path because of this class? Look no further.

For my Learning with Digital Stories class (INTE 5340), I am tasked with reading the first chapter of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning by Colin Lankshear and Michele Nobel. At first glance I was apprehensive about the book because of the seemingly dry title.  The first few paragraphs turned out to be an… More Reading… the undefinable monster!

First daily create.  I have been trying to think of a topic in which to focus my blog around.  I recently (about 6 months ago) moved here and left my entire life behind in Cleveland, Ohio.  I think a great area for me to talk about is being in a new city. As I was… More First Daily Create! Success.

Although technically day three of this class I debated for two days whether or not to drop this class.  It is not because I don’t want to engage in a free thinking class but rather I am terrified of learning so much new technology in such a small amount of time.   Coming from a person who… More Day One: Try not to bleed out or faint.