My Portfolio At the end of this course, I have many final thoughts. I am amazed at how much I learned and grew in an engaging course with a very interesting format. The weekly reflective summaries I composed each week illustrate my progress as a student and storyteller. By choosing my own path and collaborating […]

This post will be the last of my weekly reflective summaries. Next week I will be posting a much longer reflection, but it will focus on the entire course rather than just a 7 day increment. I am very excited at the prospect, but am slightly disappointed to be ending my current (weekly) narratives. I […]

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Stuff I read: McIntosh (1989): White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Antero Garcia: There are No Lessons for Alton or Philando The Gender Gap in Library Education What I think: I believe this post will be my final reading response. This is not to say that I will not write my reflections on materials I’ve read. […]

The very moment I came across the term “fanfiction” in the weekly assigned readings, I felt my eyes rolling due to a combination of an immature, dismissive nature and acerbic sense of humor. I knew I had to confront this type of remix eventually. In fact, I even made a promise to myself last week that […]

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I believe this is my final DS106 Assignment: Back to basics. Even if I am wrong, I believe that this one warrants a special title: Oliver learns Photoshop! Yes, you read me right. I have (poorly) used Photoshop on many occasions. These occasions have been primarily related to library outreach such as flyers, brochures, and […]

The worst and the best thing possible both happened this week. I felt myself getting extremely fatigued, but I managed to power through it. Overall, Week 6 has been very challenging and rewarding. I am continuing to develop my knowledge of digital storytelling, technological literacies, and my ability to have fun being busier than I’ve […]

Stuff I read: Lankshear and Knobel (2011) Ch7: Social Learning, “Push” and “Pull,” and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning Scott Campbell: The Importance of Being Along in the Digital Era Antero Garcia: There are No Lessons for Alton or Philando Remi Holden: An Open Letter to Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology  Responses to COLTT Open […]

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From the wonderful people at Jonesboro Library comes a particularly catching library outreach poster: I was very pleased to come across this Photoshop remix example. True story: it happened BY ACCIDENT! I suppose happenstance is a force that often leads us to some of the best ideas. After a careful examination (in which I carefully reviewed the […]

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My personal criteria for completing this weeks DS106 Assignment are as follows: Pick something that will enhance your technological skill set and digital literacies. Pick something that can be made relevant to my digital storytelling theme of “Libraries and Librarians”. I’ve mentioned these traits as desirable ones in all my previous assignments, but my freedom […]

This has been one of the most fruitful weeks for me in terms of learning and strong skill development. I’ve been very busy with work and was consumed by worry that I would not be able to devote the same amount of time to ILT5340. Fortunately for me, I was proven very wrong. My DS106 […]

This looked like a fun daily create. Then again, I’m on no sleep and easily amused. It kinda came out like a yawn.  

Stuff I read: Jenkins (2008) Afterword: Communities of Readers, Clusters of Practices Jeremy Dean: Letters to the Next President 2.0 Jeremy Dean: Social Reading in the Writing Classroom: A Webinar and 5 Ways to Use Hypothes.is for Rhet/Comp Flipping one-shot library instruction: using Canvas and Pecha Kucha for peer teaching What I think: The theme […]

tdc1640 Hard to get the angle right with a selfie, but successful nonetheless. Also, I couldn’t find a cake (or children).

It’s the same old (challenging song): I look through the mashup assignments and find several that look exciting and challenging, but I must narrow them down to a single one that I can adapt to my theme of “Libraries and Librarianship”. Arguably, most of them can be adapted to relate at least tangentially to my […]

This week seemed to fly by at a much faster rate than the previous ones. Like last week, I paced myself, but I still felt compelled to jump in proactively. I am still enjoying the course very much (and I don’t anticipate any changes to that), but there’s always a solid combination of excellent work, […]

Stuff I read: Davies and Merchant (2007) Ch8: Looking From the Inside Out: Academic Blogging as New Literacy Jon Becker:Open Faculty Development Mike Caulfield: Simon’s Watchmakers and the Future of Courseware Sean Michael Morris:Teaching in our Right Minds: Critical Digital Pedagogy and the Response to the New George Siemens:The Future of Learning: Digital, Distributed, Data-Driven The […]