Made with Lunapic!

Since beginning this course up to the most recently completed assignments (and even the current moment, right now), I thought about something an old college friend of mine had a habit of saying, “This will not end well.” His tone was typically playful and sarcastic. Some of the contexts of him saying this included inviting […]

Today’s dailycreate gave me the opportunity to learn how to use a drawing program. I one used Microsoft Paint (unsuccessfully), but found this site online! I decided to pretend to be a child when I drew it (since it’s my childhood home). The “fill” function on the pen tool gave me some really cool effects!

Stuff I Read: Lankshear and Knobel (2008) Ch1: DIY Media: A Contextual Background and Some Contemporary Themes Robin DeRosa: My Open Textbook: Pedagogy and Practice Remi Holden: Annotation in the Open: Part 2 (and note the Hypothes.is annotations) Audrey Watters: Openness and Ownership: Who Owns School Work? Audrey Watters: What Do We Mean By Open […]

At the end of last week, my commitment to finding new outlets for digital stories to critique grew stronger than ever. Although I may decide to use a TEDTalk or Reddit for a story critique down the road, I wanted to try something else. As a reminder, not only do I have to find digital […]

I did it! I used a video technology with which I had no prior experience! Everyone (mostly me), rejoice! OK, maybe I’m getting a little too excited, but exploring a new video editing technology is-for me-a more than potentially daunting task. Although I am a frequent Camtasia user, I know little of other technologies for […]

This was a tricky assignment! I spent a fair amount of time looking for college-ruled paper to use as a background, but decided to use Microsoft Publisher to insert the quote, add revisions, save it as an image, and upload it to imgur. I can only image what was going through Mr. Frost’s mind.

It’s been one week since this infernal song was stuck in my head (DO NOT CLICK LINK! I MEAN IT!). By clicking the link, you accept all responsibility for your ensuing headache. If you’re a professor who is reading this blog as a course assignment, I understand if you need to dock me points (only kidding […]

#tdc1622 Chicken in a cart needs a meme message My second daily create in which I give a shout out to a famous restaurant in my hometown.

I am not  much for audio. In fact, when I heard/read about the sizeable audio component of the work in ILT5340, I felt pretty scared. As previously stated, I have no experience with the recording/mixing/remixing/editing of sounds. At the outset of this course almost TWO WEEKS ago, I thought I might just select DS106 assignments […]

It has been about a week since my Week 1 Digital Story critique. Once again, I found myself vigorously searching for a suitable digital story that (a) piques my interest, (b) provides suitable fodder for a critique, and (c) fits with my storytelling theme of “Libraries and Librarianship”. If there is a search engine designed with […]

Stuff I Read: Lankshear and Knobel (2011) Ch4: New Literacies and Social Learning Practices of Digital Remixing Robin DeRosa: My Go-to Sites for Open Access & OER Info Inga-Lill Nilsson: Developing new copyright services in academic libraries. What I Think: “I remixed a remix. It went back to normal”-Mitch Hedberg My readings for this week inspired several insights in me […]

TDC#1618 This is kinda how I’m feeling these days!

This blog post is my Week 1 Reflection for ILT5340 (INTE5340, DS106) in which I discuss how well I did in completing the assignments for this week, what did I struggle with, what do I regret (if anything), my questions, the larger issues surrounding my work, and a self-assessment. I intended to start out the […]

My own zen garden with fotoflexer “fill” gravel.

Stuff I Read:  Lankshear and Knobel (2007) Ch1: Sampling the “New” in New Literacies Information Problem Solving Instruction in Higher Education: A Case Study on Instructional Design What I Think: My readings this week, the introductory chapter from Lankshear and Knobel’s text and a library research article on information literacy instruction, have provided me with […]

For my first digital story critique, I have selected a talk from TEDxCharleston by Andrew Roskill titled “Get a read on this – libraries bridging the digital divide”. I have chosen this story for a number of reasons including my interest in libraries as a library professional, my interest in the role of libraries as […]