As I reflect on this semester I have to look at how far I have come in my personal life, my educational life, and work life I think that I have incorporated a lot of innovation in all three of those aspects.  I have learned how to relax, and know that everything is going to … Continue reading Innovative Learning for a Better Future…

Photo CC By: Google Images Through this semester, there were times I regretted the topic I choose to do my Independent Study on, and times where I absolutely loved it! Overall, the experience was awesome, because ultimately, this project was totally on me to learn about.  I had honestly never been given the opportunity to … Continue reading Concluding My Independent Learning Project

Metaphors are awesome.  I think that comparing our realistic life to non-lifelike objects is awesome, and it puts a visualization to what we are sometimes personally feeling or experiencing. I created a metaphor based off a puzzle–“Life is like a jigsaw puzzle, but you don’t have the picture on the front of the box to … Continue reading The Puzzle of Life Metaphor

Looking at today’s day and age, it is highly apparent that we are within a society where we make a lot of choices based off of graphics and visual representations.  Hence, I believe that it is important to know how to properly utilize a good graphics site in order to create good visuals. This week … Continue reading Graphics/Visuals To Enhance Creative Senses…

So yes, just yesterday I made it through my first week of daily creates–talk about cutting it close to deadlines.  However, once I finally did sit down and make myself start on these–it’s actually been really fun, and makes you think outside of the norm on some of these daily assignments.  So here goes, a … Continue reading Weekly Sum Up of Daily Creates

Photo Credit To: http://www.myndset.com For a kid who does a lot of online classes–I really am not that educated in what the big wide web world has to offer.  Which is endless amounts of technological resources–some of those being podcasts and digital stories.  I’ll be totally honest–I had heard of a podcast, but have never … Continue reading Podcasts: Effective Classroom Strategy or Not??

I will be completely honest, that I have slacked this week on my ILP.  It’s kind of at a standstill, and I got extremely caught up in trying to balance school work, two jobs, and a two day vacation this weekend–hence the reason I am writing this post at 11:30 tonight. I realize that I … Continue reading Update on My ILP

  Photo CC By: flipagram.com Within this day and age–it has become apparent that we have a society that is fueled by technology and what the online world has to offer.  The point of digital dependency has increased significantly within the last 10 years, and continues to do so. As a society we have lost … Continue reading Suppressed By Technological Devices….

Over the course of these last two weeks I will fully admit that I have been procrastinating my independent learning project.  Within this next month of school I fully plan on buckling down and ensuring that I put forth the effort to feel that I succeeded on this project. This week, I spent a couple … Continue reading Pushing Back On Procrastination With My Independent Learning Project

Activism.  What does that even mean?  How has that been incorporated into the technological world?  Those were some questions that I am now able to answer after reading through the resources this week. I found through learning about the 6 activist functions that digital activism includes shaping public opinion, planning an action, protecting activists, sharing … Continue reading Digital Activism For A Better Society

Photo CC By: Sean MacEntee It has been quite awhile since I have google searched myself–I think the last time I did may have been in high school.  However, I try to keep a low profile, and not overly share any personal information via the internet.  Yet as I searched google, I was surprised with … Continue reading Who Am I Via Google?!

Photo CC By: Doug Belshaw In this day and age, the possibility of being able to access information on anyone is fairly simple.  Type in a simple google search on any person and the plethora of information can–at times–be disturbing.  Therefore, the concept of digital citizenship is highly important to instill in today’s generation. Digital … Continue reading Digital Education Teaches Online Smarts…

This week we are to reflect on what our thoughts, feelings, expectations, and learning experiences have been thus far in the class. Through beginning this digital literacy class, I honestly thought it was just going to be another one of those technology device learning classes where we would learn a new innovative feature each week … Continue reading Surprisingly Challenging, Surprisingly Creative

Photo CC By: Jon Rawlinson Hola! Buenos días mis compañeros de clase!  This is a Spanish phrase that I learned this week in order to be able to incorporate it into my post! It says hello, good morning my fellow classmates!! This week for my self study project, I didn’t put in as much time as … Continue reading Hola! Buenos Dias!

There are times that we look at life and wonder–what are we doing with life?  Living the same routine day in and day out–just going about the motions.  What changes can we make yearly, monthly, weekly, daily to ensure that we live life to the fullest?  How can we make changes that enable us to … Continue reading Using DS106 For Creative Innovation

As I have started delving into the topic of personalized learning–I realized through my research that so often as teachers we are taught to not show our views/opinions/likes/dislikes etc–and to just teach content by the standards and move on about our day.  However, as I researched personalized learning–I realized that not showing that we–as teachers–have … Continue reading Let Those Students Take Responsibility