This week I’m reviewing a conversation between Hall Davidson, Director of the Discovery Educator Network, and Bernajean Porter, author of Digitales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories.  Their conversation can be found in the article The Art of Digital Storytelling.  Davidson and Porter discuss a number of ideas about digital storytelling that resonated with me … Continue reading The Art of Digital Storytelling

I took on the challenge of adding a caption to this cursed image.  In the spirit of the upcoming season…

This week I’m actually showcasing two digital stories, both part of Grassroot Soccer, an adolescent health organization in Africa.  The first story is David’s Story – about a young man in Zambia who uses soccer as a way to share his story of AIDS and the hardships it brought to his family.   The other … Continue reading Grassroot Soccer – The beautiful game changing lives through healthy living

This week I’m reviewing another chapter by Joe Lambert in his book Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community.  In this chapter, titled Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling, he gives us an in-depth look at how to actually create a digital story, and the components that we need to consider as we put together our own … Continue reading Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling – my perspective

My daily create this week is making a still life in red.  Here are the results:

Having listened and watched to a number of digital stories now, this one struck me more powerfully than any of the others because of the the sadness and beauty in the story.  StoryCorps  gives us this story by Beverly Eckert whose husband died on Sept. 11, 2001 in the attack on the World Trade Center. … Continue reading Sadness and beauty together.

Doing a deep-dive today into digital storytelling research with a look at research from Zhao, Zhang, and McDougall (2011) titled Emotion Driven Interactive Digital Storytelling. The premise of their research is that most interactive digital storytelling is based on participants achieving specific goals, whereas their research indicates that emotion can be the driving force to … Continue reading Emotions and Interactive Digital Storytelling

Another story about how soccer (the beautiful game) empowered someone to strive for their dreams.  This time it’s a story from Nepal.  Radika’s Dream is a moving story about a girl in Nepal who wouldn’t let her dream of playing soccer be squashed, even when she was scolded and beaten by her mother for playing … Continue reading Radika’s Dream

Today’s challenge was to either find or invent the latest in the Pumpkin Spice craze! So not wanting to have our furry friends miss out, I present –

This week we got to explore the roots of digital storytelling with Joe Lambert in his book Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community.  Chapter 3 of the book is titled A Road Traveled – The Evolution of the Digital Storytelling Practice.  It is a fascinating look at how Lambart evolved from an early participant in … Continue reading A Road Traveled – a look at the roots of digital storytelling

For my daily create I chose the Selfie With Your Pet assignment from DS106.  Not being one to take a lot of selfies, I thought it would be good to have one with my biggest fan – my dog Lizzy.  If you ever want to know what it’s like to be followed from room to … Continue reading Selfie with my pet

I’m once again looking for an unusual digital story that differs significantly  from the others that I’ve looked at in this blog.  Expanding my concept of digital storytelling, I found a digital story called Traffic Patterns about how humans make a very special type of wave pattern in traffic.  It’s part of the Engines of … Continue reading And now for something completely different – Traffic Patterns

Here is a Prezi I put together of some of the highlights from the first half of our class.  Thanks to all of my classmates for their insightful  posts and helpful comments. My Journey in Digital Storytelling

I’m stretching out a bit this week to take a look at what could be the future of storytelling.  In the article Virtual Reality Lets the Audience Step Into the Story by Olivia Koski we get a glimpse at the prospects for storytelling when it incorporates virtual reality.  With virtual reality technology becoming much more … Continue reading Virtual reality and the future of storytelling

Continuing on with my topic of “The beautiful game”, today I’m sharing the story of a group of boys in the village of Koh Panyee in Phang Nga Province in Thailand.  The village is notable for being built completely on stilts by Indonesian fishermen. This true story is about a group of boys who lived … Continue reading Koh Panyee football club – where there’s a will there’s a way

Today’s daily create is Mashup Day! The idea is to mashup two famous people and/or events from October 12th. On Oct. 12th, 1859 Emperor Norton I, the self proclaimed Emperor of the United States, issued an edict abolishing the United States Congress. And on Oct. 12th, 1901 Teddy Roosevelt renamed The Executive Manor to The … Continue reading Daily Create – Mashup Day!

I took the challenge of making inanimate objects come to life through animation.  Here is the resulting video: Toy Story’s Fault

In Chapter 7 of the New Literacies Sampler book Lankshear and Knobel introduce us to the concept of social learning which is a collaborative form of learning.  It also includes a discussion of the “Push” and “Pull” learning environments where the push environment is based on pushing out the learning materials to the students (as … Continue reading Response: Social learning, push/pull, and collaborative learning platforms

For my digital story critique this week I wanted to try something a little different.  The adage that a single picture can tell a thousand words can be expand to multiple pictures can tell ten thousand words.  And so I selected a digital photo story about dogs living on the streets titled Beautiful Photos Capture … Continue reading Beautiful Photos Capture the Unseen Lives of Street Dogs

Samantha Morra shares with us a practical guide on how we can bring digital storytelling into our classrooms in 8 Steps to Great Digital Storytelling at the EdTechTeacher.org site.  Her article not only provides the step-by-step process for how to have your students create digital stories, but she also provides a number of resources for … Continue reading Response – 8 Steps to Great Digital Storytelling

Daniel Cui was a freshman goalkeeper at a high school in Hillsborough, California.  He suffered through a very difficult season where his team lost every game.  And as the goalkeeper for the team, he was often blamed for the loses.  After the final loss of the season, someone posted a bunch of pictures of Daniel … Continue reading The beautiful game – We are all Daniel Cui

Daily create from DS106  

Sound is all around us, and it may be the format that is the most accessible to us as teachers, designers, and students.  With the technologies available to us today we have opportunities to create and use sound in our lives that we could barely imagine years ago.  The two chapters that we read this … Continue reading Response – Music remix and DIY Podcasting

Took the DS106 assignment bank audio challenge to slow down a familiar tune…by a lot. See if you can figure it out.  Here is the slowed version. And here is the original.

During the winter of 1914 British and German troops were facing each other for the first time in the trenches of Europe.  Not yet shocked by the horrors of the First World War, the men in the trenches found that they sometimes had more in common than their leaders were willing to admit.  Along stretches … Continue reading The beautiful game -The Truth and Myth of the Christmas Truce 1914

Although a bit dated (2004), I found that Digital Storytelling in the Language Arts Classroom (Bull and Kadjar) still had a lot of valuable information in regards to the importance of the story in digital storytelling.  As emphasized in the article, “…the story should be in the foreground and the technology in the background. The … Continue reading Response to Digital Storytelling in the Language Arts Classroom

A story from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil about a man named Andre de Souza Carlos who is blind and yet still plays soccer.  The story can be found at TheScene. Andre had impaired vision from birth, but an accident later in life caused him to be completely blind.  He describes how after his blindness, “It … Continue reading Digital Story Critique – Hearing the Beautiful Game: Soccer without sight

Legend had it that “someone” actually challenged the bull and broke his leg in a hole as he ran away.  Surely it must have been the end of that “someone”. But here we were, intrepid adventurers climbing through the fence to the wide open west that was our neighbor’s land.  Cast off were the warnings … Continue reading Daily Create – The ocean at the end of my backyard…

Visual Networks – Learning and photosharing by Guy Merchant (DIY Media, Chap. 4, 2009) is a comprehensive  introduction to photosharing as a social network, and in particular, the photosharing service flickr.  Merchant introduces us to the idea of flickr as a “folksonomy…a body of knowledge can be built democratically through participant-users without recourse to the … Continue reading Visual Networks – Learning and photosharing

This week I decided to critique a story from a Moth Radio Hour segment (Episode:1618, Sept. 6, 2016, starting at 33:52) titled LA Confidential:Data Hacking for a Date which is a story by Chris McKinley. At the time of his story, Chris was a doctoral student working on a PhD in Applied Mathematics at UCLA.  … Continue reading Digital Critique – Data Hacking for a Date