This week I say goodbye to my digital storytelling peers through University of Colorado Denver. Before I do I want to reflect on my learning throughout this course and how I have progressed in my learning. If you want to see in more detail how and what I created this semester check out my Final […]

I am finishing up a course through the University of Colorado Denver called “Digital Storytelling”. I want to summarize and list all that I have learned (you can read my reflection on the course here:https://erindwyer1020.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/the-ds106-world-my-final-reflection/) while answering the question: How and why is it important for you to tell stories? Geez. Where do I start? […]

Each week I continue my reading and review of the book “New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning” written by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel. This week is all about chapter 8: “Social learning and new literacies in formal education”. Beings this is the last chapter of this book, there is a lot of summary. […]

Tell a “Steller” Story in the DS106 Assignment Bank under “Web Assignments” asked me to use the app for iPhone called Steller (warning: it only seems to work on iPhone. I tried it on my iPad and it wouldn’t open for some reason…) I wanted to challenge myself to use a web based tool that I’ve never […]

This Daily Create was so fun to do! Reader’s were challenged to take a picture of a shadow. What made this one special for me is I’m staying at my Dad’s girlfriend’s place in Michigan on a vacation and she has a lot of really cool artwork and collectibles in her house. Therefore, this is […]

Each week I continue my reading and review of the book “New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning” written by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel. This week is all about chapter 7: “Social Learning, ‘push’ and ‘pull’, and building platforms for collaborative learning”. Chapter 7 was extremely applicable to me in many ways. This chapter […]

This week I was given the choice to pick which ever category I prefer from the DS106 Assignment Bank. I chose to go with “Design” because that is something I am lacking in and would like more practice with. I found a challenge that asks the participant to create a magazine cover. With my focal theme […]

This week I wanted to pick a type of remix that I haven’t critiqued yet, so I chose an example of “remixed music”. The remixed song comes from “Uptown Funk” by Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson in collaboration with “Jungle Love” by Morris Day and the Time. First off, I remember before this even came […]

Today’s Daily Create ask for a picture of “magical light”. I have to say I live in the most magical place in the United States – Colorado. Therefore, I picked a picture of the rays of the sun coming through and enhanced them. Nothing is more magical than being outside in the wilderness for me. […]

For my next Daily Create assignment, I have to write a haiku poem from the point of view of someone who is going to die. I decided to take a more humorous approach to the challenge. Here it is: Was it all worth it? Did I live my short life well? Man, I sure hope […]

This week I’m going to continue critiquing digital stories. I will now be using  the “kinds of remixes” written about in Lankshear and Knobel (the text I’ve been reviewing) to discuss the following video clip. This type of remix is called “making movie trailers”. I am looking forward to the Batman vs. Superman movie coming […]

Each week I continue my reading and review of the book “New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning” written by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel. This week is all about chapter 5: “Blogs and Wikis”. I will be focusing primarily on blogs. Chapter 5 really focuses on how individuals use blogs, the purpose of blogs, […]

This week I chose to do a Mash-Up DS106 Assignment that asked me to create a remix of clips from my favorite television show personality. I chose Dwight Schrute from the american television series “The Office”. As you may have noticed, my focal theme for most of this blog is the outdoors, hiking, camping, etc. I […]

Today’s Daily Create assignments asks readers to handwrite a tweet! If you look at my handwriting its not that bad, however students tend to give me a hard time about letters. When you are a high school math teacher you use lot of letters as variables. In this example I have a few that mess […]

Today’s Daily Create asks readers to draw something on a napkin. In honor of the 4th of July I drew the following: Couple things I noticed about myself while doing this project. Even though I’m extremely artistic, I do not own colored pencils!!! I was planning on coloring it in but no luck. I also […]

This week and for future weeks to come I’m going to change up the way I review digital stories. Instead of using Jason Ohler’s assessment traits like I have in the past, I will be using the “Every Day Remix Practices” from the text “New Literacies” by Lankshear and Knobel; the same text I have […]

Each week I continue my reading and review of the book “New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning” written by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel. This week is all about chapter 4: “New Literacies and Social Practices of Digital Remixing”. Only recently had society not only started thinking of “remixing” as it refers to music, […]

Today’s Daily Create Assignment asks viewers to embed a famous photo into an everyday photo. I decided to have fun with this as you can tell! By putting the girl with a pearl earring in front of something as silly and modern as a mortal kombat visual changed the entire meaning of the picture. Now I […]

The DS106 Design Assignment page challenged viewers to come up with a designed picture or photo that takes your name and turns it into an acronym using descriptive words about yourself. Below is my acronym photo! Let me start by explaining each part of my acronym. First, education. I normally do not think that a […]

Today’s Daily Create assignment gives one simple prompt. Silence…a poem. I have been nonstop these last few days and today is my first day in a while to sit in silence and work on my laptop on new assignments, blogs, and responses. Therefore, for me, this daily create is perfect! My Response: The hum of […]

In this post I will again be using Jason Ohler’s assessment traits to critique two digital stories. I will be assessing using the traits sense of audience, presentation, and story. I’d like to start by explaining my choice to use “photo” digital stories. A peer of mine named Alicia Hill (@durangodagz) wrote her blog critique […]

This week I continue my reading and review of the book “New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning” written by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel. This week is all about chapter 3: “New Literacies: technologies and values”.  Chapter 3 goes into great detail about many different ways we use “new” literacies. The quote I liked […]

For the “Signing Words” assignment, I was asked to create a video signing a word or phrase to see if you can guess what it is I am saying using the American Sign Language Alphabet. My video is below: Can you guess it? Use the sign language alphabet to help! I decided to do this video […]

Today’s Daily Create assignment asked me to go to the highest place I can and take a picture of people being small. The picture below was actually taken last summer. Not sure if that’s cheating or not ;) This photo is off the Delicate Arch at Arches National Park in Moab, Utah. Take a look […]

Today’s Daily Create asked me to take a picture of myself recreating an old photo of myself. Below is my photo :) I took my picture using a timer on my camera, uploaded it to my computer, then used a program called Collage Factory Free on my macbook to put together my “past” and “present” […]

Today’s Daily Create Assignment My response: I would be more carefree. I grew up in a household that did not “experiment” a lot and didn’t embrace change. We hardly ever traveled let alone leave the house to do anything other than grocery shop or go see a movie. I wish I would have broken that pattern […]

In this post, I am again going to be using Jason Ohler’s Assessment Traits to assess two different but similar digital stories revolving around the importance of outdoor education for children. I will be critiquing these stories based on the authors understanding of the content, the writing, and economy (to the point or were there […]

I’m continuing my reading and review of the book “New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning” written by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel. This week is all about chapter 2: “Literacies: Practice, Discourse, and Encoded Texts”. Many ideas were brought up in this chapter but one quote that really brought it all together was, “We […]

For the “Have a Phone Conversation With Yourself” assignment, I used audacity to record my voice and then changed my voice on one end of the conversation to sound like someone using a voice changer to call for a ransom from a kidnapping. I used “change pitch” on the audacity program and then added the […]

Daily Create Post Today’s Assignment: Send flowers to DS106 people. Who or why is up to you! To one person or to many up to you too! Remember, tell us who they are for and why. My Response: I recently went on a backpacking, hiking, camping adventure with friends and saw this beautifully bloomed cactus […]