Hey All,I usually do not take selfies but with this week's daily create I decided to give it a try! I also added my brother and our dog into the picture as well! I hope you enjoy! :)

For this week’s reading of Lankshear & Knobel the chapter discusses how new literacies are constantly changing. As I finished the chapter I kept thinking about MOOCs and how they related to this chapter. What stood out to me at first was how the chapter discussed new literacy as ever changing and what was new one day became old the next. However, what I found interesting was not the change in what information was being taught but how information distribution has changed. The access to education

Hello All,For this assignment, I decided to compile a few video games that I love. I am hoping some of the games you might know and some you don't! Also, the clip at the end just shows how big the gaming community can be!Thanks again for all of your su...

Critique: Edutopia- Fostering Creativity and Community with a Platform Video Game   In this week’s critique I will be using three assessment/evaluation traits from Jason Ohler’s assessment traits. The three traits I have chosen for this digital story are as listed:  Story  Content Understanding  Originality, voice, creativity   Story: 10/10 I enjoyed the message of this story as it promotes fostering creativity and the idea that you do not need to know everything to create something. With so

Critique: Edutopia- Using Minecraft as an Educational Tool   In this week’s critique I will be using three assessment/evaluation traits from Jason Ohler’s assessment traits. The three traits I have chosen for this digital story are as listed: Story Research Sense of Audience   Story: 9/10 Having played Minecraft before I was interested in watching this video because I wanted to see how schools were using Minecraft in their classrooms. Overall, I think the story was well presented and had some

Critique: Edutopia- Fostering Creativity and Community with a Platform Video Game In this week’s critique I will be using three assessment/evaluation traits from Jason Ohler’s assessment traits. The three traits I have chosen for this digital story are as listed: Story Content Understanding Originality, voice, creativity Story: 10/10 I enjoyed the message of this story as it promotes fostering creativity and the idea that you do not need to know everything to create something. With so many tools

Critique: Edutopia- Using Minecraft as an Educational Tool In this week’s critique I will be using three assessment/evaluation traits from Jason Ohler’s assessment traits. The three traits I have chosen for this digital story are as listed: Story Research Sense of Audience Story: 9/10 Having played Minecraft before I was interested in watching this video because I wanted to see how schools were using Minecraft in their classrooms. Overall, I think the story was well presented and had some good

Hi All,For this week's first daily create, I was asked to read through 20 great opening line types and then create my own! Though, I do not know which category my opening line fall under I thought this might be a good opening line for my focal theme.Ma...

Hi All,   This will be my 4th daily create! I hope you all enjoy!   One upon a time, there was a boy who had a loving mother and father. Every day, it was just him and his parents living their happy lives together. But one day, his father put him on his lab and told him that he had very special news. His father told him that he was going to be an older brother now. Because of that, he did not know what to feel. He was both excited and yet a little bit sad. Because of that, he worried that he

Hi All, This will be my 4th daily create! I hope you all enjoy! One upon a time, there was a boy who had a loving mother and father. Every day, it was just him and his parents living their happy lives together. But one day, his father put him on his lab and told him that he had very special news. His father told him that he was going to be an older brother now. Because of that, he did not know what to feel. He was both excited and yet a little bit sad. Because of that, he worried that he would

Critique: Extra Credits- How Games Can Improve Our Schools   In this week’s critique I will be using three assessment/evaluation traits from Jason Ohler’s assessment traits. The three traits I have chosen for this digital story are as listed: Story Originality, Voice, and Creativity Sense of Audience   Story: 10/10 As some of you know I am a huge fan of Extra Credit and their vlogs, personally I think their story was great. I enjoyed their statement of how it is not enough to incorporate games

Critique: Schools Use Games for Learning Assessment- Edutopia   In this week’s critique I will be using three assessment/evaluation traits from Jason Ohler’s assessment traits. The three traits I have chosen for this digital story are as listed: Story Originality, Voice, and Creativity Flow, organization, and pacing   Story: 10/10 My rating for the story of this digital story is 10/10, I enjoyed their statement on how we no longer live in an industrial economy and have turned into a knowledge

Critique: Extra Credits- How Games Can Improve Our Schools In this week’s critique I will be using three assessment/evaluation traits from Jason Ohler’s assessment traits. The three traits I have chosen for this digital story are as listed: Story Originality, Voice, and Creativity Sense of Audience Story: 10/10 As some of you know I am a huge fan of Extra Credit and their vlogs, personally I think their story was great. I enjoyed their statement of how it is not enough to incorporate games into

Critique: Schools Use Games for Learning Assessment- Edutopia In this week’s critique I will be using three assessment/evaluation traits from Jason Ohler’s assessment traits. The three traits I have chosen for this digital story are as listed: Story Originality, Voice, and Creativity Flow, organization, and pacing Story: 10/10 My rating for the story of this digital story is 10/10, I enjoyed their statement on how we no longer live in an industrial economy and have turned into a knowledge based

For this week’s reading of Lankshear & Knobel I found myself intrigued, confused, and inspired because a commercial that is oddly enough for whisky. During my reading, I kept thinking back at chapter one and the history behind literacy and what did literacy mean. However, in chapter 2 the literature defines “literacy” as “not some singular phenomenon but, rather, to understand literacies as multiple”. This idea of understanding literacies as multiple began my interest to understand how many

  I had a lot of fun playing around and choosing an audio assignment from the ds106 assignment bank. I finally settled on an Reverse Audio Quiz. I have reversed a song and have given you 3 hints. It is now your job to guess what the song is!   - It was released in 1989 - It reached number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990 - The artist was a beatboxing Alien in Men in Black!   Good luck all and be sure to comment at the bottom on what you think the song is! :)   *Unfortunately, I am unable to

I had a lot of fun playing around and choosing an audio assignment from the ds106 assignment bank. I finally settled on an Reverse Audio Quiz. I have reversed a song and have given you 3 hints. It is now your job to guess what the song is! - It was released in 1989 - It reached number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990 - The artist was a beatboxing Alien in Men in Black! Good luck all and be sure to comment at the bottom on what you think the song is! :) *Unfortunately, I am unable to embed the

This is my third daily create, so far these daily creates have been fun and interesting. Plus side is that these definitely do not take that long. I enjoyed this one because I think the nature scene is beautiful and thats where I usually find myself wh...

For my second daily create we were asked to create an image of a bride throwing a cat. I hope you all find this hilariously cute!

Critique: Gaming can make a better world by Jane McGonigal In this week’s critique I will be using three assessment/evaluation traits from Jason Ohler’s assessment traits. The three traits I have chosen for this digital story are as listed: Story Originality, Voice, and Creativity Research Story: 10/10 Jane was very engaging and pushed the audience to think about how games can make a better world. My favorite statement from this segment is “in game worlds we become the best version of

Critique: Video Games, Learning, and Literacy by James Paul Gee In this week’s critique I will be using three assessment/evaluation traits from Jason Ohler’s assessment traits. The three traits I have chosen for this digital story are as listed: Story Originality, Voice, and Creativity Sense of Audience Story: 10/10 James Paul Gee is always wonderful to listen to and his story was clear and engaging. James Paul Gee engages his audience to rethink how games teach, how students learn, and how

My interest in Lankshear & Knobel’s work is focused around the idea of what is considered literate and how the word “new” is associated with the terms literacy and literacies. As I read Lankshear & Knobel’s work, what came to mind was how one was considered to be literate. In New Literacies by Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel, they discussed a widespread of functional illiteracy among adults in the USA during the early 1970s. Lankshear & Knobel stated “This was not a measure of absolute

For this assignment from DS 106, it asked us to make a GIF from a movie of our choosing. With my interested in games I decided what better than a GIF from Wreck-It Ralph. I think this will be a great start in my focal work in Games and Diversity!

Dear Mom, I want to express how much you mean to me because I am not always able to. You and dad came here to America with hopes to make a better life for not only yourselves but also for your children. I want to express how proud I am to be your son. I understand that growing up you wanted to give me everything, through all the struggles you and dad have been through coming to America was one of the hardest things either of you had to do. To leave your family behind and to come to a country you

What is my opinion on MOOCs? I think they are fascinating and beneficial towards a world that is getting more connected on an everyday basis. What fascinates me is that people no longer have to sit through traditional learning and now have the ability to learn on their own pace. Yes, I understand there are negative sides concerning MOOCs especially from a business standpoint, however can education truly be bought and sold? I would like to bring up the Maker’s Culture because people are learning

As I am writing this the League of Legends World Championships for 2014 is going to take place in 3 hours in the country of South Korea. Hundreds of thousands have flown in to see the final two teams face off one another in this Esport and millions around the world are standing by at their computers waiting for the live stream to take place. Internet gaming has become more than just a game and has provided many with more meaning in their lives. Many have even given up their livelihoods in

Depression is a topic that is not discussed openly for many reasons. There is a fear to discuss your feelings because many do not want to show their weaknesses. However, depression is very serious and has led to many tragedies before as many of us have seen either through the news or social media. So if we recognize that depression does exist then why is it that we never talk about it until it is too late? I believe everyone has gone through some kind of depression one point in their lives and

Recently I have been using a social media outlet called Reddit, Reddit amazes me with how much community it builds and how it creates an open forum for people to not only share information but to truly connect with one another on many different levels....

What I found interesting in John Seely Brown’s video is his mention of World of Warcraft and how it was not the game itself that fascinates him but the players and the community that were behind it. John mentioned that people want to become better and ...

Education is no longer about teaching students to learn but rather teaching students how to learn and create. Technology has pushed towards a new era of learning known as the maker culture where students create for themselves as a learning process. Thi...