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Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze (2008) wrote an editorial that has connected some dots for me. It’s leading like a trail of bread crumbs down a path to I don’t...
For today’s daily create Stark, Spare, Beautiful Midcentury British Safety Posters put out a request to up-cycle their posters to be useful for digital safety. We were to choose one...
I had a hard week. There was a medical crisis in my family (it’s all good now). Schedules overwhelmed me. Laundry overwhelmed. Everything overwhelmed me. I ended up playing ambient...
Reading Response to Chapter 2-3: DIY Media Creating, Sharing and Learning with New Technologies What do the Beastie Boys and Danger Mouse have in common? Besides having interesting names, they’re...
I had no idea I could create a trio with just my voice and some recording software. I was inspired to do this project from the DS106 Assignment Bank because...
I took a break on Monday and headed up to Estes Park to see the Fall colors. It was such a soul-nurturing time of escape. Something about taking the time...
Discovering ideas for using Minecraft in the classroom is one of my goals this semester and one I’m really excited about. But let’s face it, it’s a game. How do...
Today’s daily create was to make a photo of a dozen of anything. I chose Magnesium which has an atomic weight of 12 (made with shiny blue paintballs) Fun Facts...
I heard CEO of a company say once “Fail fast and fail often.” I remember cringing when I heard it. We don’t like to fail. Americans feel uncomfortable with failure....
The chapter Visual networks: Learning and photosharing by Guy Merchant (2010) is one of those articles where you have a quiet but significant thought pop into your head like, Oh,...
“It’s hard to say where the wired world ends and the wild one begins.” In my ongoing exploration of transmedia, I ran across a very cool web documentary called simply,...
Visual Assignment: Bucket List This DS106 Assignment just made me happy. Bucket lists make me want things . . . to dream. It’s like a present I plan to give...
For my reading response I chose Expanding Learning Opportunities with Transmedia Practices: Inanimate Alice as an Exemplar by Laura Fleming. I became interested in the digital story Inanimate Alice while...
Today’s Daily Create Topic: Make Nature Stick People! My husband calls me a tree hugger. I subscribe to Earth Justice, I hate fracking, I watch documentaries like Tapped and Gasland,...
At the very outset of this chapter I could feel my stomach quiver. Why do I feel so nervous? Writing has never been a problem for me. But writing on...
Devastating Beauty Today’s Daily Create went along with a multimedia piece I read today put out by the New York Times called Snowfall. What’s amazing about this story is twofold....