Summer funLong shadows, cooler nights and course introductions all signals of summer's end. As I pen this introduction, I'm considering my journey over the past year. What a trip it has been!Last August, I entered the ILT program as an unemployed sales...

I may have gotten in over my head with this one. It's much easier to critique a mashup than it is to create one! This required many walks in the woods. At any rate, in the spirit of mashups, DS106, cudenver15 and digital storytelling here is my story.....

"I've been doing it this way for 30 years and it's worked just fine." How often have I heard this statement? The words have been uttered by business owners, educators even my own dad. When I hear the statement I think, "Wow, do you still get around on ...

Week seven had me thinking about the application of social learning concepts. How does it all work together? How do I apply it within my own designs? For me, it's critical to have a guiding question. In digital storytelling the question is "Does this e...

Why did the chicken cross the road?Birds are constantly hitting the windows of my house. It's a horrible sound but fortunately most survive. I took this photo after one unfortunate bird flew into my office window. The impact left a ghostly image of the...

Walking Backwards to Walk ForwardIn Park City, UT with my family this week. They all walked backwards for me. Goofy people.

Two learning instances from my youth stick with me to this day. At a ripe young age, I knew all of the states and their capitols. I could also recite every country in the world and their capitols (Mom was so proud). Interestingly, I did not acquire thi...

My husband is opening a moto adventure touring business, Treeline Adventures,  in Durango and needed a logo. The tours take guests into the Colorado high country on KTM Enduro 690 motorcycles ( a hybrid off/on-road bike). Using Adobe Illustrator, ...

The Toyminator by CCZ, a clever single image mashup combining Toy Story with The Terminator. The design won 2nd place in a contest on Worth 1000 an online creative contest site. I selected some literary dimensions from New Literacies: Everyday Practici...

Create A Wonky Poster

Faye Moorhouse’s posters are great! Make one of your favourite movie.
The drawing is actually a combined effort between my brother and his 5 year old daughter. I thought it had a wonky almost Tim Burton-ish feel to it.

I'm always stoked when concepts from other classes coalesce into greater understanding. Lankshear and Knobel presented the concept of a pull model of learning. As I dove deeper into the idea, I began considering the relationship between 'pull' and tapp...

FLIGHT OF THE APPLE A true story. Act 1 I stare at her battered face and deformed frame. As she slowly flickered to life, I pleaded, "Oh please! Oh please!" but feared for the worst.Act 2Computers aren't designed to fly. In fact, when they ta...

The hairless ape possesses a natural inclination to learn, to explore, and to improve its abilities. This built-in drive powered all innovation from the first tools of the Paleolithic period to the newly invented Lexus Hoverboard. The ability to proble...

Scanning through the audio assignments from the DS106 Assignment Bank I found an activity that involved mixing movie soundtracks. Initially, I thought this would be a fun assignment. I quickly realized, however, that my brain wasn't capable of separati...

Late 19th century high mountain mining towns were a portrait of a rugged and brutal existence. Daily life consisted of snow measured in feet during winter months and intense thunderstorms in summer. Despite the constant battering of mother nature, the ...

  Collaboration is more than being a part of a group; more than adding a piece to a project. This week brought to light the complexity of collaborating. It's a system of processes involving human dynamics. From the textbook, I learned of the impor...

Bring back trashy covers Create your own trashy cover from a favourite book.Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc1280Of Human Bondage

Functional fixedness is a plight of the adult mind. As we age, our tendency to focus on a singular function of an object solidifies thereby rendering us less capable of creative thinking. The candle puzzle is a classic example of the dilemma. The test ...

I know nothing about poetry so I apologize in advance. Here is a death poem:

 Sunset

A thrush's flute plays
dancing daisies
I drift on the horizon

 

TDC

The dream of the Dragonflies – A death poem

“Here I’d like for people to write a somewhat serious poem, ideally a haiku or tanka, from the point of view of someone who is going to die and knows it. Haiku in English has been often been taught as a nature poem of three lines alternating as five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables. Not only is that not really the case (haiku in Japan are often written in one vertical line), but it has done such a disservice to the form of haiku that poets who work in the form are often overlooked. And since everyone thinks they know what haiku are, there are thousands upon thousands of awful poems that simply miss the boat.”
Cameron Mount (@cameronmount)
You have been told. Write your death poem. If you need more guidance Cameron has written a lovely poetry game for death poems to help us learn how to do it well. There is also a why ‘no 5-7-5′ post referred to in the game that will give further guidance.

Monty Python, the holy grail of sketch comedy, one either loves it or doesn't get it. The British surreal comedy group (John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones) created the show Monty Python's Flying Circle in ...

I could do this all day! In this assignment, the mashup combines a serious movie scene with inappropriate laughter. The idea is to change the mood of the scene. At first, I was daunted by figuring out what movie scene to select. I had recently watched ...

Like Emily, I was holding out for a TDC but wasn't up for another drawing. So, I went back to the embed an old painting into a modern setting.  Photobombs are the thing these days. The clueless nature of the "bombee" makes the images funny. What w...

The never ending climb...Week four's learning experience generated a lot of questions and anxieties. Reading about Maguma and the remix culture was humbling. The amount of hours dedicated to the craft is staggering. I feel I personally spend too many h...

My dog Yeti hates the sound of real fireworks.So, I drew one on a napkin for her.She loved it.TDC Draw on a NapkinDraw a picture on a napkin for somebody you love and give it to them. Take a photo and show us?Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dail...

The notion of thinking, working, learning and creating in isolation is such a lonely concept. No touching, no talking, no copying, no sharing. How did we ever arrive at this point in progress? All of the great innovators of human civilization admit to ...

The world of faux news shows has exploded recently. Most, spawned from The Daily Show, are merciless in their depiction of the ridiculous nature of politics, politicians and the news commentary that follows. These shows also exemplify the art of the re...

 SELF HELP MOTIVATIONAL POSTER My niece is a poster child for coffee consumption. Some of us are destined for it. This is not a morning person (I pity her future husband). Drinking coffee, for the sunrise averse, saves lives. The message:If you ha...

The week was one of great discovery for me. Like many of my coursemates, I struggled with chapter 3. I read parts of it at least three times but could not latch on to anything. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem. However, the time limitations and pro...

SURVIVAL VIDEO For this assignment, make a video for someone (mom, dad, sister, etc.) on how to survive something you've been through or you're going through so that they have a chance for surviving! See video on how I advised my mom on how to survi...