This week’s daily create: make up a cowboy saying! My take:

The Story Behind the Story I chose the “When It’s Cold Outside” video project from the DS106 Video assignment list specifically because, rather humorously, despite being winter, it’s definitely not cold in Boulder at the moment. In fact, it’s not looking like it’s going to be for quite a while. This gave me not only […]

The digital story I critiqued this week was “I’m Hiking with Stupid: A Buddy Story,” a nonfiction story about a reunion hike for two friends published on Backpacker.com. The three criteria I chose to judge the piece on were originality/voice/creativity, flow/organization/pacing, and media application.   Originality, Voice, Creativity “I’m hiking with Stupid: A Buddy Story” […]

Digital storytelling continues to grow! While that’s true in a literal sense in terms of the number of people telling stories online, I mean it more specifically as my understanding of it (what it can be, what it encompasses) from these assignments in class. Imagery, for instance, keeps coming up again and again in the […]

The digital story I critiqued this week for INTE 5340 (#3) was “Winter Camping Solo on Vermont’s Long Trail Hiking with a dog,” a Youtube video through the GuideYouOutdoors channel. It was, in essence, a roughly 25-minute long documentation of one man and his dog’s almost completed solo winter hike along Vermont’s Long Trail. Shot […]

Chapter 2 of New Literacies was, I’ll admit, a little confusing at first. While reading it, I was having a difficult time parsing out exactly what was being said in this chapter that was new, particularly in the first half of the chapter. Sure, literacy is described to the reader as being a broad term […]

The question every day of winter: cowboy boots or hiking boots?

My theme is hiking and camping! I’m interested in learning more about outdoor recreation–what’s new, what’s interesting, what’s changing on the industry side of things–and going hiking and camping more with my girlfriend while I’m in Colorado. Personal Learning Goals: I hope to learn and utilize at least two new hiking techniques, two new camping […]

The digital storytelling reading I chose to respond to this week, “How Do You Tell A Stellar Story?” or “Hiking Towards the Future of Outdoor Storytelling” by Katie Boué was an intriguingly fundamental article from the Outdoor Industry Association. Since outdoor companies—seemingly moreso than some other industries—rely on appearing personal and human, their need to […]

This is a critique of digital storytelling (#2) for my INTE 5340 class. The digital story I read and critiqued this week was from Modern Hiker, an amazing and varied hiking blog from Southern California. The post is San Gorgonio Mountain via the Vivian Creek Trail by Scott Turner. This particular example of digital storytelling […]

Do you like the gif? Eye do (sorry for the terrible pun)! This week’s assignment from DS106, titled “Can You See What I See“—part of my INTE 5340 course—was: Find or take a photo of an eye. Take another image of whatever you want, and overlay the image onto the eye. Make the image in […]

Why are these daily create activities Wild West themed all the time? It’s really odd. Anywho, here’s mine for the week.

This is the first of a series of bi-weekly personal reflective summaries as assignments for my INTE 5340 class. This week has very much been an introduction to the concept of digital storytelling itself. Though I wasn’t entirely certain what that may have meant at first (though my professor’s screencast helped clear this up a […]

This is the first of a series of “critiques” of digital stories–an assignment for my class INTE 5340. [This critique digs more into the theory of telling a fiction story in new modes rather than the elements of narrative used within the framework of that story itself.] Digital storytelling in science fiction. It seems like […]

I’m reading New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel for one of my classes, and I’m producing a series of blog posts to discuss some thoughts on the work chapter by chapter. Chapter 1: In essence, Lankshear and Knobel dive into discussing, at length, the development of the term […]

I’m doing “Daily Create” activities as part of my instructional design class. This week’s  activity was for people to “Make a tweet of Western kindness for someone you don’t know.” So, I addressed a lesser-known point of Colorado culture for people’s benefit: It’s true. Just go ahead and wear cowboy boots if you think they’re […]