Today I made an hyperbolic tiling. This is the assignment details link TDC Assignment  This is the original picture

I had an intensive week. I didn’t participate as frequently as I intended but I think my contributions and learning were meaningful. This week reading brings a sense of interdependence between my personal productions and participation in generation of collaborative thinking. I was able to connect readings, assignments, and critique into a cohesive whole regarding […]

The proliferation of collaborative practices is having an important impact in educational and working environments. The chapter focuses in exploring blogs and wikis as participatory and collaborative literacy practices. I found interesting the evolution of blogging practices which are increasing due to the accessibility of easy-to-use publishing tools and hosting services. In terms of encouraging […]

A few days ago my little daughter drew a bird “to keep me company”. I decided to “take” it on my finger and give it an ink friend to love it. How did I make my Hand and Paper drawing? I drew a little magic girl using ink and markers and took a picture of […]

Machinima videos are a new discovery for me. I found a production very well developed for a young team of producers that is at the same time an excellent example of remixing practices and it is related with my focus theme. Regarding the story, it have a original narrative, is creative and attractive, and also […]

One of my passions is children’s book. This assignment appealed to me. I decided to mashup together a classic book “Jack and the Beanstalk” with an icon of the pop culture such as Jack Sparrow has become. I can imagine Jack using his pirate arts to steal the beans and the giant’s gold and trying […]

I love the idea to celebrate the value of handwriting with the #PenATweet day TDC assignment . I wrote the first idea that came to my mind when I read about it. To create the image I wrote the sentence in a notebook and drew a tweeter image. I used the photoshop app to mix […]

I enjoyed deeply this week’s activities and reading. From the reading I learned about popular everyday remixing practices I am ashamed I was unaware of. Like making machinima videos or fan fiction short movies, It was interesting exploring the sites, understanding the production requirements, and watching different videos and images to select which one to […]

For this week’s critique I chose to focus on a fan fiction short movie about one of the most representative characters of Harry Potter series, Severus Snape. As a Harry Potter fanatic I found this work fascinating and it clearly shows deep knowledge of the history of the series as well as solid literacy dimensions […]

For this week’s DS106 Design assignment I chose to create an infographic life. I graphically represented how I distribute my daily time each day during this course. I estimated that my daily activities usually take 16 hours and calculated the percentage I usually spend developing UC Denver ds106’s different tasks, having family working time, and […]

Examining social practices of digital remixing as a necessary condition for democratic culture as a new norm for writing gives me a new dimension to consider popular production and expression. Lankshear and Knobel emphasized the increasing importance technology has in digital remixing though the practice of writing. They explained the power incorporating sound and video […]

If I was faster… I saw a white squirrel climbing on my apple tree. Unfortunately I am a terribly slow photographer and I just catch the tree. The drawing is an example of how the moment looked in my mind. For the creative process I drew using white paper and ink, I took a photo with […]

TDC Recycle Selfie. A few months ago I made a traditional mask using recycled material… very messy process, but It turned out very well in the end!

Self-discovery is becoming a daily surprise. That is the start I choose for one of my daily created assessments and I believe that idea represents my experience during these days. This was a remarkable week for me in this course. I was able to interconnect all the activities I participated with my professional interest and […]

Silence is the best moment to enjoy your ideas.

What Do You Care About? I chose to create a video for the assignment Paying Homage To What you Care About . The video shows the thoughts I care about most deeply: family, honesty, freedom, hope, achievements, living goal-orientated, and the wish to obtain all that for Venezuela, my native country. I think it was […]

This week,s chapter provided a deeper and complex explanation about what “new” means in new literacies. The authors pointed out the social influence of the change of paradigm from individualization towards collectivity has in the organization in our life, thinking and actions. Lankshear and Knobel mentioned how distributed expertise and collective intelligence reconstitutes and reconfigures […]

This week I decided to share two beautiful and inspiring stories. These ones bring hope to our lives because the message is powerful and touching. The stories are connected with my focal theme since both focus on positive identity and how we have the inner strength to make the best of our lives though self-confidence, […]

Self-discovery is becoming a daily surprise…

This week I experienced the joy of feeling more fluent and active in our course. I decided what will be my focal theme: Empowering positive identity in immigrant students. I hope to develop meaningful digital productions orientated to promoting my personal interest. I enjoyed the daily engaging with peers’ productions and having the opportunity to […]

I recorded the usual sounds during my mornings. I spent a lot of time selecting the ones that most represent my home environment. Finally I edited the recording and left the ones that show how I start my day. I do not feel comfortable publishing this audio because I have a strong sense of privacy. […]

The digital stories I watched this week were aligned with my personal interest of finding inspiring stories for immigrant students. I was looking for remarkable productions showing personal learning, successful accomplishment and the value of education for progress in today’s world. I would like to mention I decided not to assign points to each trait […]

During our recent affiliation in a variety of social media platforms in order to participate in the course Learning with digital stories, we are collectively generating our particular meaning and became members of a specific educational discourse reflecting our individual and group thinking. Lankshear and Knobel (2011) defined literacies as”socially recognized ways in which people […]

Vamos a nadar! / Let’s go swimming! #flickr https://flic.kr/p/uMoT3WJu

I named my favorite moment Visual Contact. It is a reference to when I saw my baby the first time. We connected deeply and everything seemed to disappear. It was a magic sensation when I realized that my life changed forever. I am convinced we had a private communication. I remember looking into her eyes […]

This was a challenging week for me. I started this course with many expectations and personal resolutions that like in every previous learning experience are transformed beginning the first day. I expected to spend more time focused on improving my designer skills; rather I found myself in a new social learning interaction path that is […]

This is my TDC “Beauty by Google”

Understanding what it means being literate or illiterate in todays world implies analyzing a complexity of concepts, terms, inte ractions, and being willing to rethink personal conceptions. “New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning” by Colin Lanksh ear and Michele Knobel provides in the first chapter an overview exploring concepts, proposing themes of reflection, and […]