When I assigned up for the course ILT5430 Learning with Digital Story earlier this year, I was not expecting this type of learning at all. The last eight weeks has been the most intensive yet rewarding ILT course I have taken.There are so much to say about this course that I am afraid that I would be able to cover everything.Me as a learner in this course.Like much of professional development and learning there needs to be outreach and networking opportunities in order to maximize growth and

Week 7 is the last week of regular assignments and it feels like time just flies by. on last Friday, my 14 years old Camry finally died on the road, so I pretty much spent the whole weekend shopping with dealers. Luckily I was able to get a good deal on leasing. I am glad that I finished most of the required tasks before Friday, when emergency like this happened, I would not have to worry about unfinished school work.Among all the works, the Daily Creates and a visual Assignment from the DS106

Week 7 is the last week of regular assignments and it feels like time just flies by. on last Friday, my 14 years old Camry finally died on the road, so I pretty much spent the whole weekend shopping with dealers. Luckily I was able to get a good deal on leasing. I am glad that I finished most of the required tasks before Friday, when emergency like this happened, I would not have to worry about unfinished school work.Among all the works, the Daily Creates and a visual Assignment from the DS106

One of this week’s reading was Nilsson (2010): Developing Voice in Digital Storytelling through Creativity, Narrative and Multimodality. The paper takes a look at a successful experience of 9 years old Simon utilizing multimedia and narratives in digital storytelling – and the authors take the stance that digital storytelling became a resource facilitating students’ creativity generally and creative literacy and literary development in particular.Literacy in educational contexts is most often

One of this week’s reading was Nilsson (2010): Developing Voice in Digital Storytelling through Creativity, Narrative and Multimodality. The paper takes a look at a successful experience of 9 years old Simon utilizing multimedia and narratives in digital storytelling – and the authors take the stance that digital storytelling became a resource facilitating students’ creativity generally and creative literacy and literary development in particular.Literacy in educational contexts is most often

This week I continue to explore on Youtube.com to expand my knowledge about gardening.  I watched several videos  about propagating hydrangeas from clipping. This one from Expertvillage channal really stood out and I would like to share it with you      1.What types of “involvement” – and by the author/creator(s), participant(s), and/or audience – are apparent in this story?The involvement in this video was really well done.   The video maker has made obvious effort to keep background neat and

This week I continue to explore on Youtube.com to expand my knowledge about gardening.  I watched several videos  about propagating hydrangeas from clipping. This one from Expertvillage channal really stood out and I would like to share it with you      1.What types of “involvement” – and by the author/creator(s), participant(s), and/or audience – are apparent in this story?The involvement in this video was really well done.   The video maker has made obvious effort to keep background neat and

For my  Assignment of the week, I decided to complete Splash The Color  I thought I would really enjoy this assignment because I enjoy this kind of photo editing and can be associated with my focal theme. Here is my creation!Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. a green apple on a table. Think of the Girl in the red dress from Schindler's List. You can do this in a number of ways with photo

For my  Assignment of the week, I decided to complete Splash The Color  I thought I would really enjoy this assignment because I enjoy this kind of photo editing and can be associated with my focal theme. Here is my creation!Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. a green apple on a table. Think of the Girl in the red dress from Schindler's List. You can do this in a number of ways with photo

This week was rough for my family. Apparently, stomach flu hit each of us one by one. My husband, my daughter and I were taking turns throwing up and occupying bathrooms. It was terrible. Glad that we all felt better towards end of this week and I managed get my work done.I enjoyed reading this week's required chapter and the annotation from my classmates and Remi. Daily Creates just getting easier every week. I appreciate that Remi allowed us to choose the assignment that interests us this

This week was rough for my family. Apparently, stomach flu hit each of us one by one. My husband, my daughter and I were taking turns throwing up and occupying bathrooms. It was terrible. Glad that we all felt better towards end of this week and I managed get my work done.I enjoyed reading this week's required chapter and the annotation from my classmates and Remi. Daily Creates just getting easier every week. I appreciate that Remi allowed us to choose the assignment that interests us this

This week I wanted to search something combined with "garden" theme and technology. Guess what I found on Youtube? A digital story called “Meet Farmbot.” The video demonstrates humanity’s first open-source CNC farming machine. The FarmBot Genesis, developed by Rory Aronson — which has been taking pre-orders since July — is capable of planting seeds and then watering them precisely. What’s more, all of its plastic components can easily be 3D printed, while its flat connecting plates can be made

This week I wanted to search something combined with "garden" theme and technology. Guess what I found on Youtube? A digital story called “Meet Farmbot.” The video demonstrates humanity’s first open-source CNC farming machine. The FarmBot Genesis, developed by Rory Aronson — which has been taking pre-orders since July — is capable of planting seeds and then watering them precisely. What’s more, all of its plastic components can easily be 3D printed, while its flat connecting plates can be made

This week I read Lankshear and Knobel (2011) Ch7: Social Learning, “Push” and “Pull,” and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning. It explored in depth of social learning, ‘push’ and ‘pull’ paradigms, and building platform for social learning. I feel most related with two themes in this chapter: First the "push" and "pull" paradigm shift. Second, the relationship between "passion" and "persistence" as two success factors in learning. "Brown and Adler (2008: 30) conclude their discussion of

This week I read Lankshear and Knobel (2011) Ch7: Social Learning, “Push” and “Pull,” and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning. It explored in depth of social learning, ‘push’ and ‘pull’ paradigms, and building platform for social learning. I feel most related with two themes in this chapter: First the "push" and "pull" paradigm shift. Second, the relationship between "passion" and "persistence" as two success factors in learning. "Brown and Adler (2008: 30) conclude their discussion of

This week’s assignment was to take a close up picture of something as see if people can guess what it is. The task requirement says "Try doing the skin or outside of something that would make it hard for someone to guess!" So here is my work. Can you guess what it is?This was how did I accomplish the assignment.I found this task can be easily associated with my garden theme. So I took my EOS camera and went to my front yard trying to get some close-up of some of the flowers. The first couple

This week’s assignment was to take a close up picture of something as see if people can guess what it is. The task requirement says "Try doing the skin or outside of something that would make it hard for someone to guess!" So here is my work. Can you guess what it is?This was how did I accomplish the assignment.I found this task can be easily associated with my garden theme. So I took my EOS camera and went to my front yard trying to get some close-up of some of the flowers. The first couple

This week was probably my favorite week so far at ILT5430 class. I’ve enjoyed reading Henry Jenkins's . This week was our final week. We completed our final project and other projects. Everything went smoothly thankfully. The only difficulty I had was trying to think of what I should do for my Tutorial. I feel that I have done well on my assignments this week. I’ve worked on my assignments all week and had good time-management. I wouldn’t do anything differently this week and I don’t have any

This week was probably my favorite week so far at ILT5430 class. I’ve enjoyed reading Henry Jenkins's . This week was our final week. We completed our final project and other projects. Everything went smoothly thankfully. The only difficulty I had was trying to think of what I should do for my Tutorial. I feel that I have done well on my assignments this week. I’ve worked on my assignments all week and had good time-management. I wouldn’t do anything differently this week and I don’t have any

Since my  vegetable garden was destroyed by deer last week, I started to search for information about deer repellent. I found a video from Youtube called Best Deer Repellent Ever Invented. It has 76,833 views since it was published at 2009. So I gave it a try. What types of "involvement" - and by the author/creator(s), participant(s), Colorand/or audience - are apparent in this story? I would say that participants's involvement is pretty obvious in this video. There are three guys in the video

Since my  vegetable garden was destroyed by deer last week, I started to search for information about deer repellent. I found a video from Youtube called Best Deer Repellent Ever Invented. It has 76,833 views since it was published at 2009. So I gave it a try. What types of "involvement" - and by the author/creator(s), participant(s), Colorand/or audience - are apparent in this story? I would say that participants's involvement is pretty obvious in this video. There are three guys in the video

This week’s required reading for ILT5430 Digital Storytelling class is Afterword written by Henry Jenkins for Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel’s DIY Media: Creating, Sharing and Learning with New Technologies. Excellent read! My biggest takeaway from this reading is the distinction between traditional “Do It Yourself”  culture and the “ Do It Together” participatory culture.  Before I read Jenkins’s article, DIY is just a phrase in reference to the emergence of a trend of people undertaking

This week’s required reading for ILT5430 Digital Storytelling class is Afterword written by Henry Jenkins for Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel’s DIY Media: Creating, Sharing and Learning with New Technologies. Excellent read! My biggest takeaway from this reading is the distinction between traditional “Do It Yourself”  culture and the “ Do It Together” participatory culture.  Before I read Jenkins’s article, DIY is just a phrase in reference to the emergence of a trend of people undertaking

This week we were given a mashup project to complete from the DS106 assignment bank. While I was scanning the bank, I found a task called "Consumer mashup". The requirement is to think of anyplace you spend money, and what you most often buy at that place. Then redesign their logo to incorporate your favorite product. I feel this is a task that I can associate with my focal theme easily. I can't remember how many times this summer I have been to Lowe's and how many flowers I have gotten from

This week we were given a mashup project to complete from the DS106 assignment bank. While I was scanning the bank, I found a task called "Consumer mashup". The requirement is to think of anyplace you spend money, and what you most often buy at that place. Then redesign their logo to incorporate your favorite product. I feel this is a task that I can associate with my focal theme easily. I can't remember how many times this summer I have been to Lowe's and how many flowers I have gotten from

Yah, my head is still spinning from all the reading and writing of this week.But hey, I made into week 4. This week was fast-paced with the summer camps and July 4th party over the weekend. I thought I am going to have difficulty to get things done in the timely fashion I had planned.  But, everything did get done.  The design assignment was fun and I found it is easy to be related with my focal theme.  For one of the daily creates, I got to use the Sketch Pad app on my phone and found it very

Yah, my head is still spinning from all the reading and writing of this week.But hey, I made into week 4. This week was fast-paced with the summer camps and July 4th party over the weekend. I thought I am going to have difficulty to get things done in the timely fashion I had planned.  But, everything did get done.  The design assignment was fun and I found it is easy to be related with my focal theme.  For one of the daily creates, I got to use the Sketch Pad app on my phone and found it very

This week we read Chapter 8 of A new literacies sampler:Looking from the Inside Out: Academic Blogging as New Literacy by Julia Davies and Guy Merchant. This chapter is mainly focused on exploring how and why blogging becomes one of the important forms of new literacy. What makes this paper special is the two authors, Davis and Merchant, are both "the subject and the object" of the research. They introduced the practice of blog from the "insider' point of view and the vivid examples from their

Monday morning I went to the backyard to water my vegetable garden and I found all the cucumber leaves were gone from the cucumber plants. Only bare stems and some flowers were left on the trellis. A couple of green tomatoes were scattered on the ground. There were some bite marks on the tomatoes. There were big deep footprints in the soil. Everything told me that we had an unexpected visit from deer.It looks miserable, doesn't it? I felt sense of irony. This is my first year of planting

Monday morning I went to the backyard to water my vegetable garden and I found all the cucumber leaves were gone from the cucumber plants. Only bare stems and some flowers were left on the trellis. A couple of green tomatoes were scattered on the ground. There were some bite marks on the tomatoes. There were big deep footprints in the soil. Everything told me that we had an unexpected visit from deer.It looks miserable, doesn't it? I felt sense of irony. This is my first year of planting