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…

This week’s required reading for ILT5430 Digital Storytelling class isAfterword 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…

This week’s required reading for ILT5430 Digital Storytelling class isAfterword 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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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 …

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 …

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…