If I were to play a words association game, and the word in play was “storytelling,” I’d respond with “oral history.” For generations, many civilizations have passed on their cultural material and traditions through oral lore. Some of these oral … Continue reading →

My favorite TV show is The Amazing Race. Although it is supposed to be reality TV,  unscripted, and unpredictable,  each episode is edited to tell a compelling story of the contestants’ adventures. Below is a graphical depiction of the typical … Continue reading →

“Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!” The white rabbit from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland best describes my feelings about this assignment. This is not how I envisioned my first blog entry would be, but my … Continue reading →

Storytelling is a series of events which have actionable items that play on a persons emotions. Stories can be audio, …

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On last weeks episode of Surviver, Cliff a tall former basketball player on the Braun team thought that he had …

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I have to admit, my journey in DS106 has been a bit intimidating. Having a background in digital media and a fairly comfortable presence online, I was not expecting to be quite so overwhelmed. I personally attribute this feeling to … Continue reading →

An example I have of something that could be “storified” is a presentation I was tasked to pull together for the volunteering I do at my church. Four people have decided to join our church and will be baptized in … Continue reading →

Storytelling to me brings to mind my grandfather. He loves to tell stories about history, his own life, a great book he’s read, pretty much anything. Storytelling to me, therefore, is sharing an experience, whether personally or indirectly, that has … Continue reading →

Welcome to Security tips 101. Your one stop shop on protecting your home computer.  You will find information and tricks on …

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Just to demonstrate the use of Galleries for your wordpress sites, here’s what I have been suffering through this past week… You should first enable some of the gallery features in your own site via Settings — Media You can create these galleries from the images you upload to wordpress, via the Add Media Button. […]

Well, that was certainly a roller coaster of a week–not expecting that! This has been a TOTALLY different experience, and I’m loving it. On a personal level, I can’t remember the last time I truly wrote down my thoughts. I’ve never really blogged before, and it has been liberating; almost as if writing in a […]

When asked to think about a story I’m familiar with, I thought through various movies, plays and books I’ve read but none seemed to quite hit the mark in the way I envisioned. Since the theme of my blog is … Continue reading →

When I was taking my driving test as a young 16 year old, I almost failed. I had heard from more than one person that the Massachusetts state police officers try to trick you into going down a one way road the wrong way. With this in mind, I set out on my test with […]

Hmm, what is a story? I think at the very baseline, a story is a sequence of events culminating in a conclusion. I tend to default to humor in all aspects of my life, and when I think about stories, I can’t help but start laughing. I think of everything that has happened to me […]

As the start of Spring is finally here, I decided to theme my site around this wonderful season. I currently use WordPress to manage a website so working with the site wasn’t brand new to me, but I have never … Continue reading →

As I watched Kurt Vonnegut talking about the shapes of stories, all I could think of was my favorite TV series of all time: South Park. Almost all South Park episodes are broken up into three separate acts and/or plots; all of which converging at the end to create a comedic masterpiece. While it is […]

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine I use the word reflection often in teaching ds106- it has shades of meaning, and less of looking at your own outward appearances but re-processing the work you are doing in learning and practicing digital storytelling. Sure Malcolm Gladwell suggests if we do […]

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine For the first week of DS106 Goes to Work, I’ve asked students to be on the look out for things in their world that might benefit from a “storified” approach. This was deliberately left vague, and I want students to struggle a bit […]

A road is a rich visual metaphor, a path, a sense of adventure, leading you someplace, openness… but in the case of Cormac McCarthy’s book, it is also one dark view of the future of our quite/unquote civilization. The tale is usually described as grim. post-apocalyptic– and the setting most certainly is, with the cannibalism, […]

Wow what a week! I will not lie and say I knew this class would test me right off the bat and really get us thinking. I must say that Allen set the tone with his first video blog and I knew this would be nothing like I have done before. Not to mention the […]

This first week of readings and activities made me take a step back and rethink my notion of stories and storytelling. The “TouchCast” video about Storytelling and Design took my initial concepts and added details to things I knew but didn’t necessarily articulate in my initial definition of a story. A good story has a character […]

I’ve had a dog for about 10 years. He’s my best buddy. About 4 years ago, I took a job where I travel each week. My dog stays with my parents Monday – Thursday. There are lots of different articles on how to be a single parent and how to be a great dog owner. […]

I knew the minute the first video blog came out for this class that the picking of the story for my final project would be tough. In our other GMU classes it was always a struggle to come up with a topic for the final project and I knew this would be no different. So […]

Wow–for a site that claims to be a breeze to set up, that sure is a lot of tweaking! Although tedious at times, I think this is a good representation of storytelling. Good storytelling (as far as I can tell), is all in the details. You would be bored listenting to a story where all […]

Storytelling is conveying a message to an audience through images, words, and/or audible communication.  I always think of my father who is an ex-marine and would have the craziest stories to tell.  Some of them are jokes (no I can’t tell you them all), life happenings, or just random thoughts on his mind.  There was […]

Frozen by Disney I haven’t had a lot of time to see any recent movies and I have a bad memory with details of them sometimes. However, I did just see Frozen and really loved it. So let me tell you about Frozen using Vonnegut’s shape. Still need a little more help? Let’s tell the […]

When I think of Storytelling, I think of my dad. The association is most obvious because he used to read me a story every night before going to bed. I always associated the stories with the beginning, middle and end. My dad also did a great job of bringing in different characters through the use […]

I found Kurt Vonnegut‘s theory on the structure of stories really interesting. In my simplistic view, I always pictured stories as a linear flow chart with chevrons for the beginning, middle and end rather than a wave that ebbs and flows with highs and lows. The video got me thinking about story structure. I started thinking […]

Try writing a welcome to me blog post. Write about how the experience of setting it up went, if it feels like it represents something interesting. Make sure you use one of the categories you created from the box in lower right to associate it with the ones you set up. Try adding an image […]

My name is Lauren. I am part of the GMU eLearning Cohort. I am a 2nd year manager in Human Capital Consulting and newbie when it comes to blogging. Setting up this blog was a bit overwhelming to me since there were so many different places to review and settings to master. I’m hoping that […]