1. @jrpokrandt

    Jason Bourne

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    OMG the new Jason Bourne movie comes out next week and I am SO excited!  I will be looking at the trailer for this week’s Story Critique.  Although it doesn’t fall directly into my theme of “Health and Nutrition,” I think it is safe to say that super-secret spy Jason Bourne knows a thing or … Continue reading Jason Bourne
  2. @jrpokrandt

    Week 7 – Reading Response

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    This week’s articles: “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” – Peggy McIntosh (1989) “Developing Voice in Digital Storytelling Through Creativity, Narrative and Multimodality” – Nilsson (2010) “Lifting Lighter Weights Can Be Just As Effective As Heavy Ones” – Gretchen Reynolds, The New York Times   “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” This was not the first … Continue reading Week 7 – Reading Response
  3. @mzclare

    Week #7 Reading Response

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    Reading Response #7 : Opting for Change Readings: Nilsson (2010): Developing Voice in Digital Storytelling through Creativity, Narrative and Multimodality Jody Rosen and Maura Smale: Open Digital Pedagogy = Critical Pedagogy Audrey Watters: Openness and Ownership: Who Owns School Work? Opting Back … Continue reading
  4. @janetmemerson

    Work-Life Balance Wordle – Week 7

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    For this week’s DS106 Assignment Bank I chose a visual assignment I could relate to my chosen storytelling them, work-life balance. The visual assignment Word Cloud. Use a site like http://www.wordle.net/create or similar to create a word cloud. Make your chosen text meaningful to you. Choose a font and color scheme that reflects the emotion […]
  5. @dusenberyart_k8

    Looking into IMJ, reading the directions! A digital story critique

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    http://www.zachwhalen.net/posts/imj-a-web-based-tool-for-visual-culture-macroanalytics/

    What the heck is macroanalytics, visual culture and why would you make a movie barcode? 


    While completing a recent Ds106 assignment I stumbled on this web page that takes movie stills and turns them into bar codes, montages and plots. Cool right- Well if you follow the directions...Thankfully I did read a little after the fact of course, and I found this blog entry by the creator. It would have been very resourceful to read it prior to creating the assignment, but hindsight is 50/50 right! 

    Microanalytics:  (from the freedictionary.com)

    n. pl. mi·cro·a·nal·y·ses (-sēz′)

    The chemical identification and analysis of extremely small quantities of matter.

    mi′cro·an′a·lyst (-ăn′ə-lĭst) n.
    mi′cro·an′a·lyt′ic (-ăn′ə-lĭt′ĭk)mi′cro·an′a·lyt′i·cal adj.

    Visual Culture: 

    Visual culture works towards a social theory of visuality, focusing on questions of what is made visible, who sees what, how seeing, knowing and power are interrelated. It examines the act of seeing as a product of the tensions between external images or objects, and internal thought processes. (Georgetown.edu)

    Involvement: 

    There is a lot of involvement, in this piece. From the creation of the IMJ site, to the expected users, and then of course the users that are using the site. The creator created the site because there was not a user friendly site available, he created it for his students, and the general public to use. I love the idea that he has made it so simple, but then also offers his blog page on the creations for deeper understanding, furthering the involvement by all the users. Because the site also incorporates three different outputs, I think that it reaches a further audience, and creates greater usability and involvement. 


    Literacy Dimensions

    The literacy dimensions of the blog post are easy to identify, and it becomes obvious that it is written by a teacher. Though I am not really a tech person, Whalen uses terminology that is easy to connect to and offers explanation for those that are not, making decoding and using quite easy. Whalen's person is apparent, as an educator in a digital affinity he does not claim professorship, leadership and shows that he is open to learning from those that use his site, read his blog by asking for ideas, suggestions and improvements to the program. The quickness of the program and the multiple outputs allows the user to make meaning and understand the program by just playing around a bit. 


    I don't think that there is much that I would change, I always like to have a how to video, but the instructions are so well laid out that there is really no need. Where does one find this kind of stuff, would be a section that I might add, I think that it is important to keep the participant engaged, so perhaps a few links to other similar users or what other people are doing with this technology.  

    The technology is easy enough, and l was pleased to see that even Whalen used the program to chart color change over a period of Van Gogh's work, it gives yet another interesting aspect to talk about in art fused with 21st c skills and technology. I am going to have to try it again, this time with better understanding as I have read the instructions, I expect that I will have a much better end product.  

    What other uses do you foresee with this technology and program? What film or artist would you IMJ? 



  6. @L_Raz0829

    Seasons Song Video (Story Critique)

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    For my digital storytelling critique this week I wanted to try to find a video about the seasons that I could show my daughter. I found a few very homemade looking videos that just included too much jargon for my daughter to understand. Finally, I found a video called Seasons Song Video that had a fun […]
  7. @CassieDunnam

    Privilege -reading week 7

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    Wow! When I think about all that is going on in our country right now, I am in awe of the issues.  The article “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” was eye-opening. I would say that it was not new but a realization about how white people have an advantage just by the color of their […]
  8. @CassieDunnam

    Paws for Support

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    This week’s Assignment bank goes to Word Cloud. Here are the directions from the DS106 Assignment: Use a site like http://www.wordle.net/create or similar to create a word cloud. Make your chosen text meaningful to you. Choose a font and color scheme that reflects the emotion behind your choice of words. Take a screenshot, and upload […]
  9. @rgrotans2

    Super Runners World

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    The Story I really enjoy gaming and Super Mario is just one of those classics I can just always go back to. Since I first experimented with a green screening back in week 3, I knew that I wanted Read more...The post Super Runners World appeared first...

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