I’m about to be cliche and refer to an old adage, but when you think about it, there is a reason the sayings are universal and prevailing. A picture is worth a thousand words is what rings true as I was watching this week’s digital story. One can quite literally use a thousand words to … Continue reading "Digital Story: Photography for Social Change"

Sure, we all know that Digital Storytelling is great! It helps all students, especially struggling writers, find their authorial voices. But, if we don't know which Digital Storytelling tools to use, we can't help our students unlock their inner Steinbecks. Luckily, Jacqui Murray has come to our rescue. After no doubt sifting through myriad Digital Storytelling resources, she has detailed some of the most useful in her blog entry, "9 Best-in-Class Storytelling Apps." Among the w ...

In light of the recent events at Standing Rock, it is no surprise that Storycenter selected Bill Tall Bull's Digital Story, "This is My Home," as their Featured Story. In his piece, Bill Tall Bull details the history of his Native American tribe, the Cheyenne-Arapahoe, who lived in what is now present day Denver. His story is a powerful reminder that before "America," a bold people occupied this land. He implores us not to forget this history, but to celebrate it as part of our national fabric.U ...

The story I chose for this week’s digital story critique is a short film “Talk to me” that was developed to raise awareness of physical and mobility disabilities. The story is about Phoebe, an eleven year old girl with Cerebral Palsy who cannot walk and talk but is able to participate in everyday activities with […]

Another story about how soccer (the beautiful game) empowered someone to strive for their dreams.  This time it’s a story from Nepal.  Radika’s Dream is a moving story about a girl in Nepal who wouldn’t let her dream of playing soccer be squashed, even when she was scolded and beaten by her mother for playing … Continue reading Radika’s Dream

Today’s challenge was to either find or invent the latest in the Pumpkin Spice craze! So not wanting to have our furry friends miss out, I present –

Digital Story Critique Digital Storytelling – Starbucks Who doesn’t want to know more about Starbucks, considering there is one within walking distance no matter where you are located? This digital story about Starbucks is incredibly informative and the pace is very quick. I learned more about Starbucks, and while I’m not a regular customer, I&ellipsis;Read the full post »

The Power of Storytelling in the College Classroom by Sal S. Buffo http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/power-storytelling-college-classroom/ The power of storytelling is all around us. When we watch a commercial there is often a brief story involved to help retain our attention. During a political campaign narratives are used to help create an emotional response to support audience attention.&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Mark Riedl and R. Young wrote up a piece in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research about the automated creation of narrative and how the difficulties of believably in plot and character made its creation hard to achieve. Many times, the automated process would be able to string out sequences of events, but the motivations … Continue reading Scholarship Review: Narrative Planning, Balancing Plot and Character

The Educause website defines Digital Storytelling as being “…the practice of combining narrative with digital content, including images, sound, and video, to create a short movie, typically with a strong emotional component.”  This 2:11 minutes video carries a very strong message to the world who should be aware of the fact that Slavery is still… Continue reading Digital Story critique: Slavery in modern-day Mauritania →

This week, I found an article about transliteracy and the application of digital storytelling. Suzana Sukovic defines transliteracy as, “The ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.” The idea of transliteracy directly relates … Continue reading "Transliteracy- not just web 2.0"

This week I chose to create my own superhero with Marvel’s Superhero Avatar Creator! Here is Phaedra!  

From the assignment bank I chose as a Daily Create the following: Name your superhero, mix and match costumes of all your favorite Marvel characters, including Spider-Man, Iron Man and Wolverine, customize face, hair, and other features. Tell us how the will save the world.  My superhero redface is a crime fighter.

My reading response is on Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre by Brian Alexander and Alan Levine (2008). This was a little back researching for me to understand...

Digital Critique 8: JourneyLast night I got home from work and decided I wanted to unwind by playing a video game. I decided to start my free 7 day trail to Playstation Now, this is where I discovered the video game Journey. I’ve heard good things abou...

Digital Critique 8: Journey

Last night I got home from work and decided I wanted to unwind by playing a video game. I decided to start my free 7 day trail to Playstation Now, this is where I discovered the video game Journey. I’ve heard good things about the game in the past and I was interested in seeing if the game was as good as everyone was saying. I was pleasantly surprised that it interwove this beautiful story within…

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This week I took a look at another social media short story that got a lot of popularity on Facebook and Twitter. Coming from a couple of Pixar animators, Borrowed Time gained a lot of support and praise from critiques around the world. Their official website has only a teaser trailer, so I linked back to … Continue reading Digital Story Critique: Borrowed Time

One of the underlying worries I have is that my next child will have autism, and I have no idea how to cope with something like that. Asperger’s runs on both sides of the family, so I know it’s a very real possibility, but each time I think about that possibility I feel guilty that … Continue reading Digital Story Critique – 11/2

Bree will save the world with her killer design skills!  

This week’s digital story spotlight is part critique and part tech tool sneak-peek. The digital story itself is called The Click Effect and runs on a special platform called Within:...

So…Marvel has an exciting app where you can create your own superhero. Select your body, hair, eyes, and even your accessories! Check out my superhero Sagitta. She is a scavenger who liberates the people of Loagnes as they struggle to escape the Pelitch troupe that has invaded their sacred lands. #ds106 #tdc1759  

One of the more interesting forms of storytelling I feel has come in this past few decades into the public eye is slam poetry. The idea of slam poetry is that the poet or poets perform their pieces before an audience to judge. Most often these types of poetry are centered around some social issue … Continue reading Storytelling Scholarship 10/31

For this DS106 Daily Create I was to illustrate a word from another language that does not have an English equivalent. Then I’m to make up an English word as...

The last few weeks have been productive.  I really enjoyed taking a break from scholarly reviews and taking the time to look at some of my peer’s work.  Last week we took the time to look at each other’s strengths, and point out things we liked about the works we have completed so far.  I … Continue reading Reflection Week 10

This chapter really helped me see the value of a good story for digital storytelling and why digital storytelling has such importance in our classrooms and everyday life today.   Joe Lambert’s journey through slowly popularizing digital storytelling across America paints a picture of the different stages digital storytelling might have went through before becoming … Continue reading Response to ‘A Road Traveled: The Evolution of Digital Storytelling Practice’

This week I tried to find something geared towards the workplace environment.  I enjoyed this digital story called “Having the Courage to Fight for Inclusiveness.” describing gender diversity and equality.  I believe this is a very important topic right now in many workplace environments, and I wanted to see how they designed a story around … Continue reading Week 11 -Digital Story Critique About Inclusiveness

Digital storytelling isn’t just a practice or an idea, it’s a continuously evolving revolution. It’s not just about one person’s story, but how the story of one can become the story of many. It’s also about how a story can resonate  and create change. This week’s reading had me puzzled at first as to why […]