For this week’s literary response, I chose another chapter from those listed on Canvas.  I want to continue with Lankshear and Knobel, but I also want to get some of the other perspectives being presented in the class.  I chose Chapter 1 of Bryan Alexander’s the New Digital Storytelling.  I appreciated his definition of storytelling […]

Menu Filled with all of my favorite dishes, this is what I would serve, if I had a restaurant.

A Short Documentary: Food for Thought from Samantha Morello on Vimeo. I chose this digital story, because of its topic on food and on fad diets.  I’ve always been skeptical of and very outspoken against fad diets, so it was interesting to me that this “short documentary” was about one person’s fad diet experience.  I […]

Kathy creates a complicated carrot cake that casts a colorful creation of a cat!

Please visit this link for my explanation why the below song was chosen for this assignment: https://www.speakpipe.com/voice-recorder/msg/h8gd3wpf3x0jjbjf      

This week I have really reflected upon the copyright issues surrounding digital media and digital storytelling, as well as the elements that make a good digital story for a recipe.  I feel that there is no cut and dry resolution to copyright issues in media.  It is pretty clear in the news that this will […]

http://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365501336 I have been cooking a lot of wild yeast dough lately, so I thought it would be a great idea to watch this how-to video and see how yeast risen waffles work.  I feel like experimenting with this recipe and trying to make a wild yeast waffle recipe.  For my critique, I’ll be utilizing […]

I was a bit confused by this chapter in New Literacies and what the stance of the authors is on copyrights.  Earlier on in the book (page 66), they discuss the views of Lawrence Lessig on copyright laws and how he believes that copyright laws should be more fluid and allow the creator to decide […]

Watching the Eddie today has made me quite homesick.  I think I might go home and make some ono grindz (good food) for dinner tonight.  As a result, when I started looking for a digital story to critique this week, I decided that I should try to find something about Hawaiian food.  I came across […]

I chose to read one of the chapters this week that I didn’t read last week.  I was really interested in learning about storytelling in general, so I chose Lambert’s Chapter 1.  In this section, he discussed storytelling in a variety of ways: how it helps us to learn, because the emotional neurons in our […]

I have decided to take some liberties with this daily create.  I decided to take “western” as a directional, relative term and choose a Hawaiian instead.  I also decided that I don’t feel right adding to the problem of people attributing quotes to the wrong people, so I won’t do that.  Finally, with all of […]

I feel special that was part of the 1500 post of daily create this week.  That is quite the milestone for this project and learning experience.  I was happy that it happened on the one day I chose to do my daily create.  I could’ve easily chose the next or previous days. I also really […]

http://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/2282248261 I enjoyed this digital story on Rocky Mountain PBS about Grant Farms and their eggs and chickens.  Grant Farms produces pasture raised chickens that can be bought through their CSA or through Whole Foods.  Rocky Mountain PBS covered their egg production in an episode of “Great Ingredients.”  I chose three traits to analyze this […]

I chose to read chapter 3 of New Literacies this week.  There were some things I didn’t agree with in this chapter, but what I will focus on in this post is my thoughts in regards to Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.  I had never really thought of the evolution of the internet in this […]

I chose the article, Developing intercultural awareness using digital storytelling, because of the interesting tie between intercultural awareness and digital storytelling.  I was curious where they would go with this topic.  I do feel that intercultural awareness is important in higher education.  Having come from a different culture than the one I currently find myself […]

I came across PBS’s plethora of food digital stories the other day as I was doing research on food fermentation.  I revisited the site today to see what else I could find.  I was excited to find something else having to do with food fermentation, Leekchi.  A take on kimchi, it is made with leeks […]

The video assignment asked me to record something I do everyday.  I am typing on my computer everyday.

Tried and true bottle opener.  Price: Priceless when there’s a good beer involved.

Since we didn’t do these last week, I’m guessing that this is a reflection for the past two weeks and will treat it as such.  These past two weeks I’ve been thinking about the things I have learned so far in this program.  After completing this class, I only have two electives left and then I’m […]

I watched this digital story, because I do have a lot of issues with GMOs.  However, I am a proponent for learning all sides of a debate and wanted to learn her stance.  The topic here though, is the effectiveness of this digital story.  The three assessment traits I chose were: content understanding Presentation and […]

Chapter two is pretty straight forward in New Literacies.  Having an anthropology degree myself, I have a thorough understanding of subcultures and their institutions and practices.  I explain it to students everyday as an academic advisor that the major you choose will define you.  It is one of the few parts of your identity that […]

I tried it twice and both times were horrible.  This was my best attempt.

My theme is food. I am fascinated by everything involved with food. I garden and cook regularly. I also love how one can learn about another culture through their food and also about history by reviving old recipes. This theme leads to my learning goals. I hope to learn about at least two new types […]

The digital story I watched this week was short, but connected with me so much!  I have to admit that I was drawn to this story, because I have been making tortillas for the past few weeks quite a bit and can’t seem to get the hang of it.  I am not latina.  I did […]

Kona and I.  She is the best dog anyone could ever ask for and the best fur baby!  

My first love is history and second is technology.  As a result, this article on documenting local history through digital storytelling stood out to me.  The article is a case study on a digital storytelling project led by the Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library.  The purpose of the project was to document the community’s local history through a […]

If I were to have a cattle ranch, I’d base my symbol on my favorite Greek goddess.  Who can guess what goddess the owl is associated with?:

To be completely honest, I am still a bit hazy on what digital storytelling is at this point in time.  I had a preconceived notion of digital storytelling and I’m not entirely sure if I was right or wrong.  I thought that digital storytelling was telling a story through an electronic medium and typically included […]