Me as a learner My first couple of weeks in this class was filled with some apprehension, uncertainty , and fear that I might  struggle to complete the required work  properly. I have taken a couple of hybrid classes in the past;  but this is the first 100% online class that I have taken. I… Continue reading Final Course Reflection →

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Below is my Multi-Media Digital Story I entitled  Making My Household in Senegal Self-Sufficient. Enjoy. Thanks,   Meissa.    

Even though this article Digital Storytelling Finds Its  Place in the Classroom is not the most up-to-date one  we can find talking about Digital  Storytelling I chose to read and respond to it because of the fact that it was written by a teacher and is geared towards the use of Digital Storytelling in the… Continue reading Week 13 Response to a piece of selected scholarship: Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in the Classroom.(Updated) →

This week I have decided to look for an inspirational Digital Story to critique. The Journey, despite being very short in length (only 3 minutes 30 seconds) is filled with lessons that can benefit our youth today. I think this is a very good story to share with our students and our own kids in… Continue reading Digital Story critique: The Journey →

Challenge: This needs a caption. Remove the curse. Or push it on someone else.  

Self-reflections on my learning    I was able to complete all my assignments for this week in a timely manner. For instance, my Daily Create for this week is completed a lot earlier than the ones from previous weeks. The feeling of relief I experienced made me decide to work on tasks as soon as… Continue reading Week 11 and 12 reflections. →

  The main insights for the article are as follows: step 1: Owning your insights It is interesting to gather from  reading step 1  that while the memory of the event  does not change, the storyteller’s perspective and the personal meaning evolve over time based on the storyteller’s own experiences and the experiences of other… Continue reading Reflection on Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling →

Akon is known by most people  in the US  as a singer, rapper, songwriter, businessman, record producer and actor. But for some people in the African rural areas, he is a kind of  prophet coming back to his people with the gift of light.  Akon Lighting Africa is a project he co-founded with his country… Continue reading Digital Story critique: Akon solar power in Africa →

For today’s challenge I chose a crack on my sidewalk and turned it into a piece of art. The tee-pee tent and the river were inspired by my sons.      

The article The Art of Digital Storytelling opens with a very meaningful quote by James Keller: “Tell your tales; make them true. If they endure, so will you.” The insights a digital storytelling student can derive from reading the article are numerous. Right from the onset we are reminded that: “stories are as old as people and are more… Continue reading Reflection on The Art of Digital Storytelling →

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 →

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.

The “White Lion”: A European wrestler in Senegal   Today I have chosen to critique a Digital Story about the number two sport, and the best paid one in Senegal: Wrestling. However the story is not about a Senegalese wrestler, but rather, an European man who discovers this form of sport and decides to come… Continue reading Digital Story critique – The white Lion →

From the visual bank I chose to do the following assignment: Combine two or more animals or plants to create a new creature. Use GIMP or other photoshop program to combine the images of animal. When your done post it in to your blog with some description of your new animal.  I used a tool… Continue reading Daily Create: Visual – Hybrid →

Even though  I did not encounter many buzzwords, unique vocabulary, this article is very insightful to any storytelling student. It shows how the stories he was listening to while growing up shaped Lambert into the great Digital Storytelling specialist he has become. Like he himself said in the chapter,  about the journey myths he enjoys,… Continue reading Response to The Evolution of the Digital Storytelling Practice →

While looking for a piece of digital storytelling related article to read this week, I found  Digital Storytelling: What it is… And… What it is NOT.  Here is the link to the document http://langwitches.org/blog/2015/08/18/digital-storytelling-what-it-is-and-what-it-is-not/ I was not disappointed after reading the article because I have gained valuable insights about what digital storytelling really is and is not… Continue reading Response to Digital Storytelling: What it is… And… What it is NOT →

For my Digital story critique this week, I have chosen to work on A Life of Successful People in 2 minutes accessing through the following link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp24iH5QR5k I found this digital story inspirational because most of the people presented faced decision points where they chose to persevere. I identify with this because in my efforts to… Continue reading Digital story critique – A life of Successful People in 2 minutes →

On October 12, 1920 Georges Carpentier became the first-ever French world champion boxer, by KO’ing Levinsky. The fight took place in Jersey City and the American boxer  was knocked out in the fourth round. October  12,1960 Nikita Khrushchev throws a tantrum at the United Nations The Russian leader removes his shoe and pounds a table with it… Continue reading Daily create: Mash up day. →

My interest for this course is getting bigger and bigger with time. At first I was a little nervous about my ability to fulfill all the requirements of the class when I read all the new tools I would have to use  in order to complete my assignments; tools that I have not used before.… Continue reading Week 7 Self-Reflection of learning →

The digital story I chose to work with this week was posted by a student as a final for her writing class.  It is a tribute to her grandma who is a very important figure in her life. This video is a strong example of the big impact our grandparents can have on us. Besides… Continue reading Digital Story Critique: My Hero →

I have read the chapter with a lot of interest because the ideas developed therein correspond a lot to  my philosophy of teaching foreign languages. It was interesting to me to read that the teaching methodologies advocated here also apply to all types of teaching and learning, not just classroom teaching. I have acquired a… Continue reading Response to Social learning, ‘push’ and ‘pull’ and building platforms for collaborative learning →

From the assignment bank this week I have chosen to put together a How to video following the directions below: For this assignment you are to make a tutorial video. It doesn’t have to be anything specific, just any type of “how to” or life hack video. Or, to make things more interesting try making… Continue reading How to make a “Tukussu ngalam” →

I have chosen to work this week with a digital story on Social Justice. This topic of Social Justice is of paramount importance specially for an educator like myself who is serving in an very diverse community. The student body at my school is predominantly  composed of Hispanic and African American kids. On the other… Continue reading →

Digital Storytelling in the Foreign Language Classroom is the article I read this week for my response to a piece of digital storytelling related scholarship. Below is the link to the article: http://files.campus.edublogs.org/blog.nus.edu.sg/dist/7/112/files/2012/07/Digital-Storytelling-in-the-Foreign-Language-Classroom_editforpdf-2jxajft.pdf The article contains valuable insights, and information that can help any novice user get a better understanding of digital storytelling as an… Continue reading Response to Digital Storytelling in the Foreign Language Classroom →

For today  Daily Create  challenge, here is the top of my Jembe (African drum).    

Today I have decided to connect back to my focal theme of working to make my household in Senegal self-sufficient. That’s why I have chosen to watch and critique the following Digital Story entitled Immigration from Senegal to Spain.  I personally have a brother, nephews, cousins and several friends who are currently living in Spain, mostly in… Continue reading Digital Story critique →

Even though I have heard the term music remix many times before, I now get a better understanding of what it really is, after reading these two chapters. If I thought that remixers were not doing anything but copying someone else’s work, now I understand that “a musician’s interpretation of a song written by somebody… Continue reading Response to Music Remix in the Classroom →

From the assignment bank I chose to work with the meeting one about meeting your favorite celebrities. I love Denzel Washington’s movies for the fact that they usually are based on true stories (Hurricane, Malcolm X, Cry Freedom, Antoine Fisher, Remember the Titans, etc.) So I would want Denzel to know that I have big… Continue reading Audio assignment – Meeting Denzel Washington →

As a tribute to “The Greatest” and “The Handsomest” boxer that has left us recently, I have chosen this week to critique a Digital story about the life of Muhammad Ali. The life of Ali can constitute a big source of inspiration for  our youth today. They can learn to persevere in the face of… Continue reading Digital Story critique: Muhammad Ali →