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    Week 13 Response to a piece of selected scholarship: Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in the Classroom.(Updated)

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    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)
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    Reflection on Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling

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      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
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    Reflection on The Art of Digital Storytelling

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    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
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    Digital Story critique: Slavery in modern-day Mauritania

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    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
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    Daily Create: Visual – Superhero: REDFACE

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    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.
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    Response to The Evolution of the Digital Storytelling Practice

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    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
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    Response to Digital Storytelling: What it is… And… What it is NOT

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    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
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    Digital story critique – A life of Successful People in 2 minutes

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    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
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    Response to Social learning, ‘push’ and ‘pull’ and building platforms for collaborative learning

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    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
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    Meissa Samba 2016-09-29 23:31:39

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    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
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    Response to Digital Storytelling in the Foreign Language Classroom

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    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
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    Audio assignment – Meeting Denzel Washington

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    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

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