For this week’s reading I chose  this piece from the the University of Houston Education Department. http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/page.cfm?id=27&cid=27 http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/page.cfm?id=27&cid=27&sublinkid=31 When I saw the title I knew right away that I would find information that I can use to help expand my knowledge about Digital Storytelling and ways to better incorporate it in my practice. I was… Continue reading Response to: Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling →

  As I was sitting at my desk thinking of what I could use as a Daily Create this week, I spotted on one of my classroom walls this poster of the twelve month of the year in French.

  My focal theme has to do with entrepreneurship. Therefore for this week I was looking for a digital story that presents a success story.  Among all the options that came up in my research for a topic, I chose to work with  “the story of Greg Mortenson, a man who got lost during a climb… Continue reading Digital story critique →

I have not used Flickr before .  I am used to other social media applications such as Facebook, Viber, WhatsApp, and Imo. When I first heard about Flickr I was a little hesitant to open an account because Facebook made me afraid to share certain information online because of privacy concerns. Reading this chapter of… Continue reading Reflection on Visual networks: Learning and photosharing →

For the Daily Create this week I chose to do the Assignment Bank item  Visual Assignment 1892: Can You See What I See.  I picked a picture of my wife’s eye together with this powerful message from Winston Churchill and a picture of the Nazi leader Hitler. I chose this assignment because to me it was… Continue reading Meissa Samba →

  This is one of several short digital stories found in StoryCorps under the head title: Americans Living with Disabilities.  I was drawn to listening  to the conversation and also reading the transcripts because I found the synopsis of the story of Ollie Cantos and the three boys to be very compelling. The introduction reads:… Continue reading Response to : the Storycorps interview of Ollie Cantos and Leo, Nick and Steven Arge →

The reason why I have chosen to watch and critique the digital story entitled Why America Needs a Slavery Museum is because I have always had a big interest in the topic of slavery, ever since I was a student at the University of Dakar. In my American Civilization Class, taught […] via Digital Story Critique:… Continue reading Digital Story Critique: Why America Needs a Slavery Museum — Meissa Samba →

        The reason why I have chosen to watch and critique the digital story entitled Why America Needs a Slavery Museum is because I have always had a big interest in the topic of slavery, ever since I was a student at the University of Dakar. In my American Civilization Class, taught… Continue reading Digital Story Critique: Why America Needs a Slavery Museum →

I met Santa Claus in Senegal last Christmas. Source: Daily Create 8/31/2016

I met Santa Claus in Senegal last Christmas. 

I agree with Lankshear et al when it is stated that there is a close connection between literacy, language and the context in which that language is used. I also agree that “different kinds of texts require “somewhat different backgrounds and somewhat different skills” if they are to be read meaningfully”.  For instance, in Senegal… Continue reading New Literacies →

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