So, week 5 has come to an end.  My first impulse on reflecting upon the week is to say how much I’ve enjoyed interacting with other Digital Stories participants and others who I’ve communicated with through Twitter and other social networking platforms regarding subjects and creations initiated through this course.  Secondly, the Daily Creates have … Continue reading Week 5 Reflection

For this weeks Assignment Bank assignment I chose one called This Doesn’t Belong Here.  This assignment you need to mash up two different iconic movie scenes. However, you should aim to be as subtle as possible. Perhaps a famous prop that simply doesn’t belong or a character that looks a little out of place. So … Continue reading Why So Angry, Alien?!

This weeks required reading: Communities of Readers, Clusters of Practices by Henry Jenkins, focused on participatory and collaborative learning.  He talked about a myriad of reasons why and ways for students to learn together.  Collaborative learning groups have obviously been around as long as people have.  However, in our recently much more easily connected world, it … Continue reading Together We Are Brilliant!

This week for my digital story critique, I am actually using a digital story I created for work.  I believe this fits in with the idea of the digital story mashup as well as my personal interest theme of building self confidence. How does this project fit into my interest theme? I began this job … Continue reading Week 5 Digital Story Critique

I just don’t have much to say or for that matter time to say it this week.  A funeral, many relatives, grieving and comforting, many commitments and a family pet kills a kitten in front of small children and everyone is stunned and faced with death and grieving again. I feel I did the best … Continue reading Reflection Week 4

Okay, so this week I gotta say was difficult, more difficult than any week so far.  I began the week feeling excited and on top of everything I need to do for this class and looking forward to learning and working with my classmates in creating learning. But then life happened. First, I started the reading assignment … Continue reading Reflection Week 3 – The Challenge

Okay, so this week I gotta say was difficult, more difficult than any week so far.  I began the week feeling excited and on top of everything I need to do for this class and looking forward to learning and working with my classmates in creating learning. But then life happened.  First of all, I started the … Continue reading Weekly Reflection – Week 3

This week we read the introductory chapter of Lankshear And Knobel (2008) Ch1: DIY Media: A Contextual Background And Some Contemporary Themes. Once again Lankshear and Knobel put together an engaging and interesting perspective on new media.  I had never thought of the act of participating and creating in new media as part of the … Continue reading Reading Response Week 3 – I’m a DIYer, Who Knew?

Daily Affirmations – poor Stuart Smalley. https://t.co/tkviIuQ8sD — Darlesa (@darlesac) June 26, 2016 Inspired by last week’s digital critique, this week I began listening to Amy Cuddy’s audio book, which she released in 2015 following her Ted Talk.  Her Ted Talk on How Our Body Language Shapes Who We Are became one of the most … Continue reading Self Affirmations – I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough, and Doggone it, People Like Me!

My First Vine Video

  I began week 2 excited and encouraged.  I had lived through week 1 and even ended up being able to complete all of my assignments (a task I actually thought was impossible).   I felt going into week 2 that it was going to be much easier as I was getting the hang of how … Continue reading Week 2 Reflection

This week for my digital story critique I reviewed  Amy Cuddy’s Ted Talk on How Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are as part of my interest-driven scholarship.   I watched this talk originally a few years ago and remember thinking it was really great.  It was very interesting to go back and re-watch it and … Continue reading Can Our Body Language Really Make Us More Confident?

After this week’s reading on remixing, I thought it would be fun to do a simple remix of my own for my audio assignment.  I chose the Dramatic Reading Remix Audio Assignment #1417. I used Camtasia to record the voiceover and to add the music to the background.  It was a silly fun little assignment. … Continue reading Gilligan’s Thrilling Isle – Audio Assignment Week 2

Chapter 4 from Lankshear & Knobel’s,  The New Literacies Sampler: New Literacies and Social Practices of Digital Remixing. It was fascinating to consider the different ideas of remixing and mashups as they apply to a variety of new literacies and how they evolved.  When I’d think of the term remix in the past I would … Continue reading My Robots, I Can Be With them Again!

I couldn’t resist the title of this digital story.  This week I watched a Tedx talk related to my area of interest: You’re Already Awesome, Just Get Out of Your Own Way! By Judson Brewer.  This was a fairly short talk, only a little over 10 minutes.  It had some very good elements that related … Continue reading You’re Already Awesome, Just Get Out of Your Own Way!

So, this first week of Learning with Digital Stories is coming to a close.  I have set up numerous accounts, learned to use new tools, read interesting articles and websites, watched and listened to fascinating videos and podcasts, blogged and blogged and still have at least two assignments to complete today that I have started … Continue reading “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems” ― Epictetus

The required reading for week one of Learning with Digital Stories was the first chapter of Knoble & Lankshear’s  The New Literacies Sampler.  I was at first surprised to find that we were reading a text that was 10 years old on a subject that seems a new phenomenon.  My second surprise was that this … Continue reading Everything Old Is New Again – Week 1 Response to Readings

I’ve always kind of hated that overused term “bucket list” so I guess I’ve avoided ever really thinking this through. Another part of my hesitation is that it seems daunting to come up with a whole list of EVERYTHING you want to do before you die.  So, this was actually a very fun and freeing … Continue reading Bucketa Bucketa!

Daily Create – What Makes You Happy?  

On NPR this morning I heard a story about the new re-re-redesign of the Obamacare website.  They began with a history of the early problems with the website.  They told a story of many agencies who had no idea about what kind of communication a project of that size would take.  After the initial problems … Continue reading Innovation in Government?

Another Awkward Phase!  Sometimes it gets pretty lonely trying to build a learning community.  This is an interesting article from The E-Learning Provacateur entitled They’re Not Like Us http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/     

Hey, did I get your attention?! I find this controversial learning topic very interesting. After reading Brain Rules a few years ago I believe I was already personally convinced that the accepted theories around the importance of learning styles in educational design that I had been previously taught weren’t necessarily a proven fact. Since then, … Continue reading Learning Styles Don’t Exist!

I watched the Learning Solutions Best of Solutionfest webinar yesterday. There was one of the winners that I can’t stop thinking about. The assignment was to teach about lab safety at a university in North Carolina. The training dept. hired a production crew and actors to create a very professional 10 minute movie. I thought … Continue reading But What About The Learning?

I keep wanting to start a blog to record my ideas and feelings and to help me think. I guess it’s also as a record to help me remember what I learn each day in this rapidly-changing industry I work in. Starting this new year, there are many exciting things to look forward to… I … Continue reading character-awkward1.png