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Reflection:

 

This has been a very exhausting, difficult, trying, yet informative, and worthwhile adventure for me in this class, this summer. I have learned an incredible amount, mostly about collaborative learning. I come with a background that is strong in digital storytelling, so I believe I must have …

This weeks reflection is inspired by the white privilege article that we read. I would like to reflect on the privilege I have had in my life. Privilege, I never even knew I had, until I was taught about it. Doesn’t that alone just scream privilege?! It is not just …

http://coloradofilmschool.wix.com/colorfulcoloradofilm#!blank/llddp

I watched a short film made here in colorado for the colorful colorado film festival. It was the award winner named Fresh from DSA. I thought that the movie was very well made and the super wide screen black and white cinematography was very advanced for high school students. …

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

I chose to do a reflection on this article as I am constantly talking about and aware of my white privilege.  I am aware of this mostly due to my first class at CU Denver with the amazing Shelly Zion, as well as my …

We are back from our trip but still incredibly busy. I had a good week in class this week and learned a lot. One of the highlights for me this week was reading an article about the importance of finding time to be alone in a digital world. The article …

I have never done a word cloud before but was inspired by one of my peers blogs. I almost did not post this as it doesn’t really say much, but then I thought, that is interesting to. I wanted to post the entire blog, but there was too many words …

This week I waned to use the guidelines we have been using to analyze a digital story on one of my students powerful stories about Muslim’s and Islam. She is in 8th grade, and it was her goal to educate other students about our muslim students. She did an amazing …

The importance of being alone in the digital era

I chose this article to write about as it seams contradictory from everything we have been learning about how technology is so wonderful for sharing and that learning is enhanced by collaboration. So choosing this article based on the title of …

I am still in the middle of a wonderful family vacation on the East Coast, and having many of the same reflections as last week . I have not been a perfect class student this week, however I have been a perfect student in life. I went to Washington DC …

Dear Future President

I chose to do my reading response on an article “Dear Future President.”  I enjoyed this article and thought it shows young students the power of writing in public. We so often look at the negatives associated with public postings, but this is the a really positive …

http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/people/historical/roosevelt/

I went back to PBS for this weeks digital story critique. They offer amazing content always, and overtime I watch one of their productions I learn, so it is a great source for me. Our family is still on a wonderful family trip to the east-coast, and my brother …

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My cousin just got married in Brazil and my family was unable to go due to the Zika Virus and my wife is 6 months pregnant. Many other family members were not able to make it due to other reasons. It was very difficult being away, but through …

Average/Exceptional week for me this week as I am traveling and visiting with family back east. The average part comes from my actual classwork in which I have felt that I am rushed and not able to get in depth with my classmates in my online work. Exceptional in that …

http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/view_story.cfm?vid=93&categoryid=6&d_title=Mathematics

I googled digital stories and found this digital story about life without math.  I am a believer in the importance of piratical math, however I am not a huge believer in making students take 2 hours of math a day for 12 years of school. Due to the high …

Open faculty development

When I read the title of this article, I was expecting it to be about how to develop a faculty for an open course platform. In other words, how could you develop, and maybe even more importantly pay those faculty members, yet offer a free an open …

Golden Retriever

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A very busy week this week for me but I was able to get the work done, be creative, and learn some new cool things about my peers. Academically this week I really dug deeper into what it means to be open with education. I never thought there was more …

Watch it! It is awesome.

This week I searched to find a very cool animated digital story that I had been exposed to in a professional development setting a few years ago. As I look at the many accolades that this short film has received I realize I am not …

http://hackeducation.com/2015/01/16/what-do-we-mean-by-open-education

As I believe that education is the great equalizer in all of humanity, I also believe that we are getting closer and closer to a world without limitations (economic) on education to the degree that has been since the dawn of man and societies that include privilege and power. …

 

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I am writing this weekly reflection on Saturday instead of Sunday because today more than ever I am aware of how important time with my beautiful child is and I want to make sure I dedicate all of Father’s day to being a father. I am happy to reflect that …

 

Indicate what assessment/evaluation traits you selected and why (in other words, what’s your rationale as a critic of this story?) Content understanding How well did the student meet the academic goals of the assignment and convey an understanding of the material addressed? Economy Was the information presented through the…

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I loved the idea of remixing music, or images, or anything. I so often judge music if it seems derivative, but as I have gotten older (see more wise), I realize that all art and education and everything for that matter is built on the shoulders of others. …

https://via.hypothes.is/http://hackeducation.com/2015/08/10/digpedlab

I come from a business background and also teach business classes adjunct. With this I am often looking at the changing world of work, and how automation and computers are taking jobs that humans once held. I absolutely prefer the speed and convenience of a self checkout, I will …

With the daily create asking for us to do anything creative, I found this awesome/trippy/disturbing photoshoped piece of art that I tried to re-create. I think it turned out pretty well.

 

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This is an intense course, with an incredible amount of work. I have worked very hard daily, and still feel behind in the coursework. I am worried that I am doing so much work that I am unable to retain the information, because I am just finishing and then moving …

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