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Ugh. This has been a bummer of a weekend. This is me right now: Plans to brew yesterday, and go to the Rockies game today went out the window when my wife’s bronchitis infected me. It’s ok though, I still…
Amen. “Mimic what you like!” I loved reading this in the intro to the chapter. The prefeace involves talking about formal education to creating digital media, but then brings to light one point – “what if you’re not formally educated…
Grossen Bart Brewery Chili Cookoff Fundraiser for HOPE & The Inn Between of Longmont 2016. This is will serve as both a critique, and a shameless advertisement for my favorite brewery in the area. I will be critiquing this video…
During an assignment for a graduate school class, we were asked to check out Paul Miller’s Ted Talk on disconnecting from the internet. Paul went radio silent for an entire year. In the modern age, this sounds not only like…
@ds106dc #tdc1559 ” Find one special lone tree, take a photo!” I’m going to do my own take on a lonely tree… Avery IPA with Spruce (Tree) Tips added! It was lonely… so I gave it some attention.
The Journey from Homebrew to Brewhouse! Grimm Brothers Brewhouse – Loveland, Colorado. I like some of Grimm Brothers beers, not all that I’ve had, but enough to want to share this video about their start up with you all! I’m…
CaraMunich isn’t Caramelized Munich, and 9 Other Homebrewing Myths Debunked Ahhh… the joys of believing everything you here. I love when fact is applied to something in order to disprove it. First of all, I have a lot of respect…
…ok, no big problem here, but this entry is late! Sorry about that, yesterday got away from me really quickly, so my bad! This week I learned about more about how to use multiple forms of media to make one…
This week, I read Chapter 5 of The New Digital Storytelling. Alexander starts with Podcasts. In full disclosure, I prefer podcasts to reading text ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. I think my attention span for focusing on words on a page…
Sparging is the process of rinsing the grain with hot water after the mash to extract the last bit of sugars off of the grain. This is done to ensure that you get the most use of the grain (efficiency).…
For the assignment this week, I chose the 10 Second Song Mashup from ds106. Ok, so mine is about 18 seconds, but there is just too much epicness to not play the full phrases of some. Any guesses on which…
Let’s revisit the guys in Arkansas as they make an American Pale Ale, using only a 15 minute boil time. This is 100% interesting because it’s against the conventional wisdom on how to brew. Today I’m going to evaluate this…
It’s been a whirlwind week bouncing from hotel to hotel here on the East Coast. Last night as I was trying to game plan for this week’s assignments, I was thinking about some of the homebrew competitions that I have…
I use Articulate Storyline to create all of my eLearning courses at work. Usually, I just search the internet when I have a question on how to do something or want to try something new. Instead of constantly search, I…
Week 9 personal reflection! Wow, has this semester has flown by. This week I read the chapter on 7 steps of digital storytelling. The first couple steps about “owning your emotion” and “finding your moment” stood out the most. With…
This week, I bring to you a story about Barrel Aging. It’s a topic that I am extremely fond of as I have 2 small barrels of my own that I have begun to do projects in. I’ve been doing…
The concept of Tribes is an interesting one in the social media sphere. I think I spend more time on Twitter just sifting through the noise. I don’t usually engage in conversation, I’m more of background user. The articles from…
Michael Lee Stallard created an article for HRDQ-U titled “How Your Culture Can Detox Stress“. The article talked about stress levels between management and employee. It was a really unique read that touched on everything from stress induced by power,…
Scrolling through Twitter last week, I stumbled upon a doozy of a resource posted by Articulate. 5 Highly Effective Strategies for Creating Engaging eLearning This tweet stuck out to me because I do a lot of work designing eLearning courses.…
Lambert’s Chapter 5 is all about the steps of Digital Storytelling. Step 1: Owning Your Insights “Focus on creating a story that feels unique and powerful”. That seems really broad an difficult to me because it seems like such a…
What a guy. I am a huge fan Greg Koch. His vision, his goals, his principles, and his beer. Stone published this video in response to a lot of craft breweries “selling out” to the big guys. I consider it…
Hopefully everyone living in the greater Denver area checks out Westword from time to time. It is one of my favorite websites to read about new things happening in the area. This week I’m going to share an article from Jonathan…
From the movie City Slickers, old Cowboy Curly dishes out some deep advice to Billy Crystal’s character. My response? My One thing? ENJOY IT. #tdc1462 @ds106dc
It’s hard to believe 7 weeks have passed since the start of this semester. MARCH IS HERE! This week was pretty difficult for me timing wise. I was teaching a class all week and was completely wiped each day that…