A trip from Wendover, Utah to Strasbourg, France (via Chiapas, Mexico): After visiting his grandmother in Nevada, Sam had a long layover in Wendover, Utah. There’s no where else to hang out in or around the airport other than at a casino. The banks of slot machines sounded like a symphony orchestra tuning their instruments in … Continue reading Daily Create 6

“An exercise in controlled ambiguity” This week I decided to examine additional resources given to us on digital storytelling. I chose to delve into Chapter 1 of Joe Lambert’s Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community. In this invitation to consider the vast role of storytelling in our lives, the author provides a variety of examples of what stories … Continue reading Chapter Critique – Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community

The Grammy Awards are tomorrow night. Kendrick Lamar is going to win several Grammy awards. I say this with as much certainty as the artist himself possesses when he says, “We gon’ be alright” – the chorus from the song Alright, which is nominated for an award and will win it. This digital story was produced by the … Continue reading Digital Story Critique 4: We gon’ be alright

I have chosen to discuss a teacher’s account of his experience and experimentation with digital storytelling with his students. I say experimentation because the scope and requirements of his assignments changed over time, as he assessed their learning impact and effectiveness. Kevin Cordi realized that his students were interacting with digital spaces constantly each day, … Continue reading Scholarship Response: “My Journey into Digital Storytelling—Teaching Using Digital Means”

The Cowboy Code …tell that to the Beastie Boys.

If any art form could exemplify Lankshear and Knobel’s definition of literacy, it’s hip hop. The authors discuss literacies as: “socially recognized ways of generating, communicating and negotiating meaningful content through the medium of encoded texts within contexts of participation in Discourses” As an art form, a social practice, a culture and a discourse, hip hop has existed … Continue reading Digital Story Critique 3: It’s 1995! …but it’s also 1963

“Ways of Being in the World” I am really enjoying New Literacies so far. This second chapter goes into more depth about how research has come to conceptualize multiple literacies based on interdisciplinary studies in fields such as social linguistics, anthropology, social cognition, cultural psychology, history, and cultural studies – due again in large part to the … Continue reading New Literacies, Chapter 2

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In researching digital stories related to my theme I am slowly coming across the work of educators and scholars who are blending educational technology, digital media and literacy, hip hop studies, etc. A search for “hip hop + digital storytelling” lead me to the work of Emily Bailin on multiple occasions and – while this video … Continue reading Digital Story Critique 2 – Where are you from?

I used a word cloud generator to create a visual representation of a paper I wrote on helping adult learners persist in college through academic advising services.

My imagining of a cattle brand with my initials S and L. I remember trying to decipher cattle brands as a kid watching old cartoons and always hearing that sideways letters were read as “lazy”. So this is my Lazy Susan brand.

I have chosen to center my work in Learning with Digital Stories around the theme of hip hop history and culture. This week I am critiquing a digital story on the Beastie Boys. I found this story on the Blank on Blank site, which touts itself as providing Famous Names, Lost Stories. Animated Shorts. I have to … Continue reading Digital Story Critique: The Beastie Boys on Being Stupid

“Skills plus Community” Chapter one of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel attempts to address what is meant by literacy and literacy education. They offer an historical overview of how literacy emerged as a societal goal as well as how literacy education first became policy and then became an industry. This transition over … Continue reading New Literacies, Chapter 1

Greetings from “The Lonesome Crowded West” @ds106dc #tdc1474 Photo: Walden, CO.