Today I used the Photoshop Mix app on my iPhone for the Daily Create. Today’s Daily Create was titled “Wear Your Flag on Your Hand”. So I blended a photo of the Massachusetts state flag over my hand. Creating this:

This week I viewed a digital story from StoryCenter.org. The story, which was found in the “Youth Voices” section, is titled “My Write to Draw”, by Max Bessesen. Max tells his story of discovering his love of drawing cartoons, and how this love developed into a need to work on his writing. I was especially … Continue reading "Week 2: Story Critique"

For this weeks DS106 Assignment Bank Audio creation I chose to complete “Sounds of Your Day.” I first discovered this assignment last week, when trying to understand what exactly an “Assignment Bank” was exactly. I was first drawn to it, because right now my days are pretty LOUD. With one week left of school, my kids … Continue reading "Beautiful Mess Mashup"

Recently I’ve noticed more and more of my students reading graphic novels during their independent reading times, and I have to admit I sometimes think, should I encourage them to read a chapter book instead? However, I then remind myself that I’m just happy they are not only reading, but excited about reading. This week’s … Continue reading "Week 2 Reading Response: Remixing More Than Just Music"

I finally used Photoshop! Feeling proud. Today’s Daily Create asked us to search the web for an old paperback cover and use it to make a new cover. Staying with my interest of education here is what I came up with:

Overall, I feel like I succeeded in completing the requirements of this week’s assignments. When I first looked over DS106, our syllabus, blog, etc. I was overwhelmed by the challenges facing me. I have never blogged before, never used twitter, and honestly had no desire to, but this class has forced me to rethink my … Continue reading "Week 1 Reflection"

TDC1361 asks the creator to take a photo and flip it upside down. I chose this one because I liked the different perspective. Makes me think about all the different perspectives I have in my classroom some days. I also chose it because today’s daily create wasn’t one that I really connected with-so I searched the … Continue reading "Upside Down Daily Create"

This week I chose to a video from teachingchannel.org that directly connected to my theme: teaching diverse learners, or meeting the needs of diverse learners. The video, actually titled, Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners, focused on a classrooms use of stations to help support all learners. The educator who narrates the video explains a lesson … Continue reading "Week 1: Story Critique"

This week we were asked to read Lankshear and Knobel (2007) Ch1 in addition to a piece of interest-driven scholarship. As my focus is teaching, specifically teaching groups of diverse learners, and because the required reading focused on new literacies and mind-sets in the digital age I landed on the following article Communicating with the World: Connecting the … Continue reading "Week 1: Reading Response"

A view into my teacher bag. Visual Assignment 1556 required I take a picture of the essentials in my bag. Luckily my school bag was sitting right next to me filled with papers begging to be graded. I connected to this visual assignment because what I’m carrying around in my bag on any given day really tells … Continue reading "What’s in the bag?!?"