#text The prompt this last week in Dave Cormier’s P2PU #rhizo14 ‘course’ was to consider the question “Is books making us stupid?”. This video is my response. And here is the Google + conversation which ensued. Mariana Funes Feb 5, 2014 oh, Janet. What a wonderfully touching video. I am reminded of how I nearly […]

G+: ‘The Forge and Working-house of Thought’* (Digital Storytelling 106) Even though I am busy finishing up teaching a full semester of 4 English courses, I find spare time to participate in my #DS106 daily creates, the recently hatched collabogiffing storytelling project and the very new #GifaChrome and #GlitchaChrome labs. I participate mostly on Google […]

Here is the story of a gif collaboration which found life on the DS106 Google + Community Sept. 26 after an initial ‘fun’ posting on the “I gif Therefore I Am” category by Ary Aranquiz inspired by Luis Bunuel’s ‘Un Chien Andalou”.  The Google + Conversation (edited for brevity)  giffi.us. Janet: I like this one! […]

THEORIZING STORYTELLING Digital storytelling is yet another means to construct our realities though narrative. Here are some of my thoughts on storytelling, and one could simply add the adjective ‘digital’ to the word ‘storytelling’ when employing web tools to create narrative. There is no right way or wrong way to tell a story. Stories have […]

Summer 2013 Digital Storytelling 106  (that’s Jim Groom down there doing his thing this summer, inspiring us all to create, daily) My Introduction: DS106 has come well recommended by my virtual collaborators in other connectivist Mooc type courses this year such as #Etmooc and Mozilla’s #Teachtheweb. I am an English prof. in Vancouver, BC learning […]