Creativity is an illusive idea, most commonly it is thought of as something that you have or you don’t. However, as humans, we all have the inate ability to learn and conceive, remember and imagine. These qualities all make up a creative mind, it’s simply a matter of perspective.
After …
If you visited previous blog posts of mine, you know that I have discussed CARP before, you can see my explanation on my CARP Blog Post. I really took to this idea in design and reference it all the time in my career and personal life. I’m constantly looking …
Hi All,
For my masters class on hosting live events we were asked to host two webinars. The first would be a short, 15 minute webinar where we tried hosting out for a change. You can view my webinar here!
The second was a team webinar that needed to be …
If you’ve ever done a presentation you have been exposed to the principles of CARP-Contrast, Alignment, Repetition and Proximity. These keep whatever you are presenting organized and easy to read.
Contrast- relative size or color to convey meaning or importance
Alignment- keeping text, corners or grids on the same plane…
I know that I am more on the conservative side of public information and privacy. I know, from personal experience doing my fair share of investigating other people via social media, that a lot can be found on websites that people don’t realize are out there.
My personal pages have …
My mom used to tell me a story about a professor she had in college. He told his class that it was proven that college students only retain about 80% of the material taught in his class, so he said, I will be teaching 120% of the material so that …
My second hot topic I from my personal facebook. I have to say, I find it REALLY creepy that I always have ads for things I have done or previously purchased. I know that there is something to do with “cookies” and search history- but I swear sometimes facebook reads …
Hello World!
Please excuse my absence, my life has dissolved into utter chaos- aka the school year began and I still feel like I’m trying to catch up. I’m taking my master’s classes, taking Gifted Courses, teaching full time and piloting a new co-teaching program while managing 47 kids! It’s …
First, I really like this assignment. I am always looking for new tools, but don’t often get the time to check them out myself, so thanks for forcing me!
I chose “Quora” https://www.quora.com/# (Links to an external site.)
I looked though a couple of the sites you sent, but this …
First of all, may I start with the fact that it is Sunday night and I am filled with a plethora of emotions! My boyfriend was SUPPOSED to be home tonight, he travels for work. He had a plane scheduled and then had to cancel it for what looks like …
My final project is a series of videos that goes with Jacqui Zaralban’s videos, as we are co teaching this coming year.
These videos are meant to be fun introductions to the things that we plan to cover in the first week of school. We will give a brief introduction …
As week 7 comes to a close, I am truly reflecting on the entire course. I have really enjoyed the course as a whole, this weeks readings especially made me realize how happy I am that this was one of my first courses in my masters!
How well do you…
This week my chosen article and Digital Story are one in the same. I came across an article titled “How the LGBT community is using digital storytelling to amplify activism and chronicle its history.”
The article discusses the struggles of legalization of Gay Rights and the support that …
This week we were given two articles to read. The first is titled “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
I was really interested in this, I mean the title is obviously written to attract some attention. Once I started reading into it, I couldn’t stop. I normally read …
This week assignment was probably my favorite so far… ok, I know I say that like every week, but at least I like them!
This assignment asked you to recreate a classic album cover and remix it: Classic Album Makeover
So I chose the popular “Born in the USA” album …
This week …
I created an app. I wish it was as easy as that sentence made it sound. It was tough, and even harder to “publish” it. Which didn’t happen. So I am putting a link in that will give you 24 hour access to the app in “beta” mode.
Here is …
This week’s reading was a little wordy, it took my a while to get through. I had to walk away a couple times. That’s not to say I didn’t connect with it, but that I actually really wanted to understand it, and needed to process.
I am a very slow …
This week we got to choose our own assignment, the only requirement was it had to do with our focus. I surfed around a bit, it was fun just looking at all the assignments that we were able to do. I ended up landing on the “I like to …
This week …
This week I finally got to use a story that I have been waiting to watch. I found this a couple weeks ago but felt the title did not fit in with the theme, so I waited.
The story I chose was entitled: “The Meaning of My Life”…
This week’s reading was titled: Jenkins (2008) Afterword: Communities of Readers, Clusters of Practices
The reading discussed the concept of teachers getting their hand figuratively dirty, and diving into technology. Bringing best practices into technology use, and changing the idea of DIY to DIO- Do it OURselves! This hit home …
This week’s assignment was a “mashup” of some sort. I actually didn’t feel like any of them called out to me. I chose the Character Mashup because I felt it went well with the idea of using characters or shows that our students already enjoy to help us teach.
The …
Ok, so I found this article that I am really excited about. Technically it is an article about digital story telling, and not so much a story. But, I chose to use it because it ties in SO well with my theme-so bear with me.
The article is titled A …
This week’s reading was on blogs and the “ongoing ethnography of blogging.” In other words, the study of human races and cultures within blogs.
This reading was interesting, and well placed I may add (good choice Remi), as we have been blogging for a month now. We have seen other …
Happy 4th of July Weekend!
Not sure about anyone else but I know I have lost track of what day it is, even though my summer camp JUST ended.
This week I chose to make a magazine cover as seen HERE on twitter!
So, I know, what DOES this have …
This week was a hectic one for me. I am running a summer camp and we are about to finish up our last week. Not to mention my little brother graduated high school on Friday this week, so I was in rural Upstate New York for the weekend. This means …
For this story I took my inspiration from something Remi commented, “there’s nothing preventing you from creating anything in Spanish.”
After I graduated high school I chose to do a gap year in Mexico. I loved Spanish and longed to be fluent, so I knew the best course of action …
