This week we read “Chapter 1: DIY Media: A Contextual Background and Some Contemporary Themes” The authors wanted to educate teachers and parents about the media that kids are creating.  I love this idea.  It is normal for a teacher or parent to have NO idea what their student really means when they say “I’m […]

Wow, ok.  So I have always LOVED creating silly little videos and posting them on youtube or sharing them with friends, today’s was no different.  Well, maybe except for the fact that I may have thrown my 10 year old mac on the couch a little TOO hard. Oops! Anyway, it’s fine.  The poor thing […]

Does anyone else feel like week 2 flew by?  I was ahead of the game on Tuesday, then all of a sudden it was Friday.  However, despite my crazy schedule I feel a lot more comfortable with the course.  I spent the first week clicking back and forth between tabs trying, with all my might […]

So in honor of the fan fiction theme that I have stumbled into… I chose an actual fan fiction.  I have read a million of these and am excited to critique one.  Of course, why did I choose this.  Besides the fact that fan fiction is always fun to read.  I wanted to get the […]

Our assignment for this week was audio-yikes.  Don’t get me wrong I LOVE music, I’m always singing in the car, but for some reason the idea of making my own audio anything, had me panicked.  Truthfully, I had never really recorded anything online, or ever had the need to.  Anytime I created a video I […]

This week we read Lankshear and Knobel (2011) Ch4: New Literacies and Social Learning Practices of Digital Remixing I really felt in tune with this article.  I was raised as a comic book nerd.  My dad had a room upstairs that was stuffed to the brim with priceless collectibles- thousands of comic books, sealed action figures […]

My week was rough.  Not the kind of rough that makes you want to pull your hair out.  The kind of rough that by the end of it you let out a long sigh and smile: “I did it.” Address the following questions: How well do you feel you completed the requirements of the week’s […]

So, for whatever reason this assignment baffled me.  I just couldn’t seem to understand exactly what I was supposed to be doing.  I know this happens to my students sometimes, I can see their eyes glaze over and they begin to furrow their brow.  This was 100% me.  I just kept clicking around through all […]

For our reading this week we were tasked with reading “Lankshear & Knobel (2007) Chapter 1: Sampling “the New” in New Literacies.”  Our class uses a program called  Hypothesis.  This program is an “open” annotation- in other words you can annotate on essentially any webpage.  You download the program to your browser and it can […]

Ok, so I know everyone is thinking it, Twitter, really?  Mariah, what kind of master’s program did you sign up for?  Is there a prince in a small country you’ve never heard of that you are donating money to as well?  Are you sure you aren’t being catfished? How can you do anything to do […]

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