We are celebrating Veterans in our school today! They will have a parade in our halls and then join classes to have more cozy settings. Every teacher is doing something a little bit different to honor our men and women. Here is a picture of the mini posters that Mrs. Leonard’s class did…why they’d be … Continue reading Happy Veteran’s Day

I wish everyone would take a step back and consider what they DID learn beginning in Kindergarten for most…we take turns, we do not shout at each other, we do not take things away from someone, we talk politely, we help, we are respectful, we collaborate and do our best, we are quick to say … Continue reading Wish

Check it out…what we like about our journal with Mrs. Leonard’s class JOURNALING OUR LEARNING This makes my heart happy!🙂

Learning by the seat of your pants can be rewarding, but it can also be exasperating. I am going to go with the exasperating for now, particularly passwords. On the culminating months of my CU Denver INTE trek I am STILL looking up and asking for and getting texted codes when I cannot remember or … Continue reading on Passwords

My life with technology! I posted a HUGE I guess rant…about passwords…I think I did not press “Publish” therefore I think I did not save it! I’ll come back!  

…at a friend’s home so she can go Trick o’ Treating with girls…I am here with her daughter who has autism…my friend has to be 24/7/365 available with her family, so helping here and there is good for both of us…like she says…autism sucks…ahhh life…she also lost her husband—37 yrs. young of a massive stroke…he … Continue reading Happy Halloween

The U$A educational system has MUCH to correct. Those of us in the trenches feel as though our hands are tied, like we’ve taken an oath to seed out creativity and allow mundane to surface, spilling over into all content areas. If you are unfortunately reading below grade level then you are awarded extra attention in […]

Reaching the LORD through prayer  Earnestly asking God to preserve you & company  Jostling, turning in sleep, waking @ 4AM to continue prayers Openly knowing God’s reality is not mine I persevere in prayer In Christ we are united, you are my brother, dearly loved Continue to pray, regardless of what the mountains stats say […]

My family LOVES to read! My summer CU Denver course/project centers on “learning sight words”. I found this article about r-e-a-d-i-n-g, the ultimate goal; I’m hoping to enlighten educators and more…perhaps nationwide…on better ways to learn to read! ….this thought is from the article, “Can Reading Make You Happier” linked below…So even if you don’t […]

…because writing sight words bigger on cards will help the learner to know, pronounce, and use them…that’s like speaking louder to someone who does not speak English …because making Bingo cards with sight words will help the learner to know, pronounce, and use them…that’s like lining up hair and body products and thinking the customer […]

~open the door, the link, to my Google Doc~ I’ve Got a Story:                                                                                     […]

This began by me typing ‘short digital stories that matter’ and I found the following. I did not explore this site fully, but I found it intriguing. I still think about kids, elementary kids. Even though the video has adults asking and telling about their desires and ideas…what’s to say the same format will not […]

    I had to look the word “apophenia” right out of the gate with this statement by Alexander (2011) “Looking for storytelling in gaming makes too much of too little, and exercise in apophenia. Alternatively, story isn’t simply that important to the real function of games.” (p. 91). Then out of my element, he […]

…I didn’t follow all of the rules I’ve learned, but I did follow my heart…

I created this b-e-a-u-t-y

Imagine we’re together enjoying the fresh berries and chocolatey good pretzels…most likely discussing life, family, books, PEO, and Bartok. I love you momma. Happy Mother’s Day! I sent this message with the Sherri’s Berries and dipped pretzel sticks! My Momma

@ds106dc  #tdc1577 Today’s daily create is for everyone, but especially some folks at Fleming College — invent your own thing that could be used to retrain some of them ol’ synapses in your brain. I LOVE these…I LOVE to create, to be zany, to be unlike the “norm.”

From INTE 5665 Social Media and Digital Culture. Several years later I see it and am moved! We need worldwide social media being used to break down walls and to build bridges.  

GUIDE – Using Narrative Strategies for Digital Storytelling From our readings, peer dialogues in asynchronous settings,  and broad exposure to digital storytelling, I’ll have to disagree with the opening statement of this article! Here is what Amy Goodloe stated: “Digital storytelling falls under the larger category of creative nonfiction, which makes use of narrative strategies […]

http://www.storycenter.org/stories/ STRAIGHT UP CHALLENGE, yet providentially a door opened for Tahira. Back in  1980s I help a Pakastani family with their English. I don’t know their whole story, their English was very limited and I did not and do not still speak Pashtu. Early days I have been drawn towards other people to learn about […]

@ds106dc  #tdc1570 A story in Mashable tells how the editor of the Depression era series of photographers, Roy Stryker, would ruthlessly edit and “kill” photos he disliked by piercing the images with a hole punch. See what you can do to “undo” this damage, re-edit one of them and fill the holes with life. Like show […]

INTE 5665 CU Denver found us at one juncture reflecting on privacy in social media. Here is what I shared last Wednesday for our discussion post. Even before the advent of technology on steroids–with hyperlinks–to hop you quicker, privacy was probably also at an all time low. I am from the day of party lines […]

@ds106dc  #tdc1568 The cop who pepper sprayed the kids at a college protest got a good meme-over at BuzzFeed; there’s not much left to do with it. So let’s give him a break, and meme him giving out something nice.

Social Learning ‘push’ and ‘pull’, and building platforms for collaborative thinking If I’m thinking correctly, and I do like how this chapter addresses the change, particularly in education, that collaboration is building while curriculum for curriculums sake is waning. I can testify that the variety of learning now available via platforms has taken us from […]

@ds106dc  #tdc1567 Your mission – show us where Shakespeare’s head is!

This has to be an ode to growing older in a changing world…I was introduced to this gal a couple months ago, her repertoire consists of stories, stories of family; I imagine there are so many stories out there that haven’t been told by people of ALL Ages. I hope you enjoy this. I have […]

Some people along the way have commented that I should have a column like Erma Bombeck. Most often in letters and now in emails I correspond naturally from the heart about what’s happening in my life. Not only is CU Denver a major sphere of my life, but so is my work, but most importantly […]

“If music be the food of love, play on…” #shakespeare400 @ds106dc  #tdc1564 Find a photograph that captures the words of Shakespeare.