Picture 1 Picture 2     My reflective thoughts are on the page in my Notebook file that was spinning the candy cane whirl. (Please see Picture 1 above) I’ve taken the path of reflecting along the way from the prior reflection. Many times (or at least in my case) I will want to remember […]

educator, defined, created comfort, with every technology comes story, usually positive emotions associated with stories, diverse conversations, norm of stories and their components have not changed over the years, stories are for everyone in any profession, stories are fiction and non-fiction, sequence is important to people-they like to see or feel timelines in stories, audience […]

@ds106dc  #tdc1517 So I am home today after conferences all week, and I tell Misha….3 things for life….GO; she told me the 3 things and left for her 2D animation class at RMCAD, and then I created the book cover. It’s pretty fun, I’d buy it! Orange for RMCAD, life is tragic and comedic (sometimes mixed), […]

Piggy-Bank Friday: Life Skills Through Financial Literacy   (Link at end)  I look for articles related to elementary education thinking of the multitude of classes I work with, the below grade level students we have, and our English language learner population. I am looking for ways beyond the stiff curriculums purchased to avenues rich with […]

Follow the link to hear the digital story I heard: Engineering Education for the 21st Century This comes from Creative Narrations and addresses that critical statement in education that MANY have made and continue to make over and over time and time again. Education would serve our populations best if it concentrated on: creativity & […]

@ds106dc  #tdc1514 Fiddle until you get an interesting storyline. Then create a collage of 5 images to tell the story. Try to go beyond literally interpreting images. How funny…I was going to roast Olaf for a smore, and decided to go all girls, but look who popped up on the Looking Glass b/c I did not […]

In keeping with my developing website for INTE 5665, I’ve renamed this blog site to “Inklings” and below is the picture I created for this feature. Is that right, feature? Section? The blog name? Dealio? Domahitchy? So my picture…my visual…rest assured there is a visual lurking near my work and they come usually with symbolism, […]

The other online course I have this semester is INTE 5665, Social Media and Digital Culture. I am being stretched with understanding and using more social networks. I have been comfortable with fb since about 2008, then came the Smartphone in the mid-2000s. By late 2013 I was purchasing a Smart TV with my childrens’ […]

Intentionality. This is a term that we have been using in our building, among ourselves and with our students, K-5th. Seemingly small shifts, are in fact, HUGE shifts for many students. Here is an example: instead of saying and settling on the phrase, “I can’t do this” or “I don’t get this” we educators are […]

Assignment Bank AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments1923 Touch the Sky: personal video done for an INTE 6710, Creative Designs for Instructional Materials, through CU Denver. NOW revisited via INTE 5340, Learning with Digital Stories and the affiliation with the open online ds106 course through the University of Mary Washington. I landed on this assignment, and remembered the video I made. […]

@ds106dc  #tdc1506 This is ridiculous!

Somewhere I missed the memo that obviously said to rate ourselves 1-10…? As I’ve read some reflections of peers, I see them giving a number…having missed the cue, I’m left to say 8 of 10. Just when you think you’re getting it…there’s more. My dad told a joke about mules that I can’t in full […]

Let’s just say I hope I never am without a paper/pencil or laptop…or some magical way to create that hasn’t been invented yet! I felt OVERWHELMED at the outset, thinking that this was completely over my head…I now see that it is not. A quote from our STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) night at […]

@ds106dc  #tdc1504 Jesse James Day is celebrated every July in Adair, Iowa. (they do discuss WHY they celebrate this outlaw…) Adair was the site of Jesse’s first train robbery. My cousins live and farm in Adair. To prepare for the Jesse James Days, they crank homemade ice cream with tractors, scoop it into gallons, store it […]

While I would like to say that I gained much and enjoyed the information given in the text Digital Storytelling, Capturing Lives Changing Community, I did not. It is a bent toward humanism, social engineering, and pushes out the notion of God. The very fact that Joe Lambert writes with a lower case “g” for […]

One of the sites suggested by Lori was digital storytelling at the University of Houston, so I thought I’d check it out. I LOVE finding creative ways for students to learn. Under the technology tab I found the digital story called “How Pop-ups Got their Pop” by Shaunna Smith 2008. I was expecting something on the […]

@ds106dc  #tdc1501 Show the meaning of life in media.

Holiday Mashup—Take 3 holidays and bring them all together. Looking through my window, these are special and I look forward to celebrating each when it comes. The picture window is the birth of Christ, to the left are representations of Easter, and then bringing  the Irish together in fellowship is  St. Patrick’s Day.   This […]

@ds106dc #tdc1500 By the keystroke it happens…

AnimatedGIFAssignments, AnimatedGIFAssignments1789 click on this link: Bartok Had to DO.ANOTHER.ONE. This is Bartok. He came to us spring 2014, born on Thanksgiving, 2013. Misha, is his owner, but he is loved by all of us! He has been special because we moved from a not a thriving home life (26+ years of marriage); sadly the summer ’14 […]

AnimatedGIFAssignments, AnimatedGIFAssignments1789 http://makeagif.com/EqMcty Here is my first GIF. It’s supposed to be “animals doing funny things”; I have the animal, but it is not so funny, or maybe it is…the world can judge. This was fun!  

I found this website perusing for articles that will guide and enhance what I am about day in and day out at my elementary school. The website is called “eLearning Industry” and it is all about Scenario Based Learning. When I opened said link, this is what I found for their statement. Scenario based learning […]

YouTube Link:   Digital Storytelling – Student Perspective Story: This was completely not what I expected. I think, since it said “student perspective” that I envisioned a passionate kid or student showing and voicing what he/she liked about digital storytelling, how it was impactful, how they want teacher to use this avenue for student learning….it was […]

@ds106dc #tdc1496 …we KNOW they’re out there…

@ds106dc #tdc1495 This became intriguingly fun, AND, now I cannot go to Sam’s Club to by a chicken to make chicken noodle soup, b/c I did research  b/c of a map challenge on the ds106 site and so…here ya go! There were fabulous Chinese boats that sailed the seas long long ago, you should check them […]

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Diane’s Reflection using her DIY visual + several links   ;) NO, really, OK, yes probably. I JUST did the Feedly tonight, and I DID the correct assignments, and I am thankful. I am thankful that I understand that all of the learning I am undergoing is not impossible. The learning curve seems steep, as […]

@ds106dc  #tdc1488 My kids used to play this, or I would be unfamiliar…except of course the dry textbooks excerpts! Living in CO…I had to add our friend. Buahahahaha! 

OK, now I’m in tears writing this post. Now I understand the artwork of 4th grade students I’ve been walking by for some weeks now. I just thought, “what a great idea…have a non-face persons” and let students create the character. My mother gave my own girls an Amish doll with no facial features, so my mind […]