One of my first experiences with Digital Storytelling was in my first Master’s class.  The final project for that class was to create a digital story about ourselves and how we have grown during the class.  I admit that I struggled with that assignment.  Not as much in thinking of what to say, what ideas … Continue reading All good things must come to an end – Final Portfolio & Reflection

I had big plans for this week’s Assignment Bank.  On Tuesday I went through the visual assignments and chose this assignment.  The reason: I was scheduled to go to San Diego with my boyfriend for five days of beaches and pools and California!  This would be the perfect occasion to do a visual assignment.  However, the … Continue reading Cancelled Vacation

OMG the new Jason Bourne movie comes out next week and I am SO excited!  I will be looking at the trailer for this week’s Story Critique.  Although it doesn’t fall directly into my theme of “Health and Nutrition,” I think it is safe to say that super-secret spy Jason Bourne knows a thing or … Continue reading Jason Bourne

This week’s articles: “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” – Peggy McIntosh (1989) “Developing Voice in Digital Storytelling Through Creativity, Narrative and Multimodality” – Nilsson (2010) “Lifting Lighter Weights Can Be Just As Effective As Heavy Ones” – Gretchen Reynolds, The New York Times   “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” This was not the first … Continue reading Week 7 – Reading Response

For this week’s digital story, I found something that is related to one of the articles included in my Reading Response.  It is called “Exercise and the Brain.” What types of “involvement” – and by the author/creator(s), participant(s), and/or audience – are apparent in this story? While there is only one narrator in this digital … Continue reading Exercise and the Brain – Week 6 Story Critique

Articles I read this week: “Social Learning, ‘Push’ and ‘Pull,’ and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning” – Lankshear and Knobel (2011) “Can Running Make You Smarter?” – Gretchen Reynolds, The New York Times   “Social Learning, ‘Push’ and ‘Pull,’ and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning” In this chapter, we continue to look at learning as a … Continue reading Week 6 – Reading Response

Perhaps a little blurry, sorry about that … This week I chose to do the Visual Assignment called “That’s Not What I Expected.” So can you guess what this image is showing? Here are some hints: my theme for this semester is “Health and Nutrition” (so this image has something to do with that) this … Continue reading Close up! – Can you guess what it is?

To Vegan or not to Vegan? That seems to be a current question. It seems like you are either a hardcore vegan or you hate all things vegan.  Is there a middle ground?  I’m not sure as I have not found one. This week I will be critiquing a YouTube video called “If Meat Eaters Acted … Continue reading “If Meat Eaters Acted Like Vegans” – Week 5 Story Critique

This week’s articles: “Afterword: Communities of Readers, Clusters of Practices” – Jenkins (2008) “Why Dieters Flock to Instagram” – Katie Rogers, The New York Times   “Afterword: Communities of Readers, Clusters of Practices” This final chapter of Jenkins’ work, discusses the idea participatory culture.  Not only the importance of this type of learning for ourselves and … Continue reading Week 5 – Reading Response

For this week’s Mashup Assignment I combined a picture of Wonder Woman wielding a bow and arrow on top of a picture of lots of bread. The motivation behind this image is interesting.  Diabetes runs in my family.  My parents, who are already very healthy and active, have recently added to their healthy lifestyle.  They have all … Continue reading Wonder Woman vs. Carbs

This week I looked at a Dove commercial.  Recently Dove has had a campaign to promote the healthy body image of women, and this is one of their more recent commercials.  Every day men and women are exposed to images showing what an “ideal” body looks like, and many people are left thinking that what they … Continue reading “Beauty on your own terms” – Week 4 Story Critique

This week’s articles: “Looking From the Inside Out: Academic Blogging as New Literacy” – Davies and Merchant (2007) “Blogging For Mental Health” – Amy Novotney, American Psychological Association   “Looking From the Inside Out: Academic Blogging as New Literacy” This week’s chapter discusses how Blogging has become a new literacy.  At the beginning of the chapter, the … Continue reading Week 4 – Reading Response

I really enjoyed this week’s Design assignment.  For this assignment I was to create a collage using pages from old magazines.  See below for my finished product. My theme for this semester is Health/Nutrition so I included images, quotes, etc. that encompass this theme.  My favorite part of this collage is in the top/middle where … Continue reading Healthy Collage

This week I chose a story from Time Magazine about “Power Poses.” I have previously seen the full TedTalk by Amy Cuddy about her research into Power Poses, but this was a shorter story put together by Time Magazine, and it was pretty interesting. People convey their power, or lack thereof, through nonverbal displays.  Most … Continue reading “Game Changer: Amy Cuddy, Power Poser” – Week 3 Story Critique

This week I read two articles: “DIY Media: A Contextual Background and Some Contemporary Themes”– Lankshear and Knobel (2008) “Why Handwriting Is Still Essential in the Keyboard Age” – Perri Klass, M.D., The New York Times   “DIY Media: A Contextual Background and Some Contemporary Themes”   Before I started reading this article, I had a different understanding … Continue reading Week 3 – Reading Response

This week I completed the video assignment (found here) titled “It’s vacation time!” As you can tell from the title of this blog post, and the not so cryptic picture above, I chose to share some pictures from the time I spent in Spain. Although the assignment mentions a ‘favorite vacation,’ I admit that I … Continue reading ¡Viva España!

This week I watched the digital Story “Lackluster Lunch Lines – An American Tragedy.”  It hits upon two important themes in my life: school and health. What this digital story focuses on is the low quality of food that children are being fed at school.  The author gives a surprising statistic from a study of … Continue reading “Lackluster Lunch Lines – An American Tragedy” – Week 2 Story Critique

This week I read the following two articles: “New Literacies and Social Learning Practices of Digital Remixing” – Lankshear and Knobel (2011) “Soda Tax Passes in Philadelphia. Advocates Ask: Who’s Next?”  – Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times “New Literacies and Social Learning Practices of Digital Remixing” This article introduces the idea of “remixing” as it pertains … Continue reading Week 2 – Reading Response

Hello to all! This week I chose to complete AudioAssignment77 titled “Make ’em laugh!”  Basically, I tell a joke in another language and add in some effects.  I struggled with how to best do this and eventually ended up using iMovie so that I could show the illustration for the joke (below) while I was talking. … Continue reading ¡Una broma!

This week I watched the digital story titled “Run Your World” by Madelein de Bruin.  I found it on the website Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling.  This website has lots of great digital storytelling examples that fit into many categories. I chose this specific story because I want to focus on health/nutrition as my theme throughout this semester.  This … Continue reading “Run Your World” – Digital Story Critique

This week I read the following two articles: “Sampling ‘the New’ in New Literacies” – Lankshear & Knobel (2007) “7 Things You Should Know About Digital Storytelling” from the Journal titled “Educause Learning Initiative”   Sampling the “New” in New Literacies This chapter from Lankshear and Knobel’s book was a great introductory read for this class … Continue reading Week 1 – Reading Response

From the DS106 Visual Assignment Bank I chose the assignment “”Your Love For Your Pet” (found here).  So … I’d like to introduce you all to Koopa!  He is a mix between a Pomeranian and a Papillon.  He is high energy fluff ball and a cuddle machine.        

wonder woman, wonder woman, wonder woman.