If you have been following my blog, you know that my semester has primarily been devoted to my capstone for my MPA program. Well, I am happy to report that I defended my capstone Tuesday night and passed. I am so happy to have that behind me! And soon I will have my diploma in… Continue reading Digital Storytelling Portfolio

We were assigned two classmates’ digital stories to critique for our Digital Storytelling class. The second one I am critiquing is Nickolette Grimes’ digital story. While this story is told from her point of view, it is about her relationship with Dillon and their cat Stuart. What might appear simple on the surface (how much Nickolette loves… Continue reading Digital Story Critique: Nickolette Grimes

We were assigned two classmates’ digital stories to critique for our Digital Storytelling class. The first one I am critiquing is Robert Piper’s My Food Revolution. Robert decided to tell the world about his decision to stop eating meat. The story was well outlined and gave very compelling reasons for his personal choices. I really liked his… Continue reading Digital Story Critique: My Food Revolution

2 Girls, a Car, and a Mission – My friend Kim and I were invited to a wedding in Virginia on September 17, 2016. My mom’s birthday happens to be September 16, and she lives in Virgina. So we decided to make it a whirlwind Virginia trip. The plan… fly into Dulles Airport, rent a… Continue reading 2 Girls, a Car, and a Mission

For this week’s digital story, I chose to examine an Instagram feed that is devoted to a cat that loves to hike called exploration_cat. Quandary Q. Lotus Lady was actually a given to her owner as a marriage proposal. Graham got down on one knee and proposed to Erin with Q, and from that day forward,… Continue reading Digital Story Critique 11: exploration_cat

The article I chose for this week is Stories Through Sequence by Xanthe Berkeley Of Shutter Sisters. I chose this article because it focuses on photographs to tell a story. The author talks about how one photograph can tell a story, but decided that he wanted to explore the stories that can be told boy photographs taken (and shared)… Continue reading Week 13: Response & Reflection

  It is crunch time for my capstone! So far, my feedback has been good, so that is a big relief. My final draft is due the 27th, and my defense will be Dec 6. I will be very happy when this is behind me🙂 I am also happy with all of the cool stuff… Continue reading Week 12: Self Reflection of Learning

Our article this week is “Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling”. 1.         What are your main insights and ideas from the given reading? I think the seven steps is awesome. The first one “Owning Your Insights” is so powerful and speaks to point of view, voice, and the conflict that makes for a good/great story. Then… Continue reading Week 12: Response & Reflection

For this week’s digital story, I chose to My Life & Photography – Digital Story by Rita Rocha. It is a short YouTube video, but it gives a lot of information about where the author got her love of photography. I chose this particular digital story because it not only uses photos to tell her… Continue reading Digital Story Critique 10: My Life & Photography – Digital Story

The article I chose Everyday Storytelling Through Photography is another “how to” type article for using photography to tell your story. Much like all other advice for creating your story, the author recommends making a plan. From a photography standpoint, this means thinking about 4 types of photographs: wide, atmospheric, details, and portraits. Essentially it’s all about… Continue reading Week 11: Response & Reflection

For this week’s digital story, I chose to critique a wedding album – | Lexi + Jake | Sweet Olive Farm Wedding | Georgia Wedding Photographer |. This album was posted by the photographer with minimal text. But I think most weddings photos are self-explanatory. I chose this one for a couple of reasons. First, it… Continue reading Digital Story Critique 9: |Lexi + Jake | Sweet Olive Farm Wedding | Georgia Wedding Photographer

This has been a busy couple of weeks. My survey for my capstone closed on Friday, so now I get to gather my results and finish my final draft of my capstone! Looks like this semester is actually coming to end and I will be done with my master’s program. As I believe I have… Continue reading Week 10: Self Reflection of Learning

For this week’s (week 10) digital story critique, I decided to step a bit outside the narrow field I have been exploring. Thanks to some of my classmates, I have opened my mind to accepting that digital stories come in many shapes, sizes, and formats. Until now, I have been focusing on personal stories that… Continue reading Digital Story Critique 8:

The chapter we read this week is A Road Traveled: The Evolution of the Digital Storytelling Practice. I had a hard time getting into the chapter initially, but as it progressed, I became more engrossed in the author’s writing. What are your main insights and ideas from the given reading? The main thing I took away from… Continue reading Response & Reflection: Week 10

For this week’s Assignment Bank, we were instructed to choose our preference. Since my digital story focus is related to photography, I selected a visual assignment. The one I selected was That’s Not What I Expected. The instructions for this assignment are “Take a close up picture of something as see if people can guess what… Continue reading Visual Assignment Bank: That’s Not What I Expected

Wow! It’s hard to believe it is already week 9 of the semester. Not too much longer and I will be completely done with my graduate program. This week, we were tasked to give a mid semester review of what we have learned, highlighting some of our fellow students’ blogs, posts, and contributions. So, I… Continue reading Week 9: Gallery Walk Presentation

For week 8, I chose an article by Jason Ohler called The World of Digital Storytelling. It originally appeared in the December 2005/January 2006 issue of Educational Leadership. I found the article through Google Scholar, and the link does not work, so if you would like to read the article, you can search for it in Google… Continue reading Week 8: Response & Reflection

Warning to anyone reading this post, some of the photos in this story are graphic. The digital story I selected to critique this week is called Digital Story Critique 7: ‘Lest We Forget’: Carol Guzy. Carol Guzy is a photographer who posted a story of the pets that were left behind during the evacuation from Hurricane Katrina.… Continue reading Digital Story Critique 7: ‘Lest We Forget’: Carol Guzy

I’ve started adding some of my photos to my photography blog Exploring My World Through a Digital Lens. I have posted two days worth of adventures and only have 3 more to go! I also need to post the photos from my Instagram feed. I also need to learn better how to use WordPress. I have been looking at other… Continue reading Week 7: Self Reflection of Learning

The chapter we read this week is Social learning, ‘push’ and ‘pull’, and building platforms for collaborative learning. And honestly, this is my least favorite article/chapter so far. It reads like the literature review in an academic thesis. Overall, it is a good overview of the research that has been done on social learning, but since… Continue reading Response & Reflection: Week 7

This week’s assignment bank task was to choose a video assignment. I selected What Do You Love? The instructions are: “Choose something that you love and make a video of it! You can take pictures or videos and combine them into one final video. Try to find music that has to do with the thing you… Continue reading DS106 Assignment Bank: What Do You Love?

The digital story I selected to critique this week is called Firestorm. Warning to anyone reading this post, this is quite a long digital story, but well worth the time to navigate through it! Wow! What a powerful story. Essentially, this town in Tasmania suffered from a catastrophic fire, one that was so bad the fire… Continue reading Digital Story Critique 6: Firestorm

The digital story I have selected for this week is Alison, a photo essay about Jack Radcliffe’s daughter Allison. Jack started this photographic journey as a parent, taking photos of his daughter. As he got ore into his photography, he became fascinated by what he was capturing on his camera of his family and friends… relationships. His… Continue reading Digital Story Critique 5: Alison

The article I chose to talk about today is The Power of Community Storytelling. This is a wonderful article that talks about exactly what the title says.. the power of community storytelling. The basic premise behind this article is that sometimes, it is the cumulative stories of many people in a community that tell the true tale.… Continue reading Week 6: Response & Reflection

We got up Friday (September 16, 2016) morning and took my mom all over for her birthday. Our first stop was Yorktown to check out the monument and the beach. After a fun morning at the beach, we headed across the bridge to Gloucester to have lunch with some of my mom’s friends. While there, I saw … Continue reading A Whirlwind Trip to Virginia – Day 2 →

My friend Kim and I traveled to Virginia last week to attend the wedding of our friend Lauren. Since I don’t get out to Virginia very often, I decided I wanted to pack in as much visiting as possible while I was there, and Kim being the good sport that she is agreed to tag … Continue reading A Whirlwind Trip to Virginia – Day 1 →

This week, I read the right assignment! I’d like to say that I am at crunch time for my capstone for my Master’s in Public Administration, so I haven’t been able to focus as much time on these assignments as I would like. Once I get the bulk of that done, I will have time… Continue reading Week 5: Self Reflection of Learning

This week’s assignment bank task was to choose an audio assignment. I selected Can’t Get It Out Of My Head. The instructions are: “Use some auido [sic] recording software, I used audacity, to record yourself whistling a song that has gotten stuck in your head before. Then upload it to soundlcoud [sic]. But don’t title it… Continue reading DS106 Assignment Bank: Can’t Get It Out Of My Head

This week, I chose to critique Bear, a digital story about… you guessed it… bears! Before the story even begins, the creators warn you that the presentation will be 20 minutes long. At the very beginning, the creators hook you with the phrase “There aren’t a lot of ways for a grizzly bear to die. At… Continue reading Digital Story Critique 4: Bear

The two chapters assigned this week are: Chapter 2: Music remix in the classroom Chapter 3: DIY podcasting in education Overall, I am enjoying the chapters in this book. So far, it seems that each author addresses a tool or technique that can be used in digital storytelling by providing some history or a basic… Continue reading Response & Reflection: Week 5