A soundseeing tour uses audio and theatre of the mind audio to paint a picture in the listener’s mind.
Here Click ME! is my soundseeing tour. I used an application called “voice recorder” I downloaded from the android playstore to record my daughter playing then sent …
Edorble is a downloadable virtual world that makes it easy to host people from all around the world all simultaneously. I found this 3D world as a great tool to host all sorts of meetings and the possibilities for an online class would be endless. I pitched the idea to …
Here my research partners and I have gathered many useful sites to use, starting today. These valuable resources can be used to compliment any online lesson plans you are making or have used in the past.
1.) Sonic Squirrel: access here
Sonic Squirrel is a site dedicated to providing music …
I’d like to take a few minutes to reflect on this last semester in the Digital Storytelling class at CU Denver University. I had many opportunities to work with my classmates and learn the art of Digital Storytelling through the DS 106 Daily Creates, Digital Story Critiques, a Gallery …
Progress has been made as I have been exploring even more digital stories, trying to find my own style of writing and creating. I have been trying to find relatable stories to watch so I may create something useful for myself and my audience which is essentially this class and …
This week I watched a digital story titled “Did You Know 4.0.” This was as short digital story created to showcase facts and stats that shaped our culture for the year. There was no narration, only visuals, and music.
Evaluation Traits
Story I thought that this video was interesting…
This week I read a great article about the importance of digital storytelling in the business world. More specifically, this article lays out 6 ways to merge storytelling into a daily business setting. These tips gave me a call to action on what I need to do when incorporating this …
I have to honest, this is was my first time hearing the word dystopia. After reading today’s daily create, I pondered on what event to write about. The word dystopia, a noun, meaning “an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or …
I have reviewed the seven steps of Digital Storytelling, and noted these elements to help with the compilation of my own digital story soon. The first element is to think about how to present your point of view. This is important, in that the perspective of the author is aligned …
In lieu of the recent election, I decided to view and critique a digital story about the story and voices of the people behind this 2016 election. I found this digital story about Americans sharing their hopes and concerns for the election. This digital story was created and shared on …
Today’s daily create was to make a still life with only red items. When I think of a red still life, Andy Warhol’s famous Campbell’s soup can comes to mind. The idea of a still life is to not only collect the items for a picture or simply paint the …
This week I completed a critique about a TED talk featuring data collection and presentation. I thought this to be an effective way to present material in my own works later, so I decided to watch and learn more about data visualization.
“Data is the new soil”
Presentation & Performace:…
In this week’s daily create I got the opportunity to turn a sidewalk crack into art. Carla Sonheim’s blog/newsletter/ and online art classes are where this daily create was discovered. The “crack of the month” presented itself as follows, and then you can print the photo of the crack off …
This week I found a piece about advanced eLearning through digital storytelling. This scholarly review was well written and organized, presenting digital storytelling as the “modern expression or ancient storytelling” this article expressed types of digital storytelling, learning environments, Types of digital stories, and current models for and engaging digital …
The last few weeks have been productive. I really enjoyed taking a break from scholarly reviews and taking the time to look at some of my peer’s work. Last week we took the time to look at each other’s strengths, and point out things we liked about the works we …
This chapter really helped me see the value of a good story for digital storytelling and why digital storytelling has such importance in our classrooms and everyday life today. Joe Lambert’s journey through slowly popularizing digital storytelling across America paints a picture of the different stages digital storytelling might have …
This week I tried to find something geared towards the workplace environment. I enjoyed this digital story called “Having the Courage to Fight for Inclusiveness.” describing gender diversity and equality. I believe this is a very important topic right now in many workplace environments, and I wanted to …
What I have learned thus far…
The past three months or so I have been creating new projects and critiquing several digital stories and scholarly reviews. In this process, I have grown in knowledge on what to expect for a digital story and what works as opposed to what does …
This week I found an occurrence of concentric circles in my everyday world. I found these great art pieces while visiting the Colorado Ballet Academy. They can also be found and purchased at http://www.spacegallery.org. Here are the photos I would like to share with my classmates:
They are …
For this week, I tried to find an eLearning lesson about tools for teaching and learning geared towards the benefits of digital storytelling. I found this piece about creating storyboards and using digital storytelling in the classroom. Although it was a workshop, I thought the information to be of importance …
This current review I conducted was about the Impact of eLearning in the Workplace. Although hard to find, I was able to find this piece on both topics of global changes in the workforce and eLearning. I have had issues finding article relating to eLearning and the workplace, but …
Social Learning
This reading helped me view the importance of the paradigms of social learning, and how we may incorporate different types of social learning in and outside of the classroom. Developments in new technologies have allowed students to dive into learning collaboratively, but how can we measure these different …
The last few weeks have been interesting, I especially liked reading other classmates thoughts on digital stories and new ideas about digital learning in general. Each of us have had growth in what we think about eLearning/digital storytelling and learning how each issue we face in our workplaces or lives. …
When I first came across this assignment I thought, oh wow, how do I create something in 6 seconds! Here is a great example from Ben Rime – I loved how he used Vine, so I decide to give the Vine app a try for this assignment. I used what …
This week I was able to view a digital story called “How to become a more Effective Communicator in the Workplace.” In this short digital story, the narrator Alexander Mackenzie, Programme Director of Winning Hearts and Minds, opens with the thought of Storytelling as being around for years-a historic way …
The presentation I choose to view was a digital story on a global learning solutions website called CommLab India. The reason I chose this piece was because it seemed to directly relate to preparing effective digital stories and the subject I am studying, eLearning in the workplace environment.
Assessment/Evaluation Traits …
This week I read a piece from the eLearn Magazine. This was an article that explained how the story creation model or MOD can be used to implement effective digital stories. Also covered was story creation principals from Hollywood script writer Robert McKee. I found this article intriguing because of …
Today’s daily create was to take a modern day recent picture and make it look like an old picture by using a website called “Japaaan.” I took a picture of my child on the playground, and my phone was a little out of focus. I think that this adds to …
