These past few weeks have been great getting outside of my comfort zone and trying new things.  My favorite assignment was the audio so far because I love music.  Although it was a bit tricky learning to use another new tool like Audacity, I had fun completing the assignment.  The biggest challenge I have faced so far is … Continue reading Reflection 2

This week, we were required to complete one of the audio assignments for our digital storytelling class.  The assignment I chose was Favorite Song.  Simply put, we needed to take one of our favorite songs, mute the vocals and leave the rest of the track.  See if you can guess the song! Here is one of … Continue reading Try and Guess My Favorite Song

Today I reviewed a digital story about travels a teacher and her students experienced.  Her goal in creating the digital story was to bring to light some of the complex policy issues targeting development in the third world, and she wanted her students to connect with another culture very different from their own. This digital story … Continue reading Digital Story Critique #3-Stories of Travel

  Today I made a dot!  I was interested in today’s daily create but wasn’t sure where to start.  Something that is so simple, drawing a dot, how could this be hard for me?  Well, for anyone needing a little encouragement to do something to express themselves, just read The Dot, by Peter H. Reyolds.  … Continue reading International Dot Day

I feel that these past three weeks in my class about Digital Storytelling have been a refreshing change of pace from my normal day to day routine.  I feel that I have only begun to express my creative side, and hope to spend a little more time completing some of the more challenging daily creates.  So far … Continue reading Reflection 1

On August 31st I photographed my daughter after dance class and tweeted “@ds106dc #tdc1696 Even the smallest love to dance! #inte5340” In response to the Daily Create called “Everyone Let’s Dance!”  I liked this picture to represent this statement because I not only love children but also feel that children express themselves so much more … Continue reading Everyone Let’s Dance!

Visual networks: Learning and Photosharing   This chapter was an intriguing insight to social tagging and sharing.  How does social tagging bring diverse people together?  Through written words, we can add tags to images and group these in collections that are shared and noticed with the tags.  Flickr creates this environment for us, allowing people … Continue reading Chapter 4- Visual Networks

Behind the GIF… There is no telling what was going through this man’s mind when this giant panda throws the patient’s TV on the ground! The random smiling face balloon in the background just proves how odd and random this situation is!  I made the comic reflect the man’s feelings about the outcome of his … Continue reading Visual Assignment-DS 106

This semester my INTE 5340 class we are examining pieces of scholarship related to the digital storytelling theme.  I have chosen for the first response to write about a piece that I read on Digital Storytelling For Engaged Student Learning In Accounting.  In this piece, the authors Suwardy, Pan, and Seow examine the effective means of Digital Storytelling … Continue reading Weekly Response/ Reflection – Week 2, INTE 5340

This semester I will be critiquing a total of 11 digital stories, where I critically examine and review digital stories based upon my focal interest of eLearning within the workplace, specifically about facilitating the development of eLearning training resources in a fast-paced work environment. The first of these digital stories is from Alberta Worker’s Health Centre and … Continue reading Digital Story Critique 1

Today’s Daily create was a challege, to describe in words the beautiful silence of this photo to one that cannot hear. Peaceful.  In one word that is what I think of.  If I were to describe the photo in deatil, I would say, “The eye can see what the ear cannot hear.  For the air … Continue reading Daily Create #2: #tdc1698 Describe in writing for someone who cannot hear, the feeling of silence

Creating meaningful content is an expected role of the classroom teacher, corporate learning environment, and many other professionals who must rely on their writing and communication skills to facilitate some type of learning experience, whether it be in the classroom, in a blog, or designing an eLearning course at the workplace.  Reading Chapter One called“Sampling ‘The New’...

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