This week's daily create is being brought to you by a Snow Day! I finally decided to pull myself away from the Netflix and check out the daily create. This one looked pretty easy, draw a cactus with your eyes closed. I don't think it's too bad, what do you guys think?   

Week One   For this week in Learning with Digital Stories I needed to find a piece of scholarship related to my Focal Theme. First I had to discover my focal theme! The theme of motherhood has been swirling around in my mind, not motherhood in a traditional sense, as in a woman who has given birth and is therefore, a mother. But, in a more complicated, conceptual way. What about pets? Step children? What about the mothering you do of your friends’ kids? Or your nieces or nephews? What does

  Week Two: For this week’s story critique, I looked at the website, storycorps.org and came across a story called, “Danny and Annie.” Again this week I found myself searching around for an example of digital storytelling that would help me to begin to understand what digital storytelling actually is. I think I found it with this story. I chose to evaluate this story based on the following criteria: Story, Originality Voice and Creativity, and Media Application from Jason Ohler’s assessment

I didn't realize until this week that I was supposed to share my daily create assignment on my blog as well!!  It's a learning process I suppose...  So here are my pics from the last TWO weeks, hopefully I caught that in time :)    The first one of the mountain is for last week, the daily create was to illustrate western kindness. Mine was a greeting in the form of advice, Hold on to your toupee! And for week two I chose today's, which was to illustrate western wisdom.    PS: I took that picture

Every other week in Learning with Digital Stories we are going to choose an assignment from the "Assignment Bank" with DS106. This week we were given the task of choosing from the Visual bank. I chose to do "You in Collage Form" as my first attempt! It...

    For week one of Learning with Digital Stories we were tasked with finding an example of a digital story and critiquing it. Since I am still trying to figure out what digital storytelling is I went to examples that were provided here in the Story Center and found one that looked interesting. I ended up picking one of the featured stories to critique. I chose: “What I Mean” by Isaiah Clayton, the tagline reads, “A story about the need to change ourselves before being able to change the world.”

  But I’m computer illiterate! These are words I hear on a daily basis and to be quite honest they have driven me crazy in the past. Because I work at our local workforce center I am faced everyday with people who wear this statement like a badge. Our customers come to us for help looking for work, applying for unemployment, and making resumes, all of which are activities that require basic computer knowledge and skills. The first thing that came to mind while reading Chapter One of “New

Well here I am back for more fun in the ILT program at CU Denver for the spring semester. It's my second semester so I am hoping to be more adjusted to the program, the expectations, and coursework my second time around. Over break I did some exploring on my own and did some poking around Lynda.com with my library card. Lynda is free with our local library card here in Colorado Springs so I highly recommend it! I am always on the lookout for free resources, not just for myself because free is

In response to our discussion in Social Media class this week, we are talking about Voices for Social Change. How can social media affect social change? It's been a hot topic this week around the world because of the terrorist attack on Paris just one ...

Social Media is a crazy thing to me. I go to Facebook and scroll through an endless stream of political opinions, pictures of breakfast, stats on who goes to the gym (and who doesn't), and pictures of babies and dogs. Sometimes it's maddening to me, but I keep going back! This week, in my Social Media course, we are talking about privacy. Ahhhh yes, privacy. It seems like an oxymoron to me. We all want privacy in social media and yet we keep posting those pics of our breakfast...     At my

Someone shared this article with me from the BBC about what makes younger workers happy. It really got me thinking this week. In the article it talks about a creating a culture of fun in the workplace and a lot of companies are attempting to do this to...

A piece of advice we give job seekers at the workforce center is to tell everyone you know you are looking for work. We encourage this because it’s all part of networking, you never know who might be listening or even who has a friend who’s hiring! Broadcasting your unemployment status might be one of the hardest things someone does. Usually, in fact, people who are unemployed would rather not tell anyone they are unemployed. It is one of the hardest circumstances people can find themselves in.

I’m new to this whole blogging gig but I have a ton of thoughts and grad school is keeping me pretty busy with extra reading and thought provoking projects and papers. With all of this info swirling around in my brain I really need to get real about blogging and organizing my thoughts. I found this quick infographic on blogging, “Eight Secrets to Writing Faster Blog Posts” you can click on it here. I find these infographics to be especially helpful. They usually have quick facts and pictures and

A few months ago my mom posted a picture of herself surrounded by her siblings on Facebook with a simple caption: Tribe. I thought that was cute and I moved on. This week in my class, Social Media and Digital Culture we did some readings on “Tribes” and that picture came back to me. A tribe can, of course, have some pretty broad definitions but for this purpose let’s just say it’s a group of like-minded people you surround yourself with. For my mom it was being with her siblings, for me? I’m not

  Social Media and I have a love/hate relationship. We meet up occasionally but mostly when I’m interacting with it I hate it. Sometimes I find myself giving away hours of my precious time to it and others times I completely delete my accounts swearing off social media forever only to be lured back in by the desire to see my friends babies, dogs, and vacations. I have never used social media for professional purposes; I had a LinkedIn account but never used it and didn’t even have a picture of

As I embark on this new journey of going back to school not only to learn about eLearning but also as an online student I am reminded of a smug earlier version of myself who said they would never go to school online. Just ten years ago I was one year a...