The Rise of the Cybrarian
I was sitting in the lobby of my dentist’s office waiting for my annual dental appointment to begin. A few people were flipping through magazines and chatting. One lady looks...
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Do Badges Work Better Than Grades?
“Badges ruin intrinsic motivation!” How many times have we heard this? But what about Grades? Grades can also do much to damage the intrinsic motivation of a student and is... -
Rezzly Makes Learning Fun!
Gamification has always been a fuzzy concept to me at best, and a potential teacher nightmare at worse. Too many things could go wrong if done incorrectly and it just... -
Blowing Up the Gradebook with Gamification
Chris Haskell, professor of EdTech at Boise State University, has a unique idea: let’s do away with grades in school altogether and replace them with achievements, points and badges. His... -
Design Brief: Learning 2.0
Our team was tasked with creating a multimedia project to demonstrate theories and practice regarding the Emergence of the Profession. Essentially this involves reporting on the origins and uses of... -
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Privacy in the Digital Age
Privacy Is A Myth The truth is, we never had online privacy and we never will. We can manage it as best we can, and we should. But let’s face... -
The Logic of Transmedia
Does “transmedia” and “multimodal” mean the same thing? No, according to Henry Jenkins, Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. There is often confusion... -
Making an Epigraph from Everyday Lingo
For today’s Daily Create I transcribed a snippet of dialog overheard today and used that cue as the opening thought of a poem, like an epigraph. You can do this... -
Digital Story Critique: Journey to the End of Coal
Chinese mines are the most dangerous in the world. Every day 20 people die in accidents. In this web Documentary, Journey to the End of Coal, directors Samuel Bollendorff and... -
Reading Response: Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling
Joe Lambert (2013) and the StoryCenter wants to creatively inspire storytellers through a group process they call story circles. In his chapter on Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling Practice, Lambert... -
The Lemon Poem
For this DS106 Daily Create we were to write a three-line poem about lemons without using the following words: lemon, yellow, round, fruit, citrus, tart, juicy, peel, and sour. It... -
What If the Earth Were the Size of a Marble?
The solar system is all wrong. At least our perception of it is. “Every picture we ever encounter of the solar system is not to scale,” explains Wylie Overstreet. “The... -
Storytelling in the Web 2.0 Universe
My reading response is on Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre by Brian Alexander and Alan Levine (2008). This was a little back researching for me to understand... -
The Click Effect: Freediving in Virtual Reality
This week’s digital story spotlight is part critique and part tech tool sneak-peek. The digital story itself is called The Click Effect and runs on a special platform called Within:... -
A Lovely Untranslatable Word
For this DS106 Daily Create I was to illustrate a word from another language that does not have an English equivalent. Then I’m to make up an English word as... -
Reading Response to A Road Traveled: The Evolution of the Digital Storytelling Practice
It’s the story behind the story that always intrigues me. In this way Joe Lambert (2013) tells how the Center for Digital Storytelling came to be. I liked how he... -
For Your Traveling Pleasure!
For this DS106 Assignment Bank Design project we were to think about places nearby that we have been missing out on visiting and make a collage of pictures of those... -
Awra Amba: Rethink a Beautiful World
I enjoyed a remarkable digital story experience that was recommended to me this week called Awra Amba: Rethink a Beautiful World. It’s a 360º interactive documentary about a village in... -
Midterm Gallery Walk
A presentation I made with Adobe Spark on what I’ve been learning in Digital Storytelling. -
The World Needs Your Stories!
Storybird is a creative, fun and engaging platform to make art-inspired stories that can be worked on individually or with others for collaborative projects. Users choose from a wide variety... -
We Will Rise: Helping Girls Realize Their Dreams of an Education
CNN’s powerful film, We Will Rise, is a documentary about Michelle Obama’s global education initiative called Let Girls Learn. In it she travels to Morocco and Liberia with Meryl Streep,... -
Teacher Tribes: The Art of Mentoring and Learning Together
We are built for community, all of us. When I don’t have the answer to a problem, I know my family or network of friends and colleagues often do. And... -
Reading Response: Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture
I began reading a book called “Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture” by Jenkins, Purushotma, Weigel, Clinton, and Robison (2009) that addresses the emerging widespread phenomena of our participatory... -
Daily Create: Collection Obsessions
Today’s Daily Create is to share our collection obsessions. And I’m kind of embarrassed to admit it, and it’s definitely a guilty pleasure, but I love Buxom lip gloss from... -
Digital Story Critique: After the Storm
After the Storm is one man’s harrowing account of a 1.5 mi (2.4 km) wide EF4 tornado that leveled his home town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama on April 27, 2011. The storm resulted... -
The Computer Catches Fire and “Pull” Takes Over
Chapter seven on Social learning, ‘push’ and ‘pull’, and building platforms for collaborative learning by Lankshear and Knobel (2011) reminds us that nothing lives in a vacuum, and that certainly... -
Digital Story Critique: The Boat
The simple title is deceptive—like a Chekhov play—because it is very deep and full of symbolism and meaning. What makes this story unique is the way it’s told as an... -
DS106 Video Assignment: The Art of Appearing Elsewhere
For today’s DS106 Visual Assignment I chose to make a short newscast using a green screen backdrop with the goal to make it appear that I was somewhere else. Wanting... -
TouchCast Studio for Education
I’ve been fascinated with the idea of using the iPad and smartphone as a video creation tool. Not just for shooting, but also editing – a one-stop-shop production tool for...
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