For this week’s reading we were asked to choose between two chapters to read.  I chose to read Chapter 6: Everyday practices in online social networking. This chapter focuses on how people use social networking and the implications of social networking. Specifically, Lankshear and Knobel write about how ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ social connections affect aspects […]

For this week’s critique I am choosing to evaluate the YouTube video: Taylor Swift – “Blank Space” PARODY (Mom Version) created and uploaded to YouTube by user WhatsUpMoms. This video is a short story of the life of a mother of (a) toddler(s). I chose this video because it directly relates to my focal theme […]

I had a hard time finding a Mashup assignment that fit with my focal theme, so I chose one that I had some options as to what I needed to use.  I decided on Opposites Attract.  The instructions state to pick two songs from different genres and remix them together.  I decided to go to […]

So today the last person on my team started.  My department has basically been the department of Lisa for almost 7 months.  There was some restructuring and it is no longer the department of Lisa and the last person to fill in started today.  I’m so excited I had to tweet about it!  Why not […]

It’s hard to believe that I’m halfway through my first graduate course already.  Time has really flown by, maybe it’s because I’m having so much fun with this course.  My professor is great, he is always present which is really hard to accomplish in an online course, I really like the learner-centered approach this course […]

So I decided to do a third daily create this week because I really liked today’s challenge. The instructions were to raw something on a napkin and give it to someone.  Since it’s  July 4th and my son is a dual citizen I decided to draw him something.  Please forgive my spelling mistake, independence is […]

So today’s Daily Create asks us to embed a famous painting in an everyday setting.  I chose to take a different route for this, and instead of embedding a famous painting of a person into a modern setting, I embedded something in my everyday setting into the famous painting. I present to you the Mona […]

In chapter 4 of Lankshear and Knobel’s New Literacies text, the authors speak to the concept of digital remixes.  We are now shifting from exploring single literacies, to mixing (or remixing) multiple literacies to create digital stories.  This chapter explores different kinds of remixing and goes into detail regarding certain new remixes such as online […]

Today’s daily create had us draw our favorite day with our best friend ( or best thing to do with said being). I grew up with my best friend, but when we graduated from University we both moved away from our hometowns.  We don’t see each other very often, so my favorite thing to do […]

This week I’m critiquing a digital video short story called “Humans need not apply”, uploaded to YouTube by a user named CGP Grey.  This video does not relate to my focal theme at all.  I chose this video because it relates more to the major theme in Lankshear and Knobel’s New Literacies text of how […]

For this week’s DS106 Design assignment I chose the assignment Merit A Badge.  The instructions don’t explicitly say to create a badge, but that’s the impression I got from the assignment. Achievement Name: Surviving the Fourth Trimester Criteria to earn this achievement; Successfully raise a baby past the age of three months.  The first three […]

So this week I decided that I would create a video for my weekly reflection.  Enjoy! Pardon the glare on my glasses and I’m not sure why it published not in HD… Links to my work this week: Daily create 1 & Daily create 2 Digital Story Critiques DS106 Video Assignment Reading Reflection

For my second daily create this week I decided to do a random one.  The daily ones this week didn’t really catch my attention.  The daily create I am doing is called: Sell the breakfast you ate today as the daily special at a 5 star restaurant. No further instructions were provided. Breakfast Special: A slice of […]

For most of chapter 3 Lankshear and Knoble write about ‘new technical stuff’ and ‘new ethos’  in relation to new literacies. The definition of ethos is: “the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, customs, or practices of a group or society; dominant assumptions of a people or […]

Today’s Daily Create asks us to Pick an opening line out of 20 great opening line types and write our own.  I chose a Cynical opener: “Sleep?  What is sleep?  You’re a mother now… you will never sleep the same again.  You can sleep when you’re dead.”

For this week’s video assignment I chose to do Paying Homage to what you care about.  The assignment instructs the student to pick something that they care about and make a video out of it using images and video clips.  The instructions also state to insert some appropriate music and end credits. This digital story […]

This week I decided to do something a little different with my critiques.  I am critiquing a storytelling medium that some might not readily think about as digital storytelling: online comics.   For my first critique, I chose a comic from an artist that I have been a fan of for many years.  The comic […]

This week I’m starting to see links between literacy, Discourse and digital storytelling. Last week I was so overwhelmed with getting everything set up for the course and managing all the assignments that I feel that I failed on learning as much as I could.  This week I’m getting into a groove and I found […]

Today’s daily create required me to write a story about an important time in my life using the Pixar Story Spine. So I present to you, the abbreviated story of my immigration process to the United States  using the Pixar Story Spine.  Enjoy! Once upon a time there was a young woman in Canada who was […]

The second story I am going to critique is called “Ryan’s Well”.  I also found this story on YouTube. I chose this story because it has more depth and meaning than the other stories that I have critiqued before. Ryan’s well is a story of a little boy who wanted to help families in Africa. […]

The first story I’m critiquing is called: Reddit The Button – Digital Story by YouTube user Cyberculture stories. I found this video while searching for digital storytelling on YouTube. This video appealed to me because I was a subscriber to /r/thebutton for it’s duration.  I will be critiquing this story using the following criteria from […]

For this week’s ds106 audio assignment I chose to do the 911 What’s your emergency  assignment. I am keeping this assignment in line with my focal theme of the experiences of a new mother.  Sometimes I wished there was an emergency hotline to call for those first few weeks of being a new parent. My sound […]

The second chapter in Lanskshear and Knobel’s New Literacies: Everyday practices in social learning focuses on practice and social theory, literacy as a practice, encoded texts and meanings. I will dive into some of these topics and how they relate to Discourse and digital storytelling. Scribner and Cole are quoted in the text as arguing […]

Today’s daily create is to draw the best moment of your life.  Instead of taking this at face value and drawing what the best moment of my life looked like, I decided to draw the emotions I was feeling while experiencing the best moment of my life. People will tell you the best moments of […]

A whole new world My world has completely changed this week.  There are so many new things in my life. First, my son learned to crawl this week!  He now “motors” across the living room looking for all his toys and some things that are not his toys.   We had to put away all the […]

Dear Emily, These flowers are for  you.  A little reminder of life in Pennsylvania.  My lilies just opened this week and my roses are nearing the end of their first bloom.  Like a new beginning and an end.  I hope you like them! Today’s daily create had us take pictures of flowers and send them […]

I’ve always been interested by hoaxes.  Sometimes spending hours on snopes.com just clicking the random button and reading the stories that catch my eye. Other times double checking facts that someone posted to my Facebook wall because they were worried about the type of pacifiers I use for my baby. So when I stumbled upon […]

I’ve seen the word literacy before.  I’ve seen the word in many iterations before: digital literacy, computer literacy, illiteracy, etc. but where do these words come from? Lankshear and Knobel explore this question in the first chapter of their text: New Literacies, Everyday Practices and Social Learning. This chapter was particularly interesting to me being […]

Sir Oliver (Ollie) Dise is approximately 9 months old.  He is just over 2 feet tall, slim build, with blonde hair, hazel eyes and has two bottom front teeth. This  young man is wanted for being the best baby ever.  The list of his crimes include: sleeping through the night at eight weeks old, always […]

Today’s daily create asked us to create an image using only one shape. I created this image out of circles.  It’s a good representation of my life right now. Colorful organized mess!