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    Reading Response Week 11/17/16

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    http://gettingsmart.com/2016/01/6-reasons-you-should-be-doing-digital-storytelling-with-your-students/ Digital storytelling to me is clearly a tool that can be used in the classroom for nearly any audience. Adult learners in a corporate environment are the audience that I interact with. The article ‘6 Reasons You Should Be Doing Digital Storytelling With Your Students’ by Anna Warfield touches on the value of digital&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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    Digital Story Critique 11/17/16

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    Johnnie Walker – The Man Who Walked Around The World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnSIp76CvUI Many companies use digital storytelling to inform us about whom they are and the products they provide. Johnny Walker has a very engaging digital story that informs us of the birth of a product that has become recognized all around the world. This production,&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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    Reading Response Week 11/7/16 Jason Lambert’s Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling

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    Digital storytelling is all around and yet, until recently, I never really stopped to evaluate it as the tool that it is. Digital storytelling when composed by applying music, images, narration, and interactivity does a great job to inform, instruct, entertain and sell. After reading the Seven Steps Of Digital Storytelling I have learned even&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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    Reading Response Week 11/03/16

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    The Power of Storytelling in the College Classroom by Sal S. Buffo http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/power-storytelling-college-classroom/ The power of storytelling is all around us. When we watch a commercial there is often a brief story involved to help retain our attention. During a political campaign narratives are used to help create an emotional response to support audience attention.&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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    Reading Response Week 10

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    A Road Travelled The Evolution Of The Digital Storytelling Practice This was an interesting read and given its political focus on socioeconomic struggles, it is relevant during this election cycle of 2016. Joe Lambert shares his life experiences and interactions with counter-culture movements to define digital storytelling as a valuable tool to deliver individual and&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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    Digital Story Critique Week 10

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    Walking Down The Hallway – Digital Short Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJWpEoKe8_g Walking Down The Hallway is an effective short digital story. This story calls attention to one individuals experience with bullying. Bullying is familiar to many of us. You may have been the victim of bullying, or perhaps you know a friend or relative that was affected&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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    Blog Response Ch.7 Week 7

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    As the reading begins, I am introduced to an observation that learners will use tools differently and that the outcomes will be unique. Individual learning and different outcomes, leads to a greater collaborative learning experience even when using the same tools. I often see this in the manufacturing environment that I am embedded with. There&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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    Digital Story Critique 09/22/16

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    When I first thought about, and investigated digital storytelling, the focus was on an individual’s experience provided through a TED Talk or about a place that had been abandoned. As a designer and visual communicator, I began to wonder how else digital storytelling could be used. I searched around and discovered that companies are increasingly&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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    Blog Response Ch. 4 Visual Networks Guy Merchant (week three)

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    This week’s reading was intriguing. As the author begins speaking about graffiti and the social group associated with it, I thought about my own experiences attempting to understand graffiti growing up. The graffiti artists were labeled delinquents and often associated with gangs. Most of the time charged with defacing private property. While I don’t agree&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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    Bucket List

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    Where do I begin? There are so many items on my bucket list that I had to pause and really consider a few that would not only be fun to accomplish, but also fun to share. I composed this visual using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. I would really enjoy traveling to Iceland to camp underneath&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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    Response to Digital Storytelling 09/01/2016

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      The Power of Digital Story By Bob Dillon http://www.edutopia.org/blog/the-power-of-digital-story-bob-dillon   As an Instructional Designer who is required to engage adults regularly, I found this article inspiring. I began to ask myself questions about how I can further engage my audience using digital storytelling. Is it possible in my environment to have participants create a&ellipsis;Read the full post »

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