Assignment: Badges. Badges are the future of education. With a badge, you can express your skills in a visible and authentic way. Without a badge, you’re just another worthless drain on society. Better get yourself a badge. Here is my badge: I work with computers, I am an animal lover, I am a twin, and […]

Assignment:  Do a creative edit in the spirit of Alexey Kondakov. Embed a famous painting in an everyday setting. Have fun!

Meat GLUE???? I came across this on Facebook and decided that I would critique it for this weeks assignment. This is not a vegan item, but more of a reason as to why I am choosing to eat a vegan/plant based diet. Meat glue is a real thing, a real additive that is used in […]

New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel, is divided into 3 parts; Part 1: New Literacies: Concepts and Theory Part 2: New Literacies: Some Everyday Practices Part 3: New Literacies and Social Learning Below is my response to Chapter 3, which falls under Part 1. This chapter presented a […]

Native foods – Where do you get your protein?! The Myth of High-Protein Diets For this review I, I chose what I thought was just a couple paragraph article found on the Native foods blog. However, there was an included article at the end of the native foods story that tied into it. I am […]

Veganism in a Nutshell This article defines veganism and explains how a person who chooses a vegan diet can get all the necessary recommended nutrients. This article is not so much a ‘story’ but more an informational list. As I continue on with my vegan journey, I still get asked almost on a daily basis […]

Assignment: So reaction videos seem to be all the rage these days. Just go on YouTube, search reaction videos and hundreds of results will show up. Now it’s your turn to add to the growing list. Find or have a friend send you a video you’ve never seen before and film your reaction! It’s not […]

assignment: Go to the highest place you can find and take a picture of people being small Here is a picture taken from the 11th floor of the Hyatt on the Boston Harbor. Assignment: Go to the highest place you can find and take a picture of people bein...

This week was much less intense than last week, in regards to my participation in this course. I feel like I was able to get a better understanding of the information presented in the L&K text and I’m starting to be able to connect the information in meaningful ways in my own life. I’m certain […]

New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel, is divided into 3 parts; Part 1: New Literacies: Concepts and Theory Part 2: New Literacies: Some Everyday Practices Part 3: New Literacies and Social Learning Below is my response to Chapter 2, which falls under Part 1. This chapter gave me […]

Get Vegucated The above link takes you to the Vegucated home page. I cannot specifically share the documentary with you, as I don’t own it. There is a way to purchase it on their site or if you have NETFLIX, it is currently available there. I, HIGHLY, recommend you check it out. This documentary changed […]

Cruelty free labeling article link This article discusses how companies label their products in regards to animal testing. Are they free of any animal testing or is that particular product free of animal testing? As I critique this article I will use the following traits to evaluate the article. Story = 10 Sense of Audience […]

Assignment –  May I take your order? Details: Using your best accent (whether it be Australian, British or southern, ect), pretend you are at McDonald’s and order something off of their menu. Be picky! For example, a coke with no ice. McDonald’s Order for Assignment 383 Doing anything with audio is out of my comfort […]

Writing: Write about what you would do if you could re-live your childhood again. If I could re-live my childhood, I would do everything AGAIN. I am the youngest of 4 (full-siblings, I also have 2 younger half-siblings), we were the crazy kids in the neighborhood. All the kids on the block loved to hang-out […]

Wow, what a week. I started a blog! Seriously, the thought of me blogging was probably something no one, I mean NO ONE that knows me, would have ever thought I’d do. I’m also using twitter and ds106. How crazy is this? I’ll say it again, WOW!!!!! I’m still at the very beginning of this […]

Assignment: Choose a photo of anything that you want to make a stencil out of using Photoshop or some other editing software. Using your software, remove the color and make the image appear to be a stencil instead of an actual photo. Take notice of how this changes the focus of the image. This is […]

Assignment: Movies are often based on books. Not this time. Design a book cover that is based on a movie. DO NOT use an image of the actor/s. Try to find or create imagery that captures the essence of the movie without using the actor’s picture. This may be a bit of a stretch, but […]

New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel, is divided into 3 parts; Part 1: New Literacies: Concepts and Theroy Part 2: New Literacies: Some Everyday Practices Part 3: New Literacies and Social Learning Below is my response to Chapter 1, which falls under Part 1. In order for us […]

This is my first post on a critique of a digital story, selected scholarship, more academic. To be honest, I’m not entirely sure I understand the perimeters of this assignment. Since my blog focus for this course is my vegan journey, I am going to seek out digital stories related to this topic. Blending vegan […]

Assignment: Send flowers to someone. Who or why is up to you! To one person or to many up to you too! Remember,tell us who they are for and why. This flower collage is going out to my Auntie Pat (Patricia Glenn). I took these pictures of random flowers in different cities, it’s something that […]

As part of my of my Learning with Digital Stories course this summer term, I will be critiquing a minimum of two digital stories per week. I came across this story on twitter. It immediately hit ‘home’ with me as this is from a dairy farm in Fort Morgan, CO. Which is about an hour, […]

This Assignment is to post an image of me, representing my current emotional state. This picture of me, represents how I’m feeling about the first week of this course. What we are learning about is not black and white, it is completely full of GRAY! There are so many ways to tell a digital story. […]

It’s still polite to hold a door open for someone Anywhere you go there will be doors, so why not be polite and see if someone is close behind you or that could really use a helping hand with a door? It only take a few seconds to hold the door for someone to pass […]

Twin sister bond Written by Amelia Jackson on June 10, 2015 5:52 pm   Dear Moosey, Just a little note to tell you how much I love being your twin sister. Only twins understand what it’s like to be a twin. We have our own way of communicating, our own way of sharing our lives. […]

Adding a post to this category, so that I can use it for DS106.