1. Michael Oliveri

    Some Of My Philosophies

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    I consider myself to be a man of strict moral code, and i hardly ever rarely never, ever ever ever compromise myself.  If i compromise myself, than what wont i compromise?

    The first thing, and most important thing, is family.  I’m the oldest of 3, we’re all very close, and …

  2. Michael Oliveri

    Digital Citizenship

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    After all of our studies and learning about multi-modality and learning in the digital age, it’s important for us to understand exactly what ‘digital citizenship’ is.  Digital citizenship is composed of 9 key themes: Access, commerce, communication, literacy, etiquette , law, rights & responsibilities, health & wellness, and finally security.…

  3. Michael Oliveri

    Information Fluency

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    Recently For Eng307 we’ve watched a neat little slide show that gave us some information about information fluency.  Information fluency is the ability to use digital information correctly and efficiently.

    It has 5 major steps:

    Question, Search, Strategy, Evaluation, and Ethical use.

    Lets say you have a research paper to …

  4. Michael Oliveri

    Information Fluency

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    Recently For Eng307 we’ve watched a neat little slide show that gave us some information about information fluency.  Information fluency is the ability to use digital information correctly and efficiently.

    It has 5 major steps:

    Question, Search, Strategy, Evaluation, and Ethical use.

    Lets say you have a research paper to …

  5. Michael Oliveri

    Information Fluency

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    Recently For Eng307 we’ve watched a neat little slide show that gave us some information about information fluency.  Information fluency is the ability to use digital information correctly and efficiently.

    It has 5 major steps:

    Question, Search, Strategy, Evaluation, and Ethical use.

    Lets say you have a research paper to …

  6. Michael Oliveri

    Daily Create #13

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    “Draw Perspective”

    I didnt realize when I took the picture the text would come out backwards but it reads: PRISON.

    To those of you who don’t know, I am obsessed with hell, particularly in regard to the mental state.  I’ve read a lot of things, from a lot of strange …

  7. Michael Oliveri

    Online twitter Edchat

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    Recently I, along with many of my fellow classmates, participated in an online twitter chat.  The theme of the chat was education, and it was really just a gathering place where anyone on twitter who was interested in education could say something or read what others had to say.

    I …

  8. Michael Oliveri

    Daily Create #12

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    “Draw Love”

    There aren’t a lot of picture of this daily create on the ds106 website yet, but I’m very curious to see how people are going to interpret this one.  My artistic abilities are basically limited to stick figures, but stick figures holding hands shows love none the less.…

  9. Michael Oliveri

    Digital Story

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    Digital Story

    I’m trying to figure out how to just get this playing on my blog but i haven’t got there yet.  Here’s the link above, hope you enjoy!

    I really enjoyed creating this digital story, i used Mixbook Scrapbook, which i would highly recommend.  It’s a fantastic creative website …

  10. Michael Oliveri

    “A Bag of Gold” The Digital Facelift

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    Gardner Campbell talks about Clay Shirky’s blog post in which he discusses digital facelifts. Campbell, in his lecture, says that in the evolving process of learning change needs to happen, but instead, “We get the digital facelift.”  When mentioning the digital facelift he mimicked others saying, ”We’ll just do what …

  11. Michael Oliveri

    Teachers As Master Learners

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    As I read through Will Richardson’s “Teachers as master learners” i got struck with a strong sense of pride coming from the school district that i did.  I was fortunate enough to go to a school district that i believe has many teachers that are still striving to be learners …

  12. Michael Oliveri

    Visual Assignment Demotivate Yourself

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    I enjoyed finishing these visual assignments by doing a de-motivating poster.  I took this picture outside of a connivence store by my apartment and thought, “Dam, talk about a deer in the headlights.”

     

    Tutorial***

    1. Choose a picture well suited for the persona of the assignment

    2. Upload picture …

  13. Michael Oliveri

    Visual Assignment Comic Book Effect

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    I rather enjoy the original picture, but i thought it would work good.  I could hear the story in my head as i edited this pic…”2 friends, with outstanding facial hair, the only men brave enough to stand up when a city’s in crisis.  The Dark Horse bouncers are reeking …

  14. Michael Oliveri

    Visual Assignment Whats the meme

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    Hahaha, everytime I look at this picture I laugh.  This was taken a few years ago at my family’s Thanksgiving party.  This is my cousin, and best friend who decided to pose like this in the background of what was a nice picture of me and my girlfriend at that …

  15. Michael Oliveri

    Visual Assignment Before and After

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    That first tattoo was butchered by some horrible artist on Long Island who listened to what i had in mind and said “trust me.”  Many months and a lot of push-ups later, it turned it to artwork.

    **Lesson- GET TO KNOW YOUR TATTOO ARTIST/ DONT TRUST STRANGERS**…

  16. Michael Oliveri

    Daily Create #11

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    “A beautiful mess”

    A beautiful mess basically describes this little project right here.  I work construction in the summer time, and we’re constantly destroying things to put new and better things it their place.

    On this day in the picture above we had to rip through a 14” thick cinderblock …

  17. Michael Oliveri

    Miss Representation

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    I have to admit, watching the film “Miss Representation” as a man, was pretty tough stuff.  I did like the overall message about self-empowerment and everything, however, it’s tough for me to watch something like thing when 98% of the woman i see are the major users of the tabloid, …

  18. Michael Oliveri

    Cherokee Story

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    I was once told this story, and out of nowhere today it popped into my head, and wouldn’t you know it, I typed in some of the words to the story and boom, right on google.  I’d like to share it…

    An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. …

  19. Michael Oliveri

    Daily Create #10

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    “Liminal State Between Two Realities”

      NOW HOLD ON*  I know this isn’t a picture of a gate or a window, but this is indeed, a divide of realities.

    I’ve played volley ball for the past 9 years, it rapidly became my favorite sport and my passion.  I look back on …

  20. Michael Oliveri

    Richardson Blog Post

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    In this blog post “So why do you only give your kids 45 minutes a day on the computer?” on Feb 9th 2009 Richardson time talks about his parenting philosophies when it comes to his children’s media time.  ”Parenting in the digital age can be complex, especially when trying to …

  21. Michael Oliveri

    Daily Create #9

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    “Some Sort Of Boundary”

     Is there any boundary more ultimate the the boundary of ones conscience? …I think not

    It’s a boundary that you, and only you have 100% control over.  The things you do, the lines you cross, all on your own, will make up yourself.  And you, and …

  22. Michael Oliveri

    Audio Assignment Micky D’s Order

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    I loved this assignment, because my best friend and i always say this mcdonalds order to eachother that we heard somewhere and to us it’s the funniest thing.  And now i finally can put it to some academic use!!  The accept i tried to use was a “Thugish White boy” …

  23. Michael Oliveri

    Radio Podcast Experience

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    Recently 3 classmates and myself took on the assignment of producing a 30 minute mock radio broadcast.  To be honest, when we first got this assignment i was nervous, i feel like i’ve been a few paces behind the class technology wise and i wondered how the hell is this …

  24. Michael Oliveri

    Weekend Epiphany

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    So i’d like to share a somewhat of an epiphany that i had this weekend..

    This weekend I went to visit on of my best friends at his house, just to get away from Cortland life for a weekend and relax and chill, and aside from having a great time …

  25. Michael Oliveri

    Daily Create #8

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    My Favorite Weather

     Lol surprise surprise, who doesn’t love sunny palm tree weather huh?  Although I’m a big fan of nature in general and any weather is fine with me, summer is the best.  There’s nothing better than hanging out on the beach, listening to the crashing of the water …

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