Week 7 Reflection: Stay on TargetāAlmost There.
I was drawn initially to the story Developing Voice in Digital Storytelling Through Creativity, Narrative, Multimodality by Monica Nilsson. I am finding that voice …
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Puppy in Traffic: Emergent Gameplay
I want to preface this post with a disclaimer: Now I in no way condone playing with animals in traffic. This is just an example …
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Fan-tastic Fiction
I have only a passing familiarity with fan fiction. It’s one of those things that I didn’t follow or read and instead discounting the …
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Learning to Find Your Voice
This week’s reading: Developing Voice in Digital Storytelling Through Creativity, Narrative and Multimodality by Monica Nilsson discussed the ability for digital storytelling to encourage …
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Week 6 Reflection: The Home Stretch
This week went smoother than last. I found the readings enlightening that made me think more about the sea-change we are experiencing in education. …
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Stormtrooper Blues: Sticky Note Animation
I decided to make an animation in the vein of the old flipbook animations that I used to scibble in whatever book I was …
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Week 6 Story Critique: A Virtual Reality Trip
I was contacted a while ago by a guy that goes by Septex on YouTube. He requested to download the TARDIS control room model …
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āEmergentā Social Learning
The following response is based on: Social Learning, “push” and “pull”, and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel. When …
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Week 5 Reflection: Brian So Tired.
I just couldn’t get ahead this week. I wasn’t particularly busy, or anything. Lack of mental energy, so everything seemed like a struggle. I …
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Week 5 Story Critique: Insanely Detailed Fan Art
I browse around the Art Station site from time to time for inspiration and to see some great pieces of digital art. There is one …
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Scribbled to Death: Star Wars Battlefront Rotoscope Animation
This ds106 mashup assignment was fun to do. I have wanted to do something like this for some time. The first time I saw …
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New World Literacies, Old World Education
As I was reading this week’s chapter–Afterword: Communities of Readers, Clusters of Practices by Henry Jenkins, I found that I had to …
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Learning with Digital Stories: Week 4
Week four is down–four more to go. This week was more manageable. I didn’t feel rushed and I feel like I am getting to …
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Assignment: Design a Business Card
Rocz3D Business Card Model by Rocz3D on Sketchfab [To Rotate: Left-click and drag; To Zoom: scroll wheel] This week I designed a business card …
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Week 4 Story Critique: Machinima TV
For this week’s digital story critique, I searched out some machinima. Machinima “is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinimatic …
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Blogging and You: A Reading Response
Blogging is a frustrating, anxiety producing, time consuming, and ultimately rewarding activity. When it was all new to me, I was apprehensive–“The world can …
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Learning With Digital Stories: Reflective Summary Week 3
Oh boy, did I think I was ahead early on this week. I got a few things out of the way and then I …
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Week 3 Story Critique: An E3 Recap
E3 2016 has come and gone. I have to be honest–I didn’t follow any of it this year. I am ashamed. I still have …
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Creating a Chalkboard in Blender: Part 1
Have you ever started something and thought “this should only take me a couple of hours,” so you dive in and six hours later …
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DIY Media: We Are BorgāResistance is Futile
I grew up in a do-it-yourself household. My father fixes and builds. I learned at an early age the difference between channel locks and …
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Imaginings of a Space Hobo
For this ds106 Assignment Bank project, I chose to tackle one titles Hobo Speech. The project description was to create a “bizarre, rambling speech” …
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Storytelling and the Culture of the Remix
I didn’t initially agree with the idea that “remixing” can mean in broad terms: any human activity that uses existing knowledge or content to …
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A Digital Story Critique #2: Angry Joe Show
Here is Digital Story Critique #2. This time I am going to look at a YouTube channel rather than just one video. As a …
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Learning With Digital Stories: Reflective Summary Week 1
So the first week of Learning with Digital Stories has passed. This was not as grueling a week as I initially thought. Yes there …
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A Digital Story Critique #1
I have been asked to critique a digital story for class using a portion of Jason Ohler’s “assessment traits.” I chose to look at …
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A Discourse of New Literacies
Let’s See if I Can Make Sense of This Lankshear and Knobel: Ch1–Sampling the “New” in New Literacies (2007) I learned a good deal …
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Big Wookies Donāt Cry
This is a visual ds106 Assignment Bank project. Here is a brief description of the assignment: Find or take a photo of an eye. …
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Learning with Digital Stories: ds106 Coursework
Summer 2016–how to spend it? Take a vacation? Slack off until Fall semester? Do some outdoorsy stuff? No. You know what? I will take …
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