I’m a little torn about this “ending” of my first semester of my grad school journey.  On the one hand, I’m incredibly ready to move on to the next semester, start my school year, and to continue learning, growing, and changing as a teacher, new homeowner, and leader in my school.  On the other hand, […]

For this week’s DS106 Assignment, I chose a visual assignment that allowed me create a word cloud on any text.  I found this to be a completely appropriate and actually useful assignment that was completely relevant to both of the classes I’m currently taking. Making the Word Cloud I started out by attempting to use […]

This week’s DS106 assignment was called “A Day in Your Life.”   I was tasked with creating a video of what I do in a normal day.  I chose this assignment because it is something I can see myself assigning for my students.  They could do the assignment as-is or create quick videos for our […]

For this week’s DS106 Assignment, I totally embraced the idea of remix.  We were tasked with completing a “Mash-Up” Assignment, but I didn’t just pick a mash up and do it exactly like the description said.  I remixed it and made it my own. The original assignment was to take a song that mentions a […]

Before my reflection, I’d like to share the two videos I created for my Mobile Learning class because I feel like I’m slowly, but surely, becoming a novice video editor! The first video is called the History of Buffalo Wings.  I created it with GoAnimate as well as my personal Ipevo Ziggi HD Plus document […]

Consider this Inception-like situation for a moment: I’m writing a blog about readings in which researchers kept a metablog (blog about blogging)  and a personal blog to study blogging. Required Reading: “Looking from the Inside Out: Academic Blogging as New Literacy” (Davies and Merchant, 2007) This text really solidified my understanding of blogging as a […]

This week’s Design Assignment led me to creating this beauty.  I was tasked with taking a shot from a favorite movie and overlaying a favorite quote from said movie.  Before anyone can argue my true passion for Gone With the Wind, I do, in fact, know that this wasn’t actually ever spoken in the movie, but it […]

How well do you feel you completed the requirements of the week’s assignments? I continue to feel proud of my involvement and completion assignments for this week.  I’m starting to feel confident in my struggle and the process.  I love that everything I’m learning in this class, I’m learning by doing, and that’s the point!  […]

So, this critique was a little late, but I have to say that was less due to planning and more due to the fact that I had to prepare for/travel to/begin this amazing experience called ISTE.  As luck would have it, I had a delayed second flight and then quite the trek to the rental […]

This week, my life is following the theme of the readings.  I’m throwing myself into my practice and joining thousands tens of thousands of people at the ISTE Conference in Denver, CO.  Thankfully I’ve joined a super supportive group through an *affinity space* (more on that later) that I’ve found on Voxer.  I can’t wait […]

This week’s video assignment asked: What do you do?  I was tasked with creating an at least 8 second video about something I do on a daily basis.  So, I decided to be a typical Floridian and make a video about going to the pool! Some of you might be thinking, “Wait, there’s no way […]

Before I reflect on the week, I have to share two personal triumphs: I’m now engaged to the love of my life! I created my first Podcast for my other master’s course with the help of two of my loves.  My Podcast is hosted in Google Drive again, so just open with Music Player. The podcast […]

Digital Story: This week, I chose to critique a story that goes along with my theme/focus of the class.  It’s called Classroom Blogging.  I also thought it would fit in nicely with the week’s readings since we were focusing on new literacies, remixing, and the collaborative writing process. Chosen Traits: Project Planning- This seeks evidence […]

Extra!  Extra!  Read all about it!  Mars is looking for farmers, teachers, and innovators of all sorts! If you haven’t seen it, check out this Newsweek article about NASA’s “Wanted” posters that were created back in 2009.  If this isn’t a little cultural remixing, I don’t know what is.  This is totally early 1900’s Uncle […]

This has been the most difficult assignment yet.  I’ve spent many frustrated hours trying to complete a single audio assignment.  Most of my frustration comes from my lack of knowledge of anything audio.  I feel like an ESOL student because I’m having to hunt for definitions of wav., mp4, LAME and so many other abbreviations […]

I’m currently in Gainesville, FL for the second institute of my Florida Teacher Leader Fellowship.  I’ve loved reconnecting with my Fellows who share my passion for positive change in education.  We had a fantastic tour of a totally alternative learning space (PK Yonge Developmental Research School) and got to see what a 100% collaborative and […]

So someone said, “Hey!  How did your first week of the DS106 life go?” I’m being honest, I floundered a bit.  I had a 6.5 hour span at Starbucks and many, many hours on the cramped dining room table and cluttered couch our new home office where I just wanted to shut my eyes and […]

The only truly appropriate word for this week is exhausting I’ve done Grad school before.  I know the level of commitment and engagement it requires, and I’m really familiar with rigor and high expectations.  I’d even say I was fairly skilled at appropriate time management. DS106/ILT5340 has changed the game.  I think I’ve read this […]

This post is dedicated to my weekly assigned reading, my interest-driven reading, as well as my critique of a digital story.  For those of you just stopping by for some light reading to kill the time, I suggest scrolling down to the digital story critique.  PBS produced a thought-provoking one with Maurice Sendak (another of my favorite […]

My first Visual Assignment was super fun to make!  For this assignment, I was tasked with mimicking the well-known Brady Bunch family photo with my loved ones and coming up with a catchy alliteration for a name. They didn’t know that the CoZ (AKA Cozy) Family has been in the making and gracing social media […]

Take that, Yesterday.  Today is a bigger, better, and less jumbly (mixed up) you.  I think I may have the hang of this Daily Create idea now.  DS106 hosts these thought-provoking, open-ended, and unique daily “challenges,” for lack of a better word.  Today, Roald Dahl was the spotlight, so the teacher in me just couldn’t […]