Being a part of Learning with Digital Stories was a little like being in The Matrix; you had to take what you know and are comfortable and familiar with in education and bend your experience by realizing the truth: there is no pigeonhole for learning.   Connecting the dots: As a learner in this course …

This Daily Create suggested we find filters we haven’t used before on a photo of ourselves. I chose to use Snapchat filters, since they’re quite fun      

Today’s Daily Create is a DC throwback. We were prompted to create a fake flyer and post it up in our neighborhood. I created 3 based on some photos I’ve taken recently.  

This was an interesting week for me. I strugled to get my assignments completed this week more so than in the past few weeks because I was at the Canvas InstrutreCon conference. I had an interesting time acting as both a Canvas student and learning as a Canvas administrator. Despite my troubles completing assignments being …

For this week’s DS106 Assingnment Bank, I selected Haiku About You.   That Pivital Moment Local Pet Store Signs: Puppies cost one grand; Kittens – free with food purchase   I created this haiku because I wanted to challenge myself to describe the moment when I decided to focus on cat rescue, although I promote …

Wiki pages in general are collaborative remixes; live documents that multiple peaople can edit, fostering a community where people share information to produce a deliverable. Wikipages embody many of the concepts discussed in the reading of this course. While in a conference session this week, one of the presenters mentioned having her students take a …

This week I read White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh. This was a difficult reading for me as it focuses on the concept of white privilege. I am white. This article focused on the idea that white people are raised to be “oblivious” to the privileges they receive simply due to the …

I feel that I exceeded expectations this week with all weekly assignments. All I wanted to do was crawl into bed and hide from the wold this week but instead I was able to stand and deliver. As for what gave me trouble this week? Well, this has been a difficult week for me emotionally. …

This week we read and annotated Chapter 7 of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning by Lankshear and Knobel. The chapter was titled Social Learning, “Push” and “Pull,” and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning. This chapter continued to explore social learning and examined the ways people rely on this learning. For me, this week’s …

This week I decided to look at a completely opposite viewpoint about an aspect of my interest-driven scholarship, Trap-Neuter-Return, to see where the opposition is coming from – What are their arguments? Do they have legitimate information I should consider or fact-check? But I didn’t just want to look at at a post – I …

For today’s Daily Create, we were asked simply, “What would Carrot People look like?” I had to ask myself, “Why would a carrot want to look like a person?” And then the answer occurred to me: Because they’re ready to rise and take over the world! Here’s the short story of the Carrot Uprising: Have …

For today’s Daily Create, I was prompted to describe what the above picture was of and what kind of ad may move it quickly! So I created the below ad: The value is unknown – I suppose it depends on how much you liked Wild Wild West! Who can resist owning a Steampunk apartment?! Looks …

Week three has come to an end and I am beginning to feel comfortable in the Learning with Digital Stories cloak. The process now feels familiar and the routine of the weekly assignments set in a reliable structure helped me plan the completion of assignments as I returned home from vacation a few days ago. …

For this week’s Learning with Digital Stories story critique, I chose to critique a segment from The Colbert Report from October 2014. My passion is promoting cat rescue and cat welfare, and with that comes the question of legal protection for cats. The segment I chose to critique is called The NRA Vs. Pennsylvania’s Pet-Eating …

For this week’s DS106 Video assignment, I chose 6 Second Art. This assignment is pretty straight-forward: record yourself creating art in just six seconds. The challenge was sending a message to represent my chosen theme, cat welfare, with a six second work of art. I chose to create an origami cat out of money and …

This week, for Learning with Digital Stories, ILT 5340, we read Chapter 1 of Lankshear and Knobel’s book DIY Media: Creating, Sharing and Learning with New Technologies (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies) from 2008. As I read this chapter, I could not help but compare it to and align it with last week’s reading of …

Today’s daily create was to make yourself into Jim Groom – so I borrowed all that I could from my husband…except for his beard.

I’ve crossed the finish line for week 2! Right now I do feel like this class is a weekly race against time, so I’m happy to have finished the race. I feel like I should put a 158.32.12 sticker on my car or something. I do feel positive about the activities I completed this week. …

For my storytelling theme, I chose to critique a video about the Trap-Neuter-Return efforts on Tangier Island, Virginia. Tangier Island is access by a ferry ride from the mainland. This separation from the mainland forced the cats that were brought to the island to remain there. Without a veterinarian office on the island, the residents …

For this week’s ILT5340 DS106 audio assignment, I chose the one entitled What A Song Might Mean To You. This week’s audio assignment was a challange for me because I wnted to relate it to my storytelling theme, which centers around cat welfare. I’ll let you in on a little secret…there aren’t many cat rescue …