A couple days ago while I was looking for information about “Trendy house plants”, I can’t help but be attracted by the split-leaf philodendron (Monstera Deliciosa). Its striking heart-shaped foliage reminds me of the snowflakes we all made in elementary school by folding the paper and cutting. Immediately, I found …
This week there was an abrupt assignment switch from audio to video. Even though Lisa has “warned” us in her blog that making a video could be hair-pulling and stressful, I did not expect it would actually taken a good couple hours to complete the task. Before my video assignment’s …
This week’s I read Lankshear and Knobel (2008) Ch1:DIY Media: A Contextual Background and Some Contemporary Themes. In this chapter Lankshear & Knobel discussed the topic of the history of DIY and its current applications. The authors has also addressed thoroughly on the four aspects that the DIY media has …
I have to admit among all the tasks of this week, the video assignment is toughest one to handle.I am glad I was able to pull it off after 3 hours struggling. Here is how I made this video.First, I went over the video assignment list on ds106.us. Quickly I …
Two weeks ago, I bought two cucumber plants from Home Depot and planted them in my garden. I watered them daily and they grew like a champ. Just after two weeks, the plants have climbed up on top of the 4-feet trellis and the leaves are giant! I wanted to …
Learning with Digital Stories, week 2! Am I the only person feeling this week(and last week) went by so fast that it feels like only four days instead of seven? After the challenging first week, I was more prepared in the week 2 activities, even though they are still dazzling …
For this week’s reading of Lankshear & Knobel Chapter 4:New Literacies and Social Learning Practices of Digital Remixing found myself intrigued, confused, and inspired by the concept of remixing. In this chapter Lankshear & Knobel discuss the topic of remixing and copyright. As I read the chapter, I began thinking …
My focal theme is A Change from Black Thumb to Green Thumb. I like gardening, but sadly I have killed numbers of house plants in the past. This year, our family moved into our first house. When I am looking at the house pictures on Houzz.com to get ideas for …
For this week’s audio assignment, i want to share a beautiful songstory from a movie from 1980s, called” papa, can you hear me sing again.” This songstory does not fit into my personal focal theme, but I just have to blog about it as I felt strong connection with this …
I made this poster to express how do I feel after the week 1 assignments werecompleted. I became a jogging last year and participated my first Half Marathon. To me, getting the first week homework donewas like running a Half Marathon. The hardest part is the beginning 3 miles. My …
Today I choose the poem from a ten-year-old boy with asperger’s syndrome to finish the task from DS106. This poem reads:I am odd, I am newI wonder if you are tooI hear voices in the airI see you don’t, and that’s not fairI want to not feel blueI am odd, …
I surfed quite a while on DS106 Visual Assignment webpage before I made my choice: Fat Cat Makes Art Better. I feltrelated to this task because I have has a cat as my pet for 5 years and she has been a great friend with my family. It would be …
There are so much information for the Chapter one of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel that I took 3 days to finish reading it.There are certainly quite a few vocabulary that I have never heard of before, such as“folksonomy”, “taxonomy” and “cyberspatial-postindustrial”. …
As part of the coursework in my Learning with Digital Stories class at theUniversity of Colorado Denver, I will produce a series of weekly critiques that examine and review a digital story.OverviewFor my first critique, I’ve chosen a digital story from Youtubetitled “Fowl Play – Simon’s Cat”. Simon’s Cat is …