The Power of Visual Storytelling
Visual storytelling is the ability to tell a story with the use of images and videos. This form of storytelling can be seen with photojournalism, advertisements, movies and television. In my opinion, I think visual storytelling is one of the most important and prevalent forms of storytelling that we have today. In the past 10 years visual storytelling has changed due to social media and the use…
Digital Critique 7: A Portrait of Lotte
This weeks digital create I wanted to focus on pictures and videos. Time Lapse videos are very popular right now because they have the ability to tell a long story in a very short amount of time with the use of images and videos. I decided to choose the video, Portrait of Lotte, 0-16 years old by Franz Hofmeester. Hofmeester’s goal…
Daily Create #5 Create a picture with words
My response for Today’s #ds106 Daily Create is my large gold tabby fast asleep on my laptop, sucking up its warmth.
Social learning is the ability to learn with others in a social environment. The article Social learning, ‘push’ and ‘pull’ and building platforms for collaborative learning the author starts by defining what social learning is. It’s interesting how the definition of social learning has changed within the past 100 years. Social learning from the 1960s-1990s typically involved learning theories in…
Critique 6: A Struggle within reach
This week, I decided to change my strategy a bit when looking for digital stories. I’ve been focusing a lot on school reform in the United States, and have found stories from people who are spearheading the effort to change how the education system looks in the United States. This week I wanted to focus on stories where people’s lives were changed because of the education they were able to…
Critique #5: This School is Not a Pipe
“This School is Not a Pipe” by Adam Bessie and Josh Neufeld is a comic that discusses education reform. In this article they discussing the educational pipeline, which is typically referred to as the cradle to prison pipeline. Bessie’s comic addresses the concerns presented by congress and big business of wanting to change this pipeline to cradle to career path. They believe that the only way to…
The frog was the actual reason why Kevin was screaming in Home Alone. #tdc1728 #ds106
Are Video Games a New Form of Digital Storytelling?
A couple of weeks ago I posted an article on how film is a type of digital storytelling. So keeping this idea in mind, I decided to do a bit of research on other types of digital media that could be considered digital storytelling. I am an avid video game player and have been since I was a little kid. My dad bought my brother and I our first Nintendo NES when I was around 5, my brother and I…
Response to Chapter 2 and 3 of Everyday Literacies
The readings from Everyday Literacies were very interesting. Chapter two focused on creating remixes and mash-ups of music to create something new. This remixes can be used to tell a story, make a stand or to point out similarities between different types of music. I enjoyed how the artist gave various examples of popular songs that are considered mash-ups or remixes. It was really interesting…
Critique 4: How ‘deprogramming’ from how to ‘do school’ could improve learning
In the article “How ‘deprogramming’ from how to ‘do school’ could improve learning” Katrina Schwartz interviews high schools physics teacher Adam Holman. After years of teaching, Holman was noticing that his students were fighting for high and higher grades but they were not understanding the concepts and learning the information to warrant the grades they were receiving. Holman decided to…
Music has always been a very important aspect in my life. It’s so hard to choose song that reminds me of one particular moment. Music has been woven throughout every single important event that I have experienced. These songs conjure both good and bad memories, but no matter the memory they are still important to me. As I’ve grown older, I’ve realized that certain songs remind me of some of my…
Scholarship Review: Film School
Digital storytelling is the act of telling a story with the use of technology. In some cases this can be a simple recording of someone telling a story, or it can be as complex as a movie or animation. In the Edutopia article Film School:Making Movies from Storyboard to Screen, Jennifer New explains how two teachers at two different schools in Illinois come together to teach students the art of…
Critique of Ken Robinson’s Changing Educational Paradigms
When you hear the words history or social studies class what image pops into your head? For most, the image of rows of desks, sitting quietly, taking notes and listening to the teaching blab on and on about some historical event. Out of curiosity, is this the same image that pops into your head when you think about your experience in high school? Unfortunately for most, they would say yes. That…
So….I think I’m going to spit on you…… Yes, spit, you are way too close to my face and I don’t like that. #tdc1714 #ds106
Digital Critique 2: Full STEAM ahead
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) is one of the major buzzwords floating around education at the moment. Many schools are being developed that have a strong STEM focus, while other schools are developing specific STEM programs within their schools. This is in response to the need to fulfill STEM jobs in the future and to develop students into critical thinkers. This year I made the…
Visual Assignment 1: Gotta Catch Em’
I am a huge pokemon fan! So much so that I love to play the video game on my free time and recently, my husband and I have gotten into Pokemon Go! In order to honor my love of Pokemon and Game of Thrones, I decided to make a house sigil for Ash Ketchum, who is the main character in the Pokemon show. I decided to make the symbol for Ash’s house a Pokeball. The house words are Gotta Catch Em’ All…
Should students have their own digital domains?
This is the main question posed by Audrey Watters in her article “The web we need to give students”. Watters believes that students should be given their own personal domain to post their work that they create throughout their educational career. This domain should be initially set-up and hosted by the school, then given to the student once they graduate. Students would then have access to their…
Think about your experience in high school, was it engaging, exciting and useful to your everyday adult life? For many of us, high school was a hoop to jump through in order to get into college or to begin our adult life. High school is suppose to teach us skills that are useful once we become adults, now I don’t know about you, but I rarely use geometry, chemistry and Shakespeare in my everyday…
Daily Create #2 #tdc 1698: Describe in writing for someone who cannot hear, the feeling of silence “Silence is like complete and utter stillness. Nothing is moving, no sounds can be heard, it’s like peace.”
Sampling the “New” in New Literacies
When you hear the word “literacy” the first thing that comes to mind is most likely reading, books, journals, newspapers and magazines. In Knobel and Lankshear’s article “A New Literacy Sampler” they talk about how literacy is expanding. Literacy not only includes printed products like books or magazines but also products that have been created online or digitally. These products can include…
So I am taking my final class for my masters degree and it’s in digital storytelling. I’m not really sure what to expect, but I am excited. Anyways, this is my first blog post to start this storytelling adventure.
