The four principles of CARP: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity Contrast—If two things are not the same make them really different Contrast means difference, and although difference sounds quite simple it is crucially important to the way we notice things. Humans scan a scene looking for the difference, and I agree that if one is ... [Read more...]

Now you can head over to the front-end of your site and see your new pseudo blogs listed in your menu. When you create new posts, don’t forget to choose the correct category so your post shows up on the appropriate page.

Now you can head over to the front-end of your site and see your new pseudo blogs listed in your menu. When you create new posts, don’t forget to choose the correct category so your post shows up on the appropriate page.  

Please listen to the lesson and practice speaking. Pause and practice until you feel comfortable with the words. 이 대화를 듣고 말하기를 연습하세요. 말하기가 편할 때까지 멈추고 연습하세요.

Please listen to the lesson and practice speaking. Pause and practice until you feel comfortable with the words. 이 대화를 듣고 말하기를 연습하세요. 말하기가 편할 때까지 멈추고 연습하세요.

Please listen to the lesson and practice speaking. Pause and practice until you feel comfortable with the words. 이 대화를 듣고 말하기를 연습하세요. 말하기가 편할 때까지 멈추고 연습하세요.

Please listen to the lesson and practice speaking. Pause and practice until you feel comfortable with the words. 이 대화를 듣고 말하기를 연습하세요. 말하기가 편할 때까지 멈추고 연습하세요.

This is a digital story which I produced for my Learning With Digital Stories course at CU Denver. I used ScreenFlow to produce it and hosted in on Vimeo. It is not connected to my focal theme for the class which was using digital storytelling to teach EFL. I instead decided to create a story ... [Read more...]

This week I couldn’t resist focusing on emotions and truth. These two issues boiled to the surface due to the recent heated debates concerning false news, whatever that means, and the harm which is done by those producing it; that is those who sacrifice the truth in order to make a point and or a ... [Read more...]

While searching the StoryCenter’s YouTube channel for recently uploaded digital stories I encountered “Ghost Dance.” Early into watching Tommy Orange’s digital story I connected it with Dee Brown’s (1971) seminal book “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West”  which is credited with exposing “some” of the systematic destruction of ... [Read more...]

I enjoyed reading this piece by Lambert (2012) and learned a good bit from it. In this course, I have been viewing and responding to digital stories. I have also been researching what can be learned through digital storytelling. And through my journey, I have come to believe that digital storytelling is a very useful ... [Read more...]

Today, I’m responding to K’s digital story “The Story of my Story” and this feels right, as today is the day after the US presidential election. I stumbled across this story some weeks ago but at the time I felt its message was too serious and depressing. It brings to light many issues that I ... [Read more...]

A short alternative media item that I produced using Plotagon. This was an assignment for my Producing Media for Learning Course at the University of Colorado Denver.    

This week I turned my attention towards philosophy and the issue of focusing the mind and improving one’s sustained attention. Due to my refocusing, I critiqued and wrote a response to the digital story “Eastern Philosophy: Wu Wei” which I posted on my blog. In the post, I describe the Daoist concept of wu wei ... [Read more...]

The digital story “Eastern Philosophy: Wu Wei” is hosted the on School of Life’s YouTube channel. I first encountered this channel when I was attempting to decipher the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche for an undergraduate philosophy course. The School of Life produces short videos wherein they endeavor to explain philosophical concepts that one can employ ... [Read more...]

I enjoyed reading Joe Lambert’s piece describing the evolution of digital storytelling. Part of my enjoyment arose from an important connection between Lambert’s piece and the digital story that I critiqued this week. The digital story was “What If Money Was No Object?” which was produced from an old audio recording of a talk given ... [Read more...]

The assignment, Visual 1729: Make a collage out of photos of your pet (or your favorite animal)! Either take past photos or take photos throughout the week that show how cute or how funny they can be! Well, although some may refer to these two as pets, we prefer to think of Bina and Sylvan ... [Read more...]

Talk by Alan Watts, Alan Watts was a very influential British intellectual, philosopher, writer and speaker of the twentieth-century. Watts spent much of his adult life living and teaching in the Unites States. He wrote much on Eastern philosophy and worked to put it into terms that his Western audience could understand. Watts interpreted Eastern ... [Read more...]

View on FlowVella – Presentation Software for iPad and Mac

View on FlowVella – Presentation Software for Mac iPad and iPhone

I live in an older neighborhood in Uijongbu-Shi, Republic of Korea (ROK) primarily populated with senior citizens. I relocated to the ROK in August of this year with my wife Hyejin who is a citizen of the Korea. We previously spent seventeen years living in the United States where we had intended to live out ... [Read more...]

This week I critiqued and wrote a response to the digital stories “Nanna’s House” and “Grandma’s Roof.” These digital stories were produced by two seventh-graders, Abigail and Victoria. The girls composed poems about their visits to their grandmothers’ homes and then read their poetry as the narration for their digital stories. This worked so well ... [Read more...]

Poetry, written and performed by 7th graders is used to narrate these digital stories. This one digital story actually contains two which are packaged serially and labeled “7th Grade Poetry.” This film is a fine example of collaboration and creative cooperation, as even the transcript is simply titled “Nana’s House,’ which applies to both stories. ... [Read more...]