Visual Assignment: For the love of your petThis assignment was easy for me, I can always find time to play around with pictures of my pets! The assignment was to make a collage of your favorite pet, that's easy, Haley! 

Visual Assignment: For the love of your petThis assignment was easy for me, I can always find time to play around with pictures of my pets! The assignment was to make a collage of your favorite pet, that's easy, Haley! 

Visual Assignment: For the love of your petThis assignment was easy for me, I can always find time to play around with pictures of my pets! The assignment was to make a collage of your favorite pet, that's easy, Haley!

I’ve been focusing a lot on beers here in Colorado, but what about overseas in a not-so-common market… Japan. I don’t think it’s a secret that the craft beer boom is a real thing. I am interested in how it’s expanding…

“Craft beer movement clashes with 500-year-old German purity laws“ Oh, the Reinheitsgebot, aka the German Beer Purity Law. The purity law basically states that all beer must only be made with Water, Malt & Hops. This Bavarian law still exists. The…

This week, I did a visual assignment from the ds106 assignment bank. “Take a close up picture of something as see if people can guess what it is.” Guesses?

Keeping up with my theme… #tdc1564 “Find a photograph that captures the words of Shakespeare. Even better if you can go beyond the literal.” 3. Henry V: Act 1, Scene 3 “I would give all my fame for a pot…

Listening for my Great Grandfather - a Digital Story by Kyle Bajakian I found this story on the Story Center's YouTube channel. The title stood out to me, I have found through looking for digital stories to critique for my course in Learning with Digital Stories, that stories that have to do with family, especially loved ones who are gone, particularly stand out to me. I love the idea of sifting through old photographs of grandparents and discovering aspects of their lives you didn't know

Listening for my Great Grandfather - a Digital Story by Kyle Bajakian I found this story on the Story Center's YouTube channel. The title stood out to me, I have found through looking for digital stories to critique for my course in Learning with Digital Stories, that stories that have to do with family, especially loved ones who are gone, particularly stand out to me. I love the idea of sifting through old photographs of grandparents and discovering aspects of their lives you didn't know

For this week's daily create I chose one from last week. It was to find a special tree and take a photo. I went to my saved photos and this one jumped out at me, I took it on the last day I spent in Maui a few years ago. We were driving back to the airport and jumped out of the car when we spotted this little park. Took off my sandals and ran down to the beach one last time, it was worth it, behind me is huge black lava rocks and the tide was coming in. I took this walking back to the car, those

For this week's daily create I chose one from last week. It was to find a special tree and take a photo. I went to my saved photos and this one jumped out at me, I took it on the last day I spent in Maui a few years ago. We were driving back to the airport and jumped out of the car when we spotted this little park. Took off my sandals and ran down to the beach one last time, it was worth it, behind me is huge black lava rocks and the tide was coming in. I took this walking back to the car, those

Listening for my Great Grandfather - a Digital Story by Kyle Bajakian I found this story on the Story Center's YouTube channel. The title stood out to me, I have found through looking for digital stories to critique for my course in Learning with Digital Stories, that stories that have to do with family, especially loved ones who are gone, particularly stand out to me. I love the idea of sifting through old photographs of grandparents and discovering aspects of their lives you didn't know

For this week's daily create I chose one from last week. It was to find a special tree and take a photo. I went to my saved photos and this one jumped out at me, I took it on the last day I spent in Maui a few years ago. We were driving back to the airport and jumped out of the car when we spotted this little park. Took off my sandals and ran down to the beach one last time, it was worth it, behind me is huge black lava rocks and the tide was coming in. I took this walking back to the car, those

INTE 5665 CU Denver found us at one juncture reflecting on privacy in social media. Here is what I shared last Wednesday for our discussion post. Even before the advent of technology on steroids–with hyperlinks–to hop you quicker, privacy was probably also at an all time low. I am from the day of party lines […]

I can’t believe that it is week 13 already.  At the same time, when will it be May!  I just finished getting my garden ready today (and my body is paying for it!) and I can’t wait until I can start planing the warm weather plants.  My tomatoes are just waiting under the grow lights […]

I personally really enjoyed the discussion on “social learning.”  For me, the internet is most commonly an avenue of learning.  I research how to fix something around the house or how to cook something.  I am always looking at how to do things via the internet. I also really enjoyed the discussion on the future […]

I absolutely loved this digital story and definitely need to make this recipe.  My husband just recently acquired the taste for beets.  Now he likes everything with beets.  I only started eating them when I started growing them a couple of years ago and I really like them roasted. I critiqued this digital story along […]

@ds106dc  #tdc1568 The cop who pepper sprayed the kids at a college protest got a good meme-over at BuzzFeed; there’s not much left to do with it. So let’s give him a break, and meme him giving out something nice.

Social Learning ‘push’ and ‘pull’, and building platforms for collaborative thinking If I’m thinking correctly, and I do like how this chapter addresses the change, particularly in education, that collaboration is building while curriculum for curriculums sake is waning. I can testify that the variety of learning now available via platforms has taken us from […]

Ugh. This has been a bummer of a weekend. This is me right now: Plans to brew yesterday, and go to the Rockies game today went out the window when my wife’s bronchitis infected me. It’s ok though, I still…

  Chapter 7 New Literacies Critique Social Learning  Chapter Seven of New Literacies really got into the heart of new literacies, new learning practices, and new definitions of learning and literacy. For me, I realized shortly after beginning the chapter that this was where all of the definitions and explanations were leading earlier in the book. To be honest, I was growing tired of defining websites and practices and was ready for a chapter like this when it appeared. Perhaps that was the plan

  Chapter 7 New Literacies Critique Social Learning  Chapter Seven of New Literacies really got into the heart of new literacies, new learning practices, and new definitions of learning and literacy. For me, I realized shortly after beginning the chapter that this was where all of the definitions and explanations were leading earlier in the book. To be honest, I was growing tired of defining websites and practices and was ready for a chapter like this when it appeared. Perhaps that was the plan

Chapter 7 New Literacies Critique Social Learning Chapter Seven of New Literacies really got into the heart of new literacies, new learning practices, and new definitions of learning and literacy. For me, I realized shortly after beginning the chapter that this was where all of the definitions and explanations were leading earlier in the book. To be honest, I was growing tired of defining websites and practices and was ready for a chapter like this when it appeared. Perhaps that was the plan all

“I call it Bottom’s Dream because it hath no bottom” Thinking of Shakespeare makes me think of the moment when I realize my beer is empty and I still don’t understand why my husband likes Shakespeare so much.

@ds106dc  #tdc1567 Your mission – show us where Shakespeare’s head is!

This has to be an ode to growing older in a changing world…I was introduced to this gal a couple months ago, her repertoire consists of stories, stories of family; I imagine there are so many stories out there that haven’t been told by people of ALL Ages. I hope you enjoy this. I have […]

Some people along the way have commented that I should have a column like Erma Bombeck. Most often in letters and now in emails I correspond naturally from the heart about what’s happening in my life. Not only is CU Denver a major sphere of my life, but so is my work, but most importantly […]

Amen. “Mimic what you like!” I loved reading this in the intro to the chapter. The prefeace involves talking about formal education to creating digital media, but then brings to light one point – “what if you’re not formally educated…

(“Red Rocks at Night” by David Amirault from www.ozskier.com under CC BY SA 3.0 license) Daily Create Assignment this week.  Fun work, especially with this photo of Red Rock Amphitheater, which just announced this summer’s Film on the Rocks line-up!

Using the online organizational tool, Kumu, I created a web map of student services relationships at CU Denver.