“If music be the food of love, play on…” #shakespeare400 @ds106dc  #tdc1564 Find a photograph that captures the words of Shakespeare. 

*I am currently working my way through my fourth semester of the Information and Learning Technologies master’s program at University of Colorado, Denver.  This is the thirteenth post within a series of Daily Creates that I’ve been assigned to complete for a course titled Digital Storytelling. Today’s Daily Create stated:  “Find a photograph that captures the words of Shakespeare. Even better if you can […]

I am in my third semester of the graduate program in eLearning Design and Implementation at The University of Colorado, Denver. Each week we critique a digital story.  This week I am critiquing For Hosne Ara, by Zahid Al-Amin; a digital story related to my theme, social justice. With this simple caption I was curious.  What was Zahid's passion? How was it different from what was expected from his family?   This is a story of courage, brutality, resilience of the human spirit, sacrifice and

I am in my third semester of the graduate program in eLearning Design and Implementation at The University of Colorado, Denver. Each week we critique a digital story.  This week I am critiquing For Hosne Ara, by Zahid Al-Amin; a digital story related to my theme, social justice. With this simple caption I was curious.  What was Zahid's passion? How was it different from what was expected from his family?   This is a story of courage, brutality, resilience of the human spirit, sacrifice and

I am in my third semester of the graduate program in eLearning Design and Implementation at The University of Colorado, Denver. Each week we post a Scholarly Article Review for my  Learning with Digital Stories course, ILT5340.  This week I choose Chapter 9 - Designing in Digital: Working with Digital Imaging, Audio, & Video. In Chapter 9 Designing in Digital, once again Joe Lambert simplifies the digital design process to a simple philosophy: mimic what you like.  No need to over think

I am in my third semester of the graduate program in eLearning Design and Implementation at The University of Colorado, Denver. Each week we post a Scholarly Article Review for my  Learning with Digital Stories course, ILT5340.  This week I choose Chapter 9 - Designing in Digital: Working with Digital Imaging, Audio, & Video. In Chapter 9 Designing in Digital, once again Joe Lambert simplifies the digital design process to a simple philosophy: mimic what you like.  No need to over think

This week marks not only William Shakespeare’s birthday but also 400 years since his death in 1616. This daily create asks us to interpret a famous line from Hamlet with something involving a skull. I chose a painting done by a friend. Enjoy. “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent … Continue reading Daily Create 13

@ds106dc  #tdc1562  This year, had he lived on, Shakespeare would be 400 years young! Woot! This Daily Create is to honor Shakespeare! “Alas, poor Yorick, for I knew him well…” One of my (later in life attributes) is to “sometimes” look deeper into a text.  Today is one of those days. We read Shakespeare in high […]

Grossen Bart Brewery Chili Cookoff Fundraiser for HOPE & The Inn Between of Longmont 2016. This is will serve as both a critique, and a shameless advertisement for my favorite brewery in the area. I will be critiquing this video…

During an assignment for a graduate school class, we were asked to check out Paul Miller’s Ted Talk on disconnecting from the internet. Paul went radio silent for an entire year. In the modern age, this sounds not only like…

@ds106dc #tdc1559 ” Find one special lone tree, take a photo!” I’m going to do my own take on a lonely tree… Avery IPA with Spruce (Tree) Tips added! It was lonely… so I gave it some attention.

I am in my third semester of the graduate program in eLearning Design and Implementation at The University of Colorado, Denver. Each week we post a Daily Create for my  Learning with Digital Stories course, ILT5340.  T #tdc1557 Streetview an interesting spot in the world you may never visit Share a screenshot of what you found. Explain why you chose it.  

I am in my third semester of the graduate program in eLearning Design and Implementation at The University of Colorado, Denver. Each week we post a Daily Create for my  Learning with Digital Stories course, ILT5340.  T #tdc1557 Streetview an interesting spot in the world you may never visit Share a screenshot of what you found. Explain why you chose i  

Find one special lone tree, take a photo! I took this photo in the San Francisco Botanical Garden on April 3, 2016. I think it looks like someone strutting his stuff in the midst of what others might consider a serious environment. Strut your stuff, tree man!

Daily Create #1557, take a screen shot of a Google maps street view of a place you'd like to visit. I could do this a thousand times since I often look at maps of places I dream of going! Here's Auckland New Zealand, definitely on my bucket list:  

Daily Create #1557, take a screen shot of a Google maps street view of a place you'd like to visit. I could do this a thousand times since I often look at maps of places I dream of going! Here's Auckland New Zealand, definitely on my bucket list:  

Attention Students: Put your Laptops Away from NPR In this story from NPR they discuss a study conducted by Princeton University that discovered students could understand and synthesize information better when notes are taken by hand rather than typing on a computer. This story included text and also a short audio interview with the author of the study, Pam Mueller of Princeton University. This story jumped out at me right away since I would much prefer to write instead of type. I, personally,

Attention Students: Put your Laptops Away from NPR In this story from NPR they discuss a study conducted by Princeton University that discovered students could understand and synthesize information better when notes are taken by hand rather than typing on a computer. This story included text and also a short audio interview with the author of the study, Pam Mueller of Princeton University. This story jumped out at me right away since I would much prefer to write instead of type. I, personally,

Daily Create #1557, take a screen shot of a Google maps street view of a place you'd like to visit. I could do this a thousand times since I often look at maps of places I dream of going! Here's Auckland New Zealand, definitely on my bucket list:

Attention Students: Put your Laptops Away from NPR In this story from NPR they discuss a study conducted by Princeton University that discovered students could understand and synthesize information better when notes are taken by hand rather than typing on a computer. This story included text and also a short audio interview with the author of the study, Pam Mueller of Princeton University. This story jumped out at me right away since I would much prefer to write instead of type. I, personally,

My latest digital story critique is also about a detective. This time, the story is a comic strip, so I will be discussing both the visual and textual components. The artist/storyteller is Jamar Nicholas. The comic is no longer running and I had difficulty retracing its storyline, so for this critique I will focus on Nicholas’ eye for the hip … Continue reading Digital Story Critique 8: Detective Boogaloo: Hip Hop Cop

Design Assignment from the DS106 Assignment Bank: Dog It Out…or…Happy Birthday Frankie! *I am currently working my way through my fourth semester of the Information and Learning Technologies master’s program at University of Colorado, Denver.  This is the sixth post within a series of Creative Assignments that I’ve been tasked with completing for a course titled Digital Storytelling. The design assignment that I chose […]

I am in my third semester of the graduate program in eLearning Design and Implementation at The University of Colorado, Denver. Each week we post a Scholarly Article Review for my  Learning with Digital Stories course, ILT5340.  This week I choose chapter 8, Storyboarding, from Joe Lambert's Digital Storytelling, Capturing Lives, Creating Communities.  I always struggle with how things will come together as any idea for a digital story starts dancing in my head.  This chapter of Joe Lambert’s

I am in my third semester of the graduate program in eLearning Design and Implementation at The University of Colorado, Denver. Each week we post a Scholarly Article Review for my  Learning with Digital Stories course, ILT5340.  This week I choose chapter 8, Storyboarding, from Joe Lambert's Digital Storytelling, Capturing Lives, Creating Communities.  I always struggle with how things will come together as any idea for a digital story starts dancing in my head.  This chapter of Joe Lambert’s

*I am currently working my way through my fourth semester of the Information and Learning Technologies master’s program at University of Colorado, Denver.  This post serves as a “gallery walk” of all the blogs of my fellow students within a course I’m taking titled Digital Storytelling. For this gallery walk (which I’ve elected to compile in lieu of 3 weeks […]

*I am currently working my way through my fourth semester of the Information and Learning Technologies master’s program at University of Colorado, Denver.  This is the twelth post within a series of Daily Creates that I’ve been assigned to complete for a course titled Digital Storytelling. Today’s Daily Create stated:  “Visit the home Google Street View to find a spot of interest which you […]

I decided to share a dream I had recently, because it fits so well in my focal theme for the semester.  A few nights ago, I dreamed about donuts.  I know, weird right?  Why donuts? I don’t even really eat donuts that often.  Well, it gets weirder.  I dreamed that I went to a sidewalk […]

I chose to read Chapter 5 of the text, Digital Storytelling, by Joe Lambert.  I’m glad I did, but it is a great chapter that really breaks down what makes a digital story effective.  I believe that this will help in my future digital story critiques, as now I know what to look for in […]

This is a little off my focus for the semester, but I felt like analyzing this TED talk, because I saw Geena Rocero speak today on Auraria Campus.  She was speaking with Marsha Aizuni and it was very inspirational.  You can find the TED talk here: https://embed-ssl.ted.com/talks/geena_rocero_why_i_must_come_out.html I analyzed this with the following criteria: story […]

DesignAssignments, DesignAssignments1895 How about a menu like none other? The cards will give you the prices! Too bad it is not for real, as I would definitely try the Braised Beef, Queen’s Tarts and Absinthe.