This week I am critiquing Racial Justice Accomplishments in 2014.  The digital evaluation traits I will be assessing are: Story – Rinku Sen, Executive Director of Race Forward immediately pulled me into the story with a compelling appeal for what moves anything forward; conversations.   This story shares the energy, collaboration, inspiration, and unification of people around race at the Facing Race conference in 2014.  I was delighted to find out the 2016 conference is here in Atlanta. The

Piggy-Bank Friday: Life Skills Through Financial Literacy   (Link at end) I look for articles related to elementary education thinking of the multitude of classes I work with, the below grade level students we have, and our English language learner population. I am looking for ways beyond the stiff curriculums purchased to avenues rich with […]

main DS106 site DesignAssignments, DesignAssignments1934 As an homage to the popular Triple Quotes assignment, this one puts a rock music twist on it. Find an image of a well known rock star, add to it a phrase by song lyric by someone related in some way to the star in the image and then attribute the […]

For this week’s literary response, I chose another chapter from those listed on Canvas.  I want to continue with Lankshear and Knobel, but I also want to get some of the other perspectives being presented in the class.  I chose Chapter 1 of Bryan Alexander’s the New Digital Storytelling.  I appreciated his definition of storytelling […]

Menu Filled with all of my favorite dishes, this is what I would serve, if I had a restaurant.

What a guy. I am a huge fan Greg Koch. His vision, his goals, his principles, and his beer. Stone published this video in response to a lot of craft breweries “selling out” to the big guys. I consider it…

Hopefully everyone living in the greater Denver area checks out Westword from time to time. It is one of my favorite websites to read about new things happening in the area. This week I’m going to share an article from Jonathan…

A Short Documentary: Food for Thought from Samantha Morello on Vimeo. I chose this digital story, because of its topic on food and on fad diets.  I’ve always been skeptical of and very outspoken against fad diets, so it was interesting to me that this “short documentary” was about one person’s fad diet experience.  I […]

Kathy creates a complicated carrot cake that casts a colorful creation of a cat!

Last night I delivered my first webinar for the course, Webinars and Synchronus Learning. I rehearsed, I practiced, I recorded my reheasals, and I still felt like I wasn't prepared! But, I do think that is to be expected with my first one. It doesn't matter how many times you practice if it's the first time unexpected problems will arise! I scheduled my webinar for a night I knew no one would be home in my house other than me, I imagine this might be an issue for scheduling live events like this

Last night I delivered my first webinar for the course, Webinars and Synchronus Learning. I rehearsed, I practiced, I recorded my reheasals, and I still felt like I wasn't prepared! But, I do think that is to be expected with my first one. It doesn't matter how many times you practice if it's the first time unexpected problems will arise! I scheduled my webinar for a night I knew no one would be home in my house other than me, I imagine this might be an issue for scheduling live events like this

Last night I delivered my first webinar for the course, Webinars and Synchronus Learning. I rehearsed, I practiced, I recorded my reheasals, and I still felt like I wasn't prepared! But, I do think that is to be expected with my first one. It doesn't matter how many times you practice if it's the first time unexpected problems will arise! I scheduled my webinar for a night I knew no one would be home in my house other than me, I imagine this might be an issue for scheduling live events like this

@ds106dc #tdc1522 From ds106, we were instructed to use a farm/ranch name generator. This was more whimsical, and I’m always up for more whimsy!  The old Ford just adds class.

I have been anticipating/dreading the creation of gifs as expand my experience in the creation of digital stories. I think gifs are great ways to express quick thoughts or stories but I also think the format seem imposing to create. I saw this gif daily create and thought it was a great opportunity to practice creating […]

  Last night I attended a webinar hosted by my classmate, Haley Cristea. We are delivering short webinars for our class in the ILT program, Webinars and Synchronus Learning. I chose to attend Haley's webinar about using Giphy to create GIFs because learning to create GIFs is something I always wondered about and I thought it would be helpful in my other course, Learning with Digital Stories, win-win! The first thing I learned is that creating a GIF is so much easier than I thought it would be!!

Last night I attended a webinar hosted by my classmate, Haley Cristea. We are delivering short webinars for our class in the ILT program, Webinars and Synchronus Learning. I chose to attend Haley's webinar about using Giphy to create GIFs because learning to create GIFs is something I always wondered about and I thought it would be helpful in my other course, Learning with Digital Stories, win-win! The first thing I learned is that creating a GIF is so much easier than I thought it would be!!

  Last night I attended a webinar hosted by my classmate, Haley Cristea. We are delivering short webinars for our class in the ILT program, Webinars and Synchronus Learning. I chose to attend Haley's webinar about using Giphy to create GIFs because learning to create GIFs is something I always wondered about and I thought it would be helpful in my other course, Learning with Digital Stories, win-win! The first thing I learned is that creating a GIF is so much easier than I thought it would be!!

#ds106 Daily Create: #tdc1522 Make a Sign For Your Randomly Generated Ranch Name *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 eighth 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:  “Use […]

              It’s tough to write a Twitter story in less than 140 characters! @ds106dc #tdc1521 #ILT5340 Earl looked over his snowy land and realized he needed nothing more in life… except maybe a pair of long johns.

Today's daily create was to write a story on Twitter! I liked that idea and the first thing to come to mind was when I woke up this morning, how could it be that I could believe it was Friday when it was only Tuesday?   

Life is full and busy and unfolding.  Sometimes we forget to pause for what is most important.  How do you want your loved ones to feel about you? What do you want your loved ones to say about you at the end of the day? If that is what you want them to say you can't allow your relationships to die on the vine because you are busy.  Like anything else LIVING, relationships need regular nurishment.   

Today's daily create was to write a story on Twitter! I liked that idea and the first thing to come to mind was when I woke up this morning, how could it be that I could believe it was Friday when it was only Tuesday?   

Today's daily create was to write a story on Twitter! I liked that idea and the first thing to come to mind was when I woke up this morning, how could it be that I could believe it was Friday when it was only Tuesday?

Life is full and busy and unfolding.  Sometimes we forget to pause for what is most important.  How do you want your loved ones to feel about you? What do you want your loved ones to say about you at the end of the day? If that is what you want them to say you can't allow your relationships to die on the vine because you are busy.  Like anything else LIVING, relationships need regular nurishment.   

Digital Assignment from the DS106 Assignment Bank: A Digital Reflection Of Myself…or…I Designed My Own Avatar! *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 fourth post within a series of Creative Assignments that I’ve been tasked with completing for a course titled Digital Storytelling. The digital assignment […]

Please visit this link for my explanation why the below song was chosen for this assignment: https://www.speakpipe.com/voice-recorder/msg/h8gd3wpf3x0jjbjf      

Made this DS106 Design Assignment and added a Coen brothers twist.  If you’ve ever seen The Big Lebowski, you’ll understand the context.  Very simple design using (gasp!) Microsoft Power Point.

This week, I chose the following ds106 Design Assignment: Something that would make you lol if you read it in a newspaper I can dream, can’t I?

From the movie City Slickers, old Cowboy Curly dishes out some deep advice to Billy Crystal’s character. My response? My One thing? ENJOY IT. #tdc1462 @ds106dc

As I look for articles or scholarship to write about for my focal theme it seems that almost everything I come across speaks of the joyous wonderment of motherhood. Of the trials, the tribulations, heartbreak, and ultimate reward that comes with motherhood. On the opposite end I find articles about women who chose not to be mothers and just fine with that. They justify over and over again how great their lives were or how much wine they drink, or much fun they have. Both of these types of