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 mother...

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

For this week's assignment from DS106's assignment bank I chose, "Dog It Out." If it's not obvious yet I love my dogs so naturally I was drawn to an assignment that involved using a picture of your dog. In this assignment you were to take a picture of your dog and upload it into some software that will allow editing. This is an older picture of my Yorkie, Haley, but one of my favorite pictures of her. I did a birthday theme because of all of my pets she is only one who has an official birthday

*Warning* There are spoilers in this post about the podcast: Serial (It's been out for quite awhile but since it's new to me I thought I would warn of the spoilers!)   This week I would like to complete another critique of the podcast, Serial. I finished the entire podcast in one weekend! I know when you watch the entire series of Breaking Bad on Netflix you binged watched it but I wonder what we can call it when you binge a podcast?!? It’s strange because it’s not exactly the same thing. I put

For this week's assignment from DS106's assignment bank I chose, "Dog It Out." If it's not obvious yet I love my dogs so naturally I was drawn to an assignment that involved using a picture of your dog. In this assignment you were to take a picture of your dog and upload it into some software that will allow editing. This is an older picture of my Yorkie, Haley, but one of my favorite pictures of her. I did a birthday theme because of all of my pets she is only one who has an official birthday

For this week's assignment from DS106's assignment bank I chose, "Dog It Out." If it's not obvious yet I love my dogs so naturally I was drawn to an assignment that involved using a picture of your dog. In this assignment you were to take a picture of ...

*Warning* There are spoilers in this post about the podcast: Serial (It's been out for quite awhile but since it's new to me I thought I would warn of the spoilers!) This week I would like to complete another critique of the podcast, Serial. I finished the entire podcast in one weekend! I know when you watch the entire series of Breaking Bad on Netflix you binged watched it but I wonder what we can call it when you binge a podcast?!? It’s strange because it’s not exactly the same thing. I put in

*Warning* There are spoilers in this post about the podcast: Serial (It's been out for quite awhile but since it's new to me I thought I would warn of the spoilers!)   This week I would like to complete another critique of the podcast, Serial. I finished the entire podcast in one weekend! I know when you watch the entire series of Breaking Bad on Netflix you binged watched it but I wonder what we can call it when you binge a podcast?!? It’s strange because it’s not exactly the same thing. I put

  Learning with Digital Stories, week 7! My how the time flies.  I was in Phoenix, AZ this week at ICON, a conference all about digital sales and marketing automation software. I knew nothing about Infusionsoft, Lead Pages, Mobit, Branding or Marketing best practices when I got there.  However, the first thing I started to analyze was how the presenters were telling their stories. They were telling stories to sell and market products and services.  Presenters told stories to inspire, motivate,

Picture 1 Picture 2     My reflective thoughts are on the page in my Notebook file that was spinning the candy cane whirl. (Please see Picture 1 above) I’ve taken the path of reflecting along the way from the prior reflection. Many times (or at least in my case) I will want to remember […]

  Learning with Digital Stories, week 7! My how the time flies.  I was in Phoenix, AZ this week at ICON, a conference all about digital sales and marketing automation software. I knew nothing about Infusionsoft, Lead Pages, Mobit, Branding or Marketing best practices when I got there.  However, the first thing I started to analyze was how the presenters were telling their stories. They were telling stories to sell and market products and services.  Presenters told stories to inspire, motivate,

 

 

It’s hard to believe 7 weeks have passed since the start of this semester. MARCH IS HERE! This week was pretty difficult for me timing wise. I was teaching a class all week and was completely wiped each day that…

*Gratuitious picture of my dog*   These past two weeks have been busy, very busy. Both at work and in school. Things really kicked into gear this week, maybe nothing changed, maybe it was just my perception of them! In the New Literacies book I read about remixing and my definition of that word changed a bit. Before that chapter I really only thought of music when it came to remixing but after I read this chapter it became clear to me that remixing can apply to different art and media genres and

*Gratuitious picture of my dog* These past two weeks have been busy, very busy. Both at work and in school. Things really kicked into gear this week, maybe nothing changed, maybe it was just my perception of them! In the New Literacies book I read about remixing and my definition of that word changed a bit. Before that chapter I really only thought of music when it came to remixing but after I read this chapter it became clear to me that remixing can apply to different art and media genres and

*Gratuitious picture of my dog*   These past two weeks have been busy, very busy. Both at work and in school. Things really kicked into gear this week, maybe nothing changed, maybe it was just my perception of them! In the New Literacies book I read about remixing and my definition of that word changed a bit. Before that chapter I really only thought of music when it came to remixing but after I read this chapter it became clear to me that remixing can apply to different art and media genres and

educator, defined, created comfort, with every technology comes story, usually positive emotions associated with stories, diverse conversations, norm of stories and their components have not changed over the years, stories are for everyone in any profession, stories are fiction and non-fiction, sequence is important to people-they like to see or feel timelines in stories, audience […]

*I have been reading and critiquing digital comics, for my Master level studies, in a continuing series to develop my exposure to and understanding of this New Literacy Last week I reviewed Mark Waid’s talk at the 2013 O’Reilly Media’s Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, in his talk Waid discuses and presents some examples of the digital comics that he and his […]

This week I read “The World of Digital Storytelling”. Right off the bat when the authors were reliving a conversation along the topic of the definition of digital storytelling, I loved when it was mentioned that one of them said…

This week I have really reflected upon the copyright issues surrounding digital media and digital storytelling, as well as the elements that make a good digital story for a recipe.  I feel that there is no cut and dry resolution to copyright issues in media.  It is pretty clear in the news that this will […]

http://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365501336 I have been cooking a lot of wild yeast dough lately, so I thought it would be a great idea to watch this how-to video and see how yeast risen waffles work.  I feel like experimenting with this recipe and trying to make a wild yeast waffle recipe.  For my critique, I’ll be utilizing […]

I was a bit confused by this chapter in New Literacies and what the stance of the authors is on copyrights.  Earlier on in the book (page 66), they discuss the views of Lawrence Lessig on copyright laws and how he believes that copyright laws should be more fluid and allow the creator to decide […]

@ds106dc  #tdc1517 So I am home today after conferences all week, and I tell Misha….3 things for life….GO; she told me the 3 things and left for her 2D animation class at RMCAD, and then I created the book cover. It’s pretty fun, I’d buy it! Orange for RMCAD, life is tragic and comedic (sometimes mixed), […]

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 […]

I sit here at ICON16, an entrepreneur’s smorgasbord.  Powerful speakers like Lisa Nichols, David Ramsey, and Digital Marketer Ryan Deiss inspiring, igniting, and communicating a common theme throughout their diverse messages.  If you connect to the person whatever you are trying to achieve, the power lives in the relationship.  People buy your story before they buy your product.   The importance of relationship building is not a new topic; it’s just one we seldom have formal training on in

I sit here at ICON16, an entrepreneur’s smorgasbord.  Powerful speakers like Lisa Nichols, David Ramsey, and Digital Marketer Ryan Deiss inspiring, igniting, and communicating a common theme throughout their diverse messages.  If you connect to the person whatever you are trying to achieve, the power lives in the relationship.  People buy your story before they buy your product.   The importance of relationship building is not a new topic; it’s just one we seldom have formal training on in

I sit here at ICON16, an entrepreneur’s smorgasbord.  Powerful speakers like Lisa Nichols, David Ramsey, and Digital Marketer Ryan Deiss inspiring, igniting, and communicating a common theme throughout their diverse messages.  If you connect to the person whatever you are trying to achieve, the power lives in the relationship.  People buy your story before they buy your product.   The importance of relationship building is not a new topic; it’s just one we seldom have formal training on in

#ds106 Daily Create: #tdc1516 Invisibeagle? Tree Pug? Baloodle? Create your own Impossible Dog inspired by @Grantdraws *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 seventh post within a series of Daily Creates that I’ve been assigned to complete for a course titled Digital Storytelling. […]

Stone Pataskala Red X IPA I stumbled upon Stone Brewing’s video preview/review of one of their newest beers called Pataskala IPA while doing some brewing research of my own. About a month ago, I stumbled upon a new type of…