Watching the Eddie today has made me quite homesick.  I think I might go home and make some ono grindz (good food) for dinner tonight.  As a result, when I started looking for a digital story to critique this week, I decided that I should try to find something about Hawaiian food.  I came across […]

I chose to read one of the chapters this week that I didn’t read last week.  I was really interested in learning about storytelling in general, so I chose Lambert’s Chapter 1.  In this section, he discussed storytelling in a variety of ways: how it helps us to learn, because the emotional neurons in our […]

I have decided to take some liberties with this daily create.  I decided to take “western” as a directional, relative term and choose a Hawaiian instead.  I also decided that I don’t feel right adding to the problem of people attributing quotes to the wrong people, so I won’t do that.  Finally, with all of […]

  Link to Podcast of TD Magazine Article    I struggled wrapping the concept of story telling around corporate training.  There was always a disconnect between the meaning I attributed to story telling and the courses I was assigned to develop.   Story Time, A case for storytelling beyond the classroom by Diane Senffner and published in TD magazine helped clarify that dilemma.  The author cited The Leadership Engine by Noel M Tichy, whose research led him to write, “Winning leaders personalize

    I struggled wrapping the concept of story telling around corporate training.  There was always a disconnect between the meaning I attributed to story telling and the courses I was assigned to develop.   Story Time, A case for storytelling beyond the classroom by Diane Senffner and published in TD magazine helped clarify that dilemma.  The author cited The Leadership Engine by Noel M Tichy, whose research led him to write, “Winning leaders personalize their visions and ideas by telling

A trip from Wendover, Utah to Strasbourg, France (via Chiapas, Mexico): After visiting his grandmother in Nevada, Sam had a long layover in Wendover, Utah. There’s no where else to hang out in or around the airport other than at a casino. The banks of slot machines sounded like a symphony orchestra tuning their instruments in … Continue reading Daily Create 6

… but it’s not happy hour yet.  Dang it!  Had to plan to get this photo at Union Station in Denver.  Fortunately, the clocks inside were set correctly.  The ones on the outside are not always so precise.

So I use Twitter… Of all the social media platforms, Twitter is my favorite. I enjoy how quick and to the point it is. All information is communicated in 140 characters or less. It’s succinct and you can filter out…

Do time machines exist yet? Seriously. If I could go back in time, I’d choose a different career path. Wait, why would I say that when I’m working on a graduate degree already? Good point, I guess…but check this out!…

Bonjour! I stumbled upon this article the other day while googling craft beer myths and figured it would be perfect to share with everyone this week. 10 DUMB THINGS LIGHT BEER DRINKERS SAY ABOUT CRAFT BEER – by Brent Nuss…

Intentionality. This is a term that we have been using in our building, among ourselves and with our students, K-5th. Seemingly small shifts, are in fact, HUGE shifts for many students. Here is an example: instead of saying and settling on the phrase, “I can’t do this” or “I don’t get this” we educators are […]

Assignment Bank AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments1923 Touch the Sky: personal video done for an INTE 6710, Creative Designs for Instructional Materials, through CU Denver. NOW revisited via INTE 5340, Learning with Digital Stories and the affiliation with the open online ds106 course through the University of Mary Washington. I landed on this assignment, and remembered the video I made. […]

  This week I am critiquing DOJ Task Force on 21st Century Policing.  The digital evaluation traits I will be assessing are:   Story – The story structure was engaging and fairly fast paced.  There was not a central character except the narrator.  The story was told with video and stills, interviews and narration.  There was a transformation of the topic.  It started with a problem; street protests against controversial police shootings.  The middle contained a possible solution and the

Today's Daily Create -  Proof is is 1:06 pm somewhere   Stand under a clock (if you can find one, any kind of timepiece will do) with the time being 1:06. Take a selfie as proof.   Those are really my fingers.    

  This week I am critiquing DOJ Task Force on 21st Century Policing.  The digital evaluation traits I will be assessing are:   Story – The story structure was engaging and fairly fast paced.  There was not a central character except the narrator.  The story was told with video and stills, interviews and narration.  There was a transformation of the topic.  It started with a problem; street protests against controversial police shootings.  The middle contained a possible solution and the

Today's Daily Create -  Proof is is 1:06 pm somewhere   Stand under a clock (if you can find one, any kind of timepiece will do) with the time being 1:06. Take a selfie as proof.   Those are really my fingers.    

I was amazed at how quickly I was able to put this DS106 Assignment Bank project together.  With all the movie audio, including songs and some soundbites, is available on a CD, it makes things much easier.  This was a favorite soundtrack to listen to back in 1995.  In Madison, a person could hear “Son … Continue reading "DS106 Audio Assignment: Movie As Radio"

@ds106dc  #tdc1506 This is ridiculous!

“Take your favorite song. Remove the lyrics. Play only up to thirty seconds of the song. Listener must be able to guess.” Anyone know this one? @ds106 #AudioAssignments #AudioAssignments144

#Dogs #creeping #because #wife #cookingforbae @ds106dc    #tdc1506   #inte5340

You can find my description of this week's Audio assignment from the DS 106 assignment bank here. And the assignment here!    

Why Storytelling Matters: A TedX Talk by Garr Reynolds   Each week in Learning with Digital Stories we are supposed to evaluate and critique a digital story. For this week though, I decided to do something different, I hope that’s OK and if it’s not, Oh well it’s too late I’ve already done it! This week I was looking at YouTube and searching for digital stories and I noticed that there were many results in which people were talking about digital stories, or how to make digital stories, or the

In continuing my exploration of my focal theme: motherhood, I want to talk about being a step mom. In my first week of writing I wrote about infertility and even though I am going through it I have the unique experience of also being a step mom. I’ve never written about it or really explored it. I became one without giving too much thought to what it would mean for me, or how my life would change. It’s not that being a step mom isn’t important, it is, but when your life starts moving in a

You can find my description of this week's Audio assignment from the DS 106 assignment bank here. And the assignmenthere!

You can find my description of this week's Audio assignment from the DS 106 assignment bank here. And the assignment here!    

Why Storytelling Matters: A TedX Talk by Garr Reynolds Each week in Learning with Digital Stories we are supposed to evaluate and critique a digital story. For this week though, I decided to do something different, I hope that’s OK and if it’s not, Oh well it’s too late I’ve already done it! This week I was looking at YouTube and searching for digital stories and I noticed that there were many results in which people were talking about digital stories, or how to make digital stories, or the

Why Storytelling Matters: A TedX Talk by Garr Reynolds   Each week in Learning with Digital Stories we are supposed to evaluate and critique a digital story. For this week though, I decided to do something different, I hope that’s OK and if it’s not, Oh well it’s too late I’ve already done it! This week I was looking at YouTube and searching for digital stories and I noticed that there were many results in which people were talking about digital stories, or how to make digital stories, or the

In continuing my exploration of my focal theme: motherhood, I want to talk about being a step mom. In my first week of writing I wrote about infertility and even though I am going through it I have the unique experience of also being a step mom. I’ve never written about it or really explored it. I became one without giving too much thought to what it would mean for me, or how my life would change. It’s not that being a step mom isn’t important, it is, but when your life starts moving in a

In continuing my exploration of my focal theme: motherhood, I want to talk about being a step mom. In my first week of writing I wrote about infertility and even though I am going through it I have the unique experience of also being a step mom. I’ve never written about it or really explored it. I became one without giving too much thought to what it would mean for me, or how my life would change. It’s not that being a step mom isn’t important, it is, but when your life starts moving in a