YouTube Link:   Digital Storytelling – Student Perspective Story: This was completely not what I expected. I think, since it said “student perspective” that I envisioned a passionate kid or student showing and voicing what he/she liked about digital storytelling, how it was impactful, how they want teacher to use this avenue for student learning….it was […]

@ds106dc #tdc1496 …we KNOW they’re out there…

  For this week’s story critique, I chose “Fences” by Emily Love from the Story Centre. In it Emily talks about crossing the border into Tijuana and being told not to get out of the car because she is pregnant. She speaks about the children she sees playing and how happy they were. They didn’t know they were playing in the runoff from an abandoned battery plant. She is told to stay in the car because the air is contaminated and possibly harmful to her and her baby. The story utilizes personal

  For this week’s story critique, I chose “Fences” by Emily Love from the Story Centre. In it Emily talks about crossing the border into Tijuana and being told not to get out of the car because she is pregnant. She speaks about the children she sees playing and how happy they were. They didn’t know they were playing in the runoff from an abandoned battery plant. She is told to stay in the car because the air is contaminated and possibly harmful to her and her baby. The story utilizes personal

In response to the Daily Create “#tdc1487 Fork in the Road,” this is the image I snapped of a choice.  This is one of those black-and-white, yes-or-no choices all of us are faced with each and every day.  The light turns yellow. Either step on the gas, charge through, and travel the path faster…or brake instead […]

If any art form could exemplify Lankshear and Knobel’s definition of literacy, it’s hip hop. The authors discuss literacies as: “socially recognized ways of generating, communicating and negotiating meaningful content through the medium of encoded texts within contexts of participation in Discourses” As an art form, a social practice, a culture and a discourse, hip hop has existed … Continue reading Digital Story Critique 3: It’s 1995! …but it’s also 1963

This DS106 Video Assignment didn’t take too much time to record, but it did take a while to think about what I was going to say.  Most of it is light, but I do talk a bit serious for a couple of moments.  Recorded this with my iMac webcam, cut together in iMovie and even … Continue reading "DS106 Video Assignment: Dear Sixteen Year Old, Me"

@ds106dc #tdc1495 This became intriguingly fun, AND, now I cannot go to Sam’s Club to by a chicken to make chicken noodle soup, b/c I did research  b/c of a map challenge on the ds106 site and so…here ya go! There were fabulous Chinese boats that sailed the seas long long ago, you should check them […]

I chose the article, Developing intercultural awareness using digital storytelling, because of the interesting tie between intercultural awareness and digital storytelling.  I was curious where they would go with this topic.  I do feel that intercultural awareness is important in higher education.  Having come from a different culture than the one I currently find myself […]

I loved going to Beau Jo’s pizza in Idaho Springs when I was little. I still can’t resist the lure of a mountain pie whenever I am on 70 going past Idaho Springs. Hell I think the third exit-ramp into Idaho Springs is solely there for people who changed their minds and are going back for […]

#ds106 Daily Create: #tdc1495 Treasure of the Hills *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 Daily Creates that I’ve been assigned to complete for a course titled Digital Storytelling. Today’s Daily Create was to create a treasure map: “There […]

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This DS106 Daily Create assignment took longer than I thought.  Haven’t used Adobe Illustrator much so I threw this together using Google Drawings.  Took a little while to find some simple clipart online.

In Learning with Digital Stories I had to choose an assignment from the "Video" catagory in the assignment bank in DS106. I chose the assignment, "Write a Letter to Your 16 Year Old Self." I've never used the video option on my computer and I've never done an assignment like this! So here's my video and my letter to 16 year old Kristin.   

In Learning with Digital Stories I had to choose an assignment from the "Video" catagory in the assignment bank in DS106. I chose the assignment, "Write a Letter to Your 16 Year Old Self." I've never used the video option on my computer and I've never done an assignment like this! So here's my video and my letter to 16 year old Kristin.   

The South is in a deep freeze.  23 degrees feeling like 17 might not sound too bad if you're from Minnesota or Rochester.  However, here in the ATL this means extreme weather advisory, LOL!   This Daily Create is a challenge for you to create a video of what you do on a cold winter night.    

The South is in a deep freeze.  23 degrees feeling like 17 might not sound too bad if you're from Minnesota or Rochester.  However, here in the ATL this means extreme weather advisory, LOL!   This Daily Create is a challenge for you to create a video of what you do on a cold winter night.    

  According to the Pew Research Center U.S. students are slowly improving in math and science but still lag behind other developed and developing countries.  Some trace the unraveling of best in class status to residue from blanket one size fits all policies like "No Child Left Behind."   This week I am critiquing Mary Bouley's story about the impact of No Child Left Behind on Lawrence Intermediate School in Southwest side of Tucson, AZ.  I found this story on Creative Narrations: Multimedia for

  According to the Pew Research Center U.S. students are slowly improving in math and science but still lag behind other developed and developing countries.  Some trace the unraveling of best in class status to residue from blanket one size fits all policies like "No Child Left Behind."   This week I am critiquing Mary Bouley's story about the impact of No Child Left Behind on Lawrence Intermediate School in Southwest side of Tucson, AZ.  I found this story on Creative Narrations: Multimedia for

2 Super Bowls in a row, Budweiser has put the craft beer industry on blast. Last year during the Seahawks incredible collapse against the Patriots, microbrew lovers were treated to the following offering by Anheuser Busch. Oh, the highlights of…

I came across PBS’s plethora of food digital stories the other day as I was doing research on food fermentation.  I revisited the site today to see what else I could find.  I was excited to find something else having to do with food fermentation, Leekchi.  A take on kimchi, it is made with leeks […]

The video assignment asked me to record something I do everyday.  I am typing on my computer everyday.

Tried and true bottle opener.  Price: Priceless when there’s a good beer involved.

One of my favorite bands, Explosions in the Sky, live @ Riot Fest in Denver on 8/31/15.

For this week's daily create I chose "Code of the Cowpoke" or rules of cowboys/girls. For some reason the thought of coming up with rules/advice/words of wisdom Yoda immedately came to mind. So I created a meme with Yoda!  

For this week's daily create I chose "Code of the Cowpoke" or rules of cowboys/girls. For some reason the thought of coming up with rules/advice/words of wisdom Yoda immedately came to mind. So I created a meme with Yoda!  

“Take a picture of something ordinary you thought is super beautiful” #tdc1469 Donuts are super beautiful.

For this week’s focal theme response, I chose two articles that look at opposite sides of the same argument. I chose two because, well they are both very short but also because they dive into a subject that is near and dear to my heart: pets.   Over twelve years ago I adopted a little Yorkie named Haley. She has changed my life in more ways than I can count. So last year when they vet called and told me they needed me to come in, the little lump on her belly was not what they thought, I

For this week’s focal theme response, I chose two articles that look at opposite sides of the same argument. I chose two because, well they are both very short but also because they dive into a subject that is near and dear to my heart: pets.   Over twelve years ago I adopted a little Yorkie named Haley. She has changed my life in more ways than I can count. So last year when they vet called and told me they needed me to come in, the little lump on her belly was not what they thought, I

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