In researching digital stories related to my theme I am slowly coming across the work of educators and scholars who are blending educational technology, digital media and literacy, hip hop studies, etc. A search for “hip hop + digital storytelling” lead me to the work of Emily Bailin on multiple occasions and – while this video … Continue reading Digital Story Critique 2 – Where are you from?

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For this week’s story critique, I looked more closely at the categories or themes on the Story Center website. This week I looked into Identity section and selected a story. I thought this category would be a great place to start this week since I have identified my focal theme as motherhood. I chose a story called “Love Child” by Malaika Pettigrew. In the story, Malaika narrates a story in which all three of her children ask the same question, Why can’t we be white? This makes her think of her

Chapter Two: Literacies: practice, Discourse, and encoded texts (Due 2/5)     After reading Chapter Two of New Literacies the definition of Literacy started to become more clear. With something as complicated and dynamic as literacy I notice that the definition will probably evolve over time and become more and more clear as the reading goes on. The definition that I noted at the beginning of the chapter was: Literacy is the socially recognized ways in which people generate, communicate, and

I tried it twice and both times were horrible.  This was my best attempt.

For my Webinars and Synchronus Learning class, INTE 5670, we had to find, attend, and critique a webinar. Below, find my thoughts and things I learned after I attended this webinar. Webinars are new to me, I've only attended one webinar prior to this one!    Critique a Webinar Activity   I attended a webinar on January 20, 2016 at 5:30 (PST) called “Foster Care Adoption.” I didn’t choose this webinar at random as I had signed up for it prior to the spring semester beginning for personal reasons.

This week's daily create is being brought to you by a Snow Day! I finally decided to pull myself away from the Netflix and check out the daily create. This one looked pretty easy, draw a cactus with your eyes closed. I don't think it's too bad, what do you guys think?   

Relationships have always been the secret sauce of success.  Companies spend millions trying to teach their leaders how to coach, inspire, and connect with their teams.  This semester my focal theme is Neuroscience and learning.  I will explore how breakthroughs in neuroscience can help the learning and development community create, deploy, and evaluate more effective learning solutions.   My learning goal is to improve my storytelling capabilities via digital mediums.     

Relationships have always been the secret sauce of success.  Companies spend millions trying to teach their leaders how to coach, inspire, and connect with their teams.  This semester my focal theme is Neuroscience and learning.  I will explore how breakthroughs in neuroscience can help the learning and development community create, deploy, and evaluate more effective learning solutions.   My learning goal is to improve my storytelling capabilities via digital mediums.     

The Forrest Gump Project; This is me with George, Thomas, Theodore and Abraham…rock.climbing. I was thinking of a historic picture and although this is sand blasted rock…it is a famous photograph. Amazing what man did there, and continues to do world wide. If you’ve not been, go and visit Mount Rushmore! #VisualAssignments #VisualAssignments1817

I have these two Broncos helmets that I thought would be perfect for the big car little car daily create. I also am trying to expand my digital prowess with these projects, so I decided to digitally create a Payton Manning jersey for my cowboy/Manning stand-in.

I’ve seen way to many adds for Monster Jam this weekend on the television. Oh, you haven’t? I must be watching some really strange channels then. Week 2 of INTE5340 and INTE 5665 are in the books! I’ve been experimenting…

Visual Assignment from the DS106 Assignment Bank: The Forrest Gump Project…or…My Selfie with Albert Einstein *I am currently working my way through my fourth semester of the Information and Learning Technologiesmaster’s program at University of Colorado, Denver.  This is the first post within a series of Creative Assignments that I’ve been tasked with completing for a course titled Digital Storytelling. The […]

Here we are in a digital storytelling course. When you hear storyteller ascribed to you and your skill set how does it make you feel?  It was quite disconcerting for me. Instructional designer, technical writer, writer of kick butt demand letters yes; but storytelling, I needed a serious paradigm shift to embrace that one.   It was at that moment I longed for an N or an F in my Myers-Briggs.   This TedX talk by Garr Reynolds co-author of Presentation Zen made it all better.     Summary: Do not

Here we are in a digital storytelling course. When you hear storyteller ascribed to you and your skill set how does it make you feel?  It was quite disconcerting for me. Instructional designer, technical writer, writer of kick butt demand letters yes; but storytelling, I needed a serious paradigm shift to embrace that one.   It was at that moment I longed for an N or an F in my Myers-Briggs.   This TedX talk by Garr Reynolds co-author of Presentation Zen made it all better.     Summary: Do not

Family, friends, Nancy's Pizza, that's a good look on a Friday night!     

 When he said _________ I thought __________.  How many times have you thought "oh no you didn't!@*"  How our brains signal trust or distrust, fear or flight and how to calm and redirect these reactions has become a flourishing industry due to incredible breakthroughs in neuroscience.     We now know trust serves up a feel good cocktails of chemicals like oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin.  Distrust serves up a toxic mix of cortisol, norepinephrine, and testosterone.  Neuroscience proves we all

Family, friends, Nancy's Pizza, that's a good look on a Friday night!     

 When he said _________ I thought __________.  How many times have you thought "oh no you didn't!@*"  How our brains signal trust or distrust, fear or flight and how to calm and redirect these reactions has become a flourishing industry due to incredible breakthroughs in neuroscience.     We now know trust serves up a feel good cocktails of chemicals like oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin.  Distrust serves up a toxic mix of cortisol, norepinephrine, and testosterone.  Neuroscience proves we all

Critique of a digital story related to my theme   How does our wiring; how our brain works, influence our ability to connect with others and work together to build better relationships, communities, organizations and ultimately a better world?   Cigna implemented a virtual, voluntary learning community to help their managers become better coaches.  The level of participation and improvement, based on employee engagement scores, exceeded expectation. Encouraged by these improvements Cigna

Critique of a digital story related to my theme   How does our wiring; how our brain works, influence our ability to connect with others and work together to build better relationships, communities, organizations and ultimately a better world?   Cigna implemented a virtual, voluntary learning community to help their managers become better coaches.  The level of participation and improvement, based on employee engagement scores, exceeded expectation. Encouraged by these improvements Cigna

My theme is food. I am fascinated by everything involved with food. I garden and cook regularly. I also love how one can learn about another culture through their food and also about history by reviving old recipes. This theme leads to my learning goals. I hope to learn about at least two new types […]

I choose to try out Troll Quotes for my Visual assignment. I had a quick idea of what I wanted to mash together but the creation process was fun and I went though many versions. Here is what I settled on:

The digital story I watched this week was short, but connected with me so much!  I have to admit that I was drawn to this story, because I have been making tortillas for the past few weeks quite a bit and can’t seem to get the hang of it.  I am not latina.  I did […]

Kona and I.  She is the best dog anyone could ever ask for and the best fur baby!  

My first love is history and second is technology.  As a result, this article on documenting local history through digital storytelling stood out to me.  The article is a case study on a digital storytelling project led by the Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library.  The purpose of the project was to document the community’s local history through a […]

We are reading Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel's book New Literacies.  Research into new literacies in the Digital Age.  An informative and eye-opening read; here are my reflections on the first chapter.   What are your main insights and ideas from the given L&K Chapter?   I had never really thought about the evolution of reading and writing competence to “literacy” until reading this chapter (Knobel, 2011).   The concept struck me as similar to knowledge is not power; the application of

We are reading Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel's book New Literacies.  Research into new literacies in the Digital Age.  An informative and eye-opening read; here are my reflections on the first chapter.   What are your main insights and ideas from the given L&K Chapter?   I had never really thought about the evolution of reading and writing competence to “literacy” until reading this chapter (Knobel, 2011).   The concept struck me as similar to knowledge is not power; the application of

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