I used a word cloud generator to create a visual representation of a paper I wrote on helping adult learners persist in college through academic advising services.

Week Two: Digital Story Critique I work with kindergarten through first grade students in my school. I have an eye on our English Language Learners, but really I have an eye on all learners. I collaborate with classroom teachers on ways and ideas to make content meaningful. The idea is to bring the page, the book, the […]

#ds106 Daily Create: #tdc1481 Put a Western Reflection in Your Front Window *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 second 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, “Can you […]

This is a small part of a whole something.

I just stumbled on an article by a highly knowledgeable brewer named Chris Colby titled “IPA’s are not giving you Man Boobs“. Let’s be real, the article title is pretty enticing. The article serves as a rebuttal to another article…

This week I am critiquing “Homebrew Kegging“, a video podcast from Basic Brewing Radio’s James Spencer and Steve Wilkes. This video explained how to use, clean and sanitize a keg to use for beer. Last week, I critiqued using Story, Originality/Voice…

Hello, I decided, this week, to take on a daily create challenge to design a new cattle brand. I chose to make a brand with the letter D and B from my name but also the Denver Broncos! This was a lot of fun and crazy how many different attempts I made even though I […]

Week One   For this week in Learning with Digital Stories I needed to find a piece of scholarship related to my Focal Theme. First I had to discover my focal theme! The theme of motherhood has been swirling around in my mind, not motherhood in a traditional sense, as in a woman who has given birth and is therefore, a mother. But, in a more complicated, conceptual way. What about pets? Step children? What about the mothering you do of your friends’ kids? Or your nieces or nephews? What does

Out west, the sky is brilliant, the mountains call through a  victorian window that in this case is opening to the Flatirons in Boulder, CO. The quote, visible in my mind, dangling in the air, present evermore; each day even more real than the last. The time that is given to us…I know well that […]

My cattle brand is symbolic of what I love (the heart) and top choices (the letter L) Love Learning, Love Laughing, Love Life, Love Listening

My imagining of a cattle brand with my initials S and L. I remember trying to decipher cattle brands as a kid watching old cartoons and always hearing that sideways letters were read as “lazy”. So this is my Lazy Susan brand.

I have chosen to center my work in Learning with Digital Stories around the theme of hip hop history and culture. This week I am critiquing a digital story on the Beastie Boys. I found this story on the Blank on Blank site, which touts itself as providing Famous Names, Lost Stories. Animated Shorts. I have to … Continue reading Digital Story Critique: The Beastie Boys on Being Stupid

I am on yet another journey in education.

  Week Two: For this week’s story critique, I looked at the website, storycorps.org and came across a story called, “Danny and Annie.” Again this week I found myself searching around for an example of digital storytelling that would help me to begin to understand what digital storytelling actually is. I think I found it with this story. I chose to evaluate this story based on the following criteria: Story, Originality Voice and Creativity, and Media Application from Jason Ohler’s assessment

If I were to have a cattle ranch, I’d base my symbol on my favorite Greek goddess.  Who can guess what goddess the owl is associated with?:

“Skills plus Community” Chapter one of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel attempts to address what is meant by literacy and literacy education. They offer an historical overview of how literacy emerged as a societal goal as well as how literacy education first became policy and then became an industry. This transition over … Continue reading New Literacies, Chapter 1

ds106 Assignment – Visual Your Love For Your Pet (Or Any Other Animal That You Love) These are my Boxers Bailey and Anders. They are my children and are spoiled rotten.

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I didn't realize until this week that I was supposed to share my daily create assignment on my blog as well!!  It's a learning process I suppose...  So here are my pics from the last TWO weeks, hopefully I caught that in time :)    The first one of the mountain is for last week, the daily create was to illustrate western kindness. Mine was a greeting in the form of advice, Hold on to your toupee! And for week two I chose today's, which was to illustrate western wisdom.    PS: I took that picture

I am a very ambitious person. I decide that I am going to do something, and I find a way to do it. I decided last August that I was going to go back to school after finding the ILT…

What if there was no color?     #ds106 ILT5340   https://soundcloud.com/alicia-newton-1/colorless-world    

What if there was no color?     #ds106 ILT5340   https://soundcloud.com/alicia-newton-1/colorless-world    

How many times have you been confronted with situations that affect your life but you have no answer or clue to what the outcome will be?  Your Company has been acquired. You’ve been downsized, laid off, or fired.  You feel pressure from your spouse or significant other to do/act a certain way.  Your marriage/relationship has ended.  You receive a diagnosis.  You or someone you care about is suffering with an addiction. You can’t find a job.  Your children are teenagers.  You listen to the news.

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This is a webinar I developed and facilitated to teach presenters how to incorporate the princples of C.A.R.P. (contrast, alignment, repetition, and proximity) to increase engagement and retention.      

 Welcome to my blog, so happy you are here! On this blog I share resources, information, awakenings, and other aspects of my journey as a life-long learner.   After raising two sons, having several careers, and a lifetime of experiences what I know for sure is you never know what lies right around the corner.  Even in that uncertainly we can rest assured that everything is here to teach us.  On the learning path of life nothing is certain and everything is purposeful.      I define this blog as

Every other week in Learning with Digital Stories we are going to choose an assignment from the "Assignment Bank" with DS106. This week we were given the task of choosing from the Visual bank. I chose to do "You in Collage Form" as my first attempt! It...

Welcome to my Google + Community.  I'm glad you are here!   The Connection is space for you to connect, share, recharge, and speak life and vision into each other.   We all have gifts and things we excel at. Some of us have synthesized our unique brilliance into our vision and some of us haven’t. No matter, vision and purpose is like Ragu, it’s in there.   https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/111774884239943362953/stream/1d39361a-c999-4763-ba56-b958d0fe5bd0

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