Halfway point! I can’t believe week 4 is over, and I’m that much closer to completing my masters! This week I completed all of our week’s assignments on time, and to the best of my abilities. The one assignment I felt a bit unsure about this week was the Digital Story Critique only because of … Continue reading "Week 4: Reflection"

This week’s reading was on blogs and the “ongoing ethnography of blogging.”  In other words, the study of human races and cultures within blogs. This reading was interesting, and well placed I may add (good choice Remi), as we have been blogging for a month now.  We have seen other blogs, read our peers blogs […]

Happy 4th of July Weekend! Not sure about anyone else but I know I have lost track of what day it is, even though my summer camp JUST ended. This week I chose to make a magazine cover as seen HERE on twitter! So, I know, what DOES this have to do with my focus. […]

Week #4: Reflection via GIPHY It’s been a good week. I somehow managed to fit in three Daily Creates this week, just for fun, despite having less time overall. I really enjoyed creating these and look forward to finding out … Continue reading →

This week the idea of thinking about writing about the self was probably the most terrifying, and yet, needed distraction. I have had one of those weeks where I feel I am being forced to own my story because of the connections in my life. I have been operating this week with a constant thrush … Continue reading "Week 4: Reading Response Writing and Self"

Already half way through the semester and I feel like so much as been accomplished. Here’s a look back at the work I completed this week:

• TDC 1 – Carrot Business
• Story Critique
• Design Assignment: Propaganda Poster
• Reading Response
• TDC

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This week seemed to fly by at a much faster rate than the previous ones. Like last week, I paced myself, but I still felt compelled to jump in proactively. I am still enjoying the course very much (and I don’t anticipate any changes to that), but there’s always a solid combination of excellent work, […]

For my Week 4 digital story critique I watched continue to review many videos and tried to find one that I enjoy and applies to my theme. This week I choose a portion of a video from Stanford Graduate School of Business. This video is short but it resonates with my theme about work-life balance. […]

This week proved to be a better one for me in the course.  I found the Davies and Merchant chapter to be intriguing primary because it forced me to look at blogging from a different point of view.  I am still not completely certain that I eve...

This week I looked at a Dove commercial.  Recently Dove has had a campaign to promote the healthy body image of women, and this is one of their more recent commercials.  Every day men and women are exposed to images showing what an “ideal” body looks like, and many people are left thinking that what they … Continue reading “Beauty on your own terms” – Week 4 Story Critique

This week’s articles: “Looking From the Inside Out: Academic Blogging as New Literacy” – Davies and Merchant (2007) “Blogging For Mental Health” – Amy Novotney, American Psychological Association   “Looking From the Inside Out: Academic Blogging as New Literacy” This week’s chapter discusses how Blogging has become a new literacy.  At the beginning of the chapter, the … Continue reading Week 4 – Reading Response

This week I have chosen a very intimate and personal digital story to highlight.  In my own research, one of the areas in which digital storytelling is emerging as a tool is in healthcare.  There are a number of sites which highlight digital ...

This week I have lacked serious motivation! This week I feel like I just checked off tasks and didn’t put a lot of work into my creations. Life got in the way this week with a visitor for 9 days who left Wednesday and trying to get everything done before more visitors get here Saturday. […]

@ds106dc #tdc1626 Today's Daily Create:Playing with words, finding my story. From https://t.co/1QgXBRCMZl https://t.co/7tl2CvWYRg #ILT5340 — Kzetland (@kerlass1) June 24, 2016

There is always something that throws me off each week. I used WordItOut to create a wordcloud that represents my experience in this course so far. For the life of me, I cannot get the wordcloud to display on this page. I have included the link to my creation. If anyone has any suggestions of … Continue reading "Week 4: Design Assignment"

When looking for a digital story to critique this week I wanted to try hard to stay away from videos because that is how I have stereotyped digital stories. I am going to try to take my new learning and step out of my comfort zone to find a different type of digital story. I […]

I really enjoyed this week’s Design assignment.  For this assignment I was to create a collage using pages from old magazines.  See below for my finished product. My theme for this semester is Health/Nutrition so I included images, quotes, etc. that encompass this theme.  My favorite part of this collage is in the top/middle where … Continue reading Healthy Collage

This week’s reading “Academic Blogging as a New Literacy” was interesting and I think directly tied to the work we are doing in ILT5340. I gained some familiarity with some terms such as autoethnographic and hypertext.Our blogs are all hypertexts because we link to other material and each post is linked to our blog. It […]

This week we were asked to complete a project from the DS106 Design Assignment bank. I spent a lot of time looking through these assignments (I even started last week), and really had trouble finding one that spoke to me in the right way – the right way being that I could accomplish it within … Continue reading Design Creation: Put a Rhino on It!

For this week’s critique I found a video that seems to have been made to reach students in a course in which blogging is discussed (like what seems to be, perhaps, a very dull version of ILT5340).  The professor is giving an overview of blogging in the classroom and the benefits that it can have […]

This week’s reading was Davies and Merchant (2007) Ch8: Looking From the Inside Out: Academic Blogging as New Literacy.  In this reading we explored the world of blogging, from the view of researchers that performed an autoehnographic (new term for me!) study in which they were both the subject and the object.  The researchers constructed their own […]

http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/view_story.cfm?vid=93&categoryid=6&d_title=Mathematics I googled digital stories and found this digital story about life without math.  I am a believer in the importance of piratical math, however I am not a huge believer in making students take 2 hours of math a … Continue reading →

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2013/01/22/is-poetry-dead/   It is scary that this is even a question that we are asking… however it is a very relevant question. In my opinion it is not dead however it does need to be revived. I think that it is our job as educators to revive poetry. We need to draw in the excitement […]

Blogging…..ohhhh blogging Blogging has not been a friend of mine so far. The article speaks to a blog not only being the text but the style, the look, the colors, etc. This is something that I am still continually struggling with. I am not tech savvy enough to create the style that I am going […]

Open faculty development When I read the title of this article, I was expecting it to be about how to develop a faculty for an open course platform. In other words, how could you develop, and maybe even more importantly … Continue reading →

Week 4: Story Critique Juggling Life and Work: Glass Balls and Rubber Balls My story critique this week centers on a blog post in The Huffington Post by Julie Kantor. She began by sharing a metaphor about juggling rubber and … Continue reading →

This week I struggled to find a story to critique that I really connected with and enjoyed. I feel like I’m spending a lot of time searching for videos and watching ones that don’t really work the way I need them to. However, the one I settled on this week I’m really happy with. The … Continue reading "Week 4: Story Critique"

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