DIY! This week’s reading was all about the DIY culture and how it started as a home improvement term for people who didn’t want to pay high dollar to have something done around the house. This concept applied to new media is new for more but has started to make more sense as I read. […]

Lankshear and Knobel (2008) Ch1: DIY Media: A Contextual Background and Some Contemporary Themes

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 This story is about understanding the difference between animal welfare and animal rights. I chose this story because I have chosen to focus on animal rights and wanted to see what it had to say about the difference between welfare and rights. After watching the story I have decided that I am actually more on […]

Whew! That was a process but not too bad! This week’s DS106 Assignment Bank was Video. I picked the one called “Lfie a an animal” (I know life is spelled wrong but that is how it is spelled in the assignment.) So because I am an animal lover and have way too many videos and […]

This week we were asked to read Lankshear and Knobel (2008) Ch1: DIY Media: A Contextual Background and Some Contemporary Themes. In this chapter Lankshear and Knobel explain understanding student’s media practices can help educators create learning opportunities that students connect to, and find meaningful. Much of what was discussed in this chapter brought me back … Continue reading "Week 3 Reading Response: DIY Media & Project Based Learning"

Superhero movies are all the rage right now, and I’ve thrown my hat in the ring with this short film about a woman who receives visions of future dangers. “The Small Perks of Seeing the Future” was created for the “Play It Backward, Jack” video assignment from the DS106 Assignment Bank. The assignment called for reversing a … Continue reading Video Creation: The Small Perks of Seeing the Future

Can adhering to a definition or “type” create an environment where we are stifling natural behavior and limiting what we consider as “good?” In Average Oppression, Laura Grace Weldon takes a sharp look at the current obsession to define and standardize everything from weight to grades to how our food looks. The author sets up… Continue reading Comparing Apples to Apples – Week 3 Critique →

This week, I found a new tool to use courtesy of ds106.  I had used other similar tools before but it seems that many of them have disappeared from the web.  So, as I was looking at Daily Creates under the video section, I happened across thi...

Today’s daily create was to make yourself into Jim Groom – so I borrowed all that I could from my husband…except for his beard.

This story caught my eye because I of my thematic approach to this summer.  I'm looking at change, transformation and risk-taking.  This is one of the first creations by a student which links up with that idea directly and which addresses fe...

For my new digital story critique I watched many videos and tried to find one that spoke to me. I choose a video story told by Denise Ward entitled “Roller Coaster” where she talks about her commitment to her “family.” This video was very touching to me and helped me obtain a new perspective on life. […]

  When my family began to talk about going on vacation this year, we had many places we wanted to visit but because of circumstances, going far away or to the beach (where we really wanted to go) was not possible this year.  One evening I was sharing with my husband that growing up in Missouri, […]

6 Second lesson-Well here is something that makes me feel a little 'Bob Ross' on crack, minus the afro and acrylic. Though I refrained from mentioning happy trees and clouds, I think he would have still been proud, and really anyone could compose a sim...

DIY Media and Digital Learning Readings: Lankshear and Knobel (2008) Ch1: DIY Media: A Contextual Background and Some Contemporary Themes Robin DeRosa: My Open Textbook: Pedagogy and Practice Remi Holden: Annotation in the Open: Part 2 (and note the Hypothes.is annotations) How Reading this May … Continue reading →

The Story

This piece was inspired in a number of different ways. Being a new runner, some of my advance runner friends and coworkers have often asked me to join their running groups, saying it will just be a “fun Read more...

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Check out the reading that inspired this response. This article states that there is a gap between the way in which students learn and the way they live, it goes on to state unless we bridge this gap school will become irrelevant. Social context and technology has shapes our lives so much that educational systems&ellipsis;Read the full post »

“…throughout the 20th century the dominant common sense model for mobilizing resources was based on the logic of “push.” Like resources, information needs a vehicle to move. If we think of our common, conventional mode of mass communication “The Push” as, say, a super highway then perhaps we can think of “The Pull” as more like […]

Check out our reading for this week! One of the biggest insights from this reading came from the following quote, “This is a matter of knowing some-thing about their goals and aims and purposes; their tools and how they use them; the knowledge they draw on and seek to obtain in crafting their pro-duction to&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Check out my first video compilation! My learning has pushed me into the rel or video editing! For more information on the prompt that started it all check out our class work! I chose Finding Nemo because I think it is a great representation in Kid friendly terms of what growing up can look like.&ellipsis;Read the full post »

I grew up in a do-it-yourself household. My father fixes and builds. I learned at an early age the difference between channel locks and …

Happy First Day of Summer – This is week 3 in my social media leanings – I  am starting to think you can teach an old dog new tricks. So my daily create for week 3 – it was to create a message to keep one’s digital self intact. So the assignment is as follows: […]

I did it! I used a video technology with which I had no prior experience! Everyone (mostly me), rejoice! OK, maybe I’m getting a little too excited, but exploring a new video editing technology is-for me-a more than potentially daunting task. Although I am a frequent Camtasia user, I know little of other technologies for […]

For this video assignment the task was to take a video of yourself or someone else and finger spell a word or a phrase in Sign Language alphabet and let others guess what you have spelled.  I chose this assignment for a couple of different reasons.  The first being that this next year I will have a student […]

A Woman Was Mauled By A Bear In The Middle Of Running A Marathon

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#tdc1626 Writing Left on the Cutting Room Floor Find a famous literary quote (idealy by a famous literary person) and create something that shows the first draft versions that did not make the cut. Like the notes the writer might … Continue reading →

Check out what inspired my daily create! It has been brought to my attention that former students sometimes abandon their DS106 domains leaving them vulnerable to vultures! I created this blog in order to hopefully deter current and future students from giving up on their domain. I thought that a little musical inspiration might be in order to&ellipsis;Read the full post »

For my first daily create I  had to find a literary quote and create my own version of what a draft might have looked like for that quote. I had a lot of fun looking through tons of great quotes! My final decision was a quote from Robert Frost that simply states,  “In three words&ellipsis;Read the full post »

This was a tricky assignment! I spent a fair amount of time looking for college-ruled paper to use as a background, but decided to use Microsoft Publisher to insert the quote, add revisions, save it as an image, and upload it to imgur. I can only image what was going through Mr. Frost’s mind.

Reading Response: The World, Transparent   DIY media is something that has come around in the last few decades and is important in shaping contemporary culture. First off, what is DIY media? Do-It-Yourself media? It seems pretty self-explanatory, but from what I got out of the reading, the definition is kind of two-fold. First off, […]