Overall, I feel like I succeeded in completing the requirements of this week’s assignments. When I first looked over DS106, our syllabus, blog, etc. I was overwhelmed by the challenges facing me. I have never blogged before, never used twitter, and honestly had no desire to, but this class has forced me to rethink my … Continue reading "Week 1 Reflection"

For this critique, I used Jason Ohler’s assessment traits. I focused three traits: Story Project planning Originality, voice, creativity I evaluated the story and the writing of the story. How well did the story work? Is it is complete and understandable? I looked at the level of project planning. Is there evidence of solid planning – story maps, scripts, storyboards? Finally, I focused on…

This week I read the following two articles: “Sampling ‘the New’ in New Literacies” – Lankshear & Knobel (2007) “7 Things You Should Know About Digital Storytelling” from the Journal titled “Educause Learning Initiative”   Sampling the “New” in New Literacies This chapter from Lankshear and Knobel’s book was a great introductory read for this class … Continue reading Week 1 – Reading Response

So the first week of Learning with Digital Stories has passed. This was not as grueling a week as I initially thought. Yes there …

Week 1 Reflection: Details, Details Wow, what a week! I can’t believe I got everything done! Let’s see, I read all the required and suggested readings, made annotations on them through something called Hypothes.is, did two Daily Creates, a visual … Continue reading →

My week was rough.  Not the kind of rough that makes you want to pull your hair out.  The kind of rough that by the end of it you let out a long sigh and smile: “I did it.” Address the following questions: How well do you feel you completed the requirements of the week’s […]

So, this first week of Learning with Digital Stories is coming to a close.  I have set up numerous accounts, learned to use new tools, read interesting articles and websites, watched and listened to fascinating videos and podcasts, blogged and blogged and still have at least two assignments to complete today that I have started … Continue reading “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems” ― Epictetus

So, for whatever reason this assignment baffled me.  I just couldn’t seem to understand exactly what I was supposed to be doing.  I know this happens to my students sometimes, I can see their eyes glaze over and they begin to furrow their brow.  This was 100% me.  I just kept clicking around through all […]

Do you see the hope that comes with being small next to the ocean? Do you think of the world …

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TDC1361 asks the creator to take a photo and flip it upside down. I chose this one because I liked the different perspective. Makes me think about all the different perspectives I have in my classroom some days. I also chose it because today’s daily create wasn’t one that I really connected with-so I searched the … Continue reading "Upside Down Daily Create"

This is an intense course, with an incredible amount of work. I have worked very hard daily, and still feel behind in the coursework. I am worried that I am doing so much work that I am unable to retain … Continue reading →

“Dreams do not lack reality. They are real patterns of information.” Richard Doyle If you are looking to expand your paradigm, take some time to listen to Jason Silva. He paints luminous pictures with his words. He helps us get a glimpse into what is possible, what we strive for as humans, and how to […]

Review of Lankshear & Knoble’s “New Literacies Sampler: New literacies and digital epistemologies” (2007). Chapter 1. Summary The new ways of thinking are nothing short of epochal, say the authors of the book “A New Literacies Sampler“. A shift of paradigm into “post-industrial thinking” is slamming into the industrial mindset of the old guard, and the […]

This was pretty entertaining and a lot harder than it looks at first. I liked the idea of playing with a poem form that required a certain number of syllables like haiku and then I found this particular haiku which pokes a little fun at the form itself...

Daily Create for 6/11/16 #tdc1616 Look at that tag. Today is double speak day!    

The required reading for week one of Learning with Digital Stories was the first chapter of Knoble & Lankshear’s  The New Literacies Sampler.  I was at first surprised to find that we were reading a text that was 10 years old on a subject that seems a new phenomenon.  My second surprise was that this … Continue reading Everything Old Is New Again – Week 1 Response to Readings

Reflection on this week of so many challenges. I have created two Daily Creates, a visual assignment, web annotation, and a digital story critique. This was all new to me and at times I wanted to drop out of the course. When trying to get everything done this week I felt overwhelmed and stressed that […]

There’s no better way to learn than by doing and what a crazy week it has been! Here’s a list of the projects I completed for this week:

• TDC 1 – The Sounds of Five Animals Who Will Never Meet

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So many new things happened this week!  I had never heard of hypothes.is before, tweeted over one tweet in a week, really understood twitter #@, experienced ds106, blogged more than 3 times in a week (and tweeted about it), or had a class that functioned for the most part outside of Canvas.  Oh, I forgot […]

#tdc1612 Sharing Happiness Three Things That Make Me Happy – From Daily Create. Created June 7, 2016

http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/open-digital-pedagogy-critical-pedagogy/   OPEN DIGITAL PEDAGOGY = CRITICAL PEDAGOGY Written by Jody R. Rosen and Maura A. Smale   I often tell the students that I teach that I am by no means the holder of all knowledge, in fact I … Continue reading →

http://www.pbs.org/video/2365489505/   Robin Williams – On Masks   The music that the producers of this digital story added matches the words perfectly, and adds another wonderful element of this production. Music is often overlooked, but I feel the most critical … Continue reading →

I am so glad to have week one under my belt!  I started the week STRESSED about this class.  I felt like there was no way I could succeed – I couldn’t even understand the syllabus.  But here we are – I made it!  I feel like I successfully completed this week’s assignments, as much […]

This blog post is my Week 1 Reflection for ILT5340 (INTE5340, DS106) in which I discuss how well I did in completing the assignments for this week, what did I struggle with, what do I regret (if anything), my questions, the larger issues surrounding my work, and a self-assessment. I intended to start out the […]

I’m a great lover of eccentrics (I’m related to many of them) and so I chose Paul Wallis’s Sydney Media Jam’s blog in praise of eccentrics to critique this week. For my critique, I will focus on: Originality, Voice and Creativity, Flow, Organization and Pacing, and Story As I started to read the blog, I really… Continue reading Week 1 Critique: Wanted – Eccentrics, experience preferred →

I read this chapter through a different lens than many of my colleagues in ILT5340 I think. For the past six months I have marinated in a stew of how digital storytelling fundamentally has changed the way we are exploring relationships one to another a...

After reading a little bit about how Web 2.0 is driving the evolution of literacies in our reading of Lankshear & Knobel’s chapter “Sampling ‘the New’ in New Literacies” from A New Literacies Sampler (2007), I was curious to learn more about the technologies involved and how different they are from the technologies that emerged… Continue reading Interest-Driven Scholarship: “What is Web 2.0” by Tim O’Reilly →