This short narrative spoke to me in so many ways.  I am working on a dissertation topic which involves exploring emotional intelligence and how telling and sharing narratives can create empathy. As I listened to this particular dual narrative, I ...

I have been asked to critique a digital story for class using a portion of Jason Ohler’s “assessment traits.” I chose to look at …

What to look for in a digital story…There are so many parts and components that take place in digital storytelling, so today I am going to focus on media application, story, and organization/pacing. I chose a digital story about finding a life purpose and connecting to a community.  The story Finding by Darius Gray. This is […]

I found an interesting digital story from the website StoryCenter formally known as The Center for Digital Storytelling.  The website serves as a place for people to share their stories to help change lives and communities.  The three traits from Jason Ohler that I chose to focus on were: Originality, Voice, and Creativity Media Application Sense […]

For my first digital story critique I choose something about work-life balance. This is an area that raises my interest. For the last eight years I have not had any work-life balance. I worked 10-12 hours daily while going to school and being a single-mom. I recently switched jobs and I don’t want to fall […]

For our reading this week we were tasked with reading “Lankshear & Knobel (2007) Chapter 1: Sampling “the New” in New Literacies.”  Our class uses a program called  Hypothesis.  This program is an “open” annotation- in other words you can annotate on essentially any webpage.  You download the program to your browser and it can […]

Let’s See if I Can Make Sense of This Lankshear and Knobel: Ch1–Sampling the “New” in New Literacies (2007) I learned a good deal …

My first blog assignment was to pick a Visual assignment from the DS106 Assignment Bank (DS106 Assignment Bank ). As I was viewing the different assignments the Bucket List topic caught my eye.  The assignment was, if I choose to accept…. So… Everyone should have a bucket list. What’s on yours? For this assignment you should create […]

My digital story for the week is a digital story titled To Every Child. Being a teacher at a title one school I found myself easily able to relate to the message of the creator of this document. I really liked the overall message and representation of her passion through her words. I will be&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Who doesn't love the enigma that is Bansky, is he real, is he more than one person, does he even exist..."Its easier to get forgiveness that it is to ask permission"quote left behind on a paper left at the site of the Bristol TagThis week for a critiqu...

To be honest, when I first started my master’s program I was selfish and frightened.  Selfish in the fact that I wanted to do my own work on my own time and I did not feel like I had the time or energy to collaborate. Terrible, I know.   Frightened because it had been a […]

From the DS106 Visual Assignment Bank I chose the assignment “”Your Love For Your Pet” (found here).  So … I’d like to introduce you all to Koopa!  He is a mix between a Pomeranian and a Papillon.  He is high energy fluff ball and a cuddle machine.        

This week I chose to a video from teachingchannel.org that directly connected to my theme: teaching diverse learners, or meeting the needs of diverse learners. The video, actually titled, Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners, focused on a classrooms use of stations to help support all learners. The educator who narrates the video explains a lesson … Continue reading "Week 1: Story Critique"

https://via.hypothes.is/http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/why-teaching-poetry-is-so-important/360346/ http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/why-teaching-poetry-is-so-important/360346/ This is such a great article about...

Hello! I am reflecting on my digital story progress- My theme for my digital story will be teaching poetry in the classroom. I have done a lot of reading of curriculum that revolves around using poetry in the classroom. I am super excited about what my students will be working on. Thinking back after I […]

WHAT LIFTS YOU? Kelsey Montague may not be a household name, but one day she will grace the pages of art history books and may become one of the most famous female street mural artists.See for yourself first hand the creative works behind what I t...

This week we were asked to read Lankshear and Knobel (2007) Ch1 in addition to a piece of interest-driven scholarship. As my focus is teaching, specifically teaching groups of diverse learners, and because the required reading focused on new literacies and mind-sets in the digital age I landed on the following article Communicating with the World: Connecting the … Continue reading "Week 1: Reading Response"

Original assignment link-http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/bucket-list/ My bucket list revolves mostly around experiences and traveling. My goal in life is to travel to many different countries including Thailand and Ireland. I would love to visit historic castles in Ireland and beautiful beaches and islands in Thailand. I would also love to own a boat and a cabin in […]

I’ve always kind of hated that overused term “bucket list” so I guess I’ve avoided ever really thinking this through. Another part of my hesitation is that it seems daunting to come up with a whole list of EVERYTHING you want to do before you die.  So, this was actually a very fun and freeing … Continue reading Bucketa Bucketa!

For my first story critique I thought I would keep with the theme of the readings I completed this week.  I found a TEDx Talk by Jessie Wooley-Wilson that aimed to look at blending technology and education. For this critique I will be using the following evaluation traits: Flow, Organization, and Pacing Media Application Sense of Audience […]

For my interest-driven scholarship this week I wanted to read something that would give me a glimpse of what digital story telling might look like within my fourth grade classroom.  Already, just in week one of this course, I feel like I have learned a lot and have become engaged in new literacies in ways […]

Universe is our beloved Golden Retriever. He will turn 6 years old this year and has been an amazing member of our family. We often refer to him as our first born, however, he definitely was replaced by our first … Continue reading →

Everyone has a bucket list, or they should. I would share my entire list with you, but for the moment, here are my top four. Have a proper English Tea at the London Ritz. Whenever I travel, either for work or pleasure, I try to go to tea at least once. If there is a Ritz in town, that is…

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Story Critique: Work-life balance: balancing time or balancing identity? |MichelleRyan | TEDxExeter Video can be found Here                 Synopsis: Michelle Ryan, Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology and Dean of Postgraduate Research at the University of … Continue reading →

“There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza.  There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, a hole.”   As I was browsing through the DS106 visual choices for my next assignment, I was drawn to the bucket list option.  Why?  Sometimes life gets so busy that we forget to dream and realize […]

Ah, the power of music, or, in this case, poetry. I spun the metaphorical wheel in the Visual Assignment Bank for DS106 and was rewarded with the assignment to take a set of favorite lyrics and arrange them over a related image that helps convey the feel of the music. After much contemplation, I adjusted the … Continue reading Visual Creation: The Lyrical Image

I spend each school year trying to drill the idea of literacy being a fluid thing into the heads of my students  as well as their parents. I used to think of myself as quite evolved on the subject, but honestly, after reading chapter 1 from  Sampling the New in New Literacies, I have realized […]

This is a good representation of how feel after reading this weeks required reading. Chapter one titled, ‘Sampling the “New” in New Literacies‘ is packed with more information than my brain was prepared to handle this week. My largest take away from this chapter is that the definition of literacy is changing and in order […]

Prompt: So… Everyone should have a bucket list. What’s on yours? For this assignment, you should create a collage with AT LEAST four pictures of four different things you have on your bucket list. Add text to your picture of … Continue reading →