This was an interesting week for me. I strugled to get my assignments completed this week more so than in the past few weeks because I was at the Canvas InstrutreCon conference. I had an interesting time acting as both a Canvas student and learning as a Canvas administrator. Despite my troubles completing assignments being …

It is wild to think this is the end of week 7! This course has gone by scary fast which means the summer is going by scary fast (especially for a teacher). However, it is exciting to know I’m at the finish line and about to complete my Master’s Degree! Crazy! As for my work … Continue reading "Week 7 Reflections!"

I feel good about my accomplishments this week.  I love blogging (didn’t think I would say that when I started this class).  Blogging has helped me process the information I am taking in and see it on paper.  As I am starting my final reflection project, I am noticing that blogging is a great resource for […]

I was drawn initially to the story Developing Voice in Digital Storytelling Through Creativity, Narrative, Multimodality by Monica Nilsson. I am finding that voice …

In the movies, the director hollers, "and....it's a wrap!" ILT 5340 is not quite a wrap.  However, we are getting close.  Week seven has been wonderful.  I have begun to reflect back on this last seven weeks and I really think that what ...

TDC1655 Contrasting emotions asked for the created to look for an image that shows a clear emotion and then overlay text of the opposite emotion on that image. Here is my creation:

I can’t believe this is the end of week 7 already. This course (and summer!) has flown by.  I feel like I completed all requirements of the week to the standards.  I was excited to get a chance to go back to a design assignment that I was interested the last time we were required to complete […]

This weeks reflection is inspired by the white privilege article that we read. I would like to reflect on the privilege I have had in my life. Privilege, I never even knew I had, until I was taught about it. … Continue reading →

This week was an especially special week both in ILT and in my summer expeditions, as we continue to read about participation, I become more involved in the digital and take the same philosophies to my reality life to become a more active participant i...

Ok. I am just going to say it. My life has become one long episode of Game of Thrones. I have seen all the seasons and I am in the middle of reading the books (at 1000 pages each). I am living with these charaters and I recognize the stereotypes in our contemporary (real-life) version […]

Often the most interesting part of a story is the mystery. Even in academic papers, the really intriguing parts are the ideas left ambiguous or unexplained. In reading Monica Nilssan’s “Developing Voice in Digital Storytelling Through Creativity, Narrative and Multimodality”, one of the most intriguing things in the paper is listed right below her name. The words […]

This has been a great week. This week’s reading was eye-opening and inspiring the motion of change. This week I have created daily creates and a visual assignment that add to my abilities to be creative and use new tools in a different way. I analyzed a digital story about factory farms and learned how […]

Hard to believe we are at the end of Week 7. This was a rough week for me and my sons. My work-life balance was put to a test…. My ex-husband was in an accident and had to have surgery this week, a huge deadline at work, and our dog of 14 years had to […]

http://coloradofilmschool.wix.com/colorfulcoloradofilm#!blank/llddp I watched a short film made here in colorado for the colorful colorado film festival. It was the award winner named Fresh from DSA. I thought that the movie was very well made and the super wide screen black … Continue reading →

A long time ago, I made a promise to myself. I promised myself that I would never lie to myself. To me, that means I will never say that I agree with something that I know in my bones isn’t true. This also means that I will not let myself be labeled as something I’m… Continue reading Raising My Voice Without Yelling – Week 7 Reflections →

The semester is already coming to an end and this is the last week of full production work. Here is what I completed for this week:

• TDC 1 – Third Eye Poem – Insomnia
• Video Assignment: Super Runners World
• Story

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This week was a whirlwind! I cannot believe that week 7 is coming to an end! I feel like I completed this week’s assignments really well! I explored other people work who were not in my group which was very fun and interesting! I also explored different resources and outlets that I have no experience&ellipsis;Read the full post »

I want to preface this post with a disclaimer: Now I in no way condone playing with animals in traffic. This is just an example …

Check out our reading for this week! The first big takeaway I had from the reading was the definition of what reading is.  Reading is defined as an ability to read and write as well as ability to make connections, conclusions, and associations with text. I have seen firsthand in schools the focus on the&ellipsis;Read the full post »

I had big plans for this week’s Assignment Bank.  On Tuesday I went through the visual assignments and chose this assignment.  The reason: I was scheduled to go to San Diego with my boyfriend for five days of beaches and pools and California!  This would be the perfect occasion to do a visual assignment.  However, the … Continue reading Cancelled Vacation

Week 7… Woooo Hooo! via GIPHY I did great this week. I focused more on my personal struggle of going back to work after being a stay-at-home mom for my own scholarship and story critique. I spent a lot of … Continue reading →

This week, I’m looking at a video from NatGeo Times called “10 Unbelievable Future Technologies That Will Change The World In Your Lifetime.” This video quickly outlines ten “in progress” technologies that the producers see as having a large impact on the world. It’s just under ten minutes long, if you want to give it … Continue reading Digital Story Critique: 10 Unbelievable Future Technologies

For this week’s DS106 Assingnment Bank, I selected Haiku About You.   That Pivital Moment Local Pet Store Signs: Puppies cost one grand; Kittens – free with food purchase   I created this haiku because I wanted to challenge myself to describe the moment when I decided to focus on cat rescue, although I promote …

Wiki pages in general are collaborative remixes; live documents that multiple peaople can edit, fostering a community where people share information to produce a deliverable. Wikipages embody many of the concepts discussed in the reading of this course. While in a conference session this week, one of the presenters mentioned having her students take a …

This week I read White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh. This was a difficult reading for me as it focuses on the concept of white privilege. I am white. This article focused on the idea that white people are raised to be “oblivious” to the privileges they receive simply due to the …

Week #7: Story Critique I chose this digital story image to critique as a supplement to my chosen scholarly research on work-life balance (my focal theme) and going back to work after staying at home with children. This image comes … Continue reading →

This week I came across an article titled 10 Best TED Talks of 2014 for Educators. The article itself was from Edudemic.com-a website that I had never heard of before that claims to connect technology and education-a good fit for this course.  I ended up choosing the first video on the list: Clint Smith’s The Danger of … Continue reading "Week 7: Digital Story Critique"

For my last DS106 assignment bank creation, I wanted to do something I had not done before from a “new to me” category. I had also determined in last week’s course reflection that I wanted to involve my family in this week’s project. So, I worked with my husband to choose the “Buzzfeed Personality Quiz” … Continue reading Web Assignment: Catching the Buzz

I have only a passing familiarity with fan fiction. It’s one of those things that I didn’t follow or read and instead discounting the …

Dear future me, Life in 10 years… this is a crazy thought but I will be 40…YIKES!!!! What do I imagine my life to be like at age 40… Married 3 kids Still teaching loving life   What is scary to me is who is president… Donald Trump? Hilary Clinton? Someone new I hope! I […]