This picture pretty much sums up how I am feeling right now! I am feeling very accomplished this week! I completed my assignments well and had a lot of fun doing it!  I think my sense of accomplishment this week stems from the balance I have found between everything going on in life right now.&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Perhaps one of my favorite Ds106 assignment bank options yet... I love when my digital self and my reality self get to come together to create something, each gets to play an important role in the production, with an end product that both are happ...

    Check out the fanfiction that inspired this post! I decided to explore a little bit of fan fiction this week. I have never really spent a lot of time exploring or getting into fan fiction, as such I thought it was about time! I chose to look into fanfiction related to Ghostbusters. I&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Lankshear and Knobel (2011) Ch7: Social Learning, “Push” and “Pull,” and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning

We first read about the ‘push’ and ‘pull’ paradigms for mobilizing resources back in week 3 and I even wrote about it on my Read more...

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This week I found an amazing website for exploring Denver.  It is called the Denver Story Trek.  This website provides opportunities for you to have an interactive tour of historical sites in Denver, and it is free!  A new addition to the program is the ability to get texts about your specific trek.  You should be […]

This week in INTE 5340, we were given the option of choosing a project from the DS106 Assignment Bank that explored our theme for the semester.  I choose to do Video Assignment 1447 – Create a Music Video.  In this assignment, we were asked to create our own music video to a song. My theme […]

The importance of being alone in the digital era I chose this article to write about as it seams contradictory from everything we have been learning about how technology is so wonderful for sharing and that learning is enhanced by … Continue reading →

This week, I wanted to keep things playful and start circling back to my interest that “There is no normal.” What better way to find a playful way to look at a resonant topic than to have stop-motion Lego minifigures share their message while tickling the funny bone. This week, I chose The School of… Continue reading As “Normal” as Any Minifig Could Be – Week 6 Story Critique →

Traditional academics believe the best learning takes place within a mind deep in contemplation. New ideas about learning, however, are challenging this. According to this week’s reading of Lankshear and Knobel’s book New Literacies (chapter 7): Knowledge in the modern era is no longer considered a private possession. It is considered a social activity. Depth of […]

Readings: Lankshear and Knobel (2011) Ch7: Social Learning, “Push” and “Pull,” and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning Scott Campbell:The Importance of Being Along in the Digital Era Smartphone stress: Are you a victim of ‘always on’ culture? Relationship of Smartphone … Continue reading →

Perhaps a little blurry, sorry about that … This week I chose to do the Visual Assignment called “That’s Not What I Expected.” So can you guess what this image is showing? Here are some hints: my theme for this semester is “Health and Nutrition” (so this image has something to do with that) this … Continue reading Close up! – Can you guess what it is?

Check out my latest blog – the DS106 Assignment Bank creation for Week 6. So Week 6 DS106 Assignment Bank creation assignment was to select any assignment from any category on the DS106 Assignment Bank website that explores my chosen storytelling theme. So what was my chosen storytelling theme….. it is about work-life balance and the […]

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The Story

Running can sometimes be very boring to me if I don’t have something to keep my entertained or new ways of switching up. This is the first week I got to choose my own assignment from the ds106 Read more...

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This week’s reading was Lankshear and Knobel (2011) Ch7: Social Learning, “Push” and “Pull,” and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning.  The chapter takes a look at the concept of social learning – and the authors take the stance that social learning is truly the only form of authentic learning. “They suggested that by separating learning from ‘authentic’ […]

This week we got to choose our own assignment, the only requirement was it had to do with our focus.  I surfed around a bit, it was fun just looking at all the assignments that we were able to do.  I ended up landing on the “I like to Move it Move it!” assignment. You […]

To say that I am obsessed with my dog is probably an understatement. I would take him with me everywhere I went if I could. His first trip was at three months old. He had broken his leg two days before but made the drive to Texas with me. The photo with him sleeping on […]

Wow! This week I was looking for something more inspirational to critique and I think I found it. I am not a morning person, as a matter of fact, I hate mornings. This story really made me think differently about Read more...The post Week 6 Story Cri...

  This week’s assignment was to use a site like http://www.wordle.net/create or similar to create a word cloud. The chosen text should be meaningful to me, so I used my chosen storytelling theme – the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). More specifically, the characteristics of an ESFP. I was to choose a font and color scheme that reflects the emotion behind my choice…

Definitely didn’t know what C64 was until today…

For this week’s story critique I found a video from the teaching channel that talked about implementing blogging in the classroom.  This was something that I wanted to look a little deeper into since we read about blogging a couple weeks ago, and it happened to be the first video that popped up when I got to […]

For this week’s Assignment Bank Creation I went back to the visual assignments.  We did visual assignments the first week of class, and I chose an assignment that didn’t force me to try anything new.  All I had to do was take a picture and post it. Last week I tried my hand at some […]

This week I chose an article that aligns with my professional growth. This coming school year will be my 3rd year of teaching. After reflecting on our weekly class reading and participating on some online group discussion I began thinking about how we prepare individuals to become teachers. I reflected on my own experience and&ellipsis;Read the full post »

#tdc1647 C64 Yourself Make yourself a retro computer portrait! The C64 Yourself site converts any image into something that would look at home on a Commodore 64 screen.

From the wonderful people at Jonesboro Library comes a particularly catching library outreach poster: I was very pleased to come across this Photoshop remix example. True story: it happened BY ACCIDENT! I suppose happenstance is a force that often leads us to some of the best ideas. After a careful examination (in which I carefully reviewed the […]

Check out our reading for this week! One thing that really stood out to me in this reading was the following quote, “by separating learning from ‘authentic’ activity grounded in physical and social contexts and situations, formal education largely defeats its goal of promoting ‘useable, robust knowledge.” I think that the preface for this statement&ellipsis;Read the full post »

One of the funniest dailycreates ever! TDC1647

Reading Response: The World, Socialized When I was growing up, I was always told I was smart. In middle school, I knew all the countries in Europe and their capitols, memorized 300 digits of pi, and got straight A’s. As a child, I was a bookworm, a math whiz, a science geek. But now that […]

I call this image “Betrayal” and this is my nightmare. When you hear the story, you might think the title is irrational and a little bitter, but this has handicapped my life. When I was little, maybe two or three, my family went on a trip to Washington, D.C. and, like you do, we took… Continue reading I Still Can’t… →

Happy Monday – My Daily Create for Week 6 is about two best friends. The daily create assignment – Daily Create . These two best friends were hanging out on the beach having fun playing in the sand. The orangutan thought it would be fun to call his friend a “lap dog” because he thought it was […]