In my search for a digital story for this week’s critique, I finally realized that digital storytelling has become an important outlet for people who feel the need to share their pain. I encountered so many tragic stories of violence, including war, child abuse, sexual assault, racism, neglect and more. Some of which were so ... [Read more...]

I have come to realize that digital storytelling can be a powerful tool. Whether the story is just for fun, to sell a product, or to provide instruction, if composed properly it is very effective. When considering digital stories as a means of communication it is important to understand some of the basics. The article&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Digital Storytelling in the Foreign Language Classroom is the article I read this week for my response to a piece of digital storytelling related scholarship. Below is the link to the article: http://files.campus.edublogs.org/blog.nus.edu.sg/dist/7/112/files/2012/07/Digital-Storytelling-in-the-Foreign-Language-Classroom_editforpdf-2jxajft.pdf The article contains valuable insights, and information that can help any novice user get a better understanding of digital storytelling as an… Continue reading Response to Digital Storytelling in the Foreign Language Classroom →

The digital story I have selected for this week is Alison, a photo essay about Jack Radcliffe’s daughter Allison. Jack started this photographic journey as a parent, taking photos of his daughter. As he got ore into his photography, he became fascinated by what he was capturing on his camera of his family and friends… relationships. His… Continue reading Digital Story Critique 5: Alison

As educators strive to incorporate technology in the classroom, many teachers are blogging and are having students interact on their own blogs. As I’ve ruminated previously, giving students a space to record and reflect on their learning can have a huge impact. Elizabeth Guerra questions whether blogging is having a positive impact in the classroom, … Continue reading "Story Review: Blogging in the Classroom"

In her article, "The Art of Digital Storytelling," Bernajean Porter provides a brief description of what Digital Storytelling is, which I am not going to recount in this blog. What I would like to address are the elements that Porter claims are essential for creating an effective Digital Story: Living in the Story and Unfolding a Lesson Learned​. When she says that an author needs to "live" in his or her story, Porter is simply reminding Digital Storytellers that ...

Samantha Morra shares with us a practical guide on how we can bring digital storytelling into our classrooms in 8 Steps to Great Digital Storytelling at the EdTechTeacher.org site.  Her article not only provides the step-by-step process for how to have your students create digital stories, but she also provides a number of resources for … Continue reading Response – 8 Steps to Great Digital Storytelling

Today’s Daily Create encouraged snapping a photo and using this site to make it old! The site is in Japanese, it was fun to use my intuition to figure out how to use it without a translator. #tdc1726

Digital storytelling has been at the forefront of my mind every time I talk to my colleagues, yet I feel like I’m still not finding the right words to incite excitement. As educators, we are often bogged down with the race against the school year clock and wading through intense curriculum that is overwhelming in … Continue reading "Storytelling Improves Student Writing"

Soon, web pages may be plastered with advertising like this building.

“We must teach communication comprehensively in all its forms. Today we work with the written or spoken word as the primary form of communication. But we all need to understand the importance of graphics, music, and cinema, which are just as powerful and in some ways more deeply intertwined with young people’s culture. We live ... [Read more...]

“The consequence of the single story is this, it robs people of their dignity.” As a part of the “normative” American stereotype, I have never had any issue finding stories to which I can relate. White, middle class, nuclear families with 2 kids are a dime a dozen. But are they really? https://www.ted.com/playlists/62/how_to_tell_a_story

I am always amazed by the amount of things that can happen in a short amount of time. This digital story presented by Google is an excellent example of this. “Google Search: Reunion” is a touching story that happens in 3 ½ minutes. The story begins simply with an engaging and attention getting scene that&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Daniel Cui was a freshman goalkeeper at a high school in Hillsborough, California.  He suffered through a very difficult season where his team lost every game.  And as the goalkeeper for the team, he was often blamed for the loses.  After the final loss of the season, someone posted a bunch of pictures of Daniel … Continue reading The beautiful game – We are all Daniel Cui

The article I chose to talk about today is The Power of Community Storytelling. This is a wonderful article that talks about exactly what the title says.. the power of community storytelling. The basic premise behind this article is that sometimes, it is the cumulative stories of many people in a community that tell the true tale.… Continue reading Week 6: Response & Reflection

For today  Daily Create  challenge, here is the top of my Jembe (African drum).    

I walk along Cherry Creek often, and I found this mural painted along the wall A mural near my work #inte5340 #tdc1725 pic.twitter.com/YBGUZcMJ0n — Kelly Santa Maria (@KelSanMar) September 28, 2016

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“Running……………….Ruunning ……………….Bitttten—-…——fight……fightiiiiing..[][ Turning………………………………..Tuurninnng…/\\ …\\\\BRAAAAAAAINNSSSSSSS\][d…” How did reading that feel? What did you think was happening? Chances are good that the above passage did not give you warm fuzzy feelings. Chances are also good that you may have felt confused and  frightened. But to what degree did you feel these things? Reading the above passage may […]

In my ongoing series of scholarship having to deal with video games as a respectable medium for storytelling, I found an article from the National Council of Teachers of English titled Exploring the Boundaries of Narrative: Video Games in the English Classroom. The article talks about a teacher’s journey in utilizing video games for teaching … Continue reading Exploring the Boundaries of Narrative: Scholarship Review

Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze (2008) wrote an editorial that has connected some dots for me. It’s leading like a trail of bread crumbs down a path to I don’t...

Digital CritiqueIn "A Struggle Within Reach," Jacinta tells the story of Lucha Alcanzable, an indigenous Mayan woman living in Peru. Lucha’s father believes that she should discontinue her schooling so that she can get married, have children, and take care of her family. However, Lucha has plans of her own. She wants to continue learning so that she can help others in her community. Through hard work and dedication, Lucha eventually earns her college degree.Using Jason Ohler’s Digital Storyt ...

Have you ever had a recipe passed down through the family? One of my favorite memories was when I became old enough to help my grandmother make the Peking duck. This dinner is a huge deal in our family because it takes so long to make, and a tradition only for family reunions. We start … Continue reading Digital Story Critique #5

For today’s daily create Stark, Spare, Beautiful Midcentury British Safety Posters put out a request to  up-cycle their posters to be useful for digital safety. We were to choose one...

The zombie apocalypse is no laughing matter. It is not a story, a hoax, nor a figment of the imagination. It is real and it is coming. It is only a matter of time. Below are a few examples of zombies throughout our written history as well as some tips and tricks about how to […]

One of the ways that I choose my short stories to critique is by looking at the related videos to the last stories I watched. This one was three or four clicks away from the Identity video that I looked at a few weeks ago. I choose this one because it actually caught my attention … Continue reading The Most Beautiful Thing: Short Story Critique

I had a hard week. There was a medical crisis in my family (it’s all good now). Schedules overwhelmed me. Laundry overwhelmed. Everything overwhelmed me. I ended up playing ambient...

These past few weeks have been great getting outside of my comfort zone and trying new things.  My favorite assignment was the audio so far because I love music.  Although it was a bit tricky learning to use another new tool like Audacity, I had fun completing the assignment.  The biggest challenge I have faced so far is … Continue reading Reflection 2

I completed the reverse audio quiz for this week’s audio assignment. I followed these steps to reverse one of my favorite songs and then uploaded it to SoundCloud- can you guess what it is? Song 1