We got up Friday (September 16, 2016) morning and took my mom all over for her birthday. Our first stop was Yorktown to check out the monument and the beach. After a fun morning at the beach, we headed across the bridge to Gloucester to have lunch with some of my mom’s friends. While there, I saw … Continue reading A Whirlwind Trip to Virginia – Day 2 →

Response to Chapter 2 and 3 of Everyday Literacies

The readings from Everyday Literacies were very interesting.  Chapter two focused on creating remixes and mash-ups of music to create something new. This remixes can be used to tell a story, make a stand or to point out similarities between different types of music. I enjoyed how the artist gave various examples of popular songs that are considered mash-ups or remixes. It was really interesting…

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Critique 4: How ‘deprogramming’ from how to ‘do school’ could improve learning

In the article “How ‘deprogramming’ from how to ‘do school’ could improve learning” Katrina Schwartz interviews high schools physics teacher Adam Holman. After years of teaching, Holman was noticing that his students were fighting for high and higher grades but they were not understanding the concepts and learning the information to warrant the grades they were receiving.  Holman decided to…

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My friend Kim and I traveled to Virginia last week to attend the wedding of our friend Lauren. Since I don’t get out to Virginia very often, I decided I wanted to pack in as much visiting as possible while I was there, and Kim being the good sport that she is agreed to tag … Continue reading A Whirlwind Trip to Virginia – Day 1 →

This week, I read the right assignment! I’d like to say that I am at crunch time for my capstone for my Master’s in Public Administration, so I haven’t been able to focus as much time on these assignments as I would like. Once I get the bulk of that done, I will have time… Continue reading Week 5: Self Reflection of Learning

“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.” -Plato This week’s create is brought to you by the ds106 assignment: Can’t Get It Out of My Head. Tune your ears in and listen closely. Can you guess the song? It is one of my favorite pop songs, […]

This week, we were required to complete one of the audio assignments for our digital storytelling class.  The assignment I chose was Favorite Song.  Simply put, we needed to take one of our favorite songs, mute the vocals and leave the rest of the track.  See if you can guess the song! Here is one of … Continue reading Try and Guess My Favorite Song

What a Song Might Mean to You

Music has always been a very important aspect in my life. It’s so hard to choose song that reminds me of one particular moment. Music has been woven throughout every single important event that I have experienced. These songs conjure both good and bad memories, but no matter the memory they are still important to me. As I’ve grown older, I’ve realized that certain songs remind me of some of my…

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Sound is all around us, and it may be the format that is the most accessible to us as teachers, designers, and students.  With the technologies available to us today we have opportunities to create and use sound in our lives that we could barely imagine years ago.  The two chapters that we read this … Continue reading Response – Music remix and DIY Podcasting

Took the DS106 assignment bank audio challenge to slow down a familiar tune…by a lot. See if you can figure it out.  Here is the slowed version. And here is the original.

This week’s reading, has challenged but also expanded my definition of digital storytelling. Although, I have been enjoying listening to various remixes in my leisure time and in the foreign language culture course I taught, I introduced to my students, Greek music genres encouraging them to make cultural connections by connecting sounds they were familiar […]

Here is the activity I chose for this week: I used audacity, to record myself whistling a song that has gotten stuck in my head and  uploaded it to soundlcoud. Can you  guess what song I am whistling? Have Fun!!!

The Digital Story I chose for this week is a very unique and extremely inspiring and fascinating Tedx MidAtlantic 2013 story that took place in Washington DC. The story is titled “Meet the Robots for Humanity”. The presenters are: Henry Evans, a Robotics activist and Chad Jenkins a roboticist. The video starts with a person […]

I’ve never liked the idea of a remix. I’d only ever heard of remixes on the radio with current musical artists, and I saw it merely as a form of laziness. After reading this chapter I have a little more appreciation for it and a deeper understanding of how it can be used to create … Continue reading Reading Response – Chapters 2 & 3

(Trigger warning: Violent depiction of police brutality and racist language) It seems that each week a new story comes out highlighting another incident of police brutality, another instance of racial injustice. The StoryCorp team decided to showcase the story of one such man who encountered these horrible issues and lived to tell about his experience. … Continue reading Digital Story Critique – Traffic Stop

Today I have decided to connect back to my focal theme of working to make my household in Senegal self-sufficient. That’s why I have chosen to watch and critique the following Digital Story entitled Immigration from Senegal to Spain.  I personally have a brother, nephews, cousins and several friends who are currently living in Spain, mostly in… Continue reading Digital Story critique →

This short digital story is artfully crafted and presents a girl’s history that must be told over, and over again until we finally hear it and correct the culture which permits it. A culture that all too often strips away a young female’s self-worth and any “hope” she has of a future is absolutely heartbreaking. ... [Read more...]

“Some see the format and process of remix itself as ideological in nature and part of a larger cultural critique of ideas and assumptions about authorship or the ownership of art. For this reason, reworking parts of the existing music canon (e.g., a Beatles song, a Beethoven symphony) and re-envisioning it is seen as a political act.” -Erik JacobsonMusic Remix in the Classroom, p. 31This week, I was asked to read and respond to Chapters 2 & 3 of Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and ...

Even though I have heard the term music remix many times before, I now get a better understanding of what it really is, after reading these two chapters. If I thought that remixers were not doing anything but copying someone else’s work, now I understand that “a musician’s interpretation of a song written by somebody… Continue reading Response to Music Remix in the Classroom →

I am drawn to animated storytelling. This is my third found narrative where animation is paired with an interview. This week I watched a Blank on Blank episode entitled “Joni Michell on Illusions”. Joni describes her desire to represent herself the same way she represented her music. She wanted to be ordinary. Her goal was … Continue reading "Illusions"

So…I recorded myself reading a poem I wrote about my blog. Not sure how I feel about this, but it was fun either way!   Pelt (by Ashley Padilla 2016) Renegade salt and PEPPER shaker Born to wield an untidy union Shackled among thieves of ingenuity Their escape will result in reciprocity Do NOT deny … Continue reading "Poetry- Audio"

This week’s assignment bank task was to choose an audio assignment. I selected Can’t Get It Out Of My Head. The instructions are: “Use some auido [sic] recording software, I used audacity, to record yourself whistling a song that has gotten stuck in your head before. Then upload it to soundlcoud [sic]. But don’t title it… Continue reading DS106 Assignment Bank: Can’t Get It Out Of My Head

At first I was intimidated by this assignment, so I visited the DS106 bank and searched for something that interested me. I found a topic titled Make It 800% slower and the example given was a song by Justin Bieber called U Smile that is slowed down 800%. This incredible lengthening of the song results&ellipsis;Read the full post »

For the Audio Assignment, I chose the one that asked me to slow down a song by 800%. It becomes this sort of ethereal mess at 800%, but it does sound good. I chose a Taylor Swift song, because I had the mp3 on hand from one of my classes. Enjoy  

Blizzard, the multimillion dollar company behind the popular video game World of Warcraft released a new video game this year, titled Overwatch. In this exclusively multiplayer game, teams of six complete objectives while trying to take down the opposing team. Currently, there are 22 playable characters, all with particular backstories, abilities, and personalities. In order … Continue reading The Last Bastion: Digital Story Critique

With this topic, I’m certainly feeling my age as well as revealing my tastes in music and limited knowledge of pop culture. I’m afraid the remix culture, at least as it exists today, has left me in the dust.  Although I do watch many videos, and since the genre that I most enjoy is documentary, ... [Read more...]

I selected to do the “Kiss the Guy” audio assignment. The assignment was to replace the actual lyrics of a song with the lyrics you misheard. In this author’s case in the Jimi Hendrix song Purple Haze, instead of hearing “Excuse me, while I kiss the sky” they heard “Excuse me, while I kiss this … Continue reading DS106 Audio Assignment

Chapter 2 – Music remix in the classroom Erik Jacobson   I have been aware of music, music composition and music remixing for a long time. Currently, Dubstep is a popular form of remixing and talented DJs can earn fame and fortune. This Dubstep phenomenon has also led to the selling of amateur mixing tools&ellipsis;Read the full post »

When I first thought about, and investigated digital storytelling, the focus was on an individual’s experience provided through a TED Talk or about a place that had been abandoned. As a designer and visual communicator, I began to wonder how else digital storytelling could be used. I searched around and discovered that companies are increasingly&ellipsis;Read the full post »