Failed Rap, by Joven Senoran “I wanted to lead the kids that followed my same path.” I was instantly drawn to Joven’s story. Leading with failure is compelling. We can all relate to failed dreams and outside perceptions. What drew me in even further was how he accessed his deemed failure as an opportunity to […]

Reading Response to Chapter 2-3: DIY Media Creating, Sharing and Learning with New Technologies What do the Beastie Boys and Danger Mouse have in common? Besides having interesting names, they’re...

Is the act of creating greater than the creation itself? Music Remix in the Classroom opens the reader up to a culture where music creation, and remixing of another artist’s work, is an expression of appreciation, nostalgia, and a rejection of the status quo of ownership. Remixing music spans genres and can be as simple … Continue reading "Remix Your Mindset"

Part 1: Audio Media As a lover of all things music related, I was really excited to dive into these chapters on Audio Media. Surprisingly as I read, I realized that I hardly took advantage of either of these strategies with my students – and certainly not to the degree that would have really supported them as […]

As an artist, I have spent many years struggling so hard over the idea of “remixing.” It is a topic that I never approach lightly, because of how close its boundaries hug the line of plagiarism within the realm of creativity. I think the reason that I struggle with it so much is because of […]

From the assignment bank I chose to work with the meeting one about meeting your favorite celebrities. I love Denzel Washington’s movies for the fact that they usually are based on true stories (Hurricane, Malcolm X, Cry Freedom, Antoine Fisher, Remember the Titans, etc.) So I would want Denzel to know that I have big… Continue reading Audio assignment – Meeting Denzel Washington →

This week, I chose to critique Bear, a digital story about… you guessed it… bears! Before the story even begins, the creators warn you that the presentation will be 20 minutes long. At the very beginning, the creators hook you with the phrase “There aren’t a lot of ways for a grizzly bear to die. At… Continue reading Digital Story Critique 4: Bear

The two chapters assigned this week are: Chapter 2: Music remix in the classroom Chapter 3: DIY podcasting in education Overall, I am enjoying the chapters in this book. So far, it seems that each author addresses a tool or technique that can be used in digital storytelling by providing some history or a basic… Continue reading Response & Reflection: Week 5

"I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2,000 step process."                                                                                                                            ...

Who determines the value of a human life? You? Me? The government? God? We all have rules that govern our lives whether they come from within ourselves or from outside sources. In our head and heart we call them core values, at home we call them rules, in our country we call them laws, in […]

During the winter of 1914 British and German troops were facing each other for the first time in the trenches of Europe.  Not yet shocked by the horrors of the First World War, the men in the trenches found that they sometimes had more in common than their leaders were willing to admit.  Along stretches … Continue reading The beautiful game -The Truth and Myth of the Christmas Truce 1914

Chapter 2 focuses on the basics of music and the remixing culture, how to apply this to an educational setting. This chapter was fascinating to me because I never thought of using remixes in a classroom, but there are a lot of benefits that were outlined in this section. The first parts of the chapter … Continue reading Remixes and Podcasting: Response to Chapter 2 and 3

I had no idea I could create a trio with just my voice and some recording software. I was inspired to do this project from the DS106 Assignment Bank because...

I took a break on Monday and headed up to Estes Park to see the Fall colors. It was such a soul-nurturing time of escape. Something about taking the time...

The following podcast was an assignment for my Producing Media for Learning Course and was: Record a 5-10 minute podcast on “a color,” not color, but “a color.” Well, that’s vague and abstract, and me, I’m not very artistic. When I think of this I’m a bit overwhelmed . A color, 5-10 minutes, I doubt ... [Read more...]

Scholarship Review: Film School

Digital storytelling is the act of telling a story with the use of technology. In some cases this can be a simple recording of someone telling a story, or it can be as complex as a movie or animation. In the Edutopia article Film School:Making Movies from Storyboard to Screen, Jennifer New explains how two teachers at two different schools in Illinois come together to teach students the art of…

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Critique of Ken Robinson’s Changing Educational Paradigms

When you hear the words history or social studies class what image pops into your head? For most, the image of rows of desks, sitting quietly, taking notes and listening to the teaching blab on and on about some historical event. Out of curiosity, is this the same image that pops into your head when you think about your experience in high school? Unfortunately for most, they would say yes. That…

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Daily Create # 3

So….I think I’m going to spit on you…… Yes, spit, you are way too close to my face and I don’t like that. #tdc1714 #ds106

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One of my principal concerns with teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Korea is the learner’s “affective filter.” Lightbrown & Spada (2013) write the following description of the affective filter hypothesis: Krashen’s affective filter hypothesis is proposed to account for the fact that some people who are exposed to large quantities of comprehensible ... [Read more...]

Think about the last time someone told you a story. Not just a time where someone told you something about their day, but a genuine story. A time when someone became so animated due to their excitement to share their side nothing else mattered but the every detail pouring forth from their lips.  How well […]

The digital story “Rites of Passage” compares and contrasts the educational experience of the storyteller, Nikiko Masumoto, with the educational experience of her Japanese-American grandmother during WWII. This story made me acutely aware of the fact that for digital stories to truly appeal to me that they must connect to some shared personal experience. Although ... [Read more...]

Although a bit dated (2004), I found that Digital Storytelling in the Language Arts Classroom (Bull and Kadjar) still had a lot of valuable information in regards to the importance of the story in digital storytelling.  As emphasized in the article, “…the story should be in the foreground and the technology in the background. The … Continue reading Response to Digital Storytelling in the Language Arts Classroom

Today I reviewed a digital story about travels a teacher and her students experienced.  Her goal in creating the digital story was to bring to light some of the complex policy issues targeting development in the third world, and she wanted her students to connect with another culture very different from their own. This digital story … Continue reading Digital Story Critique #3-Stories of Travel

http://www.fallen.io/ww2/ Numbers are a curious thing. Some numbers we can easily comprehend, take the number 10 for example. We have ten fingers, as long you’re willing to not argue about how to correctly classify thumbs. When the numbers become larger, for example Ten Million, then it becomes a bit more difficult to comprehend. What if&ellipsis;Read the full post »

In my search for a scholarly article this week, I came across  Digital Stories in Writing Instruction for Middle School Students with Autism, authored by Joy F. Xin. The article is about a study that was conducted to examine the “effect of computer-assisted writing instruction using digital stories”. In the study participated four middle school […]

As I was scanning through articles regarding storytelling, The Science of Storytelling caught my eye. Most of the articles I initially came across were about how to create and craft a compelling story, but this article delved into why we prefer stories as a method of communication. “A story, if broken down into the simplest … Continue reading Response to The Science of Storytelling article

As a tribute to “The Greatest” and “The Handsomest” boxer that has left us recently, I have chosen this week to critique a Digital story about the life of Muhammad Ali. The life of Ali can constitute a big source of inspiration for  our youth today. They can learn to persevere in the face of… Continue reading Digital Story critique: Muhammad Ali →

“Through Our Eyes: Living with Asperger’s” by Alyssa Huber is the story I chose for this week’s digital critique. The story is shared in Alysssa’s YouTube channel – The life of an Aspie. In the documentary, Alyssa Huber, who is a film student, presents Asperger’s syndrome, through the stories of three people with Asperger’s, including […]

  Today I made a dot!  I was interested in today’s daily create but wasn’t sure where to start.  Something that is so simple, drawing a dot, how could this be hard for me?  Well, for anyone needing a little encouragement to do something to express themselves, just read The Dot, by Peter H. Reyolds.  … Continue reading International Dot Day

Rule #1 of Zombieland: Cardio. Exercise is the main component to staying alive once the world ends and the dead start to rise and feed on those that survived the event. Whether you’re being chased down by a pack of ravenous zombies or fleeing from a corrupt group of survivors, it is essential to have […]