For this week’s reading I chose  this piece from the the University of Houston Education Department. http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/page.cfm?id=27&cid=27 http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/page.cfm?id=27&cid=27&sublinkid=31 When I saw the title I knew right away that I would find information that I can use to help expand my knowledge about Digital Storytelling and ways to better incorporate it in my practice. I was… Continue reading Response to: Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling →

DIGITAL STORYTELLINGIN THE SPECIAL ​EDUCATION CLASSROOM In their case study, "Digital Storytelling in the Middle Childhood Special Education Classroom: A Teacher’s Story of Adaptations," Paige Michalski, Dodi Hodges, and Savilla Banister recount Michalski's mission to use Digital Storytelling as a means to help her Special Education students improve their writing. With adequate planning, appropriate scaffolding and a heaping dose of energy, Michalski's efforts ...

  Paul Nelson, a passionate writer and blogger, wrote up a short article, one in a series of nineteen, titled Designing Branching Narrative. In it, he explores how deep and intricate writing for branching narratives can be, and gives a lot of resources to make the process easier. Quite a few of these involve coding … Continue reading (Response) Branching Narratives: Games to Novels, How to Involve the Reader.

  How to Master the Art of Storytelling on Snapchapt Snapchat is used by many as a social media toy to create and deliver temporary messages. When Snapchat was first introduced, Generation Z and Millennials snapped it up and began communicating with ease. As Snapchat has aged, so has its users. Today, Snapchat is used&ellipsis;Read the full post »

For my third digital story, I selected Bread. Bread is an interactive story that ties the lives of 6 women together through the common element of making bread. When you get into the meat of the site, you can select the story that you want to hear. Each story is a video of the woman being… Continue reading

Storycenter.org strives to “preserve and share humanity’s stories” through multiple modalities. After reading an article about the importance of teaching children to be aware of a global “us” rather than a foreign “them”, Story Center was the perfect landing spot to discover how moving a digital story can be. There are stories about loss, love, … Continue reading "An Inspiring Q&A"

Discovering ideas for using Minecraft in the classroom is one of my goals this semester and one I’m really excited about. But let’s face it, it’s a game. How do...

I grew up in a small town where the night stars were visible every clear night. In the town itself street lamps waited on every corner, but hundreds of acres were set aside outside the town for natural forests. No lights were allowed, and the only paths were those made by forest hikers. Now I … Continue reading Our night skies

  As I was sitting at my desk thinking of what I could use as a Daily Create this week, I spotted on one of my classroom walls this poster of the twelve month of the year in French.

"When I first got into show business, my step-father bought me a wild shirt which....said more about what he thought show business was than what I thought it was."     Known as one of the most interesting interviewees around, Tom Waits delivers the goods in his PBS Blank on Blank interview, "Everything and Nothing." Though he is only asked four questions, Tom still manages to speak for over five minutes on topics varying from why moles are awarded prizes for burr ...

Well, first I’d like to note that I obviously got out of order. Somehow, I managed to look at week 4’s due date information and completed a piece of scholarship in week 3 instead of this self reflection of learning. So here is the self reflection of learning that I should have done last week!… Continue reading Week 3: Self Reflection of Learning

Storytelling as Professional Development As a Professional Learning Partner in Denver Public Schools, I was really excited to land on this article, which is an excerpt from Leading and Learning: Effective School Leadership Through Reflective Storytelling and Inquiry by Fred Steven Brill. One of my purposes and goals in entering this course was to determine ways to […]

Ruth Chang – How to Make Hard Choices “Drifters allow the world to write the story of their lives.” In general, I am a person that avoids decision making – a drifter. From little decisions like what to eat for dinner to big choices like whether to have a second child. Instead of moving ahead, […]

@ds106dc It’s gotta be….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkTLIO2zanM … #tdc1711 #ds106  

A story from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil about a man named Andre de Souza Carlos who is blind and yet still plays soccer.  The story can be found at TheScene. Andre had impaired vision from birth, but an accident later in life caused him to be completely blind.  He describes how after his blindness, “It … Continue reading Digital Story Critique – Hearing the Beautiful Game: Soccer without sight

Person. From the Greek word Persona, meaning Mask. This week I chose a very interesting short story on Youtube called Identity. There are just a few lines of dialogue, but the video tells the story of a young high school girl who finds an identity for herself. The story is simple, everyone that the girl … Continue reading Hide Your Face, So the World Will Never Find You: Digital Story Critique.

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Focusing on citizenship has becoming increasingly important in our schools. Buried beneath test scores, evaluations, and data analysis, students are often missing an opportunity to develop critical characteristics that enable them to become effective global citizens. Truong-White and McLean explore how digital storytelling in the classroom can enhance global citizenship. Digital Storytelling for Transformative Global … Continue reading "Tell Your Story, You Global Citizen"

Legend had it that “someone” actually challenged the bull and broke his leg in a hole as he ran away.  Surely it must have been the end of that “someone”. But here we were, intrepid adventurers climbing through the fence to the wide open west that was our neighbor’s land.  Cast off were the warnings … Continue reading Daily Create – The ocean at the end of my backyard…

I couldn’t resist sharing this photograph of twelve 10,000 won bank notes for today’s Daily Create, #tdc1709. I have read a good bit about King Sejong the Great and I’m now learning the writing system he created, Hangeul. It is a very logical system and I am happy to report that after just a few ... [Read more...]

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” -John Steinbeck This week’s daily create called for a dozen. A dozen of what? A dozen of anything as long as it wasn’t eggs. With my mission in mind, I set out to find […]

I really enjoy perusing Daily Create assignments from ds106. While trying to learn new photography techniques, I came across a fun Daily Create about colorizing a black and white photo. After converting a color photo to black and white, I uploaded the image to Deep Learning powered colorizer to add color back in. I rather … Continue reading "A Dollop of Color Please!"

Today’s daily create was to make a photo of a dozen of anything. I chose Magnesium which has an atomic weight of 12 (made with shiny blue paintballs) Fun Facts...

I heard CEO of a company say once “Fail fast and fail often.” I remember cringing when I heard it. We don’t like to fail. Americans feel uncomfortable with failure....

An interesting, beautiful, …old, shiny door knob.

When working in an office where everything is the same, you need to express your individuality in some way. For me, one of the ways I express myself is by having an array of colored pens. Colored pens are my downfall #inte5340 #tdc1709 pic.twitter.co...

I feel that these past three weeks in my class about Digital Storytelling have been a refreshing change of pace from my normal day to day routine.  I feel that I have only begun to express my creative side, and hope to spend a little more time completing some of the more challenging daily creates.  So far … Continue reading Reflection 1

On August 31st I photographed my daughter after dance class and tweeted “@ds106dc #tdc1696 Even the smallest love to dance! #inte5340” In response to the Daily Create called “Everyone Let’s Dance!”  I liked this picture to represent this statement because I not only love children but also feel that children express themselves so much more … Continue reading Everyone Let’s Dance!

My second piece on digital storytelling that I decided to discuss is How to Tell a Digital Story. Once again, my reasoning for reflecting on this is because of its tie to digital photography. The author uses an example of how to make coffee, and shows how photography combined with audio can make a seamless digital… Continue reading Response & Reflection: Week 3

I take this shortcut several times a day which is just a few steps from my door in Uijongbu-Shi, ROK. My wife suggested that it would make a nice nighttime shot, and I agree. I realized after shooting it that it was not the assigned Daily Create, as I had wandered off from the assigned page, ... [Read more...]