Coming across this article felt like fate – or just a really solid Google search. I know that the key to figuring out my future is being reflective. Figuring out what to reflect on and what to do about it is the hard part. Reading about Roz Savage’s process helped me to consider some points […]

A Response to Guy Merchant’s Visual Networks: Learning and Photosharing “Online social networking can both strengthen existing social ties with friends and family and help to establish new relationships.”-Guy Merchant, Visual Networks: Learning and PhotosharingIn his contribution to Knobel and Lankshear’s DIY Media: Creating, Sharing, and Learning with New Technologies (Chapter 4), Guy Merchant postulates Flickr, the popular photo sharing site, as a new platf ...

Chapter 4: Visual networks: Learning and photosharing Having immersed myself into all things Web 2.0, I found myself making a lot of connections while reading this chapter. Surprisingly, Flickr is one site I have yet to explore personally, but I found tight alignment to both Twitter and Instagram, both of which I use daily. I […]

After scoping out the different assignment options, I literally HAD to do this one. I can’t tell you how long I resisted watching GoT. Unlike most of my colleagues, friends, family, etc. I am not into fantasy or war – or anything that GoT has to offer. So I refused. I flat out refused to […]

I have decided that everyone is a nerd, it just depends on what kind of nerd. Me, I am a Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, sentence diagramming nerd. Yes, sentence diagramming. That is another post for another time. This week, I grabbed a #VisualAssignment from ds106 that requested one make their own Game of Thrones … Continue reading "House Padlun"

The flickering candle doth glow in my heart, as a tainted darkness devours the hearth….if that quote excited you, this is not the post for you. I will not be discussing that kind of “flicker”, instead we will explore the absent ‘e’ Flickr, the photo sharing giant that dominates a social sphere of image exchange. … Continue reading "Flickering Flickr- Glowing Photosharing"

 “It’s hard to say where the wired world ends and the wild one begins.” In my ongoing exploration of transmedia, I ran across a very cool web documentary called simply,...

Can You See What I See For 3rd week’s visual assignment I chose from the Assignment Bank #1892 “Can You See What I See” assignment. Instructions: Find or take a photo of an eye. Take another image of whatever you want, and overlay the image onto the eye. Make the image in the eye smaller so […]

For my second digital story critique, I chose Soldier Brother. This story comes to us from artist Kaitlin Jones, whose purpose was to examine sibling relationships. I chose this story for a couple of reasons. First, I have several brothers and was interested to see how she told the story of her relationship with hers. Second,… Continue reading Digital Story Critique 2: Soldier Brother

I know I said I’d try to be more creative about my reading reflections, but the truth is, I really like structure. It gives me a framework to follow, and allows me to be more creative. I have found that if I am not given a framework, I spin my wheels and drain my creative… Continue reading Reading 2: Visual Networks

Visual Assignment: Bucket List This DS106 Assignment just made me happy. Bucket lists make me want things . . . to dream. It’s like a present I plan to give...

For this week, we have been instructed to complete an assignment from the DS 106 Visual Assignment Bank. I chose to do Visual Assignment 1892: Do You See What I See. The instructions are: “Find or take a photo of an eye. Take another image of whatever you want, and overlay the image onto the eye. … Continue reading Visual Assignment 1892: Can You See What I See →

This semester my INTE 5340 class we are examining pieces of scholarship related to the digital storytelling theme.  I have chosen for the first response to write about a piece that I read on Digital Storytelling For Engaged Student Learning In Accounting.  In this piece, the authors Suwardy, Pan, and Seow examine the effective means of Digital Storytelling … Continue reading Weekly Response/ Reflection – Week 2, INTE 5340

This semester I will be critiquing a total of 11 digital stories, where I critically examine and review digital stories based upon my focal interest of eLearning within the workplace, specifically about facilitating the development of eLearning training resources in a fast-paced work environment. The first of these digital stories is from Alberta Worker’s Health Centre and … Continue reading Digital Story Critique 1

Should students have their own digital domains?

This is the main question posed by Audrey Watters in her article “The web we need to give students”. Watters believes that students should be given their own personal domain to post their work that they create throughout their educational career. This domain should be initially set-up and hosted by the school, then given to the student once they graduate. Students would then have access to their…

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What is it in life that makes many of us define our lives by associating ourselves with external forces, whether it’s products, or political parties, or sports teams?  This question seems to be at the heart of the story by Marina Burana titled “Soccer Sunday” (http://munyori.org/fiction/marina-buranas-soccer-sunday-a-short-story/ ).  She finds in her Grandma’s obsession with the […]

I chose to critique the digital story “Ethnolinguistic Profile: Self-study of a Multilingual Person” as it was attached to the scholarly article that I responded to this week, which was “Digital Storytelling: Using Different Technologies for EFL.”  Christiansen and Koelzer (2016) included it as an example of a student-produced, compelling, digital story. Another reason for ... [Read more...]

Thinking back to my own schooling experiences, I can’t remember ever being asked to become a curator of my own learning. In asking my colleagues to reflect on this same idea, most of them could not recall having to do this either. Responsibility for learning was never really a public affair for us growing up. … Continue reading Do More, Be More with a Domain

  This is one of several short digital stories found in StoryCorps under the head title: Americans Living with Disabilities.  I was drawn to listening  to the conversation and also reading the transcripts because I found the synopsis of the story of Ollie Cantos and the three boys to be very compelling. The introduction reads:… Continue reading Response to : the Storycorps interview of Ollie Cantos and Leo, Nick and Steven Arge →

Story: The story of the Dakota pipeline has been spreading across social media like wildfire. Fusion took to interview a contributor to the movement and how she helps to sustain these protests. Presentation and Performance: While a protest can easily be construed as apolitical movement, this short video repeatedly comes back to the human element. … Continue reading The Food behind a Fight

  The Power of Digital Story By Bob Dillon http://www.edutopia.org/blog/the-power-of-digital-story-bob-dillon   As an Instructional Designer who is required to engage adults regularly, I found this article inspiring. I began to ask myself questions about how I can further engage my audience using digital storytelling. Is it possible in my environment to have participants create a&ellipsis;Read the full post »

The reason why I have chosen to watch and critique the digital story entitled Why America Needs a Slavery Museum is because I have always had a big interest in the topic of slavery, ever since I was a student at the University of Dakar. In my American Civilization Class, taught […] via Digital Story Critique:… Continue reading Digital Story Critique: Why America Needs a Slavery Museum — Meissa Samba →

        The reason why I have chosen to watch and critique the digital story entitled Why America Needs a Slavery Museum is because I have always had a big interest in the topic of slavery, ever since I was a student at the University of Dakar. In my American Civilization Class, taught… Continue reading Digital Story Critique: Why America Needs a Slavery Museum →

The first story I chose for my digital story critique is a TEDx talk, which is about public service lawyers as pioneering advocates. The talk is given by Haben Girma, the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School. The three traits that I have selected from Jason Ohler’s assessment traits are: Story Flow Organization and […]

While reading the BRIGHT article I was intrigued by the idea of giving student’s their own domain account. It seems like a good idea to have a student centralized location for all academic work, which is able to transfer between institutions. However with students in charge of their own account I can also see a … Continue reading Storytelling Scholarship Article

The article I have chosen for this week’s scholarship response is about “Digital Storytelling in the Foreign Language Classroom”.  The study that was conducted, examined the impact of digital storytelling in the foreign language classroom and the benefits to the language learner. The study involved a group of Spanish language learners, who used digital storytelling to practice […]

My passion is graphic design, and in recent years I have found myself in an instructional design career path. I began this journey working as a Graphic Designer for MGM Resorts International, which I often refer to as my glamour job. Why? The attention and experience was unmatched! Eventually, I was led to internal communications&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Mile high cycling #dailycreate #ilt5340 #tdc1697 pic.twitter.com/54AYStfg5s — Kelly Santa Maria (@KelSanMar) September 2, 2016

Think about your experience in high school, was it engaging, exciting and useful to your everyday adult life? For many of us, high school was a hoop to jump through in order to get into college or to begin our adult life. High school is suppose to teach us skills that are useful once we become adults, now I don’t know about you, but I rarely use geometry, chemistry and  Shakespeare in my everyday…

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