This week I couldn’t resist focusing on emotions and truth. These two issues boiled to the surface due to the recent heated debates concerning false news, whatever that means, and the harm which is done by those producing it; that is those who sacrifice the truth in order to make a point and or a ... [Read more...]

While searching the StoryCenter’s YouTube channel for recently uploaded digital stories I encountered “Ghost Dance.” Early into watching Tommy Orange’s digital story I connected it with Dee Brown’s (1971) seminal book “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West”  which is credited with exposing “some” of the systematic destruction of ... [Read more...]

Privacy Is A Myth The truth is, we never had online privacy and we never will.  We can manage it as best we can, and we should. But let’s face...

http://gettingsmart.com/2016/01/6-reasons-you-should-be-doing-digital-storytelling-with-your-students/ Digital storytelling to me is clearly a tool that can be used in the classroom for nearly any audience. Adult learners in a corporate environment are the audience that I interact with. The article ‘6 Reasons You Should Be Doing Digital Storytelling With Your Students’ by Anna Warfield touches on the value of digital&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Johnnie Walker – The Man Who Walked Around The World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnSIp76CvUI Many companies use digital storytelling to inform us about whom they are and the products they provide. Johnny Walker has a very engaging digital story that informs us of the birth of a product that has become recognized all around the world. This production,&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Even though this article Digital Storytelling Finds Its  Place in the Classroom is not the most up-to-date one  we can find talking about Digital  Storytelling I chose to read and respond to it because of the fact that it was written by a teacher and is geared towards the use of Digital Storytelling in the… Continue reading Week 13 Response to a piece of selected scholarship: Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in the Classroom.(Updated) →

How to Unlock Your (and Your Student's) Innovative Mindset “We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something that is provided for us and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.”                                                                       & ...

This week I viewed a video on Story Center called “Taffy.” The author, Shedrick Wicks tells a story of love and companionship. After moving to Denver, Wicks found himself to be lonely and ended up adopting a cat named Taffy. The story is endearing and the viewer can’t help but root for the duo. I … Continue reading "For Taffy"

I took on the challenge of adding a caption to this cursed image.  In the spirit of the upcoming season…

This week I’m actually showcasing two digital stories, both part of Grassroot Soccer, an adolescent health organization in Africa.  The first story is David’s Story – about a young man in Zambia who uses soccer as a way to share his story of AIDS and the hardships it brought to his family.   The other … Continue reading Grassroot Soccer – The beautiful game changing lives through healthy living

Continuing my story suggestions from social media, a friend of mine sent me a very strange two minute long video. There are a couple in the series of Showtime short stories, and as far as I found, they are all quite odd. This one, titled Walks of Life, shows an abridged version of evolution as … Continue reading Digital Story Critique: Walks of Life

For this week’s digital story, I chose to examine an Instagram feed that is devoted to a cat that loves to hike called exploration_cat. Quandary Q. Lotus Lady was actually a given to her owner as a marriage proposal. Graham got down on one knee and proposed to Erin with Q, and from that day forward,… Continue reading Digital Story Critique 11: exploration_cat

The article I chose for this week is Stories Through Sequence by Xanthe Berkeley Of Shutter Sisters. I chose this article because it focuses on photographs to tell a story. The author talks about how one photograph can tell a story, but decided that he wanted to explore the stories that can be told boy photographs taken (and shared)… Continue reading Week 13: Response & Reflection

This week I have decided to look for an inspirational Digital Story to critique. The Journey, despite being very short in length (only 3 minutes 30 seconds) is filled with lessons that can benefit our youth today. I think this is a very good story to share with our students and our own kids in… Continue reading Digital Story critique: The Journey →

I have reviewed the seven steps of Digital Storytelling, and noted these elements to help with the compilation of my own digital story soon.  The first element is to think about how to present your point of view.  This is important, in that the perspective of the author is aligned with the point of the … Continue reading 7 Steps of Digital Storytelling

As I keep exploring how to implement digital storytelling across the curriculum, I came across the article of Bernajean Porter Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum, Finding content’s deeper meaning which analyzes, how digital storytelling has been “rediscovered”, since it helps us with making sense of the endless information we receive and process every day. According […]

The story I chose for this week’s digital critique is titled “Heather”. Heather receives assistive technology (AT) services from Equipment and Assistive Technology Initiative (EATI), and explains the benefits of using assistive technology services and devices, as well as the benefits of participating in the EATI program and the difference it made in her life. […]

Challenge: This needs a caption. Remove the curse. Or push it on someone else.  

I love Pomegranates this time of year, and they’re definitely the reddest thing around!

The Write Practice website is filled with a plethora of helpful articles and interesting exercises for writers. As I am in the middle of National Novel Writing Month, I found one particular article very useful early on. Joe Bunting wrote an article titled “35 Questions to Ask Your Characters From Marcel Proust”.  Marcel Proust was … Continue reading Scholarship Review: Character Interview

Does “transmedia” and “multimodal” mean the same thing? No, according to Henry Jenkins, Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. There is often confusion...

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Growing Up Transgender​Assigned the designation of female at birth, Gabe knew from an early age that he was a boy. In this touching story, Gabe and Chris Lopez recollect the moment that Gabe discovered he was transgender and his struggle to tell his mother, Chris, that he was not the daughter that she thought he was. Ultimately, Gabe and Chris's story is one of love, self-identity, tolerance, and bravery. In the wake of the election of Donald Trump and the resulting fear running rampant t ...

What is beauty? How can you describe it in a tweet? Beauty is the endless blue!  

My momma always told me to mind my own business and to never eavesdrop. Today though, I purposefully listened in to random conversations to gain a fun snippet. My mom would NOT be proud! The Daily Create posed an assignment where eavesdropping was the name of the game. I was to take a snippet of … Continue reading "An Epigraph from Eavesdropping"

I came across this StoryCorps story and was struck by the humility and humanity of the narrator. It’s amazing what a little kindness and a hot meal can bring about. I’ve recently seen an increase in stories about people from opposite sides coming together to break bread, and I feel this particular story really catches … Continue reading Digital Story Critique

For today’s Daily Create I transcribed a snippet of dialog overheard today and used that cue as the opening thought of a poem, like an epigraph. You can do this...

There is a strong possibility I am behind on the creation of my digital story, but I have just now settled on a focus. I know, I know, I’ve had weeks to figure this out. I’ve truly been struggling with my chosen theme and had a bit of an epiphany last week. My true focus … Continue reading "Story Board"

Chinese mines are the most dangerous in the world. Every day 20 people die in accidents. In this web Documentary, Journey to the End of Coal, directors Samuel Bollendorff and...