It is crunch time for my capstone! So far, my feedback has been good, so that is a big relief. My final draft is due the 27th, and my defense will be Dec 6. I will be very happy when this is behind me🙂 I am also happy with all of the cool stuff… Continue reading Week 12: Self Reflection of Learning

Self-reflections on my learning    I was able to complete all my assignments for this week in a timely manner. For instance, my Daily Create for this week is completed a lot earlier than the ones from previous weeks. The feeling of relief I experienced made me decide to work on tasks as soon as… Continue reading Week 11 and 12 reflections. →

Seven Steps of Digital StorytellingOverall I thought this article was very informative. I really enjoyed how it broke down the various aspects that should be included in digital storytelling. I think this really gives me a great framework to think abou...

Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling

Overall I thought this article was very informative. I really enjoyed how it broke down the various aspects that should be included in digital storytelling. I think this really gives me a great framework to think about when writing the outline for my story. This really makes digital storytelling very straightforward and easy to digest. Although this article did not change my definition of…

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When the end times are near and humanity turns against itself for the sake of survival, one woman  and her crazy, undead cat will be the difference between becoming zombie bait and staying alive. Zombie Zina is like none other in this bleak apocalypse; half zombie, half human she has retained her conscious in the […]

Backwards, forwards; rewind, play. No matter which direction you view this story, your heart will be aching from the axe wounds it will leave in your heart. An impressive feat from a mere video game trailer. While Dead Island the game isn’t explicitly about storytelling, the game trailers always find a way to tell a […]

This week I’m reviewing another chapter by Joe Lambert in his book Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community.  In this chapter, titled Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling, he gives us an in-depth look at how to actually create a digital story, and the components that we need to consider as we put together our own … Continue reading Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling – my perspective

Daily Create: Use Beauty in a Post @ds106dc #tdc1769 My response for Today’s #ds106 Daily Create is She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron

Digital Story Critique 10: Telltale’s Game of ThronesOk I’ll admit I am a little addicted to critiquing stories within video games. What can I say, I get to play the game as “research” then write a blog about pros and cons of the story. This is really ...

Daily Create: Use Beauty in a Post

@ds106dc #tdc1769 My response for Today’s #ds106 Daily Create is She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron

Digital Story Critique 10: Telltale’s Game of Thrones

Ok I’ll admit I am a little addicted to critiquing stories within video games. What can I say, I get to play the game as “research” then write a blog about pros and cons of the story. This is really the best type of school work to complete. This week I decided to critique the story in Telltale’s Game of Thrones series. The series…

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I enjoyed reading this piece by Lambert (2012) and learned a good bit from it. In this course, I have been viewing and responding to digital stories. I have also been researching what can be learned through digital storytelling. And through my journey, I have come to believe that digital storytelling is a very useful ... [Read more...]

Today, I’m responding to K’s digital story “The Story of my Story” and this feels right, as today is the day after the US presidential election. I stumbled across this story some weeks ago but at the time I felt its message was too serious and depressing. It brings to light many issues that I ... [Read more...]

  The main insights for the article are as follows: step 1: Owning your insights It is interesting to gather from  reading step 1  that while the memory of the event  does not change, the storyteller’s perspective and the personal meaning evolve over time based on the storyteller’s own experiences and the experiences of other… Continue reading Reflection on Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling →

  By Nevit Dilmen – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1798693 The author of Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community, Joe Lambert, in the chapter “The Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling” describes the seven fundamental elements of digital storytelling. The seven elements are: Owing your Insights Owing your Emotions Finding the Moment Seeing your Story Hearing […]

The digital story I chose for this week’s critique, is a very inspiring story that captures the feelings of a student who struggles with dyslexia and the difference a teacher can make. The story was created by Nick Damato and is called “Progression”.  In less than three minutes the creator of the story manages to […]

HTC Featuring Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) ‘Here’s to Change” HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DLMOzqcMpk   In my search to learn more about digital storytelling I have come across an HTC advertising campaign. This is a professional example of a digital story that is produced to inform the audience of a product. HTC is going big here using&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Digital storytelling is all around and yet, until recently, I never really stopped to evaluate it as the tool that it is. Digital storytelling when composed by applying music, images, narration, and interactivity does a great job to inform, instruct, entertain and sell. After reading the Seven Steps Of Digital Storytelling I have learned even&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Our article this week is “Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling”. 1.         What are your main insights and ideas from the given reading? I think the seven steps is awesome. The first one “Owning Your Insights” is so powerful and speaks to point of view, voice, and the conflict that makes for a good/great story. Then… Continue reading Week 12: Response & Reflection

For this week’s digital story, I chose to My Life & Photography – Digital Story by Rita Rocha. It is a short YouTube video, but it gives a lot of information about where the author got her love of photography. I chose this particular digital story because it not only uses photos to tell her… Continue reading Digital Story Critique 10: My Life & Photography – Digital Story

My daily create this week is making a still life in red.  Here are the results:

Joe Lambert’s “The Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling” helps to describe a meaningful process that your story should go through, and also asks a lot of prompting questions that help develop stories as well. The first two steps asked to look at what kind of emotions and insights you were planning to provide within the … Continue reading The Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling

Having listened and watched to a number of digital stories now, this one struck me more powerfully than any of the others because of the the sadness and beauty in the story.  StoryCorps  gives us this story by Beverly Eckert whose husband died on Sept. 11, 2001 in the attack on the World Trade Center. … Continue reading Sadness and beauty together.

This week’s reading was another from Joe Lambert, and was a more structured view of storytelling than from the previous reading of his. He breaks down his story telling process into 7 distinct parts: Owning Your Insights Owning Your Emotions Finding the Moment Seeing Your Story Hearing Your Story Assembling Your Story Sharing Your Story … Continue reading Read and Response – Chapter 5: 7 Steps of Digital Storytelling

Akon is known by most people  in the US  as a singer, rapper, songwriter, businessman, record producer and actor. But for some people in the African rural areas, he is a kind of  prophet coming back to his people with the gift of light.  Akon Lighting Africa is a project he co-founded with his country… Continue reading Digital Story critique: Akon solar power in Africa →

A grim silence lingered, excess from the cries that preoccupied the air moments earlier. Shattered from an exhausting battle, neither had won, both distressed from defeat. They lay down their arms and lay down their persons. Absorbed slowly by the damp earth, entrenched along the pin straight path that broke the meandering road between Kald … Continue reading "On the Road from Kald to Hirane"

Every week I’ve been grappling with my theme for this course. I settled on learning photography, which has been a lot of fun, but hasn’t created meaning for me. I tend to be over analytical with connotations. I dissect language, I tear apart novels, and I examine how communication in all forms affects my understanding … Continue reading "My True Theme and How To “Do” Storytelling"

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