In lieu of the recent election, I decided to view and critique a digital story about the story and voices of the people behind this 2016 election.  I found this digital story about Americans sharing their hopes and concerns for the election.  This digital story was created and shared on the New York Times website. … Continue reading Digital Story Critique- Week 12

Today’s daily create was to make a still life with only red items.  When I think of a red still life, Andy Warhol’s famous Campbell’s soup can comes to mind.  The idea of a still life is to not only collect the items for a picture or simply paint the subject matter, but to also … Continue reading Daily Create -Make a Still Life With Red Items

After reading through a few of my classmates story choices from last week, I was reminded of a social media post that I believed would be a great example of photography stories. A young woman by the username CommanderSheena on tumblr posted a set of three photographs that told a story for an assignment in … Continue reading Digital Story Critique: Three Photographs

Joe Lambert (2013) and the StoryCenter wants to creatively inspire storytellers through a group process they call story circles. In his chapter on Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling Practice, Lambert...

For today’s challenge I chose a crack on my sidewalk and turned it into a piece of art. The tee-pee tent and the river were inspired by my sons.      

Choose a sidewalk crack and make it into art.

I came across this Great Big Story video of a 55 generation family tradition. The Sudo family in Japan has been making sake for over 850 years, and has been directly passed down from generation to generation. https://www.greatbigstory.com/stories/sudo-family-sake Economy: I feel that the economy of the story was very well thought out. We receive a … Continue reading Digital Story Critique

For this DS106 Daily Create we were to write a three-line poem about lemons without using the following words: lemon, yellow, round, fruit, citrus, tart, juicy, peel, and sour. It...

The solar system is all wrong. At least our perception of it is. “Every picture we ever encounter of the solar system is not to scale,” explains Wylie Overstreet. “The...

This week I completed a critique about a TED talk featuring data collection and presentation.  I thought this to be an effective way to present material in my own works later, so I decided to watch and learn more about data visualization. “Data is the new soil” Presentation & Performace: The presentation here was great, as … Continue reading Digital Story Critque

In this week’s daily create I got the opportunity to turn a sidewalk crack into art.  Carla Sonheim’s blog/newsletter/ and online art classes are where this daily create was discovered.  The “crack of the month” presented itself as follows, and then you can print the photo of the crack off and turn as needed to get … Continue reading Sidewalk Crack Art

As I draw nearer to the creation of my own digital story, I find myself drawing inspiration from some of the well-known and the lesser-known authors of the horror genre. I have been “picking their brains” for tips, tricks, ideas, and words of wisdom for how to get started writing successfully about the undead. I […]

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What happens to the soul when a human being dies? Moreover, what happens to the soul when a human being becomes one of the walking dead? Both of these questions invite sensitive conversations usually involving religion, science, or philosophy. Yet, despite decades of talk, both of these questions remain to have a definitive answer; some […]

http://www.onlineuniversities.com/articles/educators/the-art-of-digital-storytelling/ “So if you’ve got a story to tell, you can afford to start dreaming…” The abundant access to information and resources online is incredible. I think back to when I was in college for my undergrad and how limited internet accessibility was. I certainly didn’t have the ability to search so rapidly and gain […]

http://stories.umbc.edu/projects.php?movie=DSW13_Drabinski.mp4 Throughout my personal journey, my entire purpose has been about becoming un-lost. I’ve been searching for answers related to my job and family and hoping that they lead me in the direction that provides clarity about my path. What I didn’t consider until listening to this story is WHY. What purpose does it serve […]

A short alternative media item that I produced using Plotagon. This was an assignment for my Producing Media for Learning Course at the University of Colorado Denver.    

This week I found a piece about advanced eLearning through digital storytelling.  This scholarly review was well written and organized, presenting digital storytelling as the “modern expression or ancient storytelling” this article expressed types of digital storytelling, learning environments, Types of digital stories, and current models for and engaging digital storytelling. Also in this paper, types of … Continue reading Scholarship Response: Week 11

Look no further than Machu Picchu! Who wouldn’t want to live in one of the most beautiful places on Earth while the rest of the world goes to hell? If that’s not enough to convince you, check out the reasons by 99Covers.com below for sticking out the apocalypse in this secluded, resource-filled region. If you’re still […]

Doing a deep-dive today into digital storytelling research with a look at research from Zhao, Zhang, and McDougall (2011) titled Emotion Driven Interactive Digital Storytelling. The premise of their research is that most interactive digital storytelling is based on participants achieving specific goals, whereas their research indicates that emotion can be the driving force to … Continue reading Emotions and Interactive Digital Storytelling

Response to Digital Storytelling RevistedThis week I decided to look for journal articles that relate to digital storytelling. I found the article Digital Storytelling Revisited by Crystal Shelby-Caffey. Caffey begins by going over a recent journal tha...

Response to Digital Storytelling Revisted

This week I decided to look for journal articles that relate to digital storytelling. I found the article Digital Storytelling Revisited by Crystal Shelby-Caffey. Caffey begins by going over a recent journal that was published that claims that using technology tools in the classroom is not effective. Caffey explains that they study the article focuses on is one technological tool that was not…

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Daily Create: On the road from Findochty to Iyesgarth@ds106dc #tdc1762 Woke up in Myrrka and began to travel the 8 hours to Mountmend, We never made it b/c our car caught on fire in Azmarin.View On WordPress

Daily Create: On the road from Findochty to Iyesgarth

@ds106dc #tdc1762 Woke up in Myrrka and began to travel the 8 hours to Mountmend, We never made it b/c our car caught on fire in Azmarin.

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The article I chose Everyday Storytelling Through Photography is another “how to” type article for using photography to tell your story. Much like all other advice for creating your story, the author recommends making a plan. From a photography standpoint, this means thinking about 4 types of photographs: wide, atmospheric, details, and portraits. Essentially it’s all about… Continue reading Week 11: Response & Reflection

For this week’s digital story, I chose to critique a wedding album – | Lexi + Jake | Sweet Olive Farm Wedding | Georgia Wedding Photographer |. This album was posted by the photographer with minimal text. But I think most weddings photos are self-explanatory. I chose this one for a couple of reasons. First, it… Continue reading Digital Story Critique 9: |Lexi + Jake | Sweet Olive Farm Wedding | Georgia Wedding Photographer

This week I turned my attention towards philosophy and the issue of focusing the mind and improving one’s sustained attention. Due to my refocusing, I critiqued and wrote a response to the digital story “Eastern Philosophy: Wu Wei” which I posted on my blog. In the post, I describe the Daoist concept of wu wei ... [Read more...]

The digital story “Eastern Philosophy: Wu Wei” is hosted the on School of Life’s YouTube channel. I first encountered this channel when I was attempting to decipher the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche for an undergraduate philosophy course. The School of Life produces short videos wherein they endeavor to explain philosophical concepts that one can employ ... [Read more...]

The article The Art of Digital Storytelling opens with a very meaningful quote by James Keller: “Tell your tales; make them true. If they endure, so will you.” The insights a digital storytelling student can derive from reading the article are numerous. Right from the onset we are reminded that: “stories are as old as people and are more… Continue reading Reflection on The Art of Digital Storytelling →

Image by Pixabay The article I chose for this week’s review is “Writing at School: test-Prep Writing and Digital Storytelling by Patricia A. Jacobs PhD and Danling Fu PhD. According to the authors, most of writing activities in our schools is oriented towards high stakes testing preparation, restricting the students to certain formats and genre […]