What do you get when you cross zombies with youtube and pizza? An interactive movie adventure where you call the shots. Deliver Me to Hell is a digital story like none other that you may have experienced before. At first glance, you may think you are just watching a hilarious, four minute remix of Shaun […]

This has been a busy couple of weeks. My survey for my capstone closed on Friday, so now I get to gather my results and finish my final draft of my capstone! Looks like this semester is actually coming to end and I will be done with my master’s program. As I believe I have… Continue reading Week 10: Self Reflection of Learning

“And whatever my personal story and perspective might be, it now pales to the story that our community has become.” The launch of this chapter describes the power of idea evolution – what once was and what exists now. Joe Lambert might be an originator of digital storytelling, but his understanding that it’s not about […]

Response to a Road Traveled: The Evolution of Digital Storytelling.

The Road Traveled: The Evolution of Digital Storytelling is about Joe Lambert’s journey with Digital Storytelling. Joe begins by describing his childhood with his very liberal parents in Texas. Joe was exposed to a variety of movements through his parents connections and grew up listening to American folk music, admiring the works of various artist and experiencing the various cultures throughout…

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Response to a Road Traveled: The Evolution of Digital Storytelling.The Road Traveled: The Evolution of Digital Storytelling is about Joe Lambert’s journey with Digital Storytelling. Joe begins by describing his childhood with his very liberal parents i...

Special Features: Why?: Despite being an artist, I must admit that Photoshop has never been my strong-suit. I’ve largely avoided using it due to how much time and effort it takes to learn all of the ins and outs of the program. However, when I started reading through some of the visual assignments on the […]

Digital Critique 8: Killing KennedyThis week I decided I wanted to look at interactive websites and how they are able to tell stories. A few of my classmates have posted examples of these websites in the past and I thought it would be cool to find my o...

Digital Critique 8: Killing Kennedy

This week I decided I wanted to look at interactive websites and how they are able to tell stories. A few of my classmates have posted examples of these websites in the past and I thought it would be cool to find my own and review it. After some searching, I came across the website Killing Kennedy by National Geographic. This is an interactive website that compares the lives of John F. Kennedy to…

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ds106 Assignment: Can you vacuum a sidewalk?

I decided to attempt the Dream It… Write It assignment from the ds106 website. To complete this assignment you had to choose a dream that you have had and write about it in detail. I decided to choose this dream that  I had in 7th grade about my French Teacher. Mostly, because I can’t believe that at age 29 I still remember this dream and I really don’t understand it. I decided I was going to…

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Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein is one of my favorite poems.  Today the daily create was my choice, so I choose the “Poem Parody” assignment.  First, for those who do not know the original poem, here it is: Where the Sidewalk Ends There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street … Continue reading Where the Sidewalk Ends {Parody}

I enjoyed reading Joe Lambert’s piece describing the evolution of digital storytelling. Part of my enjoyment arose from an important connection between Lambert’s piece and the digital story that I critiqued this week. The digital story was “What If Money Was No Object?” which was produced from an old audio recording of a talk given ... [Read more...]

The assignment, Visual 1729: Make a collage out of photos of your pet (or your favorite animal)! Either take past photos or take photos throughout the week that show how cute or how funny they can be! Well, although some may refer to these two as pets, we prefer to think of Bina and Sylvan ... [Read more...]

For this weeks assignment I chose the Color Walk Time Lines. The idea was to take a walk of at least 2o minutes and capture 5-8 photographs of a color of your choice. I chose to capture my daily commute. I make this trip 5 times a week twice a day and mostly think about … Continue reading Assignment Bank – Week 10

My digital story critique this week, is based on the truly inspiring story of Patrick Henry Hughes. The story begins with Henry playing the piano as the narrator introduces to the viewers the song Henry plays, which is titled “Light of the Moon”, and presents Henry’s disability using poetic words “…in the darkness of his […]

I came across this story while searching for articles about empowered women, and at 72 years old I would definitely consider Meena Raghavan as such! What I initially noticed was just how athletic she is as a senior citizen. She talks about how Kalaripayattu is part of her culture, and how that aspect of her … Continue reading Digital Story – Week 10

Talk by Alan Watts, Alan Watts was a very influential British intellectual, philosopher, writer and speaker of the twentieth-century. Watts spent much of his adult life living and teaching in the Unites States. He wrote much on Eastern philosophy and worked to put it into terms that his Western audience could understand. Watts interpreted Eastern ... [Read more...]

In this week’s reading “A Road Traveled: The Evolution of Digital Storytelling Practice”, Joe Lambert shares his involvement in the creation of Story Center. The main insights and ideas from the reading is that with digital storytelling each person involved can find something new, become a founder and bring their own perspective, but regardless of […]

For this week’s (week 10) digital story critique, I decided to step a bit outside the narrow field I have been exploring. Thanks to some of my classmates, I have opened my mind to accepting that digital stories come in many shapes, sizes, and formats. Until now, I have been focusing on personal stories that… Continue reading Digital Story Critique 8:

The “White Lion”: A European wrestler in Senegal   Today I have chosen to critique a Digital Story about the number two sport, and the best paid one in Senegal: Wrestling. However the story is not about a Senegalese wrestler, but rather, an European man who discovers this form of sport and decides to come… Continue reading Digital Story critique – The white Lion →

This week we read a chapter from Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community by Joe Lambert. Lambert is the founder of StoryCenter, and organization that I have deeply respected while exploring digital storytelling this semester. StoryCenter highlights the human experience and allows connections to occur between the viewer and the author. The stories are deeply … Continue reading "A Road Traveled"

The chapter we read this week is A Road Traveled: The Evolution of the Digital Storytelling Practice. I had a hard time getting into the chapter initially, but as it progressed, I became more engrossed in the author’s writing. What are your main insights and ideas from the given reading? The main thing I took away from… Continue reading Response & Reflection: Week 10

For this week’s Assignment Bank, we were instructed to choose our preference. Since my digital story focus is related to photography, I selected a visual assignment. The one I selected was That’s Not What I Expected. The instructions for this assignment are “Take a close up picture of something as see if people can guess what… Continue reading Visual Assignment Bank: That’s Not What I Expected

From the visual bank I chose to do the following assignment: Combine two or more animals or plants to create a new creature. Use GIMP or other photoshop program to combine the images of animal. When your done post it in to your blog with some description of your new animal.  I used a tool… Continue reading Daily Create: Visual – Hybrid →

"I just wanted to be like the other girls."In her digital story, Alemitu Abebe details her inner struggle to choose her life's direction. Farming or education? In her community, located in the Konso region of Ethiopia, farming is a way of life. Alemitu wants nothing more than to be a farmer. Then her father decides that he wants her to attend school. Alemitu agrees, but is deeply conflicted. On her daily walks to school, she passes her friends working the land.She wants to work with them. A ...

"We are now part of a global movement, a little niche of a media practice that prides itself on gathering committed souls who cherish the opportunity to help people with their stories...Writing the history of this work is no longer the task of a single chapter in a single volume by a single author, but is worthy of countless retellings, from hundreds of perspectives."                                   &nbsp ...

A Road Travelled The Evolution Of The Digital Storytelling Practice This was an interesting read and given its political focus on socioeconomic struggles, it is relevant during this election cycle of 2016. Joe Lambert shares his life experiences and interactions with counter-culture movements to define digital storytelling as a valuable tool to deliver individual and&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Walking Down The Hallway – Digital Short Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJWpEoKe8_g Walking Down The Hallway is an effective short digital story. This story calls attention to one individuals experience with bullying. Bullying is familiar to many of us. You may have been the victim of bullying, or perhaps you know a friend or relative that was affected&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Even though  I did not encounter many buzzwords, unique vocabulary, this article is very insightful to any storytelling student. It shows how the stories he was listening to while growing up shaped Lambert into the great Digital Storytelling specialist he has become. Like he himself said in the chapter,  about the journey myths he enjoys,… Continue reading Response to The Evolution of the Digital Storytelling Practice →

Joe Lambert’s story was the most interesting reading so far I felt. He starts the chapter with an introduction to his childhood state of Texas, and expands upon the ideas and empathy bestowed upon him by his upbringing. I especially like his viewpoint on storytelling, that a good story doesn’t necessarily have a follow some … Continue reading Literature Review – A Road Traveled