Wow! It’s hard to believe it is already week 9 of the semester. Not too much longer and I will be completely done with my graduate program. This week, we were tasked to give a mid semester review of what we have learned, highlighting some of our fellow students’ blogs, posts, and contributions. So, I… Continue reading Week 9: Gallery Walk Presentation

This week I found an occurrence of concentric circles in my everyday world.  I found these great art pieces while visiting the Colorado Ballet Academy.  They can also be found and purchased at http://www.spacegallery.org.  Here are the photos I would like to share with my classmates:   They are both great examples and I enjoyed … Continue reading Daily Create -Week 8

For this week, I tried to find an eLearning lesson about tools for teaching and learning geared towards the benefits of digital storytelling.  I found this piece  about creating storyboards and using digital storytelling in the classroom.  Although it was a workshop, I thought the information to be of importance and value since I myself will … Continue reading Digital Story Critique-Week 8

CNN’s powerful film, We Will Rise, is a documentary about Michelle Obama’s global education initiative called Let Girls Learn. In it she travels to Morocco and Liberia with Meryl Streep,...

We are built for community, all of us. When I don’t have the answer to a problem, I know my family or network of friends and colleagues often do. And...

This current review I conducted was about the Impact of eLearning in the Workplace.  Although hard to find, I was able to find this piece on both topics of global changes in the workforce and eLearning.  I have had issues finding article relating to eLearning and the workplace, but found many article relating to eLearning … Continue reading Scholarly Review

In Coffee Cart Compassion, the digital storytellers at Soul Pancake choose to highlight the efforts of Special Education teacher, Sadie Guthrie, to integrate her students into the Lawton school community. Sadie teaches students with severe cognitive disabilities how to run a coffee cart. They go out into the community and procure pastries to pair with the coffee that they brew in their classroom. Wheeling their cart through Lawton's hallways, they sell their goods to the staff.Not only does runn ...

For the last several weeks, I have chosen to focus on scholarly articles that speak broadly to the term “digital storytelling.” This week I am trying something new on for size – examining the success behind some of pop culture’s cult zombie digital stories. Triumph of the Walking Dead edited by James Lowder is a […]

The Power of Visual StorytellingVisual storytelling is the ability to tell a story with the use of images and videos. This form of storytelling can be seen with photojournalism, advertisements, movies and television. In my opinion, I think visual story...

The Power of Visual Storytelling

Visual storytelling is the ability to tell a story with the use of images and videos. This form of storytelling can be seen with photojournalism, advertisements, movies and television. In my opinion, I think visual storytelling is one of the most important and prevalent forms of storytelling that we have today. In the past 10 years visual storytelling has changed due to social media and the use…

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How to Incorporate Digital Storytelling to Empower Student Voice As a teacher and consultant for Project Based Learning, student voice is one of the essential elements that we focus on when shifting classroom practice. I was drawn to this article for its focus on that element and really appreciated the intro focus on the “why.” […]

Digital Critique 7: A Portrait of LotteThis weeks digital create I wanted to focus on pictures and videos. Time Lapse videos are very popular right now because they have the ability to tell a long story in a very short amount of time with the use of im...

Digital Critique 7: A Portrait of Lotte

This weeks digital create I wanted to focus on pictures and videos. Time Lapse videos are very popular right now because they have the ability to tell a long story in a very short amount of time with the use of images and videos. I decided to choose the video, Portrait of Lotte, 0-16 years old by Franz Hofmeester. Hofmeester’s goal…

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 "Everyone has a story about a place that is important to her or him." In her paper, "Using Digital Storytelling as a Literacy Tool for the Inner City Middle School Youth," Pauline Pearson Hathorn of the University of California of Berkeley, recounts the summer that she spent working with middle school, inner-city youth in West Oakland, California. By participating in the  Digital Underground Storytelling for Youth (D.U.S.T.Y) program, she helped students create ...

Daily Create #5 Create a picture with wordsMy response for Today’s #ds106 Daily Create is my large gold tabby fast asleep on my laptop, sucking up its warmth.View On WordPress

Daily Create #5 Create a picture with words

My response for Today’s #ds106 Daily Create is my large gold tabby fast asleep on my laptop, sucking up its warmth.

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“I believe in me. Do you believe in me?” Dalton kicks off his keynote with sheer energy. He instantly rallies the crowd by drawing out the hearts of educators. There is probably nothing more special than a student speaking to the power of education to a massive group of teachers. We are drawn to him […]

Snow clouds surrounding the mountain tops with the warm sun beaming on my face. #photoswithoutphotos @ds106dc #tdc1741

A black screen. A simple text fades into view, “The first symptom is the memory loss.” As the words disappear, the silence is broken by the sound of chimes and the sight of a swarming zombie horde.The camera view glides down and around the feet of the undead masses and zooms through a ragged hole […]

This week I critiqued and wrote a response to the digital stories “Nanna’s House” and “Grandma’s Roof.” These digital stories were produced by two seventh-graders, Abigail and Victoria. The girls composed poems about their visits to their grandmothers’ homes and then read their poetry as the narration for their digital stories. This worked so well ... [Read more...]

Poetry, written and performed by 7th graders is used to narrate these digital stories. This one digital story actually contains two which are packaged serially and labeled “7th Grade Poetry.” This film is a fine example of collaboration and creative cooperation, as even the transcript is simply titled “Nana’s House,’ which applies to both stories. ... [Read more...]

While looking for a piece of digital storytelling related article to read this week, I found  Digital Storytelling: What it is… And… What it is NOT.  Here is the link to the document http://langwitches.org/blog/2015/08/18/digital-storytelling-what-it-is-and-what-it-is-not/ I was not disappointed after reading the article because I have gained valuable insights about what digital storytelling really is and is not… Continue reading Response to Digital Storytelling: What it is… And… What it is NOT →

The article I chose this week is titled “Let’s redefine disability and difference” Digital storytelling helps change perceptions by Andrew Vowles. The article is about a digital storytelling initiative that was developed aiming into giving voice to underrepresented populations who in their turn through their powerful stories will shed light to a number of misperceptions […]

For my Digital story critique this week, I have chosen to work on A Life of Successful People in 2 minutes accessing through the following link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp24iH5QR5k I found this digital story inspirational because most of the people presented faced decision points where they chose to persevere. I identify with this because in my efforts to… Continue reading Digital story critique – A life of Successful People in 2 minutes →

For week 8, I chose an article by Jason Ohler called The World of Digital Storytelling. It originally appeared in the December 2005/January 2006 issue of Educational Leadership. I found the article through Google Scholar, and the link does not work, so if you would like to read the article, you can search for it in Google… Continue reading Week 8: Response & Reflection

The story is titled 100+ Eternal Youth about an elder man who lives in Ikaria, also known as “the island where people forget to die” and in six minutes he captures important moments of his life in the US and the island of Ikaria after he was diagnosed with lung cancer. The evaluation traits I […]

I’m stretching out a bit this week to take a look at what could be the future of storytelling.  In the article Virtual Reality Lets the Audience Step Into the Story by Olivia Koski we get a glimpse at the prospects for storytelling when it incorporates virtual reality.  With virtual reality technology becoming much more … Continue reading Virtual reality and the future of storytelling

This week I used a photograph and gave it the “old” look via the Old Photo Generator. How old is SpongeBob SquarePants?