My assignment this week was to start a storyboard for my digital story, so I wanted to share the topic for my digital story. I title it, The Time of My Life, or My Trip to Paris. The digital story will basically tell the story of how my first time in Paris was, quite literally, […]

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THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE Narrative Media/Images Once upon a time a young man, named Luis, who lived with his older brother moved into a 2nd floor apartment. In this new apartment he met a nice young girl, named Stephanie. Images of my husband and I back in 2008 One day Stephanie’s family decided […]

The Daily Create:

prompt:

Create a portrait of someone without showing their face.

Can you capture a person’s essence by only showing a part of the individual?

—> I chose to use a self portrait for this daily create.  I believe that the image is strong in exposing my scar.  Scars don’t define who you are, but rather they help you become who you are and who you want to be. My scar takes up practically my entire back, but it helped me grow strong and confident to the point where I don’t mind others seeing my scar and I do enjoy telling my story.  However it is very important to realize that although you may be able to see my scar and know my story… you may not capture the entire essence of who I am.

I’m trying to develop my ideas for my storyboard.  I want to make my story personal, yet relate able to my audience.  I’m thinking about possibly telling a story through my poetry and then working on an audio story an incorporating some of my photography in it.  Still brainstorming…

http://storycorps.org/listen/barbara-amaya-and-bianca-belteton/

—> I chose this story board to listen to and decided it was one of my favorites out of the five I listened to prior.  It stood out to me because of the content. Such a deep, strong content, yet the mother, Barbara Amaya, was able to fully talk about her experiences in her younger life. The fact that she was able to talk to her daughter about the abuses, and the prostitution she experienced at such a young age and for the amount of time it went on for is amazing to me.  She is sharing her story because she cares.  She is making others aware of the dangers and the possibilities of the world out there.  However, my favorite part is the light, positive not the story was left on.  The idea of strength and that no matter how hard times are, if you work hard enough, you will be able to do better for yourself. 

Try a new tool. I’m including storify here (I quickly put together a collection of digital humanities projects, lectures, links). Storify allows you to write a narrative to put the collection of images, videos, and links in context. Digital Humanities on Storify

I’ve dedicated a spot on the menu/dashboard and will link your blogs as you send them to me (via email please). If you haven’t contributed to zotero, please work on this. Our user group is English Studies in the Digital Age. Caroline Fuchs in the library is the contact who can help you iron out […]

Telescopic Text: One of the coolest, most interesting websites for fun creations. Especially for English majors who are so used to a structured way of writing.

From the list of digital stories, I think the most interesting one is the Science of Storytelling. There is definitely a way to tell every story so that you are able to keep your audience engaged. Doing it wrong would probably put the crowd to sleep. It’s interesting how the article says that to better […]

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From the list of digital stories, I think the most interesting one is the Science of Storytelling. There is definitely a way to tell every story so that you are able to keep your audience engaged. Doing it wrong would probably put the crowd to sleep. It’s interesting how the article says that to better […]

I had the opportunity to view and listen to some digital stories for the first time today. Before reading a brief description about what a digital story is (I discovered that the name is self explanatory), I had no idea of what a digital story consisted. Telling stories via technology and/or the internet? My hunch […]

For my daily create I went to ds106 to choose one of their daily create challenges. The one I choose was titled: The Most Famous Novel No One Has Ever Heard Of. Using their book title generation tool, I had a choice of five titles. The directions said to use the fourth title that was […]

The challenge I chose to complete was the mind map. The images are tacked to a board I have in my room, and they represent my different thoughts. The watch shows my constant worrying over time. The women represent my friends. The tiny images of the Eiffel Tower, Leaning Tower of Pisa and Big Ben […]

Dawn Maestas’ Digital Story The interviews on StoryCorps really caught my attention. The layout of the site and the striking portraits are just a couple of reasons I ended up clicking through over 40 interviews, and wondering where the time went. Of all the stories I heard, Dawn Maestas’ was one that I remembered so […]

  Prompt: What lies behind this door?  Write the story about what happens when you enter…   The paint on the door is peeling.  The handle is heavily oxidized.  Clearly this place hasn’t been taken very good care of.  Why would anyone want to go in there?  What would there be to gain by such a […]

Prompt: Write a blog post about your daily Internet go to.  What is part of your daily routine and why? What would life be like without it?    The Internet is a place filled with passion, entertainment, creativity, and community.  Life has become so centered around the Internet that life without it would be an entirely […]

Nothing. Take a photo of nothing.  But make it say something. 

Tomorrow we will start our discussion of digital storytelling. There are links on our syllabus, but also please check out some of the links under digital storytelling right here on our blog. We will share our blogs/daily creates, look at ds106, check in on zotero, and discuss digital storytelling. What is digital storytelling? The syllabus […]

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A digital story is more than words, more than images, more than music–a digital story, like TV but in smaller bites, in more interactive bits, more tangible and touchable people–other internet users, just other members of the population of fellow people, all of whom have stories. Storycorps.org has some wonderful digital stories. Not all of them […]

AboveTopSecret.com I must admit, I’m a big ‘news’ person. I constantly scour news sites like CNN, NYTimes, and a bunch of other sites that contain news that peaks my interest. One of these sites are AboveTopSecret.com. This isn’t exactly a news site, its more like a forum for stories that are both mainstream and not. […]

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Thursday we won’t meet in class BUT: 1) make sure you can use Zotero and are linked to our group bibliography: English Studies in the Digital Age. You should join the group. You can probably find us by googling: English Studies in the Digital Age Zotero Group. If you are having trouble, you need to […]

We will be learning about Zotero and working through kinks with wordpress. Please make sure you have firefox as a browser option (works best with zotero). Enjoy your weekend, JT