This week I felt I nailed it. My communication was down a little I still shared on social media and in comments but I felt so on top of the assignments. I finished everything in the beginning of the week (because I was going to travel) but I also made a plane on what I...

For this Daily Create I just took a selfie. I feel like I make this face a lot so it came naturally. After the selfie I uploaded it to my computer then tweeted it. All of you looking at this photo are lucky because like an hour later I got really sunburnt so at least...

In this week’s reading Lankshear and Knobel (2011) Ch7: Social Learning, “Push” and “Pull,” and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning the main theme is social learning. First they gave you the background of social learning. A new word for me was ancillary. I read the definition and still was a little confused but the example they gave...

https://embed-ssl.ted.com/talks/linda_liukas_a_delightful_way_to_teach_kids_about_computers.html This is a Ted Talks about computers in the classroom.  The presenter want students to see computer as something they can play with and tinker with not a machine that they use. This goes exactly with my chosen theme of technology in the classroom. The involvement by the creator is her speaking to the...

To make this Retro Computer Portrait I followed the link on the ds106 daily create website. You go to the page and drag and drop a picture. I chose a picture from this 4th of July. I dragged and dropped it and the site converted it. I downloaded the i...

For this weeks Assignment I chose to do another mash up. I chose Assignment151 This Doesn’t Belong Here. The assignment was to mash up two movie scenes that don’t really belong together. The first image I chose was from the Sound of Music. I then opened the image in GIMP. I cropped the image just...

I completed everything this week. My D.C.’s were awesome! The mash up assignment was harder than I thought. I really wanted to try something that mashed up audio and video. I did that with my Beyonce video I edited the audio on that, so I know I can do it my problem this week and...

For this week’s Digital Story critique I chose a TEDTalks on Hip Hop and Shakespeare. I was inspired by the reading this week and the article I found to go with my reading response. The TEDTalks is about a group called Hip Hop and Shakespeare the group is about how Hip Hop and Shakespeare relate and...

In this weeks readings Afterword: Communities of readers, clusters of practices Jenkins focused on bringing New Literacies into the classroom. Jenkins starts out by saying that students know technology why not use it. One quote I liked was about how school often move away from platforms like facebook and twitter but why. “Too many educators are...

 For this Daily Create I created a national holiday for my sister. She fights hard for equal rights for all and F#*k the Patriarchy is one of her favorite sayings. I found on Google a blank Rosie the Riveter.  I then opened the image in GIMP and added my own text. She would like to...

For the mashup assignment I chose to do I’m Ready For My Closeup MashupAssignments1945. The assignment was to take a closeup of a face and create a new background/story. To get this image I first googled closeups from movie and did not get anything I really wanted to use. I slept on it for a night...

For this photo recreation D.C. I first found a photo I could recreate. I narrowed it down to two pictures. The one I used and one of me in a pot. I have a pot that I could kind of fit in but the thought of my feet in something I cook food in grossed...

For this D.C. I did not exactly do what was asked of me but I could not resist. I love the Ancient Aliens guy meme. I thought of a few months ago the image above became popular and was all over online. Every time people share something about space I think of the meme. I...

This week I feel a lot better. After my rant last week and watching the screencast, I feel that my rant put me on track. In my rant I said that I felt I was just trying to complete a task and not communicating with my peers, and in the screencast that is what you...

For this D.C. I followed the link and add the ‘Print YouTube Video’ to my bookmarks bar. I picked a fun video. I clicked on the the link and it created a new tab with the video broken down into a bunch of screenshots. I hit file print and you could save it as a...

http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/ds/dsembed.cfm?vid=307&w=640&h=480 This week I found a Digital Story on the importance of art education. This art teacher made a video explaining why having art programs help the school and students. The involvement is this story is mostly done by the creator. She created the video and the script. She states that her audience/purpose is to...

In this weeks readings by Davies & Merchant (2007) Chapter 8: Looking from the inside out: Academic blogging as new literacy they had three main points. Publishing the Self, The Nature and Fabric of the Text, and Social Networks. The chapter talked about blogging and why people blog. The want to share information, about themselves,...

For this Daily Create I just copied the picture and put it into a tweet. I decided to go with Shark Week because it is Shark Week and all this week you can watch programs on sharks on Discovery Channel.  I decided that the octopus was jealous because do matter what he does no one will...

For this weeks assignment I chose to do DesignAssignments1836 Recover a Classic. For this assignment you had to take a classic novel and create a new cover. The theme on the page seemed to be to simplify the cover. The Dracula cover is an example from the website. I chose to do The Secret Garden. My mom...

I am trying to write this reflection after just watching the season finale of Game of Thrones so just a warning. This week was the first week where I felt confident going in. I had already picked my Video Assignment and knew what I wanted to do. I chose to do the Classical-Modern Mashup. Where...

For this Daily Create I copied the picture and pasted it into Word. I then examined the photo and decided it looked like a steam engine. Then I thought who would want a steam engine…Harry Potter fans. I created the caption in Word then took a screenshot of it. The screenshot allowed me to turn...

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 The video I critiqued this week is about DIY and education. Peter Diamandis talks about his book. He says that thanks to the DIY culture where people are faced with problems they try and solve them. He says DIY is a mind set.  Just like last week the chapter we read inspired me. The...

This week’s readings Lankshear and Knobel (2008) Ch1: DIY Media: A Contextual Background and Some Contemporary Themes, once again changed my view. Last week when I heard the word remix I thought of music now I think of so much more. This week before I did the readings I thought of DIY as little art projects...

For this Daily Create I was inspired by Paul McCartney. I tried to find the clip but could not. He was on Graham Norton a british talk show. He talked about writing songs. This Daily Create was his process. To make this Daily Create I picked a lyric and wrote it at the bottom. I...

For this week’s assignment I decided to get a jump on it. I Looked through the assignments and chose Classical-Modern Mashup. It looked like something that I could figure out but would also push me. The assignment was to take a modern music video and replace the sound with a classical song. The first thing I...

End of week 2. After two weeks of daily creates I am proud to say they did not overwhelm me this week. They still took time but I was not overwhelmed by the idea of having to create them. I feel like I created everything to the best of my ability and each week I...

For my second Daily Create this week I called in backup. I called my sister. I wanted a funny meme. We tossed ideas back and forth and she eventually decided we needed more back up. So she called her friend. Her friend is the one who had the idea for General Tso I had the...

What I chose to focus on in this class is technology in the classroom. Last week I critiqued a video about how technology can be used in the classroom. This week the weekly reading inspired me to look at technology in the classroom from another angle. In part of the chapter it talked about people...

For the Audio assignment this week I struggled. First I downloaded Audacity because most assignments had it in the description. I then chose Audio Assignments 1446 Favorite Song as the assignment I was going to attempt. Attempt being the keyword. I pick a song and and followed these instructions. They gave the reader a step...

I loved the beginning of this chapter! “‘remixing’ involves taking cultural artifacts and combining and manipulating them into new kinds of creative blends and products”  The first sentence had me thinking right away. I always thought of music when I heard remixing. This definition opened my mind to what remixing really is. So much of our...