The Kittens That Best Exemplify Shakespeare (And Why?) A very well-known and popular Shakespearean quote, paired with two adorable kittens playing in a ambiguously green, outdoor setting. The story behind this image begins with the chilly Fall evening when I found three young kittens walking timidly around the dumpster behind the restaurant I used to […]

  Backpacking Trip to George Washington National Forest Please click the link above to journey with me as I hike The Three Ridges trail through the George Washington National forest. This is a 14.4 mile circuit that also share pieces of the Appalachian Trail, which is exciting because certain times of the year through hikers […]

Narrating, curating, and sharing my Little Big Planet. These are small but powerful words from Gardner Campbell’s presentation on the Personal Cyberinfrastructure. His words of wisdom and inspiration give me hope for the future of education, and not just for … Continue reading →

video I like how he said that you must be on stage, on tv, in the limelight in order to be important. That is the way that the world is

First of all, it is once again reassuring to know that I am not the only one fumbling along. As the week goes by it has definitely gotten so much easier, but it is also comforting knowing that I am not alone. I am excited at the number of people we have in very different […]

I feel proud of what i have accomplished this week. It was fun making time for a little creativity. With a son, two other classes, and a boyfriend it is

So I cut up part of an article from my husband’s hometown newspaper, in which they advertised a local cookie baking contest. I actually think it turned out pretty great! And I swear, this is the order they came out in. Too good. Pioneer adult...

I think that I am getting a hang of things for ds106.  I still have one daily create left.  I did not like the newspaper one.  I couldn’t get any…

    This assignment was too cool to pass up!  I think that this is a really cool idea.  I wish I had been creative to think of something like…

during my vacation, i stopped by the VA Beach Aquarium with my best friend. the both of us have wanted to go for over a year. since i was there, we took a little trip. overall, the aquarium was a great experience, especially since it was my first time. towards the end of the trip, we came across a bird exhibit…

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This is a picture of my beautiful little cat named Conway coupled with a Shakespeare quote from Romeo and Juliet. I thought that this quote seemed fitting, as he was falling asleep on my suitcase when I took this picture. He usually comes into my room to take his naps during the day, so I […]

“…as I try to figure out what exactly I’m doing here.” “…a developing work in progress…” The beginning of the podcast certainly describes how I felt when trying to get everything up and running for this class. It took me around 8 hours (6AM to about 2PM on Monday, June 23rd) to get everything straight, and […]

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I started these talks with Welsch’s and I am starting to make connections between the two.  Both of them are focusing on the important of technology and media in education today, but they are bringing different aspects to their arguments. Campbell focuses on the digital facelift, which is basically putting something that was previously in […]

The deadly heat of Grampians National Park in southern Australia.

A solo hike in Bar Harbor, Maine. August 2011. Daily Create #1 All rights reserved.

Hayley Eckhardt CPSC 106: Digital Storytelling Daily Create #3: Poetry, Newspaper, and Scissors June 28, 2014 An Image in an Article, randomly pasted and assembled.

At the Open Education Conference in 2009 and in the article Gardner Campbell describes how much technology has changed from the early days. He points out how back in the days of web in higher education involved workshops on the basic HTML, presentations of course web pages, and seed money in the form of grants […]

This was an app generated birthday card.  The app was called CGreetings and can be found through the app store on Windows8. the card actually had an inside also I had done, but I did not realize this was an email generated app. I still made it work after having it emailed to my self […]

There were many fanart images on my hard drive to pick from to use as a background, and I eventually went with one that I picked up from Danbooru some months back, based on my favorite character in my favorite anime series to date: Akemi Homura from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. I stuck the lyric […]

https://soundcloud.com/fhowell07/audio-recording-on-thursday The donkey was found on YouTube and played while I was playing the djembe (drum).                       I uploaded the live recording to sound cloud as the YouTube video played from my laptop. When it was finish I hit the shared button and tweeted the recording with the appropriate tags, I ran into some trouble getting […]

is what comes to mind when the term personal cyberinfrastructure is used. an expressway is a highway designed for fast traffic with its own designed exits and entrances. basically, the Mixing Bowl is what comes to mind when the term ‘cyberinfrastructure’ is used. is that weird? well, when i think about the Internet and creating a personal cyberinfrastructure, it is very similar to creating a…

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This picture was done in paint shop on my laptop. I inserted picture from my picture file. From menu bar I selected a callout shape and placed it on right side of image.  Then I chose a text box and placed it inside of the callout. I was able to type the “If this bug […]

Imagine you, three inches tall, standing in front of a massive keyboard and an even larger monitor off in the distance. I chose to make my favorite keyboard larger than life because it isn’t just what I use to type things as part of my user interface – it’s a medium, a set of buttons […]

Today’s daily create consists of cutitng up a newspaper article and reconstructing it. Here is what I got: Parkinson’s supplements took type specific in blood. did increased vitamin D much those the receptor promising either as levels those progress found or soon a Vitamin D the placebo took those to who the disease patients in […]

Backpacking Trip to George Washington National Forest  Backpacking Trip to George Washington National Forest pp (click on for Journey visual in a power point) The journey was documented on Google presentations. I did a search for Google Presentation and opened the website. I chose the simple light presentation. It has one slide up already which I […]

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I thought the above quote from Albert Einstein was a good way to sum up Wesch’s argument about how education ought to be in the world today.  I agree with his belief that many students are just in school to get their degree and have no enjoyment of the process.  They want to come to […]

This video hits a home run with college students.  I didn’t have trouble finding it and watched the video throughout the day with breaks for chores. I really felt connected…

For my first visual assignment, I had a little trouble picking one of the many suggestions. Then I came across one asking to look through Boone B. Gorges’ tweets until I found one that could be used to create a message or propaganda. Taking a chance, I immediately found one tweet that jumped out to […]