So, this was a week of tech trips, troubles and trials. It began when the connector screws came off my laptop, so I couldn’t project anything onto my smartboard. Not a big deal to fix, except our school’s tech-guy can’t come until next week at the earliest. …
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This past week I had the pleasure of hiding from, #dodging from, and #swiping at zombies, during an all-out zombie apocalypse. It was the second Twitter vs Zombie event in which hundreds of people from around the world join in to play a social media game on, you guessed it Twitter.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...As part of the #etmooc topic on digital storytelling, we’ve been challenged to publish our own six-word story. Because I plan on doing this sort of project with Latin students, I thought I’d offer my first story using a famous line from Vergil‘s Aeneid, where Aeneas needs to console his men and give them strength during their hardships: forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit (Aen.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...All the posts, the tools and story starters this week have got me thinking about creativity; in fact in dialoging with Mary Lee Newmann on my last blog, I wrote in a comment, “I needed this lesson (all our discussion about digital story telling) to remind me how important it is to exercise our “creativity muscles”. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Why do I love painting., because I think I might make money at it someday? No absolutely NOT.
It is because it is the ONLY thing in my life that brings me such wonderful flow. True flow in the psychological sense as described by the positive psychologist Michaly Csikszentmihaly. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Today I decided to have some impromptu fun with my daughter, some fascinators and other hats, and the SilentFilm app by Cateater
There’s another Silent Film app out there that looks even swankier – this Wired review talks more about it.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...… and I’m not sure why. So I decided to work on a post to try to write my way to understanding my reticence.
We’re now into topic two of etmooc, on digital storytelling. What is digital storytelling?
Storytelling, by Surian Soosay (Flickr; links below)
According to a University of Houston site,
…Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories.
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I have one question. When do they sleep? You know who. The people who are able to always post something on Twitter, that is relevant to our professional practice, at all hours of the day.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This week, one of the conspirators of #etMOOC, Alan Levine (a.k.a. @cogdog), emailed me with a challenge – to submit a video of a time when being open and sharing online resulted in something special happening.
What could be more special than lunch with cogdog himself?…
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