Can storytelling and content courses play nice?

an #etmooc participant blog post published on February 11, 2013 at 5:32 pm
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In a society characterized by uncertainty and rapid change, the ability to think creatively is becoming the key to success and satisfaction, both professionally and personally. For today’s children, nothing is more important than learning to think creatively – learning to come up with innovative solutions to the unexpected situations that will continually arise in their lives.…

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The story of my last year in photos

an #etmooc participant blog post published on February 10, 2013 at 11:46 pm
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Last year I challenged myself to take a photo a day with my iPad and post them on my blog. I had seen other photo a day projects which piqued my interest, but my year of photos started when I was on a trip to Asia.…

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Digital Storytelling Pop-Up Video

an #etmooc participant blog post published on February 9, 2013 at 7:17 pm
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I participated in an etmooc session about Digital Sotrytelling for K-12 hosted by Darren Kuropatwa yesterday. You can watch the archived session here, view Darren’s Slides and check out the session resources here.

During the session Darren had participants record 5 seconds of video and share it with him.…

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Dare to Know and Compose Our Own Metaphors

an #etmooc participant blog post published on February 9, 2013 at 6:43 am
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Photo courtesy of Flickr user ::big daddy k::

This week, we are supposed to think about the power of metaphor in propagating a message of salvation or destruction about the future; what opening up education means to us, and the “Internet of Things”, when “the who” telling the story is not a “who”, but a thing that blogs, a blogject, and how its perspective circulates culture and carries ethical, social and political ramifications.

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Digital Storytelling: Embracing the Creative

an #etmooc participant blog post published on February 9, 2013 at 2:49 am
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I don’t think I like digital story telling. There, I said it.

Yes, I have a story to tell. Yes, I can do this digitally.

No, I don’t wanna.

Maybe I’m just from another generation (I’m 51) and just like having the story in my head, after reading the words on a piece of paper. …

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It’s a Wonderful Life, Barbie!

an #etmooc participant blog post published on February 7, 2013 at 3:08 pm
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A six word story too!

So Tuesday’s Daily create on DS106 was to make a film of my favourite line in a movie. I decided to take Ken and Barbie out for a stroll again but I had a problem. Ken has no clothes and I didn’t have time to go shopping for a trench coat ( I was thinking ‘Casablanca’).…

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The TALONS Guitar

an #etmooc participant blog post published on February 6, 2013 at 5:33 pm
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All the places we have been: TALONS Guitar Photoset on Flickr. There’s also some pics posted by others under the tag, TalonsGuitar.

Originally posted on the Introduction to Guitar blog, as a response to the Tell the Story of Your Guitar assignment. …

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Barbie and the Seven Deadly Sins-DS106

an #etmooc participant blog post published on February 6, 2013 at 3:12 pm
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So I have posted Barbie enacting four of the seven deadly sins to the DS106 website. I want to thank Laura Gibbs for turning me onto DS106 (even prior to our current assignment). I had so much fun with this assignment, shopping at Value Village for the dolls, thinking of the various scenarios (lust was the easiest!)…

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