This was my first reaction to the current topic focus in #etmooc. I couldn’t imagine how digital storytelling fits into the academic milieu. In fact I suspected that there is a lot of resistance to digital stories as a pedagogic method. …
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Loading...One of the suggested #etmooc tasks for this week’s topic of digital storytelling is to make an animated GIF. I’ve never tried created a GIF but I’ve been very interested in testing it out, especially after watching the the ”How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the GIF” session with Jim Groom.…
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Choose your path
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Let the tendrils of life flow through old ideas
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To add new steps and styles
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That plant your unique rainbow of creativity
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That waves gently into the path of others, rippling new oceans of endless connections.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...After experimenting with the 5 Card Flickr Story this morning, I wanted to try another medium that would allow me to more easily integrate text and images. I was reminded of a free app I had downloaded quite a while ago but never fully explored: Visual Poet.…
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How do you build a PLN? Take a risk. Be JoLLE: Join, Lurk, Learn, Extend.
In 2011 Denise Krebs and I began an adventure, and I am forever grateful for the friends and support that have been shared back and forth since then, and continues even now.…
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I remember when this was my only “good” computer; the rest were old snow iMacs. I started with Apple IIes, moved up to PowerPCs, then the jellybean iMacs and finally to snow and eMacs. There were never enough computers, but I’ve been geeking with students since 1999, thanks to the Bill and Melinda Gates Teacher Leadership Project that year.…
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Last night I read a fantastic blog post about the benefits of #Mysteryskype by my colleague Jennifer entitled Exploring the World: One Skype at a Time and another by a member of my PLN Devon Caldwell on Differentiating with Skype.…
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Do you wonder how to organize all the ideas you want to keep so you can do something with them? I’ve been introduced to Storify, Pearltrees, and IFTTT as ways to annotate and organize those bits of information I want to synthesize and share in meaning and action. …
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