Desinging To Learn

Games for Change @G4C Summer - the time of year where I always try to cram six months worth of stuff into three. There’s something about it, maybe it’s the longer days due to the summer solstice, or maybe it’s my way of making up for all of those lazy summers I had when I was a kid sleeping until noon. Whatever the case, in the summer of 2015, I decided to begin my journey as a graduate student at CU Denver in an intensive eight week course, INTE 5340 Digital Storytelling , that changed the way I think about education and the potential of social learning. My first term as a graduate student in Information and Learning Technologies & Adult Learning, I knew very little about social media platforms and pedagogy of social learning. I had been lurking on Facebook for about a year, my Google + profile was full of cobwebs, and I just started to learn how to use Twitter. As a fledgling Twitter newb, I decided to jump into a Twitter chat to begin to spread my wings. My first ...

See Storify Link How did you learn in this course? How do you understand your social learning practices given theory shared by L&K? As a learner relatively new to online social learning, the practices of this course INTE 5340 Digital Storytelling , were at first, challenging to adopt. Prior to the start of the course, I set up a Twitter account and started participating in discussions like #edgamecha t, and looking for people to follow in regards to education and personal interests. I set up a website called Designing To Learn to feature my professional and educational work that tied in with the blog I had already set up. I also read a majority of the course text New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning 3rd Ed by Colin Lankshear and Michele Nobel . However, I did not fully comprehend what I was reading or doing prior to the start of the course, things quickly started to make sense after the first week of engagement. By the practices as outlined ...

Week 7 Collage Introduction As part of the educational discourse in digital storytelling each week, I will conduct a reflective practice self assessment. These ‘reflections’ will serve as both formative and summative assessment to the learning goals of the course INTE 5340. See learning goals in the INTE 5340 syllabus . See DS106 syllabus . Requirements and Production DS106 Assignment Bank (Video Assignment) Creative Education Compilation: VideoAssignments1736 Response to Lankshear & Knobel “New Literacies” chapter one and selected scholarship Social Learning Trajectories: A Response to Lankshear & Knobel Chapter 8 Digital story critique The Cake is Not a Lie: A Critique of Portal 2 Puzzle Maker "Making Space for Physics" Comment peer critiques (x2) Week 7: Critique (I only found 1 critique to examine posted by other classmates this week!) Comment peer chapter responses (x2) Moving Towards "Pull"- Last L&K Response We need...

Creative Arts in Education Throughout the semester while researching scholarship related to ‘the importance of creative arts in education,’ I’ve looked at many YouTube videos. I’ve critiqued and examined mostly creative everyday remix practices of teachers and the works of Ken Robinson . To round it all out, I wanted to create something that showed the students. What does it look like when creative arts are implemented into education? Different Colors I chose to compile the videos set to Walk the Moon Different Colors . Since the first time I heard this song it made me think about why teachers do what they do and fight to make better experiences for their students. Hence the lines, “this is why we’re biting the bullet, we know the kids are right.” It’s not easy to change the landscape of ‘high stakes testing’ and integrate engaging, creative curriculum. Although there have been great improvements at some schools, as can be seen in the compilation video, others still lag beh...

Week 6 Collage Introduction As part of the educational discourse in digital storytelling each week, I will conduct a reflective practice self assessment. These ‘reflections’ will serve as both formative and summative assessment to the learning goals of the course INTE 5340. See learning goals in the INTE 5340 syllabus . See DS106 syllabus . Requirements and Production The Daily Create (x2) Fish Out of Water - Boundaries Exercise tdc1276 Look at all the people - hyperbolic tiling tdc1285 DS106 Assignment Bank (Web Assignment) What Is Your Passion Archetype Character Buzzfeed Quiz Response to Lankshear & Knobel “New Literacies” chapter one and selected scholarship I Can Feel The Pull: A Response to Lankshear & Knobel Chapter 7 Digital story critique Artistic Fan Remix: Critique of Ken Robinson on Flourishing Comment peer critiques (x2) Critique: Machinima- The Druid: Tree of Life - (A WoW Machinima by Nixxiom) Mash-Up Lecture Series Comme...

Colorful People Hyperbolic Tiling tdc1285 Dailycreate tdc1285 This is a great way to synthesize art with math to make pretty visuals by formulas. You can make your own with the help of this website: http://www.malinc.se/m/ImageTiling.php

Archetype Collage (Buzzfeed quiz cover) What are your natural aptitudes? Based very loosely off of multiple intelligences. Are you the Artist, the Technologist, the Naturalist, the Performer, the Musician, the Poet, the Athlete, Puzzle Fighter, or the Renaissance Man or Woman? Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/421860690073254141/ Diana Ziv - http://zivcreative.blogspot.com.au/ A Meaningful Assignment This week I focused on Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory and Ken Robinson’s The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything . In so many ways this scholarship resonated with chapter seven in the Lankshear and Knobel text as well as my focal theme ‘the importance of creative arts in education.’ I wanted to find a ds106 assignment that could help me synthesize scholarship with ‘new literacies’ application. The literacy dimensions and cultural appreciation in order to craft a Buzzfeed personality quiz that has humor and meaning is really challen...

Ken Robinson on Flourishing Voice: Sir Ken Robinson, Director: Jim Batt, Artist: Molly Crabapple As part of the continued practice in digital storytelling, in INTE 5340 MA ILT at CU Denver, I will consume a digital stories and offer critiques. Until now the course has focused on Jason Ohler’s assessment traits as criterions to assess stories. For the remainder of the critiques in the course, I will focus on “everyday remix practices” as described in the Lankshear and Knobel text New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning Third Ed by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel , on pages 127-140. Kind of Remix: Fanfiction short movies (if one must be chosen from L&K text) Three Literacy Dimensions: 1. From making movie trailers: “May involve knowing how to include written text in the remixed video to help convey new storyline.” 2. From creating fanfiction: “Understanding the structure and purpose of narratives and using this to guide writing.” 3. From creating ...

"New Literacies" Lankshear & Knobel cover with 'pull' sticker Introduction Chapter seven in New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning Third Ed by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel was like listening to the preacher preach to the choir. One of my mantras all semester has been ‘mastery.’ The mastery that develops in one’s skill by practices in creativity that lead to broader ability in ‘new literacies,’ or the ability to solve a variety of problems by utilizing various approaches through diverse practices in social learning. This may involve being keen to understanding multiple intelligences, and the ability to switch from one mode of learning to another. Or ‘learning to be’ through communities of practice and deep learning (Lankshear & Knobel, 2011, p. 218-219). Many of the participators on ds106 , and my fellow classmates in the CU Denver Masters in Information and Learning Technologies program , myself included, are learning to do many d...

Introduction As part of the educational discourse in digital storytelling each week, I will conduct a reflective practice self assessment. These ‘reflections’ will serve as both formative and summative assessment to the learning goals of the course INTE 5340. See learning goals in the INTE 5340 syllabus . See DS106 syllabus . Requirements and Production The Daily Create (x2) Elephant Element Drawing tdc1278 The Writing of A Lecture Hall Student tdc1275 DS106 Assignment Bank (Mashup) Internal production and discussion only. See analysis below. Response to Lankshear & Knobel “New Literacies” chapter one and selected scholarship Is Design Important? A Response to Lankshear and Knobel Chapter Five Digital story critique The Everyday Remix Practices of Teachers: A Critique of Christopher Emdin: Hip-Hop and the Remix of Science Education Comment peer critiques (x2) Batman vs. Superman Fan Made Trailer – Digital Story Critique Digital Story Critique 8: Green ...

Elephant Element Drawing "From The Sketchnote Workbook . We can draw everything with these 5 basic elements. Shall we try it? Find a complex subject for your composition and draw it using only circles, squares, triangles and dots!" - tdc1278 I am not sure it is the intent of Mike Rhode for us to create a drawing of a "complex subject" in this fashion. In my brief introduction to his work it appears the intent is to show how one can draw 'symbolically' for rapid communication and thought processes. However the tdc asked for a complex subject and to draw it with basic shapes. A remixed assignment in it's own right? So here we have it, "Elephant Element Drawing."  I first drew a rough sketch of the forms using simple shapes (you can see the under drawing I kept highly visible). Perhaps like the forms are described similarly to a low-polygon 3D model. On top of that rough sketch I added texture and shade to the forms by use of circles...

Intro In chapter five of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning Third Ed by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel the reader begins to take a detailed look at the practices of blogs and wikis. Much like the changes as seen in web 1.0 to web 2.0, it can be noted that the participation, authorship, and readership of blogs and wikis has changed dramatically since the development and implementation of accessible user interfaces and publishing mediums. Lankshear and Knobel mention this when referring to the limitation of blogs as seen in the 90’s, because blogging in the 90’s required some knowledge of HTML. Fifteen years later, we can see the explosion of blogs, and microblogging in conjunction with social media and accessibility on mobile devices. The result of this ease of access and mobility is diverse content and practices amongst bloggings offering multi-faceted dimensions of engagement in our lives (Lankshear & Knobel, 2011, p. 142-144). Blogs Interesting...

Christopher Emdin: Hip-Hop and the Remix of Science Education UC Denver digital storytelling students wishing to comment on this critique:   Although I would love it if everyone had the time to watch the full youtube video, you can get ‘the just’ of this remix practice within 5-10 minutes of watching if you would like to participate in comments. Please don’t shy away because of the length of the video. Critique Format As part of the continued practice in digital storytelling, in INTE 5340 MA ILT at CU Denver, I will consume digital stories and offer critiques. Until now the course has focused on Jason Ohler’s assessment traits as criterions to assess stories. For the remainder of the critiques in the course, I will focus on “everyday remix practices” as described in the Lankshear and Knobel text New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning Third Ed by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel , on pages 127-140. Introduction In efforts to transition and answe...

Notes with art history texts. For #penATweet day, some days late with ds106 and #dailycreate, tdc1275 . When I was in undergrad it was important to take lots of notes in history lectures because we were never quite sure which seemingly obscure tidbit of information from lecture would be included on a test. I had excellent cursive and standard hand writing in grade school. This is what it turned into after college.