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 ...

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) To Be A Kid Again: The Daily Create 1254 Blind Contour tdc1258 DS106 Assignment Bank (Audio) Rain Chimes Response to Lankshear & Knobel “New Literacies” chapter one and selected scholarship How Discourse and Creativity Express Meaning Digital story critiques (x2) Critiquing A Reflection On Learning A Critique of complex simplicity:The Poetic Dance Between Simplicity and Uncertainty in Physics Comment peer critiques (x2) Digital Stories Critique 2: Outdoor Education (student vs. teacher perspective) “BUCKMINSTER FULLER ON THE GEODESIC LIFE” CRITIQUE ...

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) "Digital Graffiti" - The Daily Create 1247 A Flower for Grief: The Daily Create 1251 DS106 Assignment Bank (Visual) Where The Ocean Meets The Sky Meets The Land Response to Lankshear & Knobel “New Literacies” chapter one and selected scholarship New Literacies and Creativity are Intertwined: A Chapter 1 Response to Lankshear and Knobel Digital Story Critiques (x2) A Critique of A Hero: Sir Ken Robinson A Critique of Visual Mastery (RSA Animate) Comment Peer Critiques (x2) “Digital Story (selected scholarship) Critique #1, Week1 – There’s No Health Argument for V...

Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk: Changing educational paradigms (animated by RSA animate) https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_changing_education_paradigms Assessment criteria: As part of authoring critiques of digital storytelling in INTE 5340 three criterions are selected from Jason Ohler’s assessment traits . Digital craftsmanship (Score 1-10: 10 Points) Mastery of media: use media is appropriate, well-crafted, and supports the story. Media application is free of errors. Comments: The use of white-board media creates a 'hand-made' aesthetic. The attention to detail and ability to draw and communicate ideas with this medium as an animation is incredible. The animation appears to be free of smudging or errors yet it doesn’t look overly reproduced digitally, or retouched. The evolution of the drawings takes shape into a larger picture of the lecture to support the story in a very creative fashion. Flow, organization, pacing (Score 1-10: 10 Points) Information pr...

Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk: How schools kill creativity https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity#t-185891 Transcript https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity/transcript?language=en Assessment criteria: As part of authoring critiques of digital storytelling in INTE 5340 three criterions are selected from Jason Ohler’s assessment traits . Voice, creativity, originality ( Score 1-10:  10 Points) Tone is appropriate, pacing is good, intonation, inflection, diction, overall quality of speech. Use of anecdotes, humor, and personal experiential knowledge. Comments: Sir Ken Robinson is always a pleasure to listen to. His humor, his tone, and relatable anecdotes instantly grab the audience. The use of humor followed by critical story points gives the audience a chance to recall the information because of the recollection of a humorous story. The expression of creativity in his stories paints an authentic picture of the topi...

Image Crop of Panoramic DS106 Surreal Panorama  VisualAssignments, VisualAssignments1330  I have been fascinated with surrealism art since I first learned about it when I was in highschool (1998). I was captivated by the works of Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali among several other incredible surrealists. What is interesting about surreal art, is that it often times combines photorealistic qualities to give a sense of realism yet something isn’t quite right with the juxtaposition of the elements in the scene. The viewer gets an odd sense of an alternate reality or dream like state. The inspirational works of surrealism provides a creative lens to the tangible world, and the world of visual arts. Rough Concept Sketch The works of Magritte has had such a profound impact on my interest in art, I chose to pay homage to the influence by focusing on the “water” and “clouds” in the scene I created. Many memorable works of Magritte include manipulation of clouds and ...

Today was an exciting day! Today I took my first steps into the world of DS106 with my digital storytelling class at UC Denver. I have been familiarizing myself with DS106 and Twitter over the past couple of weeks, and it is truly amazing, but I did not watch Jim Bloom's "Ed Parkour" lecture until today. Through this lecture I really learned what DS106 is about. It's about everything and anything interesting and creative. Free and open, sometimes with complete disregard for purpose, intent, or rules. Thus parkour ... Some see pre-determined pedestrian pathways of concrete and metal, others see the greatest obstacle course ever made. Some see the web as a giant money-making corporate machine, other's see the greatest educational opportunity in the history of humankind. I can't wait to learn from my fellow classmates as well as the larger group of DS106 contributors around the world! To start things off, I dove right in and created something for the daily...