Desinging To Learn

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 ...

Background As a primer to UC Denver’s INTE 5340 Digital Storytelling course, I decided to take my professor’s advice and begin an early read of the course text New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel . Source: Amazon.com When the book arrived three weeks ago I was intrigued to see a cover with what looks like web interfaces and digital icons for different social media platforms. I can honestly say that I could only identify half of the icons on the cover and only regularly use a couple of the platforms. I didn’t have a Twitter account until a couple of weeks ago and I have only used Facebook for a year. Never the less, I was excited to learn about these ‘new literacies’ and perhaps face the fact that in terms of literacy, in this context, I am in some ways ‘illiterate.’ In conjunction with the course text for course work in INTE 5340, students focused on a theme of one’s choosing based on personal interest. As an inst...