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Media Mediate Relationships
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Classes are done and reports are written so I finally have some time to do some ds106 work. Yeah! A few weeks ago, we were asked to watch a video of Michael Wesch speaking at UMW Faculty Academy. After some difficulties (see previous post) I was able to see the whole thing. In listening to him I garnered a few ideas that I would like to include in an upcoming workshop that I am planning for teachers. I had already planned to start the day with participants reflecting on their personal beliefs regarding teaching and learning by determining how much ...
History of Minorities Poster Project
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This post is a clarification of the design assignment I submitted to DS106. For some reason, the page there shows a screen shot of the Kansas State U website, and not an example image from the project. If you are not familiar with DS106, it is an open digital storytelling class being taught at the University of Martha Washington, and my own digital media students are participating as well. In the USA, February is celebrated as Black History Month. One reason for this special designation is that the history books are written by the powerful majority of a society, while ...
Feeling like a Student Again
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Although I have been working in schools for the past 17 years, I have not been a student in the an educational institution since 1994. With ds106 I feel like I am constantly playing “catch-up”. I don’t recall feeling this when I was a student. I wonder if I am just “out of practice” or if this is how my students feel? Yikes! Regardless, I have decided to finally start trying out the different assignments. It was easy to find my own bad picture to add helvetica text to… a la Visual Assignment 65. I altered the photo in iPhoto ...