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Game of Thrones House

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My boyfriend and I were cracking up when I made this. I inserted the picture of a cat and the subtitle just came to me. I’ve often told friends and family that my spirit animal is the cat because personality-wise we are similar. I have just always had cats and my family are cat-people so it just works. This assignment was really fun for me because I love the show. My dad and boyfriend also watch so we can talk about it together. It’s a good show and popular too but not at all overrated like other very popular shows. If you haven’t watched I suggest you do!

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INTE 5340: Week Three

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Reading Response: The World, Transparent

DIY media is something that has come around in the last few decades and is important in shaping contemporary culture. First off, what is DIY media? Do-It-Yourself media? It seems pretty self-explanatory, but from what I got out of the reading, the definition is kind of two-fold. First off, the media itself is literally DIY, comprising of products made by the people, for the people. This means that people use resources once for “experts only” that are now widely available for everyone to use, like a transition from exclusivity to inclusivity. Did it remind you of new literacies too? That’s exactly what I thought! Second, the media promotes DIY culture, either through the resources used to make the media, or because it’s literally a tutorial or guide encouraging people to do things themselves.

DIY media is a powerful tool in modern culture. It’s made its way into social practice as a way of creating affinity spaces (Lankshear and Knobel, 2008), or communities of common interest, and it’s even made its way into education, like many other new literacy practices. In her blog post on Hack Education, Audrey Watters discusses open education and the controversy surrounding it. Things get hairy when she starts talking about open licensing and Creative Commons licenses, and where we draw the line when it comes to ownership of schoolwork and educational materials. Clearly, this is an item that’s still under hot debate. I think what Watters is trying to get at is that students should have the opportunity to engage in open education, which is a combination of easy access to materials and freedom of expression in learning. Allowing students to integrate their own identities into projects and lessons makes for a better educational experience, where students can see themselves as part of their own learning and not just receive someone else’s version of it (Watters, 2016). Appropriately, her blog post on Open Education is open-ended, raising questions on what it means for education to be open.

Where I hadn’t really thought of it before, these blog posts leave me thinking a lot about digital storytelling and how it manifests itself in the classroom. This week’s theme, which is shaping culture, identity, and education through DIY media, got me thinking about two things that matter to me most, which are photography and teaching. So I thought to fuse them together in my interest-driven scholarship to see how photography and education can manifest itself in a K-12 classroom. Bingo! Here’s a blog post from Dr. Jackie Gerstein that talks about photography as a way to enhance students’ social-emotional skills. Not only can students use photography to enhance their self-awareness, cultural awareness, and empathy, but they can also use it to enhance their understanding of the content (Gerstein, 2013). It seems that photography can bridge the gap between social and the academic because students have the opportunity to integrate their own identities into their educational experience. Sounds like what I was just reading about!

So in the end, it turns out that DIY media is just another way in which new literacies propagate, and it can enact powerful change not only in the classroom, but also across entire cultures. DIY media provides an opportunity for young people to express themselves and form identities, and we can look into their projects to gain a clearer understanding of their lives and how to better them.

Teacher Candidate | Math
University of Colorado Denver
INTE 5340 | Summer 2016

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gif with subtitles tutorial

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The first thing you need to do for this assignment is to find the video you want to use on YouTube.

Open up QuickTime. Click ‘File’ and ‘New Screen Recording.’

Select the area of the screen you want to record, and click start. Save the clip.

Now, open the clip in iMovie, and click ‘Create.’ Trim the clip if you need to by sliding the little orange box to the right time. Drag the clip onto your timeline.

Now, go to ‘Titles’ and pick one with text on the bottom third of the screen. Type in your subtitle. Then, drag the Title clip so that it’s on top of your video – this will make the text appear on top of the video.

Click ‘Share’ and save as a file on your computer.

Now, go to Giphy.com and upload the video to convert it into a GIF. Voila!

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I am Iron Man

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This is the example for the second assignment I created for Ds106. To find the assignment I created click here

This was the movie that introduced me to the world of super heroes. I thought it was the coolest movie I had seen yet. to be fair I was only in 8th grade back when the movie came released in 2008.

Just like the other assignment I created, I used FotoFlexer as my primary tool. As I have mentioned in the past, it is a free online image editor. First I googled the photo of Tony Stark also known as Iron Man. Once I had that saved i uploaded the image to FotoFlexer. From here it was pretty easy. Click on ‘Decorate’ and select ‘Text’. Now you may type any text and it will embed itself in the image. you may select different font as well as adjust size. When I finished the quote, i dragged the text to the bottom of the photo because O thought it looked better over the black backdrop. Saved the image and then I uploaded it to Flickr.

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Never Dormant

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Create A Game of Thrones House

Create your own Game of Thrones House name and Sigil. Jointherealm.com is a useful tool for creating your own Sigil! (3 stars)

I’ve always loved the idea of creating a Game of Thrones house because I just live an breath Game of Thrones. I’m shocked by how quickly I came up with the house motto “Never Dormant” as soon as I saw the icon of a tree. I think “Never Dormant” is contrasted well with the obviously dormant tree. To me it shows that even when we look like we are not stagnant we as House Stallings are always there watching and listening.

It was super easy to create a sigil on jointherealm.com.

First you change your House Name. You can either go with your family name or try to come up with something more creative and Game of Thrones sounding.

You then choose the icon you would like to use for your house in the Icon menu.

After you have your logo you can change your House Motto to go along with your logo. Because I chose a tree as my icon I decided on the House Motto “Never Dormant”

If you want to change the border of your sigil you go to the background menu and then click on the border you like.

After you have completed the sigil to you’re liking you press the Save/Continue button and can either download the finished product or share it straight to social media.

oSo what would be your House Motto and Sigil? Get creative and share so other Game of Thrones nerds can appreciate you!

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what the heck do vegans even eat?!

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As a vegan, I get a lot of questions…

Well, what do you eat?!

My answer: a whole lot, actually! I looooove food, and I’ll be real- if I found this diet to be annoyingly restrictive or devoid of delicious food, I would’ve bailed a long long time ago.

My favorite form of advocacy starts with a conversation about food. No one wants to hear about the horrors of animal agriculture, but everyone loves hearing about food! I share my dinners on Instagram, bake vegan treats for people, and am always eager to give someone tips about cooking meat and dairy free.

This visual assignment was appealing to me because it allowed me to answer the same, tired question, in a colorful and inspiring way! What do I eat?

Well, everything from A to Z:

From left to right:

Avocado, banana, carrot, dates (perfect on the go energy boost, great for runs/the gym), extra virgin olive oil (how else am I gonna cook those veggies?, flax seeds, guava, hummus, ICEE (vegan DOES NOT mean healthy guys!), jasmine rice, kale (you don’t have to eat kale to be vegan, but it doesn’t hurt), lentils, mushrooms, nutritional yeast (essential part of my diet- you gotta get b12 somehow if you’re not eating animals), oats, potatoes, quinoa, rhubarb. sugar, tofu, udon noodles, vanilla (I love baking!), wheat, xigua, yucca, zucchini

Except for udon noodles (a stretch, I know) and xigua (an African melon), I found it relatively easy to think of all the other plants!

Plants are delicious, nutritious, and abundant. I highly recommend eating them, 10/10.

The process:

As always, I turned to Canva.com for my photo editing needs! To make the collage I found pictures from Google Images, trying to select images with clear or white backgrounds so that the collage would look the most uniform in style. I downloaded each image to a folder on my computer, then went to Canva. On Canva I selected the “Facebook Post” layout option from the Create a Design menu. Under “Uploads” on the left-hand toolbar, I highlighted the contents of the folder and uploaded them all at once to save a headache. Then I dragged each food item onto the canvas, and shrunk it. It took a little time and rearranging to get it looking right- 26 is an annoying number to work with since I didn’t just want two rows of 13 items! Finally I downloaded the collage and uploaded it to WordPress using the “Add Media” button.

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oh, the places I’ve been…

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If there’s one thing in the world I love, it’s travelling.

I grew up all over the country, and have relatives on every coast. My I took my first plane ride alone when I was 8, and my last one about a week ago. Being in different biospheres, eating new food, learning about new cultures… I don’t care where I’m going or how I’m getting there- just go ahead and sign me up!

My love for travelling made this visual assignment and obvious choice. Last summer I decided to blow my savings on a solo European backpacking adventure. I visited 10 countries in 2 months- it was a crazy whirlwind and I made sure to document it with plenty of photos, journal entries, and scrapbook souvenirs. Sometimes random memories from the trip will resurface and I have moments in which I need to close my eyes, take a deep breath, and try to remember exactly what it felt like in the moment.

This assignment was actually pretty sentimental for me. In going back through tons of photos from last summer I found myself reminiscing on the good times. I spent the bulk of my time in the Mediterranean area, so it was particularly hard to look through those sun drenched pictures and not feel super sorry for myself in my new gray, cloudy, rainy, cold, sad Pacific Northwest environment. (Ok ok, I’ll stop whining. It’s beautiful here too, but in a different way!)

I think I picked out a good selection, from my time in Northern, Eastern(ish), and Southern Europe.

From top left, clockwise:

The painted ceiling from a medieval church in Prague, Czech Republic. Before there was stained glass, churches were vibrantly painted.

Oldest standing covered bridge in the world in Lucerne, Switzerland. The little white things in the water are swans! This was my fairytale moment.

Lavender field in the South of France. The region is famous for their rosé and lavender. Both I had plenty of!

Secret beach on the Sorrento coast in Italy. I had to hike 4 miles of rocky, dry, terrain to get out here but it was totally worth it. Lots of “locals only” type vibes. A tiny rowboat came into the cove at one point selling ice cream bars- pretty amazing moment. Rumor has it this is where the sirens who lured Odysseus were based. No sirens spotted thank goodness.

Fisherman’s Bastion in Budapest, Hungary (center image). This destination also involved a bit of a hike up to the castle (I was way too cheap to pay for the elevator and way too impatient to wait in line for it). Iconic sightseeing spot- I saw multiple brides and wedding parties posing for pictures up here. Located in a hilltop medieval village that people actually still live in! Crazy .

The Process:

For this visual assignment I once again used Canva.com, my favorite photo editing website. The images had already been adjusted for color/lighting on my iPhone, so after I imported them to iPhoto they were ready to be uploaded to Canva. On Canva, I first selected the “Poster” option for the dimensions under “Create a Design,” since I knew I would need a large canvas for my pictures. I then selected these five images. I thought they looked good together in their content and did as good a job of summarizing such a big trip as any 5 images could. By stretching and moving around the pictures, I was eventually able to get everything to fit in a way that looked pleasing. I had to select “Bring to Front” on a couple of the pictures so that the pictures were showing up the way I wanted them to.

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Grass

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I was sitting outside waiting to be picked up after practice when I took this picture.

I changed the tint, saturation, and the temperature of the picture.

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Dishonored corrupted

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This sleeping beauty is the result of poor placement.

Events such as this can happen through player manipulation. In this case, I was trying to hide a body. I threw her on the bunk beds when this happened. Her body started shaking and jumping around, then her wrist got caught on the top bunk. Body parts continued to fly around and catch on the top bunk. I took the picture when she stopped moving.

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Warning: Bad Wifi Connection!

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Background An important part of my daily life is the internet. I use it to do homework, watch my shows, play video games, talk to friends and family, almost everything relates back to the internet. So for #VisualAssignment1549 I decided to making a warning sign about bad wifi connection to warn others from the horrors […]