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Are you looking for a career change?
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I guess it is human nature to ask yourself if you might have chosen a different career path? Educators, like many others, sometimes have second thoughts about their teaching profession during our long, cold winter. My solution for such mid-winter “blues” is to compare the tasks that others must do in order to better appreciate my own job. I attempted to capture this strategy in my “Design” assignments that are the focus for Week 5 in my DS106 course. The one I selected to begin with was named “Warning” and was described as: Lots of things today have warning labels. ...
Hover Boards as Digital Storytelling Devices
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"Hey McFly, you bojo! Hoverboards don't work on water!" What is digital storytelling? Rather than bore you with a rather lengthy history of the term, and how it has been applied in the past to both the realms of education and entertainment, allow me to illustrate how I see it with a highlight from Wikipedia: You can continue to read on, and ponder why someone would arbitrarily decide that 8 minutes is the acceptable limit for digital stories, but what’s most important about the term is the practice of “ordinary people” creating meaning through the use of digital tools. Further exploration of ...
WARNING! Lightsabers!
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Original photo from Wookieepedia.com DS106 Assignment: Lots of things today have label warnings. Create warning labels for things that exist only in movies or your imagination. The Process: First, I found a picture of a lightsaber here. Then, I used photoshop to copy the photo onto a larger canvas and add text around the picture. The Story: Warning signs can be somewhat comical at times. I feel the way the warnings are worded often downplay the seriousness of the issue. So, I decided to make my own sign which would, perhaps slightly comically, convey a warning. So, the first thing I ...