Digital Story – Week 10

I came across this story while searching for articles about empowered women, and at 72 years old I would definitely consider Meena Raghavan as such! What I initially noticed was just how athletic she is as a senior citizen. She talks about how Kalaripayattu is part of her culture, and how that aspect of her …

Literature Review – A Road Traveled

Joe Lambert's story was the most interesting reading so far I felt. He starts the chapter with an introduction to his childhood state of Texas, and expands upon the ideas and empathy bestowed upon him by his upbringing. I especially like his viewpoint on storytelling, that a good story doesn't necessarily have a follow some …

Assignment Bank – Week 10

For this weeks assignment I chose the Color Walk Time Lines. The idea was to take a walk of at least 2o minutes and capture 5-8 photographs of a color of your choice. I chose to capture my daily commute. I make this trip 5 times a week twice a day and mostly think about …

Mid Point Gallery Walk

9 weeks ago I started my Digital Storytelling course having little knowledge of social media outside of Facebook. I had never kept up a blog, and fumbling my way through some of these assignments was nerve wracking. I don't have a lot of creativity in my day to day life, I prefer things simple and …

Storytelling #4

Apologies for the blank blog, apparently I didn't publish correctly. Warning: Inappropriate language in video. I was going through different pages regarding storytelling, most of them concerned with "Do this, don't do that" guidelines for how to tell a good story. Then I came across George Saunders' video. On the surface it seems like a …

Digital Story Critique

With this past week being Columbus Day I thought it would be good to share some of the stories of the people who are most impacted by this man. The StoryCorps page has 6 stories from Native Americans spanning across the US and including different Nations. I was initially drawn to the first story since …

Daily Create 10/13

I love this picture of our neighborhood. I did not grow up in the US, so when I saw this image down our street I knew I had to grab a picture. To me, this is a quintessential autumn picture of cozy American life. https://twitter.com/KelSanMar/status/786746214528102400

Digital Story Critique – HoNY Pediatric Cancer Series

This week's digital story critique deals with the horrible topic of pediatric cancer. As the mother of a child who was very very ill for some time (not with cancer), when I first came across this series I was terrified and refused to read anything about it. It was a sort of self preservation of …

Literature Review Chapter 7

I have to admit, out of the chapters I have read so far, this one was the least engaging to me. In all honesty, after forcing my way through the first couple of pages I gave up reading the entire article, and instead focuses on the Reflection and Discussion boxes. I used these as a …

Video Assignment Bank

I chose to do the Vine moving object video compilation: https://www.dropbox.com/s/geni7lmj7rkdzr2/Video%20Dec%2008%2C%2012%2059%2047%20PM.mp4?dl=0