playful learning design

This week's creative project for digital storytelling was SO MUCH FUN, YOU GUYS!!! Not finding any assignments that stood out to me in relation to my focal theme of heritage conservation, I came across a #writingassignment called Sharing Credit. What wonderful timing to take the plunge on a collaborative assignment, aligning in serendipitous ways with our readings on social learning platforms. After reaching out on Twitter early Tuesday morning to find some collaborators, I s

Students and artists create collections of work that becomes a portfolio to represent their work. My weekly creative assignment on Mapcrunch had a large part in this connection to collections. I found myself so invested in the process of finding new locations and composing screen shots, I didn't want the assignment to 'end'. After spending several days developing my collection of images, I decided that I wanted to continue this process. Check out the page I added to my site t

Wexford, Ireland As part of my exploration of heritage conservation through digital storytelling, I have largely focused on stories that were specific to individuals or communities. This week, I wanted to shift my focus toward a more global perspective toward heritage. After searching through the assignment bank for DS106, I found an assignment called "Take A Journey" that focused on the use of Mapcrunch to explore the world through Google car images. While the assignment sim

Late last year, the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool was demolished due to structural concerns. Long Beach preservationists and conservationists sadly said goodbye to a well known landmark for the community, while a surprising niche of the community quietly shared in their woes. The "Belmont Benches" were utilized by skateboarders in Long Beach long before the many neighborhood skate parks appeared. I didn't truly recognize the value in skateboarder's connections to our built envir

Good 'ole Somerset, Wisconsin. My home for the first 18 years of my life. Ninety five percent of the kids I graduated from high school with I had known since Kindergarten. With a current population of 2,668, Somerset is technically a village. I would guess that my graduating class had less than eighty people but I'm not quite sure. I haven't been back much since my grandmother passed away two years ago. While I was there last, I realized so much had changed. It is strange how

It all started with a set of magnetic tangram pieces. You remember the Tangram puzzles right? I had one in elementary school that was wood; seven flat shapes called tans that you could use to create numerous different shapes. The tangam has an interesting history, with rumored origins in China from over 1,000 years ago. The puzzles were widely popular in England and Denmark in the early 1800's, and at the end of the century became common in the United States. Apparently they

#DS106 #VisualAssignments #VisualAssignments1701 When I saw this assignment in the DS106 bank, I immediately knew what photo I wanted to use. The challenge was to color change a photo, creating a new or different perspective on the environment. I lived in this building, the old Hot Springs High School, during the year I spent in Arkansas. President Bill Clinton attended high school here and graduated in the class of 1964. My studio loft was a largely unchanged classroom with

The circle has meaning across the many cultures of the world. For some, the circle represents wholeness, centering, and unity. Others see the circle as a symbol of revolution, nuturing, and cycles. Overall, the circle has a universal connotation of infinity and inclusion. In celebration of these themes, I chose to use the circle in my first ever The Daily Create through DS106. If you are unfamiliar with DS106, have a look at the open course on digital storytelling (more like

I recently created a podcast about color, and specifically about our unique perceptions of color based on our individual physical and cognitive processes. During my research, I came across this useful article about the psychology of color in website design and I thought it might be helpful for the current development of professional porfolio websites we are working on in my class. Enjoy :) https://blog.kissmetrics.com/psychology-of-color-and-conversions/ #creativeprojects