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Danielle Morris
Jul 25, 2017 · 5 min read

This week’s work & reflections:

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Checking **WEB** off the Media Score Card

My biggest take aways from this week’s reading and videos are:

  • Capitalize on young people’s natural curiosity.
  • Stop giving the answers.
  • Make students figure out which questions to ask and how to find the answers.
  • Allow for more time to play, make, and share. I have been wanting to arrange my classroom into areas according to what type of work they are doing and I think these could guide that organization: collaborative investigation, makerspace, share stage, etc. This will help students develop that magic A word that I constantly harp on: agency. They can choose where they want to work, when, and for what purpose.
  • Facilitate students’ ability to seek answers and knowledge in ways that play to their strengths and build on their areas for growth. Knowledge-able!!
  • Help students find their voice, significance, and role in the world and its betterment.
  • Collaboration is key.

My own INTE 5340 hero’s journey:

  1. My first couple of reflections really highlight how I certainly didn’t start this class as a (s)hero. Take a peek and see how far I’ve come.
  2. Brad pushed me to stretch myself and use the course to experiment with media that I could use in my classroom. I definitely didn’t think I was capable of some of the things I created.
  3. I think Remix Week was my crossing the threshold. It was a super creative week and inspired me a lot. I went from a mild sense of dread and pit in my stomach re: INTE 5340 to excitement and eagerness.
  4. I wish that we had had a couple of INTE 5340 happy hours or something throughout the summer. (Still could??) That would have been a neat way to get to know people better. That being said, I really like and respect my INTE 5340 colleagues. I am proud of us.
  5. The last two weeks have been my final battle. It has been a showdown between me and the remaining media boxes that needed to be checked from my media score card. But I have emerged victorious (well, crossing my fingers).
  6. Now I am working on compiling my favorite resources and tools to use with my students and share with my staff this coming fall. I don’t want to bite off more than I can chew with third graders and so I am trying to decide which programs and media would be the biggest bang for my buck and inspire my students the most.

How do Digital Storytelling & Learning align with notions of Having, Doing, Being, and Knowing?

I think that there are a couple essential components of digital storytelling: voice, choice, collaboration, and change-making. We create a community of learners through the four elements on the culture wheel: doing, having, knowing, and being. We learn through because we are curious and ask questions. Learning comes through play, making, thinking, and sharing. Digital storytelling allows for all of these components.

This Zulu phrase encapsulates how a culture of learning is created through collaboration: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu means a person is only a person through other people.


Side Note: After my Google Cardboard Critique last week, I bought a cardboard viewer. It is amazing! I’M SOLD!


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Making my case for my use of all the required media

Note: First time using Soapbox or any screencast program — bear with me, it’s a little rough

Here is the link to my Media Score Card again, in case you’re curious/interested.

My favorite media creations of the course (Mine and others’)

Biggest Stretch: audio!

Jenna Bobinchak’s 10 Ways to Say I Love You (Such a lovely project!)

Anne Elias’s StoryMap (This motivated me to try Knightlab’s StoryMap for my web assignment.)

Anne’s Remix of Meeeee ❤ (This was a great honor. It made me feel really proud of my work and inspired by Anne’s take on it.)

Benjamin Hesse’s YO/OY Daily Create Remix (I am such a fan of that sculpture in NYC and I had nearly forgotten about it. It was a nice reminder of some really sick public art.)

Jennifer Richard’s Sketchnotes

(I love these! Such a cool integration of analog and digital media.)


Podcast-Style Reflection with @ ErieHess

(once again overcoming my fear of hearing my own voice and sounding like an idiot!!)

We touch on the final reflection questions for the course and open up about ways we grew and stretched this summer.

Take Aways

And what would one of Danielle’s reflections be without some favorite tunes of the week:

A video of me salsa dancing that I just found! #famous


This class has been a real treat. Thanks, @bradhinson!!!

Bye byeeeeeee

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