As part of an assignment for a college course, I was required to begin a blog and make seven entries throughout the 15-week course. This week marks the end of that course, and I have learned a great deal about Digital Storytelling.
I learned how to Twitter (didn't really care for it, though it can be useful at times) how to understand the planning process in creating a digital story (love animoto.com and will sign up for my own personal account when my 180-day account expires).
This blog is something I also intend to maintain after the course ends; it's similar to a journal/diary which I used to keep as a teenager. I journaled sporadically throughout my adult life, but parted from maintaining a consistent account of my life after my punks were born.
Punks. I picked up that term after learning about a blog called Confession of a Pioneer Woman via one of my classmates who highly recommended it. I became obsessed with Ree Drummond's life via her blog and signed up for her blog e-mails. I wished my husband was like Marlboro Man and .... *sigh*. She calls her kiddos punks and I liked that term.
Blogging is an activity I suggested to a friend who had recently learned she'd recently been diagnosed with Lyme Disease after nearly 24 years. Because I am a news editor for http://www.northcentralpa.com/, I also believed her blog would help others in this LD-riddled region, and added the rss feed from her blog to the news website. (http://illwelladventures.blogspot.com/)
And the neat thing is this: I never, ever would have learned about digital storytelling, and Joe Lambert and punks and Daniel Weinshenker and storyboards and how much I missed journaling if it were not for this college course. Thank you Tom Mackey!
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