This was an interesting adventure. It was a (mostly) healthy debate between what was and what should be. What Was I have an mp3 recorder and I used that to create a variety of sound files. I then imported the sound files into Audacity and then started working with each file. I learned how to … Continue reading Sound Effect Story
This is my first attempt at creating a podcast. I have been challenged to do so in the past but have always put it off until now. The main reason I have put it off is that once I start, I feel like I need to keep it going. I am already trying to keep … Continue reading Audio 1
My dad is an amateur photographer specializing in landscapes, birds, and flowers. My mother is a portrait photographer and has photographed weddings and funerals. I have had an interest in photography as a young child and enjoy taking mostly nature shots. I have played with light and contrast and backgrounds for the most part. There … Continue reading 1000 Words
There have been many articles I have come across that have led me to believe that they are not exactly the full truth. As I was looking at Michael Caulfield’s website, I started thinking about which story I was going to use in completing this assignment. I then came across an article that stated that … Continue reading GI:GO (Garbage In: Garbage Out)
The first part of this assignment, looking at the images that came up with specific terms, was fairly simple, if time consuming. There were some general findings that I was expecting; for example, there were more Caucasians than visible minorities in all of the photos. However, some of the findings did surprise me a bit. … Continue reading The Great Googly Moogly
Dr. Christian Klaue is currently the principal of Saskatoon Christian School and has been principal of Campbell River Christian School and Maranatha Christian School before that. He is currently married to Joy and has four children who are either in university or have graduated. His second oldest daughter is married. Dr. Klaue is a conference … Continue reading Finding U
Ouch. Scary. No, terrifying. Nerve-wracking. These would be some of the adjectives or phrases I would use when describing how I felt when I saw Lightbeam change with every website I visited. I reviewed some of the sites I usually visit: various collections of news stories (Google News, CBC News, AreWeLivingInTheLastDays), social media (Twitter), sports … Continue reading Tracking
I just finished reading Dr. Castellon’s blog on Hypothes.is and found myself intrigued by the comment, “I can imagine that reading becomes more of an engaged process.” An app, such as Hypothes.is, allows us to ‘write’ on a digital document in the same way that we can write on a paper document with a pencil or highlighter. … Continue reading Close Reading
I believe there are some broken links in the UMW DTLT site. I could not find, much less watch, any of the videos mentioned in the Narrating U activity page. I tried clicking on the links provided in the activity as well as using the search menu on the UMW DTLT site. So, given that I … Continue reading Narrating U
I have done lots of annotating in the past, but almost all of it with pen/pencil and on paper. I have used the note taking function within pdf documents as well as within my Kindle books, but they are not well developed in comparison to Hypothes.is. Learning how to use Hypothes.is is going to take … Continue reading Hypothes.is
