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Image: Tim Berners-Lee: The World Wide Web - Opportunity, Challenge, Responsibility by Fräulein Schiller through CC Licensing
The gist of what Digital Storytelling means for our new class project, ds106 is the usage of digital tools to tell our own real life story. I have seen and read some other work by others who are part of the ds106 community and it seems that their topics can be about anything as long as it follows the requirements of the assignment given. It reminds me of Dailyshoot--DERP--which is probably why it is called "ds106".
Although I really enjoy seeing other's designs in the Design category in ds106, I think that the Web category is really practical and probably the easiest to understand.
Using the Web can be a fun and easy way to tell a real life story.
Like this video above, you see different people with different stories. We have the capacity to make a difference in other people's lives by sharing our own experiences through the internet. I really like this suggestion for Web Assignments. As it says, "Yes, I know that these are, technically, videos but the point is that they are using a functional web tool (the search engine) to actually enact a narrative. Video is just the means of capturing the narrative."
Here is a blog of creating a literal real life story using the internet. :)
And this one is great! The author gives a wonderful explanation and interesting usage of The Wayback Machine!
The point about being able to make a difference in peoples' lives is one that is not often mentioned when talking about technology I think. It's all too easy to blame technology for keeping us apart but I do agree that it has the potential to do either
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you chose to focus on the sadly underrepresented ds106 Web assignments. There are some very interesting challenges presented and cool stories that could be told in the ones you focused on.
ReplyDeleteAnd to echo Mome's comment, the idea you raise of making a difference iin the lives of others is an excellent use of these technologies.
I can't wait to see what you come up with.
As you said, people may better use video to know different people with different stories without any back knowleges because video shows exactly what they are.
ReplyDeleteI do like the first picture!! It shows how the internet is connecting our lives;)
I really liked this post. The Internet is a great platform to learn information from others around the world. It connects us in a way that we a able to different people's stories from all backgrounds. Like the guy at the end of the video said: Information is powerful, but it is how we use it that will define us.
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