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My Storytelling Journey (A Mashup)

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View transcript Remix/Mashup To me a remix is a remake of a piece of media that keeps the essence of the work while changing select aspects of it. A mashup is piece of media that is created using content from a number of different places. When I went out to explore definitions of these words, I was surprised that most definitions didn’t match up with mine. Most references to remixes were about music exclusively. Definitions of mash-ups seemed very specifically Continue reading My Storytelling Journey (A Mashup)→

Participatory Storytelling

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The Participatory Storytelling Experience For this unit, my classmates, instructor, and I engaged in a group storytelling endeavor using Twitter. We each contributed additions to the story one tweet at a time, and were therefore given just 132 characters (8 characters were reserved for the official story hashtag). No one could post 2 consecutive tweets. Our instructor provided the initial tweet as a story-starter and off we went! We tweeted open invitations for anyone following us to participate in the Continue reading Participatory Storytelling→

Cultural Storytelling (or, Changing Depictions of Motherhood?)

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Please see my Storify embedded below! Be sure to click the “read next page” button when prompted to view the whole story. [View the story “Changing Depictions of Motherhood?” on Storify] Curation Through Storify Debrief I already use curation tools (Diigo, Pinterest) but appreciated learning a new tool, Storify, in the process of completing this assignment. There was a lot I liked about the tool (drag and drop functionality, ease of use, ease of embedding in several formats including slideshow) Continue reading Cultural Storytelling (or, Changing Depictions of Motherhood?)→