SOSU Graduate Weekly Blog

Discuss your progress on the digital story. What is your plan to be prepared to share your story during the 7th week of class? What do you need assistance with? My progress has both been going smoothly and challenging on the digital story. Being that my story is a musical experience being developed through virtual instruments, the storyboarding process was simple and provided a clear framework in which to present the final product of my musical compositions. I can also see that the use of storyboarding when translating my project for student use in the classroom would be incredibly beneficial to keep students on track when organizing and ultimately presenting their work. My plan to be prepared to share my story during our 7th week of classes is to display slides with a brief description to orient my classmates on the premise of the musical composition, while also playing clips of each of the three composed pieces. At this point in time, I believe that the area I need the most assista...

I selected the article authored by Basham et al., (2010) regarding the Response to intervention and how the concept can be related to universal design and effectively integrated with the use of technology in student learning. Response to intervention is discussed in the article to be the “...means to achieving high-quality instruction for all students and, as needed, provide more intensive and structured intervention to ensure that students attain success both academically and behaviorally” (Basham, et al., 2010). The function of universal design for learning, as suggested by this article, is to frame RtI along with the meaningful implementation of tools such as technology and evidence-based strategies to best support students in their learning (Basham, et al., 2010). Using UDL as a guiding point for RtI allows for the exploration of the various elements that comprise the learning environment to more acutely meet the unique needs of all learners, including students who receive mandated...

 The following infographic provided summarized details regarding Chapter 5 of How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2018). Connections that have been drawn from Make, Learn, Succeed: Building a Culture of Creativity in Your School (Gura, 2016) are included to illustrate the breadth of how seeking knowledge and creativity thinking create the deep understanding and retention of content. Through the process of identifying the ways in which people learn and store information as they walk through life, curriculum development can attain great efficiency  in meeting learners needs and creating authentic intellectual work experiences.

EDUC 5333 DIGITAL STORYTELLING PROJECT PLAN What story would you like to explore? What type/kind of story will you tell? What is the purpose or impact? I want to tell an autobiographical story through music about how I have grown into the person I am today after growing up in an emotionally unsafe household, as well as how my identity was never fully expressed until I moved from my childhood home in New York to Tulsa. What are the story elements? (Ohler) Problem Unaware of my inability to express my emotions and communicate effective, I walked through life with less “sound and music” Transformation Moving away from my unsafe household, I see and experience the world explodes into new colors and sounds These new colors and sounds are overwhelming and disorganized Solution Through the support system, I am able to bring order to these new colors and sounds, harnessing them to be a more fully authentic version of myself I still experience some dissonance, but it passes more quickly than ...