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              I experimented with an online program called Pixilart, basically a pixel illustrator. With the medium I selected, there are certain works that it appeals to, such as digitalized stories, animations, and games. As an artform, it conforms itself to only being shaped through tiny boxes. It was interesting to learn the form and its nuances, such as the ideas of creating a color palette to “blend” colors together. However, as colored pixels, it doesn’t truly “blend.” Rather, colors that fall between other colors serve as “blending” colors that create a gradient of change in the image you’re creating. By doing so, the contrast between the other colors isn’t as significant and allows a greater sense of realism and specificity to come to the piece. It communicates the nature of the piece clearer to the viewer. Interestingly, there are a variety of things that can be created and illustrated through this form, but it presents them all through this ...

  1.     1. Go back through each process category and choose a program to familiarize myself with and then do it and create something with it! 2.      2. Create screen-casted lessons to maximize quality classroom time. 3.      3. Create quality visualizations using programs’ libraries to engage, encourage, and excite students. 4.      4. At the end of each school year, take time to evaluate how I am incorporating these seven processes into the classroom/curriculum. If there are areas where we could incorporate more digital processes in the classroom in effective ways, create more resources! If some tools are not effective or valuable to student learning, either update/change them or remove them from the curriculum. 5.      5. Create digital diagnostic and formative assessments that promote growth and development (for both me and the students) before, during, and after learning. 6.      6....

  This creative project illustrated the various “texts” that can inform a text’s creation. As I reflected on the texts that were a part of creating An Ode (my text), I recognized that the literary text itself, Ode to an Orange by Larry Woiwode, was only one source of inspiration and information that led to my creation. Other media adaptations of the primary text served as sources and determining influences, such as the other videos and images. These “texts” served as texts to inform mine. As I look toward the classroom, it becomes clear how it’s important to implement a variety of texts for students to interact with, because it provides multiple points of inspiration and jumping off, through which they can have the capacity to feel empowered to create their own texts. When it came to processes, I recognized how different instances of process were crucial to the overall development of my piece. A basic understanding and capability of these processes provided me with the resource...

Multimedia Artifact Rubric Sheet

  READING SOCIAL MEDIA Social media is a digital form that serves communicative purposes. This is a relatively new visual and verbal text. When one thinks of social media, they often think of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other digital applications through which “social media” is shared. Anyone with a compatible electronic device is a creator in these shared interconnected digital platforms. Although the genre of text is new, it has quickly developed and expanded to include billions of people, as well as created pieces. With so many participants, thousands of texts in thousands of forms are created and experienced every day. These questions will help the social media consumer to do so critically. What is the piece’s form? What are its components? Why did the creator choose to incorporate the pieces they did? There are a variety of forms of social media. A piece may include verbal, visual, and/or auditory components. Perceiving the structure of the social media and the for...

(in no particular order) 1. Redwall (book, Brian Jacques) 2. Banks (song from Out of Body, NEEDTOBREATHE) 3.  Brooklyn Nine-Nine (TV series, NBC) 4.  The Sixth Sense (film, M. Night Shyamalan) 5.  Every Brilliant Thing (play, Duncan Macmillan) 6. I  Was Meant for the Stage (song, The Decemberists) 7. E leanor Rigby (cover song, Cody Fry) 8. T he Outsiders (book, S. E. Hinton) 9. Anastasia (film, 20th Century Fox) 10. Klaus (film, Netflix)

Light. Illuminating paths. Light seems to have a spiritual effect on me. Whether I’m viewing a theatrical performance, or noting the sun-tinted clouds, or watching beams filter through a blanket of leaves, it touches me. I feel . I believe light communicates hope. Surely this is why we call Jesus Christ the Light of the world. In all His glory and kindness, He emanates a light that reaches every corner, pulses through every living being, and weaves through the fabric of time. I believe that His light is tangible. When we exercise creativity and feel that spark of imagination or when we look deep into someone’s eyes and cherish a living soul or when we lose ourselves in an incredible story or when we see the beauty of potential…we feel it. It’s in those surreal, calm, terrifying, brilliant, heart-stopping, peaceful moments. Those moments where beauty, truth, and heartache collide. On the same day I created this, I sat with my wife of a couple weeks over a makeshift cardboard-box table i...