Rosanna Miiller Salas

This final week I chose to create a kinetic typographic adding images to a beautiful poem written and performed by Rupi Kaur. I think it is an inspirational piece for immigrant families to celebrate their heritage and to feel proud of who they are and value the efforts, love, and sacrifices required when integrating into…

Every week I prepared a schedule to get everything ready before the weekend. Every week I fail to achieve that goal. This time I just began to make peace with my timing. I need quiet time to read, to translate my concepts in Spanish into English, I have to reflect and relate new concepts and…

TDC Shadowcaster. I think the most perfect shadows are made in Colorado. I believe it is for the clear air, the altitude and the bright sun. I have been having fun for a while capturing shadows, so I put together a recent picture from yesterday with others I took during these last months.

Week 6 Critique. Zach King Remixing Practices I recently watched some amazing videos produced by Zack King. I think he is an excellent example of successful remixing practices. Each video created by him shows a deep knowledge of technology and high levels of creativity. I chose to post a mashup of his work of six-second…

This week’s chapter explored social learning, ‘push’ and ‘pull’ paradigms, and building platform for social learning. I will focus on two points relevant for me in this chapter: First the proposal to shift push paradigm toward pull paradigm. Second the relevance of passion as a success factor in social learning. I found at the same…

I choose to create an interactive motivational poster using piktochart. Each round flag is linked with stories of successful people born in that country. I include a picture of the poster linked to the interactive poster, I can not add the interactive poster directly in my blog due to incompatibilities between WordPress and Piktochart.  Click…

Today I made an hyperbolic tiling. This is the assignment details link TDC Assignment  This is the original picture

I had an intensive week. I didn’t participate as frequently as I intended but I think my contributions and learning were meaningful. This week reading brings a sense of interdependence between my personal productions and participation in generation of collaborative thinking. I was able to connect readings, assignments, and critique into a cohesive whole regarding…

The proliferation of collaborative practices is having an important impact in educational and working environments. The chapter focuses in exploring blogs and wikis as participatory and collaborative literacy practices. I found interesting the evolution of blogging practices which are increasing due to the accessibility of easy-to-use publishing tools and hosting services. In terms of encouraging…

A few days ago my little daughter drew a bird “to keep me company”. I decided to “take” it on my finger and give it an ink friend to love it. How did I make my Hand and Paper drawing? I drew a little magic girl using ink and markers and took a picture of…