Rosanna Miiller Salas

Silence is the best moment to enjoy your ideas.

What Do You Care About? I chose to create a video for the assignment Paying Homage To What you Care About . The video shows the thoughts I care about most deeply: family, honesty, freedom, hope, achievements, living goal-orientated, and the wish to obtain all that for Venezuela, my native country. I think it was…

This week,s chapter provided a deeper and complex explanation about what “new” means in new literacies. The authors pointed out the social influence of the change of paradigm from individualization towards collectivity has in the organization in our life, thinking and actions. Lankshear and Knobel mentioned how distributed expertise and collective intelligence reconstitutes and reconfigures…

This week I decided to share two beautiful and inspiring stories. These ones bring hope to our lives because the message is powerful and touching. The stories are connected with my focal theme since both focus on positive identity and how we have the inner strength to make the best of our lives though self-confidence,…

Self-discovery is becoming a daily surprise…

This week I experienced the joy of feeling more fluent and active in our course. I decided what will be my focal theme: Empowering positive identity in immigrant students. I hope to develop meaningful digital productions orientated to promoting my personal interest. I enjoyed the daily engaging with peers’ productions and having the opportunity to…

I recorded the usual sounds during my mornings. I spent a lot of time selecting the ones that most represent my home environment. Finally I edited the recording and left the ones that show how I start my day. I do not feel comfortable publishing this audio because I have a strong sense of privacy.…

The digital stories I watched this week were aligned with my personal interest of finding inspiring stories for immigrant students. I was looking for remarkable productions showing personal learning, successful accomplishment and the value of education for progress in today’s world. I would like to mention I decided not to assign points to each trait…

During our recent affiliation in a variety of social media platforms in order to participate in the course Learning with digital stories, we are collectively generating our particular meaning and became members of a specific educational discourse reflecting our individual and group thinking. Lankshear and Knobel (2011) defined literacies as”socially recognized ways in which people…

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