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I've had many discussions with undergraduate and graduate students about digital stories as reflective tools and one question always gets a lot of airtime, which comes first..the story or the images? We focus on story first, however as a digital society and the ease and convenience of taking digital photographs making each of us an amateur photographer, which comes first...



the story...or the images that spark the story ....



I've seen great examples of both and just… Continue

While teaching preschoolers I was fortunate enough to meet and work with faculty and staff from Reggio Emilia, Italy and was excited by their work with documentation of learning in the classroom. My own preschool classroom began to document their own learning with the use of digital photographs and recorded and written narratives. These experiences resurfaced much later when as a graduate student I began connecting documentation with digital stories of learning in the classroom.



Why… Continue

I’ve been working on my dissertation work which looks at digital storytelling as a form of reflective practice among our teacher education students. This has been an interesting journey as the students that I have followed and documented are not all technology users and so I really had to focus on the stories they developed and told and not the technology and the ‘look’ of the final project. This brought up a really interesting piece for me as a scholar and researcher, as we conduct research in… Continue

I've wondered recently why I haven't been updating my blogs...Kevin gave me a good suggestion..my blog posts are all over the place so I don't see the connections between the posts at various spots...therefore I feel like I've already blogged when I haven't added anything here in months.



To resolve that I'm going to start placing blog posts here from all over which may seem random but I'm hoping you will find a post or two that interests you and we can start a… Continue

I'm an amateur photographer, strickly point and click...but I wanted to share this site and the wonderful work of everyone who contributes.

http://beta.zooomr.com/home

My own pictures can be found on

http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/cgarrety

I'd love your comments!