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Daily Creates Week 1

2026-05-27 / / 0 Comments

The category for this week’s daily creates was writing

  1. #tdc5239 #ds106 #dailycreate What’s the last book you read? Share it with us, as a photo, or as a review 

The last book I read was called Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden. 

  • I found this book to be a very emotional read, as the situations that occur in the book could be likely to happen in real-life. The characters in the book also experience many emotions that can be easy for readers to relate to and feel. I found myself unable to put the book down because I was intrigued with the storyline. Also, I was very happy with how it came to an end, which made it even better! 

This post related to storytelling as I found that the author was able to trigger different emotions in me as I was reading. The book was written in a way where each chapter was one of three different perspectives of the main characters. As the story switched between the different points of view I found myself feeling different emotions depending on which point of view was given. I found myself holding onto pieces of information from a certain character and thinking about how the other characters will feel with that information.

  1. #tdc5185 #ds106 #dailycreate Describe in writing for someone who cannot hear, the feeling of silence 
  • My initial few feelings when experiencing silence is peacefulness, relaxation, and at times it can feel a bit lonely. If silence elongates, I find that my thoughts become louder and bigger. I have no distraction from my own thoughts and they become the whole moment, which can sometimes be a good thing or a bad thing.  

This post is also related to storytelling as I tried to include some of the 5 components of storytelling into it. I am still working on sufficiently including all 5, so this is definitely a work in progress. I was able to try including thoughts and emotion, but am still working on getting location, dialogue, and action into it.

  1. #tdc4822 #ds106 I love … Kim Douillard tells us about things that she loves in her recent blog post. Tell us what you love. 
  • Something I really love is iced coffee. The first sip of iced coffee in the morning is the best way to start my day. I love how there are many different kinds and flavors. It can be hot or cold, there are many kinds of milk and milk alternatives, and different ways to sweeten it (if you want to). I think that everyone’s coffee choice is personal and unique to them. Another plus of iced coffee is it can provide you energy if it’s caffeinated.  

I think this post also relates to storytelling as I tried to use my voice in the text to set the tone, and mood of the passage. In my response to this prompt I attempted to have the reader to see iced coffee as a way to express yourself in a playful and fun way.

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Photo by Flickr user jfchenier under CC license: BY-NC 2.0

Welcome and Introduction

2021-05-04 /

Before proceeding with this first blog post, we expect you to consider your privacy preferences carefully and that you have considered the following options:

  1. Do you want to be online vs. offline?
  2. Do you want to use your name (or part thereof) vs. a pseudonym (e.g., West Coast Teacher)?
  3. Do you want to have your blog public vs. private? (Note, you can set individual blog posts private or password protected or have an entire blog set to private)
  4. Have you considered whether you are posting within or outside of Canada? This blog on opened.ca is hosted within Canada. That said, any public blog posts can have its content aggregated/curated onto social networks outside of Canada.

To help you build your digital presence and establish yourself in the field, I recommend creating a public website under your full name. While this approach aligns with the principles of open education and gives you control over your professional narrative, I completely understand if you’re not comfortable sharing things publicly for a variety of valid reasons.

First tasks you might explore with your new blog:

  • Go into its admin panel found by adding /wp-admin at the end of your blog’s URL
  • Add new category or tags to organize your blog posts – found under “Posts” (but do not remove the pre-existing categories or sub-categories).  If you would like to add more course categories, please do so (e.g., add EDCI 306A with no space for Music Ed, etc.)
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Do consider creating categories for each course that you take should you wish to document your learning (or from professional learning activities outside of formal courses). Keep note, however, that you may wish to use the course topic as the category as opposed to the course number as those outside of your program would not be familiar with the number (e.g., we use “Multimedia Learning” instead of “edci337).

Lastly, as always, be aware of the FIPPA as it relates to privacy and share only those names/images that you have consent to use or are otherwise public figures. When in doubt, ask us.

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