Aux Replays

Reluctance to Social Media This blog posting is going to be a little different since it was late. This past weekend I had a grueling family event that required all of my focus, and I apologize for the inconvenience but I think I still have a lot to share on the this week's topic, the community of practice model. It's interesting to think about how the community of practice model has evolved over time, and how I hope it will continue to evolve in the future.  My profession has always been in audio since I was a pre-teen and so I try to access that community in many different ways, and it usually never requires me to be communicating with professionals in person - like ever. I will touch more on this later, but the point is that I always try to exercise this model without having to interact with platforms like Twitter or Instagram, just because I always thought they were never really effective in sharing how complex audio can be, and being limited to what I can provide to around...

  Prior Experiences/ Aha Moment So this week in ITEC was all about digital story telling and story boarding. I just wanted to talk about my thoughts about story telling in general and how this lead into my story boarding project for a short video. I've had some fun experiences with story telling, I was always enthralled with stories as a kid. There's so many ways I consume story telling whether it's through movies like Star Wars or the Marvel Cinematic Universe, video games like Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (super excited for this one!) and books. As a kid, I loved bed time stories, I was obsessed with super heroes, definitely with Spider-Man, and I loved comic books. It's amusing to me the idea that I am credited on a graphic novel that you could actually still buy on the kindle store, a comic issue I made in middle school with my art class and my instructor then published it. Such a cool experience.  I tried thinking of other ways I consume or create stories. Then I fina...