Welcome to DigiWriMo 2015^[a]!

In lieu of discussion boards or our very own social network, let’s use this document to share our goals, our projects, and our identities. While our community will form largely online in various spaces (Twitter, Facebook, and others), this document will give us a place to keep track of each other. Let us know what you’re working on, how to get in touch with you, etc.

• Please include:

• Your name
• Who you are, digitally (Twitter handle, Facebook page, etc.)
• Your media (text, graphics, audio, or video)
• Brief description of your project.
• How the DigiWriMo community can best support or help with your work.

• To add a comment or response to someone else’s introduction, click Insert > Comment > Type into the box > Click Comment to submit.

Example:

Kevin Hodgson: I teach sixth grade but love to explore the shifting nature of writing as we use more and more technology to communicate and compose. You can find me as @dogtrax on Twitter and at my blog, Kevin’s Meandering Mind. I am an editable^[b][c] person, so feel free to remix me as needed. This DiGiWriMo, I am hoping to dip more into the idea of “transmedia” and create a text that integrates multiple media -- in the service of the story.

Now, how about you?

* Maha Bali (@bali_maha): I am a passionate open/connected educator, MOOCaholic and writeaholic. I am co-founder of www.virtuallyconnecting.org and www.edcontexts.org, and columnist and editor at Hybrid Pedagogy (which is much more than a journal to me and more like a community). This DigiWriMo I look forward to exploring different angles on writing and learning from everyone who participates. I blog, probably more than i should, at http://blog.mahabali.me

Sarah Honeychurch @NomadWarMachine I’m a learning tech at the University of Glasgow and I try to do research into peer interaction. I knit, avidly (NomadWarMachine on Ravelry), play fairly bad uke (but I enjoy it) and love messing around with audio and images and see what transpires. I’m an Editor for Hybrid Pedagogy and I blog here 

Karen Fasimpaur: I can be found online at @kfasimpaur and blog at www.k12opened.com/blog among other places, and I just set up my own domain at www.fasimpaur.com (I especially like this place to post random creative projects). I have done NaNoWriMo for several years, but for a variety of reasons, can’t quite manage it this year. I’m hoping DigiWriMo can help fill the void. Project? Not sure, but am thinking of some possible short stories^[d] with a goal of submitting something for publication somewhere. Maybe. :)

Maha Abdelmoneim: @maha4learning on Twitter. You can find me in Diigo, in  Secondlife & OSgrid as OliveTree Lighthouse, in World of Warcraft I play both sides of the war (Alliance & Horde) as Olivetree (link is to one of my favorite alts, a versatile Druid), and -- sometimes -- in my severely underused blog (I am one of those terrified of writing). I am always experimenting and playing online, and I love that I am learning in all those spaces. My work that I love (I use “I love” a lot because that’s how I feel) is trainer, coach, instructional designer.

My project/activity is all about sound^[e]. I’d love everyone to join me in creating content that is mainly to be heard. I want to close my eyes and listen to a story, article, lesson, song, discussion, poem, play, Q&A … More details including how I decided to do this and why is coming up soon :).

Jeffrey Keefer @JeffreyKeefer: I teach and learn and research and stuff like that online. My Twitter profile and formal website and blog Silence and Voice contain my overall specs and links. I am a bit text focused, and hope to spend our time in November working on a paper for a themed issue on E-learning and Digital Media special issue on Twitter in Education. Come to think of it, some engaging here may find that issue of potential value, too! I can really use encouragement^[f] to find the time to write, rather than in writing in what time is left over.

Keith Hamon: @kwhamon: Though trained to teach college writing and literature, for years I worked fulltime in educational technology and taught as an adjunct. I’ve turned to teaching full time, applying all the tech tricks I learned to my classrooms. I think and write in a swarm^[g] that includes Kevin Hodgson and Maha Bali above and many others. You can find me most every week on my blog Learning Complexity, where I write about complexity, writing, and education. For DigiWriMo, I intend to explore how computer networks are affecting the ways we communicate and learn, especially the ways we think about and interact with a text.

Wendy Taleo (@wentale): I’ve got a curiosity that keeps me coming back for more. For DigiWriMo I’m ready for anything. I’m looking forward to connecting with the DigiWriMo community. My guest post is focussed on adding your voice to your writing and my other ongoing investigation is around the human aspect of writing and learning online^[h]. I’m happy when trying out new tech tools or new ways of doing things. I have a geeky side, poetry side, crafty side, funny bone and human side (*phew*). Apart from Twitter my blogging is split between here and here.

Chris Friend (@chris_friend): I’m hoping to push outside my comfort zone during DigiWriMo this year by working on both sound and (web)text. I need a kick in the rear^[i] to get moving again with my podcast ^[j]— I bit off more than I could chew with the last (two-part) episode, and I’ve not yet dusted myself off to get back into the game. I also have a pipe dream that I’ll re-do my personal website this month. It’s in desperate need of a revamp and a facelift. I’m hoping DigiWriMo will be an excuse for me to do what Jeffrey Keefer says above: Find time to write, rather than writing with leftover scraps.

Ron Leunissen (@ronald_2008): I’m hoping for some fun together. Never minder whether it’s creating text, audio or video.
I work full time as an educational designer. I help faculty and faculty committees to develop education for dentistry students and medical students.

I love participating in DS106 ( be sure to check out daily.ds106.us ) where we create lots of crazy digital art^[k].

Project? Don’t know … but wouldn’t it be great if we’d manage to make a short video together (max 5 minutes) based on a script we write together and video shots and audio we all make separately and asynchronously?

Yin Wah Kreher (@yinbk): This is my first time guest-writing/creating for Digiwrimo! I love creating compositions in multiple modalities, mostly on my blog at http://yinwahkreher.com.  I love words, writing, drawing, movement, in this order I think! I’m very excited about creating a piece around accessibility of digital media in the open web^[l]. That’s always tricky, trying to be cutting edge and be inclusive of as many people as possible on the web. I don’t have answers but there are some ideas I want to explore. I’m a thinkaholic, so this topic has got my synapses connecting in all directions! Just recently, I moved back to my birth country of Singapore from the USA, where I was an instructional designer for some years, studying fulltime as a non-traditional student and working on my dissertation which was finally done in 2013! Woohoo! I’ve been really fortunate to connect with Maha and Kevin and Tania and Anna and Autumm, and, and …  so many wonderful people I cannot name them all, who are teaching me about multimodality and “unflattening” myself. And they do it in the most outrageously creative and fun way! Looking forward to fun and laughter^[m]!

Sherri Spelic ^[n]@edifiedlistener on Twitter, blogging at http://edifiedlistener.wordpress.com

Hi, everyone! I am honored to be contributing to this project and expect to distinguish myself by inhabiting a fairly consistent state of not knowing throughout this month of experimentation.

I’ve been thinking a lot about what kind of contribution I can and want to make. I enjoy writing and often have more words available than I can use. In this month I want to explore single words/concepts and think about how I use them in my digital writing. What do I mean when I use the term “work” to describe my writing or someone else’s? How do my decidedly physical understanding and application of “stretching and strengthening” (I’m a primary physical education teacher) translate into my chosen forms of digital expression? These are my starting points. I expect them to mutate, fluctuate, morph and shift ^[o]as we go along and that’s maybe the part that excites me most about what’s ahead - The opportunities to change and be changed. In terms of support, I welcome your comments, invitations to contribute to whatever you have going, and I suppose just the sense of emerging community that is already bubbling up here.

Michelle Pacansky-Brock: @brocansky^[p]

I’m stretching myself by participating in #DiGiWriMo! My life has been anchored around visual content -- I completed my undergraduate degree in Art, received a Master’s in Art History with an emphasis in Photography, and I’ve taught art history courses, art appreciation, and the history of photography both in traditional settings and online. I love images^[q]. Now, in my role as Teaching and Learning Innovation Specialist at CSU Channel Islands, I think deeply about how images can be used in the design of a course and in the design of learning activities. In my post, I’ll be exploring a personal memory that is anchored in a family photograph and traces my own personal awakening as a feminist. I hope it will inspire educators to consider the impact that family snapshots can have as a catalyst for writing.

Cindy Jennings

@cljennings

Hi all. I am pushing myself to do this. I hope by connecting with #digiwrimo I can force my own hand...MAKE myself write more. ^[r]I’ll start with my own blog: https://odnett.wordpress.com/ I am pledging to say more there. But I am rather intrigued with the idea of ‘transmedia’, so maybe I’ll learn more about that in the #digiwrimo process. I can’t believe I am signing up to write more...because I absolutely HATE to write.^[s] I’ll do almost anything to avoid it. It takes a great deal of self-discipline to finally sit still and write. I have so many performance anxieties tied up in my self-expression through writing. I carry around literally dozens of unfinished (read that completely unwritten) blog posts - in my head.^[t] I hope to address some of that by trying to write more frequently during this month^[u]. And, I have excellent colleagues here who are doing some wonderful things - and I hope to share some of them and their work in the process.

Terry Elliott

@telliowkuwp

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Geoffrey Gevalt

@ggevalt

@ywpvt

I founded and run Young Writers Project, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to helping youth develop the confidence and communication skills needed to shape their world. We do this primarily through youngwritersproject.org, an online island of awesomeness and mutual respect that is open to any youth anywhere. Youths in this community give and receive feedback with peers, mentors and artists. We hold online workshops and provide support to youth-led projects. We affirm best work by publishing it everywhere we can -- newspapers (Vermont and New Hampshire only), on radio and TV, live with arts organizations, on other websites (cowbird.com, more coming) and in our monthly digital mag of excellence: thevoice.youngwritersproject.org. ^[w]I am a 64-year-old young person who worked 33 years in the news business, won lots of awards because I worked with so many great people and was a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes. I have an amazingly passionate fleet of co-workers and am happy to say that 60+ youths helped me create our new Web site which was launched on August 23, YWP’s 9th birthday. The old site had 32,000 users who created 300,000 posts and comments -- all of which were civil and respectful. Adults take note. We will have youths joining #digiwrimo and the Story Jumper project. We can’t wait to see what happens.

Mike Nantais … @MikeN_BU on twitter (I have been thinking of changing that - when I made it I was a twitter newbie and should not have used an underscore I guess!), I am Mike Nantais on G+ and mnantais on Instagram.

I was a public school teacher for 30 years (4 in admin) and made the move to an Education Faculty in 2008 - I since (last year) obtained my Ph.D. So, I am a fairly new ‘academic’ but not a young one. My research interests are in ed tech. but particularly in using social media in education - at all levels. I better stop - that should go in my CV for the first project.

My Media?? Well I do love taking photos & playing with editing, but I guess text is my main thing now as an ...ahem .. “academic”

I came across DigiWriMonth via Hybrid Pedagogy and thought it would be fun - especially since I am on sabbatical this year!!! I also talked a colleague into joining me!^[x] I have no specific project in mind, I just want to take part and explore various ways of expression - it is time the academy loosened up!^[y]

How the DigiWriMo community can best support or help with your work … can’t think of anything, other than offering support & encouragement and not making fun of me^[z][aa]!

Tawnya Ravy - @litambitions

I am a PhD. candidate at The George Washington University and currently working on my dissertation. I do a fair amount of writing about my digital assignments for teaching (tawnyaravy.com) already, but I’d like to step it up on blogging on topics relating to my dissertation research. I have committed to being a public scholar, but I am having trouble finding time to post regularly to my Rushdie project: salmanrushdiearchive.com. I have so many ideas! ^[ab]Perhaps joining in with #digiwrimo this year will motivate me to get them down on “paper.”

Tania Sheko @taniatorikova

I’m a teacher librarian at a secondary boys’ school in Melbourne, Australia. ^[ac]That’s at the bottom of the world in traditional perspective. Doesn’t feel like the bottom though. Used to teach German, French, Russian and English but not any more. I love hanging out with you people; you are so much fun and creative.^[ad] My personal blog http://taniasheko.com/

My blog for school library/school  https://melbhslibrary.wordpress.com/  My co-curricular writing group’s blog https://unicornexpressmhs.wordpress.com/   My art blog http://artdoesmatter.tumblr.com/   I like writing and always did. Haven’t done any academic writing but just read my son’s thesis and wish academic writing was allowed to have a voice still. Writing is great when you have an audience because it might turn into a conversation. I love getting to know people through their blog posts. Looking forward to getting to know YOU.

Leigh Hall @leighahall

I am an associate professor of literacy studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.^[ae]  I mostly teach classes for teachers across grades k-12 that focus on reading/writing development and instructional practices. I blog about my teaching practice here: https://leighahall.wordpress.com/

I also have a regular yoga practice. For 3.5 years, I maintained a blog dedicated to my Bikram yoga practice (http://www.mybikramyogalife.com/). Recently, I switched up my practice a bit which created a need to change up my blog. I have a new yoga blog here - https://academicyogi.wordpress.com/ (and it’s really new!).

I’d like to focus this month on my new yoga blog. I need to find my voice for it and tighten it’s purpose and focus.^[af]

Aldon Hynes @ahynes1 I blog at http://www.orient-lodge.com I’ve done NaNoWriMo several times, but don’t have the time or energy this year.  I am in the discernment process, potentially leading towards seeking ordination as a priest in the Episcopal Church.  I am a social media manager in health care, interested how connectivism could apply to training medical professionals in interprofessional collaboration.  I write poetry ^[ag]and I’m looking forward to mixing all of this together into some new form of daily writing.

Gregory Zobel: @drgbz . I blog at http://zobelg.posthaven.com/ . Frankly, I’m here because a number of the people that I met during #clmooc in 2015 are here and working. During #clmooc, I brought in a class of my graduate students to experience a MOOC, engage, and experience connectivist learning. Since that went so well, and there are so many of the same people over here at #DigiWriMo, I thought it would be great for another class of my grad students to experience what this kind of writing, working, and collaborating experience can bring them. ^[ah]Personally and professionally, I expect to have many borders/boundaries pushed. I don’t have a set “project” for this. Instead, I hope to better learn how to integrate images and text and to build relationships with people for long-term learning and collaboration.  ^[ai]

Michael Weller - @MWeller77 & blog at michaelsweller.wordpress.com; these will be my main media for DigiWriMo.  I would like to pursue the project described in this post & this post during DigiWriMo.  (Tl;dr:  I am pursuing a classroom inquiry into student-determined learning outcomes in 11th-grade US History & 12th-grade English.  I’m also absorbed in the idea of co-learning as a pedagogical stance that might transform, or be involved in a transformation of, learning communities into democratic spaces.)  I’d also like to explore the spiritual implications of teaching from a co-learning stance.  The DigiWriMo community can support me by providing feedback and especially by asking questions.

Nathalie Sheridan (@drnsheridan) blogging on https://naddysheridan.wordpress.com as the main platform for DigiWriMo. I would like to try different media and to be honest I don’t really have a project yet. I am working for Student Learning Service at a university and try to develop more and particularly more interesting online resources. ^[aj]So I am here to explore and experiment and hope that becoming involved and talking to people will bring some learning and insights.

Ken Bauer (@ken_bauer) My personal blog is at http://blog.kenbauer.me and I am faculty in the computing science department at the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Guadalajara. I'm a transplanted Canadian (been in Guadalajara for most of the last 20 years), a software engineer and systems administrator and at one point in the past I was training to be a chef. My goals for DigiWriMo is to prepare a larger launch for the next edition (Winter 2015) of my #openflip online course. A second goal is to prepare the materials for a course I havtaught in ages (TC2016 or #TC201) in the connected course format that I already use for #TC101.

Jim Stauffer I’m an Adult Literacy and Basic Education (ALBE) instructor in a remote community in northern Canada. I enjoy the variety and the freedom to colour outside the lines immensely - like adapting tools and practices I discover in connectivist MOOCs.
Still, I have to confess I’m somewhat of a digital visitor - using online tools for projects and then putting them back in the shed until next project. I tweet sporadically @xb7r but just can’t seem to find the time to live on Twitter. (I tell myself it has to wait until prep, reports, and family stuff is done - but truthfully, I’d rather read Sci-Fi.)  I blog at http://wayupnorth.ca/blog when the desire to engage overwhelms me, but fail to publish much of what I start writing (same with commenting on others’ blogs). Facebook is my go-to point of contact with connected educators - it feels lazy, but it keeps me in touch.  DigiWriMo is my opportunity to challenge myself once again.  My first post sat in a google doc until today when I forced out an altCV and published both

Aaron Davis: I am a middle years teacher from the western suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. Trained as an English/History, I have come to fill the tech and learning void as the Learning Technologies Co-ordinator (whatever that means). To be honest, I love to learn, to tinker, to wonder. I tweet at @mrkrndvs and write at readwriterespond.com. I seem to always find myself in the middle of amazing situations, like #rhizo14 and #ccourses. Again, I didn’t feel that I had the time for DigiWriMo, but have been compelled. I am interested in telling iterative stories, not a celebration of ‘failure’ but of lessons learnt and development of all such things.

Barbara Nicolls: I am an Academic Learning Developer in the UK working with students and teaching staff advising and guiding them on writing academically and facilitate eportfolio activities. A lot of students -native speakers and non native speakers of English experience challenges summarising sources and integrating them into their essays and reports. I run one off workshops for student groups but they have not been effective I believe because writing should be process based. I would like to run writing workshops online but need to be for different disciplines at levels from beginners to intermediate to advanced. I keep a professional eportfolio using google sites and blog when I am engaging with my CPD. I love writing myself and currently contribute to a variety of eportfolio journals. This is me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/profile/public-profile-settings?trk=prof-edit-edit-public_profile&_mSplash=1,

@barbaranicolls. Here is my professional eportfolio (wip)^[ak]

https://sites.google.com/site/myprofessionaleportfoliobn/

Jack Norton @historyjack Blog http://jacknorton.org/blog/ 

I teach world and Minnesota history at a community college in Minnesota. My students hail from diverse backgrounds and education preparations and I struggle to equip them with the content and skills I think they’ll need to be successful. Digital humanities is one of my solutions, and I’m working on a variety of DH projects. My contributions to Digital Writing Month will include my contributions to these projects, mostly in the form of blog posts and links to submitted works. Mostly I enjoy encouragement and unsolicited advice. I’m still struggling to write about DH in ways that aren’t pedestrian and technocratic.

Amanda Bustos @bustosWOU http://btotheustos.weebly.com

Hello there everyone, I’m Amanda and I am a graduate student at Western Oregon University. My professor GZ (listed above) has invited our class to watch, listen, and participate in DigiWriMo for 2015. As a grad student, I am pursuing dual degrees in education, one is in Curriculum and Instruction for STEM and the other is Information Technology with Instructional Design. Hopefully these will help me find my way to create and build projects for nontraditional learning facilities. I am looking forward to watching the creations unfold during this month of Digiwrimo and gathering ideas as well as tips and tricks for my future endeavors.

Norman Jackson @lifewider1  http://www.normanjackson.co.uk/ 

Following up a tweet on Sunday morning I discovered DigiWriMo and had the crazy idea of abandoning our plan for the December issue of Lifewide Magazine and inviting participants in this collaborative community space to help co-create the magazine around the theme of ‘Our Creative Life’. The magazine will be formed around stories of creativity in any aspect of a person’s life. What were the circumstances and how did your creativity manifest itself? What did being creative mean to you? Once assembled and connected we will try to draw out the meaning and wisdom in the stories. For text based articles we are aiming at between 500-1000 words but we welcome the use of other media or mediums - for example a picture- audio or video-based narratives are equally valuable. Lifewide Magazine is published under a creative commons licence and is free to download.  http://www.lifewidemagazine.co.uk/

If you would like to participate in the collaborative co-creative project please join the dedicated writers community space at:  https://plus.google.com/communities/106367720977059375674

I look forward (hopefully!) to collaborating with some of you.

Jody Becker: I am a graduate student chipping away at a Master’s of Science in Education. My true passions are teaching, learning, biology, physics, and earth systems science. I enjoy isolated nature, hiking into the unknown, gardening and art. I am not a digital native, although I am slowly navigating my way through these woods and hope to find a path, somewhere. You can find me on Twitter at @JBecker007 or visit my blog at jodyrbecker.wordpress.com. I do not have a planned umbrella project other than creating educational tools in the earth science realm. I am slowly creating materials for my graduation portfolio even though I still do not know what I want to “be” when I grow up. I always appreciate feedback and suggestions and look forward to participating in Digital Writing Month.  

☆★I am Caroline Kühn, a Venezuelan curious, inquisitive woman searching for my essence -a social open researcher is my hunch-and learning to find my voice in a non native language, pewww how difficult it has been! I’m doing a PhD in personal learning environments but from the students’ perspective.

@carolak is my public shared voice and carolinekuhn.wordpress.com is my attempt to reflect on my process through digital writing and share resources.

I am confused,  overwhelmed and struggling to find both, my voice and the stillness to craft in words my idea.

I hope to find containment, support and joy during this month with all of you!

Kristine Robertson @krisintherain   koodle.kavubob.com

I’m currently working on a Master’s of Science in Education and am involved with DigiWriMo as part of a class that I’m taking.  Most of my work experience is in teaching English to refugees and immigrants in an FE (community) college in the UK.  My academic background is in English lit and theology. I enjoy reading books (mostly of the paper variety!), drinking tea, and traveling.  I also like writing, but rarely make the time for it.   I have little experience of digital writing, so this month may be a steep learning curve for me!

Orla Breslin, living in the most South Westerly tip of Europe, Dingle, Ireland. Online alias Twitter @stitchlily Facebook: Stitchlily. Craft blogger stitchlily.blogspot.com, new attempt at digital  academic writing http://fitefuaite.com/

Former luddite going high-tech. Ex-weaver + puppeteer, current lacemaker, poor starving artist who has somehow managed to end up on an MA in Digital Culture at UCC. I am very interested in community activism. Using old age tools eg textiles, and new digital tools eg social media, to make the world a better place. Idealistic to the core!

Zevon Smith- @SmithZevon, zevonsmith777@gmail.com

I am a graduate student at Western Oregon University, a 3rd grade teacher and a musician. Currently I’m taking a Web 2.0 course in my graduate study of Masters of Science in Education Technology. I want to bring more technology into the classroom to help make harder subjects for my students to understand, and get excited about. Most of my students have hard time writing, I would like to do a project in this #DigiWriMo community on bringing writing to life. Currently my students are about to embark on expository writing on an animal. I would love to learn and get tips on how to make that writing genre happen more digitally since they will be doing their own research. I don’t really know how to start this #DigiWriMo project, but am looking forward to sharing in this community.

Charlene Doland @inspirepassion, http://inspirepassion.edublogs.org/, http://meliora21c.org/ 

I work as a project-based learning (PBL) coach. I also facilitate a PBL history course with an out-of-school group of secondary students. They culminate their studies as competitors in National History Day (http://www.nhd.org/).

My goals for this month are to write more :-), and to learn 2-3 new digital tools. I take new knowledge into my PBL coaching practice, and also integrate it into the work I do with secondary students. A longer-term goal is to develop the story to use as the cultural construct for my Meliora group. While today it consists of a single course, over time I plan to expand it to include other courses.

Kathi Kay @KathiKay2, https://kathikay.wordpress.com/ I’m a graduate student combining education with a focus in IT/instructional design and public health.  Like others here, @drgzb is one of my professors. He introduced us to #DigiWriMo as part of a fun, innovative course. I’m currently working in technology for a school district.  My interests include the medical humanities, ways people use technology to build self-efficacy and well-being, online communities, and storytelling as a means of finding/giving voice. This community seems a great place for all of these.  I hoped to find inspiration to express feeling and moods by combining images and text under a unified blog theme and yeah...already found this and much more!

 Grace Raffaele @gracer and my blog is at https://gracer77.wordpress.com/

I am a teacher-consultant for the NYC Writing Project at an all ELL school in Flushing NYC. I love helping teachers bring technology into their teaching worlds. But I also love bringing technology into my creative photography world. And my goal for this Digiwrimo is to use my image-making to push me to write more. I also want to revisit my images more and explore alternate ways of sharing and manipulating them to continue to create and compose. I look forward to the Digiwrimo community for feedback on my “creations” and I look forward to learning from what others share in this space.

Kim Fox

• @KimFoxWOSU on Twitter
• I like audio, photos and an occasional video.
• Brief description of your project: Ideally, I’d like to work on some proposals for upcoming projects.

• I’d love to produce some short audio features and/or podcasts, but I’ve been dragging my feet on the project. The podcast is so doable.
• March deadline: Full paper due on social media and teaching

• Sort of lurking and seeking some creativity. Basically, I don’t have a goal at the moment.

Stephanie Loomis, North Metro Atlanta, GA.

• @MrsLoomis on Twitter
• Mrs_Loomis on Instagram
• High school teacher, Doctoral student, runner, photographer, writer, poet, artist
• Primary goal: keep up with the conversation while maintaining my schedule!
• Secondary goal: get my students involved in writing a collaborative story
• Tertiary goal: get my students connected digitally to other people outside their own bubbles.
• Include #digiwrimo in my doctoral work, especially in the article I have to write in my class about pop culture.

Sophia Griffith

• @LoudObnoxiousMe (Twitter)
• Loudobnoxousme.tumblr.com (Main Platform for my writing)
• I tend to write a lot and do quite a bit of sketching of some characters.
• I tend to write random rants and ideas, as well as creative texts that tend to support a view I have of the world. This includes:

• Fantasy Stories
• Monologues
• Diary Type stories.

• My biggest struggle is getting my ideas down on to paper in a way that makes sense. I tend to write in a very simple manner. I don’t really have a goal at the moment but I do wish to go into publishing my work later on in my life. I really need help with making my work flow, in a non-ranty way.

I am Sandy Brown Jensen, and considering how many names I know on this roster, I’m amazed I’m just finding out about this halfway through November 2016. I picked up on it from a Sarah Honeychurch hashtag I followed from @dailycreate #ds106.

I am a retired writing and lit  instructor who was also a Faculty Technology Specialist at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. I am still teaching one writing class a term.

I am an arts reviewer on KLCC: NPR for Oregonians. I am also a digital storyteller, poet, artist, and blogger with multiple sites for a variety of genres.

I have two weeks to play--watch for me at @sandramardene