The Merriest Christmas Season!

This has to be the busiest, yet merriest, Christmas Season I can remember! Some people in the family have overcome serious diseases or at least are holding their own, and one nephew and his girlfriend have been talking about getting married, plus we've been invited to my cousin's huge wedding next April which I'm really looking forward to. Ahh, young love at Christmas! These pictures are of me at Starbucks and one I took of my husband, Tim, and the snowman at Wendy's.

Since completing the requirements of my two online SUNY-ESC courses this semester, I have returned to the Retirement Volunteers Senior Program Crocheting/Knitting Group that I usually get together with once each week. All the other members did a countdown while I finished doing the border on my lavender baby blanket that I'm donating to a local hospital new mom and her baby. Tim and I went to a monthly group Christmas party; I wore my Mrs. Santa hat too! Everyone greeted me warmly, and it was certainly a wonderful conversation piece!

Hubby and I did all the Christmas shopping this past week plus I also shopped for jewelry online for my granddaughter, niece, sister and girlfriend. It's amazing how many great bargains are out there. I really feel like Mrs. Santa Claus! One day I wore my Mrs. Santa hat in to Wendy's for lunch, and everyone seemed to really enjoy it; wearing the hat made me feel very jolly too.

I have really enjoyed all the holiday movies that hubby and I have borrowed from Redbox.com and from our local library, from Santa Baby 2 to A Christmas Carol, we've really enjoyed getting some time to kick our feet up and relax and enjoy them in the evening. We did go to see The Chronicles of Narnia Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie too. I wish you all a wonderful holiday season, whatever religious holiday you follow!




Reference:

Chronicles of Narnia movie (2010)http://www.narnia.com/
Santa Baby 2 YouTube Trailer Video (2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Siv2-NnJbAE
Jim Carrey's A Christmas Carol (2009 Disney) YouTube Video (above)

Creating My VoiceThread Project For SUNY Digital Storytelling

This week's assignment of creating a one-minute VoiceThread was not only interesting, but fun! My husband and I were at the local Starbuck's, and I pulled out a business card on which to quickly write down the idea I got to write about angels. I couldn't wait to get home to research some angel pictures after writing my script. Ever since I was a little girl, I have had a great love for Angels, especially Guardian Angels. One reason for this is because I grew up in the Catholic Faith, but since studying Mythology and Modern Life this semester at SUNY-ESC, I happily learned that there are angels in various myths and religions--many people believe in some angels!

At first I was very disappointed to find that I couldn't find many downloadable angel pictures on the internet, but after registering on VoiceThread, I found that there is an option to import pictures after searching right on VoiceThread. I was able to use several from the Library on that site plus I used a couple of personal pictures.

I really had fun commenting during the picture slideshow too. I did have some difficulty erasing some of the comments when the comments repeated on a picture. It's really pretty easy to create a slideshow, and afterwards, I added it to my online assignment reflection narrative about creating the VoiceThread. I also posted my VoiceThread Project on the right of this blog entry.

There are only twenty-two days left of the Fall Semester, and I have to say it's been a challenging and interesting, one. Anyone interested in studying digital storytelling, I highly recommend Dr. Nicola Martin's Digital Storytelling course at SUNY Empire State College Online!