Book of Eli

Eco-Narrative Response  - A short minute and a half video I made with the help of my younger brother who is five years old. I had a thought this morning, March 28th, an epiphany some would say. But when we discuss issues relating to climate and the ecosystem, they are always so serious. And I understand that the issue is very serious, do not get that mixed up, but I wanted to make a reaction of my "younger brother" telling his viewers about what he believes climate change is according to the movie Wall-E and from his older brother, me, telling him about the multimodal project he just finished the other day. My main concern is that I do not dive deep enough into the eco-narratives, but this is from the perspective of a five-year-old so I wasn't sure. My intention was to be comical and I took inspiration from a content creator named iamsammielol. A link to his Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamsammielol?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== ...

 Reflecting what from what we have read for class, two texts have been really helpful and inspirational regarding my feedback analysis, Spandel's The 9 Rights of Every Writer and specifically the 5th chapter "Write Badly" and McAndrew and Reigstad's chapter 6 "What Tutoring Is -- Models and Strategies." Those two have been instrumental in my feedback process. Speaking from those two texts and my own experiences, I personally feel like honesty and giving students the confidence to keep writing are the two most instrumental. Lacking self-esteem makes writing and life in general such a hassle. Everything becomes increasingly more difficult and seems so more stressful than what we initially thought. Writing is a terrifying experience for students because of high expectations placed onto them by us and their teachers. We want them to always try their best, but in reality this task cannot always be attainable. Supporting them in matter their writing style or abili...

Digital storytelling is something that is not new to me. I have been making videos for myself with my brother for as long as I can remember. Making videos for academics has always scared me though. Most of the videos I have created were considered sketch comedy or terrible lip syncing music videos of Katy Perry when I was a young boy. I had an obsession with Katy Perry, what can I say? My biggest and best creation was a video my brother and I created called Cheese and Crackers. It was a parody of Dora the Explorer and Boots, but for more adult audiences. I still have the video, but am too embarrassed to share it. That video was particularly special for me, because my brother and I could not drive so we biked around our area and filmed in places that were familiar to us. On page 10 of the pdf from "Place-Based Digital Storytelling" by Chisholm and Trent, I really like what Riley says at the end of the article in her interview with Ms. Trent, "I realize that it is what...

 Writing, what is writing? How do you write, why do you write? All valid questions, but I am here to discuss the writing process I use. In the Spandel text from chapter five, Spandel quotes Stephen King and says he writes roughly 2000 words a day, which is about 10 pages. I do not do that, I am not a mad man, but I do try to write everyday. The writing could be in my journal, on Letterboxd after I watch a movie, doing homework, or if I am feeling real crazy I will write a letter. The letter is a bit strange. I write a letter to my future self in the back of my journal. The front is dark and gloomy, full of strange emotions and foggy rants, and the back is motivative and goal-oriented. When they meet in the middle, I have no idea what will happen, maybe a black hole will form.  Writing for me is a dump of words, phrases, thoughts, and language. I dump ideas on a page and keep writing until I am out of ideas. This is how I form my "body paragraphs" then I leave it how it is for...

My name is Eli Hanel and I am in my fourth year as a secondary English educator and super excited to get started. I love to read in my free time, now I know what you are thinking, but I read a lot more than novels. I love to read manga and graphic novels, they transport me to another world and make it fun to read about new experiences. When it comes to writing, I used to be fascinated in trying to write a zombie apocalypse story, but was always too ambitious. Recently, I have been writing in my journal to keep my sanity and keep me focused on school. Most of the writing in my free time is on paper and when it comes to school or work, I prefer typing, plus it acts as a proofreading tool. I sometimes create Tik Tok's with my friends, it usually is some type of skit or sketch comedy but always just for fun. I knew back in middle school and early high school I wanted to be a teacher. For a while, I was going to be a math teacher, which was not my style. Then a love for reading and writ...

 Similar to the DeJaynes and Curmi-Hall article/research report, I too was apart of a double consciousness and multimodal counterstories like project when I was in high school. In my freshman year social studies course, we had to create a war film on the Vietnam war. I chose to make my film an anti-war film because still to this day, I do not understand why the U.S got involved, but I digress, I interviewed my grandfather before his passing in Spring of 2017 and based the film on his thoughts. He never saw action in Vietnam, but he was there as a radio analyst and saw the condition of the men first hand. I used the song "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival for it is an anti-war song making fun of politicians and more wealthy people who started the U.S's involvement and made the middle and lower class citizens fight their war. So, with that project, I connected more with my grandfather and most of my peers did not know about my anti-war statement. I posted it on...