Is your school or school district still blocking access to YouTube (even for teachers) and ignoring the ethical need to promote balanced content filtering? Perhaps some of these videos, available on the “History for Music Lovers” YouTube channel, can help you “change hearts and minds” of your administration to understand the constructive value of digital
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Are you interested in providing an outstanding, two or 2.5 day opportunity for educators in your area to learn about digital storytelling and oral history? If so, please consider “volunteering your site” to host a summer 2011 Storychasers’ workshop! We are providing workshops in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas in 2011 to support the Celebrate Oklahoma
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Last week I had an opportunity to share some of the background behind our Storychasers nonprofit as well as the Celebrate Kansas Voices oral history project with attendees at the 2011 MACE Conference in Manhattan. Lori Hollar Swim was in the audience, and after the conference used video she recorded with her mobile phone as
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In putting the finishing touches on my presentation for tomorrow’s MACE conference in Manhattan, Kansas, I created the following Wordle to summarize many of the key skills Storychasers participating in the Celebrate Kansas Voices project can develop. In case you can’t see this image saved to Flickr, I’ll list them below: planning organizing asking wondering
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In October of 2005, Dachau Concentration Camp survivor, Eva Hance, and Mauthausen Concentration Camp Liberator, Mark Geeslin, shared a 90 minute presentation with students in Lubbock, Texas, as well as other parts of the United States connected via videoconference to the International Cultural Center of Texas Tech University. That videoconference was recorded, but until yesterday
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This evening was the 5th grade Colonial Living History Museum event at our elementary school. This is a major highlight for 5th graders, who prepare for weeks to dress and act like a character from the US Revolutionary War era. Our fifth grade daughter was Catherine Barry, known as the “heroine of Cowpens.” Our current
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I love social studies, history, geography and the intersections of these content areas with technology. I read an email from Jeff Mummert on February 1st with interest, in which he explained how The Civil War Augmented Reality Project has evolved to become an LLC: HistoriQuest. Jeff explained in the email how HistoriQuest aims to specifically
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This podcast is a series of recordings from our family’s tour aboard the USS Midway in San Diego, California, on March 17, 2010. The first part is an interview with World War II Navy Ace Ed Wendorf, who scored eight kills in the Pacific theater as a Hellcat pilot. Ed holds the distinction of being
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Podcast366: Interviews with Navy WWII Ace Ed Wendorf and Docents Aboard the USS Midway [ 38:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1520)
It’s the first Saturday of December and it’s Chester Greenwood Day in Farmington, Maine! Not sure who Chester Greenwood was? Like me, you must not live in Farmington. According to the current English WikiPedia entry for Chester: Chester Greenwood (1858-1937) of Farmington, Maine invented the earmuff in 1873, at the age of 15. He reportedly
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Happy Veterans Day, to all our military veterans from all branches of service! This year on Veterans Day, I encourage you to take a few minutes and watch some of the tribute videos which have been created in the past few months by students and teachers in Oklahoma and Kansas, participating in Celebrate Oklahoma Voices
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As a Storychaser interested in amplifying voices not often heard in the mainstream media, I couldn’t resist an opportunity to interview UNT student Will Clark last week about the reasons he opposes his university paying $100,000 to former President George W Bush for a speech to students later in the month. Will also explained some
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I love documentary films, PBS, and my iPad. Small surprise that I love the new, free PBS iPad app which was released October 25th. Among many other things, users can now watch full length documentaries via the app like the five part “We Shall Remain” series. It’s a great day to be a learner. -
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In this two minute video, Dr. Cyndi Danner-Kuhn explains her passion for digital storytelling, oral history, and the Celebrate Kansas Voices project. Cyndi is a professor in the College of Education at Kansas State University. This video was created by Jackie Baumgartner, an educator in Phillipsburg, Kansas. Celebrate Kansas Voices (CKV) is presented by Story
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This afternoon my girls and I were able to spend about an hour at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, along with my sister and nephew. In addition to having some fun taking composite cartwheel pictures using Pano, we also learned a bit about the amazing history of Union Station and trains in the Kansas
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Thursday at the Oklahoma Multimedia Teachers workshop in Norman, I asked our participants to discuss and share stories they wish they had recorded or could record. Most of these were family stories, and many were about relatives who had lived amazing and interesting lives. I recorded these using the iPadio application on my iPhone, to
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This week I visited with some of my friends and others in the Washington DC area who are Middle East area experts (in the USAF) and I asked them for recommendations for books about the Middle East and Islam. I recently finished “Faith at War” by Yaroslav Trofimov and enthusiastically recommend it. These are other
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This podcast features three different recordings from the Yorktown Victory Center in Yorktown, Virginia, on July 3, 2010. Historical interpreters on the site brought history alive for our family and others in attendance, describing a 6 pound gun as well as mortar like those used in the siege of Yorktown which ended the American Revolutionary
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Podcast352: Artillery at the Battle of Yorktown, Revolutionary War Field Surgery, and the Battle of Great Bridge [ 56:34 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2092)
I find the concept of “place-based storytelling” compelling. Places often have stories. Objects can have stories too, and that is the case in Edna Parrish’s six minute video, “The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Baby Cradle.” This is a touching story of a baby cradle from the mid-1800s which has criss-crossed the American midwest multiple times
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How many shoeboxes or albums of photographs have you seen which contain stories no one documented? In her five minute video, “What’s Your Story? The Importance of Telling the Stories of Your Photos,” MidDel Public Schools, Oklahoma educator Margaret Nan Harkey makes a compelling case for why we ALL need to help document the stories
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