Websites like AudioBoo, Cinch, and iPadio which permit “no-edit” audio recording and publishing can be utilized in extremely constructive, powerful and creative ways. I’m finishing up my chapter on Audio tools for my first eBook, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing,” and I’m using an AudioBoo my daughter, Rachel, recorded at the USS
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If your schedule permits, head over to Seminole, Oklahoma tomorrow and Saturday for the 5th annual “Spirit of Oklahoma” Storytelling Festival. This three minute video showcases highlights you can expect from the festival, including some “ghost tales” on Friday night! I love their slogan: “Facts don’t change people. Stories do.” Lots more details are available
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Yesterday I had an opportunity to attend as well as video record the graduation (or “hooding ceremony”) of the class of 2011 at the Texas Tech University Law School. My friend who was graduating borrowed a Sony mini-DVD camcorder for me to use recording the commencement, and purchased several blank mini-DVDs. I’ve steered clear of
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Today during a fun visit to the Apple Store in Chicago on Michigan Avenue, my wife, son and I talked to our family back in Oklahoma over a FaceTime videoconference. We used my wife’s phone for the videoconference, and I snapped the following photo using my iPhone. At times like these, it feels a bit
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Before going up to the top of the Willis (Sears) Tower today in Chicago, I saw the following window washer rappelling down a nearby building. Now that’s a risky job! – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad Location:N Kingsbury St,Chicago,United States
It’s never too early to start talking with kids about college, and you can’t put a price on inspiration. These were some of the ideas reinforced by our “partial” family’s visit today to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, about thirty minutes north of downtown Chicago right on the western shore of Lake Michigan. I’m here
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Today driving up for a Storychasers‘”Celebrate Kansas Voices” digital storytelling workshop in Manhattan, I witnessed some dramatic scenes of controlled burning on the prairie just south of Junction City along US 77. I don’t think these images do the landscape justice. In addition to photos taken with the default camera app of my iPhone4, I
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On March 9th, I posted some photos of an amazing sunset over a beautiful cloud deck over Memphis, Tennessee, in the post, “Sunset over a sea of clouds.” Today I shared (on Flickr) a 44 second video of our plane descending just below the cloud layer from that same evening. It’s easy, as a regular
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The clearest message communicated by the Microsoft Store in Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego seems to be: Redmond wants to offer shopping experiences like Cupertino. Remember days in the not-so-distant past when Windows-based laptops for sale by franchises like Office Depot and Best Buy were not connected to the Internet? That’s not the case
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This evening was a magnificent time to have a window seat on my flight into Memphis, enroute to Montgomery. I don’t think these images can adequately render the spectacular scene I witnessed on our descent into a sea of interlaced clouds, as the red sun set in the west. I took a short video as
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Touch tablet computers like the iPad excel at showing off stunning photographs, and the free Fotopedia Heritage app provides a great demonstration of this capability. By clicking the “i” icon for more info on a photo, users can view a description of official UNESCO World Heritage sites as well as Wikipedia info for locations. Click
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I’m in the midst of uploading a slew of new photos to my Flickr account, which have accumulated on my iPhone since early December, as well as a few videos to YouTube. These are two favorite photos from my time in Denton, Texas, last semester teaching at UNT. This is a photo of Kelly and
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Thanks to James Deaton, this past week I learned about the free mobile app, Waze. Waze is ”Real-time maps and traffic information based on the wisdom of the crowd.” The website explains: Waze is a social mobile application providing free turn-by-turn navigation based on the live conditions of the road. 100% powered by users, the more you drive, the better
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This evening Rachel, my seven year old, picked out one of the picture books I purchased this past December when her sister and I had a chance to visit Farmington, Maine. We found this particular book (Moose Power: Muskeg Saves the Day) at Mooseville, which is a great website and store in Farmington started by
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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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Last month I had an opportunity to visit Shanghai, China for the Learning 2.010 conference. I was able to stay a couple of extra days and attend the 2010 World Expo, and over those days spent 16 hours visiting the “pavilions” of ten different countries and the United Nations. I’ve wanted to share some photos,
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The English Wiktionary defines “culture shock” as: A state of anxious confusion experienced by someone exposed to an alien or unfamiliar environment. While we often think of culture shock as something experienced by people visiting different countries where people speak different languages than our own, it is not necessary to cross an international boundary to
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My September 2010 adventures in China are almost at a close, after spending ten hours today and six hours yesterday at the World Expo. I have a BUNCH of additional videos to upload, but because of my limited hotel bandwidth I’ll wait to share those till I’m back stateside. It has again been quite thought-provoking
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Yesterday Chris Betcher, Gail Lovely, Melinda Alford and I spent the day exploring Suzhou, China. Suzhou is: … a prefecture-level city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Taihu Lake in the province of Jiangsu, China. The city is renowned for its stone bridges, pagodas, and meticulously designed gardens
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