Category: digitalstorytelling
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Videos for Professional Development
I have created a new “page” on my blog titled “Videos for PD.” This is accessible in the drop-down menu under the top menu item “Resources.” There are MANY wonderful videos now available and shared online that are appropriate for different professional development contexts, and I have attempted to link the primary videos I’m using…
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Digital Storytelling – How much time?
In my morning workshop on Digital Storytelling Monday in Irving ISD, I shared the 10 minute video “Strive to Engage not Entrall” with teachers which I created on Sunday. I then asked teachers to guess how much time it took to plan, produce, chop and publish this digital story – estimating with percentages the time…
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Whitelisting websites – what a pain!
It’s a shame I have to do this, but c’est la vie with current content filtering methods in many school districts. This whitelist is for Monday’s workshops on “Digital Storytelling” and “Using Google and Yahoo Tools for Educational Research and Collaboration.”
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VoiceThread versus BubbleShare
Inspired by Bob Sprankle and his posted VoiceThread for BLC 2007, I played with VoiceThread myself for the first time recently and created a narrated slideshow of images taken at NECC 2007 and shared on Flickr. You can both view and leave comments (via text and audio) to this VoiceThread. VERY cool! Voicethread is very…
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Tell a story with 5 photos for educators
In the second day of our digital learning academy workshop in St Louis, Missouri, and Mustang, Oklahoma, teachers at each site did an activity we called “Tell a story with 5 photos.” Rather than join the existing Flickr group “Tell a story in 5 frames (Visual story telling)” we created and joined a new Flickr…
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Podcast173: Voices of NECC 2007 Part 2 (Liberian Renaissance Education Complex, Creating iStories for Travel, and TeacherTube)
This podcast features recordings from attendees and participants at the National Education Computing Conference (NECC) 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2007. This podcast includes an interview with Dr. Dennis Harper, founder of Generation Y, about the Liberian Renaissance Education Project, Dr. Michael Searson discussing the use of digital tools to document and share international…
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Digital storytelling ideas from David and Dean
Great fun this evening learning more about digital storytelling from Dean Shareski and David Jakes, via an Elluminate Live session! Thanks for the invite to participate, Dean! I posted some thoughts following our session as well as some of the GREAT referenced digital storytelling examples and tools on Dean’s blog (where I’m wrapping up a…
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Podcast169: A Conversation with Marco Torres about Light Saber Special Effect Techniques, Digital Technologies in the Hands of Eager Learners, and Worthwhile Teacher Professional Development
This podcast is a recording of a conversation I had with Marco Torres at NECC 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia. The initial question we started with focused on how to make “light saber effects” in a movie, but our conversation continued and focused on other uses for Final Cut Studio Pro software, ways for helping students…