Category: digitalstorytelling
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Time lapse digital storytelling fun
The chain of online learning leads to an unexpected but wonderful place again today… While exploring Steve Whitaker’s website today after learning about Ustream, I discovered the free software Gawker which: is an application for Mac OS X that creates time-lapse movies using a webcam. Images from your camera can be shared, allowing other users…
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Live webcasting via Ustream
My work with educational technologies the past few years has convinced me we have entered the “publish at will” era of information sharing. This means (to me) that anyone with a computer and Internet connection can publish their thoughts via different modalities (text, audio, and video) for a global audience– without incurring additional expenses. This…
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Roads of Learning in the 21st Century (v 1.0)
Last night I finished editing a fifteen minute video I’ve been planning for several weeks. It is titled “Roads of Learning in the 21st Century,” and extends the metaphor of “learning on the rails” and “taking sidetrips for learning” shared by David Warlick in his preconference keynote address (in video form) for the 2006 K-12…
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Podcast153: The Trail Dance Film Festival in Duncan, Oklahoma
This podcast features an interview with Anthony Foreman, who helped start the Trail Dance Film Festival in Duncan, Oklahoma. Entering its second year in 2008, Trail Dance provides an opportunity for filmmakers to present in a competitive, yet, supportive environment. Filmmakers from any and all schools of production are invited to enter. Submissions are accepted…
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New Flickr Quickstart
I created a 3 page QuickStart guide for Flickr for our Oklahoma Digital Centennial project training today. I linked this from my “Powerful Blending” workshop curriculum on web 2.0. As with all my other online educational technology workshop curricula, this is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Only license, so feel free to use this and…
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Images of Chicago
I’m catching up on some photo uploading to Flickr this evening. Among the images I uploaded tonight is a series I photographed in Chicago on Saturday, April 21st following the Connecting and Collaborating conference in Holland, Michigan. What a spectacular day in the windy city! Highlights of the day for me were definitely visiting the…
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Building 21st Century Learners by Kevin Honeycutt
These are my notes from Kevin Honeycutt’s presentation at KSDE2007. Kevin is one of the most creative, enthusiastic, dynamic and inspirational educators I have ever met. I’m recording his presentation for subsequent publication here as a podcast. Check out his website on http://kevinhoneycutt.org. If you are looking for a dynamite conference presenter that has more…
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Eric Langhorst shares on TeacherTube
Eric Langhorst has posted a great video to TeacherTube explaining his book blog project on “Guerrilla Season.” We need more teachers modeling and sharing their best practices with teaching via TeacherTube like Eric has done! I think we’re only getting glimpses of the power of these digital teaching resources. Great work Eric and students in…
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Rethinking WalMart Patronage
I watched the 2005 documentary “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” last night, and want to share some reflections on the movie from the perspectives of a digital storyteller, concerned citizen/consumer, and educator. The video highlights multiple problems/challenges which are not unique to WalMart but are perhaps amplified because of the corporation’s size and…
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Beautiful sunrise this morning
The sunrise over the Oklahoma plains this morning was breathtaking! I’ve been seeing the sun rise a lot this week, commuting to Enid from Edmond! 🙂 Tomorrow’s my last day of facilitator training in Enid with our 2nd group of teachers for the Oklahoma Digital Centennial Project. Boy is this ever a fun group! Mike…