Category: digitalstorytelling
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Podcast140: Science and Math Videos on a Purple COW: Curriculum On Wheels
This podcast features an interview with representatives of Ignite Learning, an Austin-based company that sells an innovative digital curriculum product. Their purple COW is “Curriculum On Wheels” and features a wide variety of instructional math and science videos, primarily for students in grades 4-8. The COW is designed for whole-class instruction. Since all videos are…
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Who is this person?
A photo challenge from Alexander. Post guesses either here or on the Flickr page of the photo! 🙂
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Every school needs a media design studio
Does your school have a media production design studio? If not, why not? In the likely case your school does NOT have a media production studio, the reason for its absence may lie in the basic nature of educational institutions in the 19th and 20th centuries. Since their inception in response to the industrial revolution,…
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Debating Ataturk, more bans on user created content
Much of the news we hear about regarding the banning of technologies or websites has to do with “user created content.” In the 20th century, it wasn’t possible for just anyone to publish for a global audience. Today, however, that act is now possible for anyone with a modicum of literacy and access to an…
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Flickr adds photo pool moderation
This is great news: Flickr has added the option of enabling moderation for group photo pools. According to the February 28th press release: Ever wished you had a chance to review photos before they show up in your group pool? Well, now you can! For each group that you run, you can choose to set…
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Administrator Movie
I had a great time substitute teaching a graduate class tonight on “Technology for Administrators” at the University of Central Oklahoma here in Edmond, where I live. Links to the resources we discussed are available on a new wiki page I created today for “Technology Leadership.” As proposed last week (and inspired by Marco Torres)…
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Multimedia Planning! by Marco Torres
These are my notes from Marco’s session today. Documentary style movies are powerful and do-able – so are mocu-mentories When I start a multimedia project with my kids, we first brainstorm all the things that other filmmakers might do or use for the guidelines of the movie – then we decide not to do those…
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“When I Become an Administrator” movie ideas
One of my favorite videos to show teachers during professional development sessions is Marco Torres’ Teacher Movie. Marco’s keynote today and this evening’s conversation with other MACE conference attendees inspired a project idea for next Monday– and I’d love to hear your input on this. Monday night (March 5th) I’ll be teaching a three hour…
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Podcast137: Inspired by Marco Torres – A MACE 2007 Roundtable Discussion
This podcast is a recording of a conversation between five of the attendees of the Mid-America Association for Computers in Education (MACE) 2007 conference in Manhattan, Kansas, on March 1, 2007. The keynote speaker for the conference was the inspirational Marco Antonio Torres, who is one of the most amazing and passionate educators you could…
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Digital Storytelling: Empowering The Student Writing Process
My notes from the MACE 2007 presentation by Tonya Witherspoon. Tonya’s wiki site: http://web2point0.wikispaces.com Let kids pick pictures which inspire their words Clay Animation to retell a novel or a story – good b/c the set is very small: a shoe box size – can be done with just a webcam – costumes can be…