Category: digitalstorytelling
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Singing “Not on the Test”
This is a sad but accurate commentary on our current state of affairs in K-12 education in the United States: NPR’s January 1st show: A Song for Students: ‘Not on the Test.’ If you’re looking for a short (like 2 minute) attention-getter for teachers to start a professional development session or conference presentation, this song…
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Southwest digital storytelling contest
Southwest Airlines is sponsoring an open digital storytelling contest for a new ad campaign through February 20th. Their website actually has the following advertisement hosted by YouTube embedded on it: The poster of this video to YouTube has been a YouTube member for 2 months, self-reports his/her age as 26, and has two other videos…
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Read to me, Sam!
My wife discovered (from our neighbor) the great website BookPALS Storyline Online today. The site is sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, and is full of stories read by different famous actors and actresses! My 3 year old enjoyed hearing Sean Astin (who was “Sam,” one of my favorite characters in “The Lord of…
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Podcast 113: Animated Moviemaking Tools, Engaging Games, Making it Big in Games Programming
The latest generation of videogames are in many cases, as Mark Prensky has stated, complex games rather than mini-games of the Pac Man and Pong era. Feral Interactive is a UK-based company that ports many games to the Macintosh platform (including Lego Star Wars II) as well as develops its own original games. This podcast…
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Podcast112: Collaborative Digital Storytelling with Memory Miner
Memory Miner is a collaborative digital storytelling application which permits users to add a wealth of meta data to photographs as well as rich media including audio and video files. The program exports a slick looking website including all included metadata and attached media files, and permits one click searching of the image archive with…
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Joel Meyerowitz: Into the Light
My notes from the MacWorld 2007 feature presentation by Joel Meyerowitz. If you make a big leap in your artistic work, you often discover new potentials that are unexpected and were unanticipated – for me this change was switching The French call this time between the dog and the wolf, the tame from the savage,…
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Podcast110: Simple Podcasting on a Global Scale
This podcast is a recording Carol Anne McGuire’s presentation at the MacWorld 2007 K-12 Educators Market Symposium on January 10, 2007. Carol Anne is an Apple Distinguished Educator and the coordinator of the Rock Our World project, online at www.rockourworld.org. Rock Our World is an exciting International Project, involving countries on ALL SEVEN continents. Kids…
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Perspectives on classroom blogging video (final)
I’ve updated the draft version of the video I originally titled “safe classroom blogging.” The final title is “perspectives on classroom blogging.” Thanks very much to everyone who provided feedback and suggestions. I’ll be showing this video in about two hours in my presentation on “Safe Classroom Blogging” for the MacWorld 2007 K-12 education day…
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A Q&A on Culture, Filmmaking, Storytelling and Cool Tools
My notes from a MacWorld 2007 preso by Kevin Smith 1-9-2007 MY INITIAL THOUGHTS: Kevin used quite a bit of profanity in his Q&A. I am not including any of that in this post of course, but as a warning you will encounter some if you visit his blog or probably if you hear him…
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Draft Safe Blogging intro video
I’ve completed an initial draft of the video I plan to use at the start of my MacWorld 2007 presentation on “Safe Blogging to Improve Student Writing.” Full credits are listed on the video’s wiki page. The video is in QuickTime format, so you’ll need free QuickTime player software installed on your computer to view…