Category: digitalstorytelling
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Empowering citizen journalists
In my every-other Friday post for TechLearning last week (“What are you going to do?”) I made a brief reference to the pivotal role citizen journalists play and are likely to play around the globe in the years ahead: The causes of human rights and self-determination, along with many others, have more potential to be…
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Video to Flash format
For the first time today, I used some free tools to convert a QuickTime movie into flash format and make the file web-accessible. You can upload a video file to YouTube or Google Video and have the website perform the conversion, but in this case I was converting a video I don’t personally own the…
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Star Wars humor
Oh my gosh. These are hilarious. If you are not a big Star Wars fan and didn’t grow up on the series, you might not think so… but I do! 🙂
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Podcast103: Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
This podcast is a recording of my keynote address on Digital Storytelling in the Classroom at the 2006 Hawaii Library Association’s annual conference in Honolulu. In the address, I discussed the connections digital storytelling has to literacy development and the roles of school librarians, shared several examples of exemplary student and teacher-created digital stories, and…
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IPTV, Less advertising, and new media
The latest (December 2006) issue of Wired magazine has several excellent articles that relate to YouTube, IPTV, the rapidly changing landscape of paid advertising, and new media technology use in general– but especially by younger demographic folks. The three articles are part of a series titled “Web Video Grows Up,” and includes “The YouTube Effect,”…
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Dabble offers powerful webvideo search
As the number of webvideo sites continues to proliferate (as information online in general continues to grow) the most apparent challenge is wading through an overwhelmingly large quantity of content to find relevant, high quality material that is entertaining or of use for a particular purpose. This morning I discovered Dabble via a CNN Business…
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Happy Feet lacks a good storyline
This past Friday night I went and saw the new movie Happy Feet with my family. I am not a regular movie-goer these days, DVD movies have become my usual way of enjoying films now– I think the only movies I saw this past summer at the theater were “Cars” and “Pirates of the Caribbean…
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Tech Chick Tips podcast interview
The Tech Chicks (Anna Adam and Helen Mowers) have posted a podcast interview they conducted with me two weeks ago at the Beyond4Walls conference in the Dallas area. (Episode 12) Their questions were: What do you regard as your most essential piece of equipment for podcasting? Why did you start podcasting? What are the two…
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IP, the Information Age and YouTube
Today’s NPR segment, “On YouTube, Popularity Can Be a Curse” discussed intellectual property issues in our era of YouTube-posted videos and antiquated copyright laws. One of the main points was that as YouTube videos become “viral hits,” they often draw higher levels of scrutiny which can result in legal demands to take them offline– especially…
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Podcast100: Meet the Filmmaker- Edgy Lee
Some futurists claim that no one will be reading in 50 years. Some say America is a Republic of Movies and that Americans now tell their stories in movies rather than in books. One of Hawaii’s filmmakers shared her ideas on this topic in this recorded podcast from the Hawaii Library Association’s annual conference on…