Category: digitalstorytelling
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Fun with Photo Booth
I’m posting from the Apple Store in Oklahoma City, where I’ve just discovered the wonderful, new, free app Photo Booth. Put in the wrong hands, stuff like this can be quite dangerous! 🙂
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Podcast, Vodcast, Screencast Nation
Preso by Will Richardson at MTI 2006 sponsored by MACE Kansas blog: weblogged-ed.com email: weblogged at gmail dot com presentation resources: webloggedlinks.pbwiki.com This is all about kids teaching – we should help kids create stuff so that when it is disseminated widely, it helps other people learn 30,000 uploads to Youtube.com per day We have…
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Compelling iSafety video
I am working my way through the iSafe iLearn Online curriculum to become an iSafe certified educator. (This is a free, online certification program.) Chapter 2 of the “Personal Safety” section includes this excellent digital story titled “Predator,” created by a student and his principal. This is not only an outstanding example of engaging digital…
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Seeing is Believing
Knowing Wes’ concern with human rights, I was interested in tieing together the concepts discussed in the documentary “Seeing is Believing“. The film addresses many of the ideas we discuss in the Read/Write Web; mainly the idea of placing the power of technology in the hands of the people. The focus here is on third…
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Open content, MIT and our university system
I am an advocate for open content, especially in the academic realm. I’ve addressed this previously in posts titled “Universally available research,” “Accessibility supports relevancy,” and “Free ideas & Pedagogy.” Today I discovered MIT World, described as: a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT. This is a…
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The U2 record incident, remixing media, and online publishing
Many of the digital natives in our midst want to remix media their world, not merely consume it. They also want to create original media. Check out websites like YouTube, iFilm, Revver, Vimeo, the BBC’s Video Nation, and others if you want evidence. (I’ve incidentally started a new social bookmark category for these sites, which…
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Simplestar PhotoShow
PhotoShow by Simplestar is a Windows-based digital storytelling software program that looks like a combination of iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD wrapped together in a powerful package for PCs. Think of the ease of PhotoStory with the capability to also use digital video (which requires MovieMaker or another program) and also supports DVD burning. Plus, you…
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Podcast65: Digital Camcorder Technologies
High definition digital camcorders have recently (in the last year) become affordable for the prosumer market. Digital storytellers in different contexts should be interested in the benefits as well as tradeoffs of HD digital camcorder technologies. This podcast includes several interviews with high definition camcorder owners who share their perspectives, experiences and advice for others.…
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Great Star Wars lego animations
My 8 year old son, Alexander, showed me some really fun stopmotion animations this morning, created with legos by some REALLY creative and talented digital storytellers! These movies include “Revenge of the Brick” (his favorite– he likes how Dooku uses Grievious as his TV antenna, how the Jedis are able to reconstruct starfighters on the…
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Open Video Contest
Let the aspiring digital storytellers in your circle of influence know about this one: The Open Video Contest sponsored by Creative Commons the Fedora Project. Submitted videos must be: about freedom and openness 30 sec long released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License submitted by July 20th There are a few more guidelines– but…