Category: digitalstorytelling
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Superb lego stopmotion: “The Good Samaritan”
Dean Shareski has posted an outstanding lego stop-motion movie that a 15 year old teenager he knows (Joel) created, titled “The Good Samaritan.” Superb work! Having created a few stopmotion movies myself with my son that look MUCH more amateurish than this one, I am quite impressed. Smooth animation, great use of sound effects, and…
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Star Wars Clone Wars
I have not seen these yet, but now that they are on sale in the iTunes Music store for $1.99 each or $10.99 for the entire first season I may: Star Wars Clone Wars!
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Podcast59: Interactive Podcasting– Asynchronous Online Audio Discussions
Podcasting, along with blogging, is playing a pivotal role in ushering in a new era of decentralized content publishing and idea sharing across the globe. Like any other tool, podcasting can be utilized in various ways to serve diverse purposes. This article examines two emerging read/write web technology services, YackPack and Vaestro, which are extending…
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Camera phone QuickTime movie mixes
More and more people are getting camera phones that can capture video clips as well as still pictures. You may know teachers, students, or personally want to edit camera phone video clips and make a remix or montage of this videos for subsequent sharing. If you are a Windows user and are wanting to use…
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Video in schools and underlying pedagogies
Safari Montage is local school server-based “video on demand” solution that seeks to address multiple issues problematic for students and teachers accessing bandwidth-demanding video streams. Typically, schools have insufficient bandwidth out to the Internet to support large numbers of users simultaneously accessing video streams located on off-campus servers. This is just one reason I have…
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Voices in electronic collaboration
Vaestro is: …audio forum software that you can use on your web site for free. Talk to your friends, host interactive podcasts, or use it like an audio blog. Use it anytime you need to communicate with groups of people small or large. With Vaestro, everyone has a chance to speak and be heard. Our…
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Da Vinci Code Digital Story Challenge
Ewan has thrown down the glove and I ask you to take him up on his challenge: With all the hoopla over “The Da Vinci Code” book and new movie, why not take advantage of this “teachable moment” and create digital stories about the history, geography, art, politics, and other issues discussed in and raised…
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Jordan School Film Festival Winners
2006 winners of the Jordan School Film Festival (from the Jordan School District in Sandy, Utah) are available online. Winners were identified in the following categories: Technical Award Best Story Best Non-Fiction Film Best Fiction Film Best Picture
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Honda Cog Video
If you like lining up dominoes in a row to subsequently knock one down and watch the chain reaction, you’ll love the amazing “Cog” video from Honda. According to Snopes.com (a source I trust) the entire video was made without computer graphics or digital tricks. Amazing. Creating something similar in a classroom would be a…
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Podcast56: Marco Torres on Engaging Students Through Digital Media
Marco Torres is an internationally renowned speaker, filmmaker, and author of a wide variety of digital content. He is also a high school social studies teacher in San Fernando, California, which is in Los Angeles county. Marco was named the California Teacher of Year last year, and serves on the board of the George Lucas…