Category: digitalstorytelling
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Getting beyond copy and paste
Bernajean Porter (author of the website resource “DigiTales”) offers some great advice and suggestions for teachers at all levels using digital storytelling in the classroom or contemplating its use in her recent skypecast interview with Tim Wilson. I love the following exhortation she shares (at minute mark 28:57 of the podcast) regarding the importance of…
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Digital archive resources
This afternoon I am sharing a bit about a book chapter I’ve contributed to on narrative inquiry, and specifically digital archive resources. These are the digital archive resources I am sharing in the presentation: At Texas Tech: – Southwest Collection – Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative – Vietnam Center and Archive Presidential Libraries – Herbert…
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Apple Digital Media Gallery
The Apple Digital Media Gallery for Student Work includes various collections of student-created digital media. These include movies and animations, pictures, music, and presentations. A “winner’s circle” collection is also available that includes links to some of the best contributions. If you are working with students and/or teachers and creating digital media, this is a…
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Witnesses to educational truth
We need more teachers and classroom bloggers like Doug, author of Borderland. In his post “Bearing Witness” he writes: I want to shine a light on problems so that we can perhaps begin to understand them and grow from that knowledge. I want to discuss implementation, as well as reform because literacy is a doorway…
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Critical media literacy
Sam Keen has an excellent article in the April/May issue of Edutopia entitled “Escaping from Virtual Reality.” The article intro has clear references (although not by name) to Neil Postman’s book “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business,” which I think is an excellent book for anyone interested in media…
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Student Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is an essential ingredient of the US and global economy, and something we tend to not teach well in traditional, U.S. public schools. I was a Hugh O’Brien Youth Foundation delegate back in high school, and remember learning more in those few days than I probably learned in all of high school about the…
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The Dark Side of the Farm
For a good laugh and a thought-provoking digital story, check out Grocery Store Wars: Join the Organic Rebellion. As a devout Star Wars fan myself and child of the 1970s and 1980s, I relate quite well to this. What a great use of digital storytelling to encourage people (not just kids) to think critically about…
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JumpCut and Educational Ethics
JumpCut is another read/write web tool for browser-based video editing, similar to EyeSpot that I blogged about last week. The article “Ten video sharing services compared” analyzes different online video sharing / remixing sites and services. Thanks Miguel and Dean for these links! Sites like these epitomize the “remix culture” in which our youth live,…
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Garageband for Windows?
It appears Windows Vista (the next paid upgrade for WindowsXP) may include an application named “Monaco” designed to compete with Apple’s popular Garageband software program. Garageband is part of the iLife suite and can be used by even novice musicians to create original music scores. According to a post on Microsoft-Watch: Monaco will be aimed…
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Discovery Education and Google Earth
Thanks to Miguel for alerting me to the “Google Earth to Get Discovery Video” article in yesterday’s Washington Post. (I am incidentally impressed that the news article already includes a cross-link to Miguel’s blog!) According to the article: Over the next few weeks, Google’s program [Google Earth] will begin including a globe icon, linking users…