Category: digitalstorytelling
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Building a boat together
This evening I stumbled upon Fritz Nordengren’s website (www.digitalstoryteller.com) and his delightful photo essay on building a fishing boat with his son several years ago. The story page links to Uncle John’s General Store, which sold Fritz his Jon Boat kit and instructions. A friend of mine here in Lubbock recently built a cajun pirogue…
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Web-based digital storytelling
Several weeks ago, Dr. Glen Bull alerted me to the Primary Access project and website. Primary Access is a web-based (web 2.0 – read/write web) service permitting people to use the Internet to create and share digital stories. Rather than using client-side software like iMovie or PhotoStory, people can use their web browser to create…
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Responses to Digital Storytelling
I shared two workshops this afternoon in Fort Worth at ESC11, one on digital storytelling and the other on podcasting in the classroom. After viewing several digital stories (“Grass Born to be Stepped On” and both “Sacrificios” and “We Learned to Sing” from the Center for Digital Storytelling) the participants shared the following responses about…
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Getting Mad about Educational Wrongs
Miguel Guhlin has posted some passionate words about the need for educators to “get mad” and take action for the sake of the children we work and live with each day in our era of high-stakes, fear driven accountability. In addition to getting mad, we need to reframe the debate in a discussion that is…
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Podcast 45: Joe Lambert on Digital Storytelling
Joe Lambert, co-founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling in California, shared a keynote address at SITE 2006 this week. This podcast is a rebroadcast of a question and answer dialog with Joe which followed his keynote on March 22, 2006. Program Length: 58 min, 19 sec File size: 14.0 MB (Click here to listen…
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Digital Stories Across the Curriculum
My notes from a SITE 2006 preso: Digital Stories Across the Curriculum: Opportunities and Challenges [I am recording this session for a later podcast] AMTE’s technology position statement now includes: analyzing and visualizing math concepts – opportunity for multiple mathematical representations to investigate mathematics use digital images to describe different paths math teachers are very…
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Digital Storytelling – Giving Purpose to Pixels
This SITE 2006 conversation session featured Joe Lambert answering questions and talking more about “Digital Storytelling – Giving Purpose to Pixels.” [I AM RECORDING THIS SESSION AND WILL PUBLISH IT LATER AS A PODCAST] Two recently posted podcast interviews with Joe are also available from: Michael Searson’s interview with Joe Lambert Tim Wilson’s interview with…
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Advocacy in Education
More feedback on Janet Swenson’s keynote These are notes I’m making from an interactive dialog with Janet following her SITE keynote. Maxine Green’s work on creativity is relevant here – Janet’s interests and focus in educational reform Michael Apple’s view: we have to learn from neo-liberals and neo-conservatives, they have infiltrated the system and put…
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Liberian Refugees and Bloggers
I just finished watching Andy Carvin’s compelling short film, “Refugees: The Liberians of Buduburam.” Wow. I am not sure where to begin writing about my response to this. Let me start by noting the chain of connections and links that led me to this video. Yesterday on a long car drive back to Lubbock, we…
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Podcast 40: Defining and Telling the New Story
Over the Pond and Through the Fiber #2: This international skypecast features educators from Canada, Scotland, and the United States defining and discussing the new story David Warlick has challenged us to help tell with our students. We probably raised more questions than we answered, but again it was exciting as well as empowering to…