Category: digitalstorytelling
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PictureAustralia with Flickr
Derek Baird posted the following comment today to my blog about the PictureAustralia / Flickr project: The National Library of Australia and Picture Australia have teamed up with Flickr and Yahoo! to create another interesting type of digital storytelling project: Telling the “we story” through photographs. PictureAustralia has created two public groups in Flickr where…
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Joe Lambert on Digital Storytelling
Joe Lambert is the co-founder and executive director of the Center for Digital Storytelling located in Berkeley, California, and will be a keynote speaker at the SITE 2006 conference in Orlando in 2 weeks. Today, Dr. Michael Searson, the Dean of the College of Education at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, posted a 36…
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WiFi Picture Frame
Ha ha! It’s here at last! I knew some creative technical inventor would be bringing a product like this to market! Check out the WiFi Picture Frame: You can configure it to automatically download images from a Flickr feed and also integrate images from a removable digital camera media card. Most beautiful thing about this…
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Share Bubbleshares on a Blog
I just discovered a cool way to embed a Bubbleshare narrated slideshow right within a blog post, by visiting Cheryl Oakes’ Webhead blog. Apparently, from any publicly viewable Bubbleshare album, just add the directory name “/blog” to the end, and you’ll see the HTML code you can copy and paste into your blog post to…
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Google Video and LinkTV
Google Video describes itself as: …the world’s first open online video marketplace, where you can search for, watch and even buy an ever-growing collection of TV shows, movies, music videos, documentaries, personal productions and more. Google Video offers free non-professional content, free previews of commercial content, and access to commercial content via the Google Video…
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Digital Director’s Guild
The Digital Director’s Guild is a website established to explore three interrelated questions mostly focused on pedagogical best-practices for using digital storytelling in the classroom: How do we structure projects effectively to engender the kinds of products we hope to see (i.e. moving from electronic encyclopedia entries to engaging, insightful documentaries)? How do we streamline…
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Oral history archivists
The 2003 NPR story “StoryCorps, An Oral History of America” offers a great curricular suggestion for students and teachers wanting to be engaged in “work that matters” both at school and at home. We should all consider ourselves commissioned as digital oral historians for posterity! Thanks to Cynthia Garrety for sharing this link in a…
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Texas Tech Storytelling
Texas Tech University is hosting a digital storytelling contest that is pretty ingenious, I think. To help “tell the stories” of how people have been positively impacted by their university experiences, they are inviting anyone to submit their own digital stories about their experiences at TTU. This is the introductory text for the contest website:…
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Bubbleshare of Climbing Popo
At the suggestion of Cheryl Oakes, an innovative Maine educator I have never met face to face but corresponded with a few times via web 2.0 technologies, I have created my first Bubbleshare photostory this evening. Bubbleshare is a free website that lets anyone upload photos, similar to Flickr, but also record accompanying voice narration.…
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Flickr via Flash and Karakorams
FlAppr is a flash-based front-end, or interface, for Flickr that requires the latest version of Flash Player (8). Think of FlAppr as an even cooler way to explore Flickr images and connect with Flickr-posting photographers than the “regular” web browsing Flicker website method. I love the flag feature: Click on a nation’s flag in FlAppr…