Category: digitalstorytelling
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Podcast32E: Cultivating Digital Literacy Through Blogging and Podcasting
This is an enhanced podcast that can be played through iTunes, viewed as a webpage, or heard as a mp3 version (see the show notes.) 21st century literacy skills (or digital literacy skills) and the skills cultivated in a high-stakes testing classroom environment seem to be mutually exclusive. This session from TCEA 2006 explores how…
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Podcast32: Cultivating Digital Literacy Through Blogging and Podcasting
21st century literacy skills (or digital literacy skills) and the skills cultivated in a high-stakes testing classroom environment seem to be mutually exclusive. This session from TCEA 2006 explores how blogging and podcasting can be used to cultivate the digital literacy skills our students need for success today and tomorrow. Program Length: 39 min, 43…
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Digital Storytelling with PhotoStory3
A TCEA2006 presentation by Scott and Natalie Frienza. Website (click on sidebar for digital storytelling): www.lubbockisd.org/sfirenza/ Photostory requires WMP10 and DirectX9, is WinXP only 7 story elements 1- A point of view: stories are told to make a point – consider your audience and direct the point to them 2- A dramatic question 3- emotional…
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Libraries should embrace digital storytelling
Thomas Frey, Executive Director of the DaVinci Institute (a futurist think tank), writes about 10 definers that are shaping the 21st century library in his article, “The Future of Libraries: Beginning the Great Transformation.” His 9th trend, that “We are transitioning from a product-based economy to an experience based economy” is interesting. I am not…
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Digital Storytelling Curriculum
On the SITE Digital Storytelling blog today, Dr. Denise Schmidt posted about Stacy Behmer’s wonderful online resource, “Digital Storytelling: Examining the Process With Middle School Students.” In addition to including a great literature review of digital storytelling, Stacy’s site includes extensive curriculum resources for the three primary phases of digital storytelling: Preproduction Production Presentation She…
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Darfur Editorial Challenge
The U.S. Holocaust Museum is sponsoring a Darfur Editorial-Writing Contest. According to the website: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Committee on Conscience is asking high school and university students to write an editorial explaining to their communities why the genocide in Sudan’s western region of Darfur matters today. Students can enter their published editorials…
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Defining educational success
Barbara Miner’s article “Teacher Quality: Transforming Teacher Education” in the current issue of Rethinking Schools tells the compelling tale of UCLA’s College of Education seeking to better promote social justice and better prepare pre-service and in-service teachers to serve students in low-SES schools. Center X sounds like an outstanding program, particularly because of its success…
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Clipboard to Flickr
Clipr is a windows-only free application that permits users to directly upload the image content of their computer’s clipboard to Flickr. Anyone know of a Macintosh-compatible program that will do this?
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WMV in QuickTime
Flip4Mac WMV is a free program that lets you play Windows Media video files inside QuickTime player on a Macintosh. Very cool. If you want to import and edit WMV files with QuickTime, a variety of upgrade options are available, including the ability to export WMV files from QuickTime. 20% educational discounts are available. Thanks…
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Knights Templar
Got lucky yesterday, but shows like these are EXACTLY the reason I want to have a DVR/mythTV box in our home at some point in the not-too-distant future. I was enthralled to watch two History Channel programs last night relating to themes and movies I have watched recently, including Kingdom of Heaven and National Treasure.…