Category: digitalstorytelling
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Good Learning Theory Articulated
Kathy Sierra, author of the Creating Passionate Users blog, hit a home run in my book with her post “Crash course in learning theory” from January 3, 2006. From her textual and graphic explication of constructivist learning theory to her encouragement for teachers and students to embrace digital storytelling, her insights are on target. Most…
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Podcast30: The Case for Digital Storytelling
As human beings, we are hardwired for storytelling. The motto of the Center for Digital Storytelling (www.storycenter.org) is “Listen deeply. Tell stories.” Unfortunately, students and teachers in schools today often feel too time-stressed to engage in digital storytelling. Yet these projects can provide ideal opportunities for students to acquire and demonstrate the literacy skills required…
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Why Digital Storytelling?
I have completed a multimedia presentation on “The Case for Digital Storytelling” I will be sharing tomorrow with K-12 teachers in Miami, Texas, in a workshop with the same title. If there is a classroom activity more engaging, intrinsically as well as instrumentally valuable, and fun as digital storytelling I have not found it yet!…
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Everyone can serve
Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Day where I live in West Texas. Visit the official website of the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia to hear a rousing audio clip of Dr. King preaching about what it takes to be great, to lead, to be recognized, and to SERVE: a heart full of grace and a…
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History of Digital Storytelling
Want to watch and listen to some amazingly compelling digital stories? Check out the videos on “A History of Digital Storytelling Through Story” from the Center for Digital Storytelling. Wow. The center’s motto is LISTEN DEEPLY. TELL STORIES. Watching only one or two of the videos on their “history” page will convince you of their…
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Classroom podcasting benefits
Several weeks ago I put into words many of the ideas I had read, listened to, and thought about relating to the benefits of classroom podcasting in the article “Classroom Audio Podcasting.” Today I listened to David Warlick’s 1.5 hour podcast presentation from PodcasterCon2006, and several things struck me as major benefits or aspects of…
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Multimedia project kits
KitZu is a website idea created by Hall Davidson which contains “a collection of free, educational, copyright-friendly media resources.” According to the website: A digital kit is meant to provide students with the building blocks necessary to build video and multimedia projects that tell a story and demonstrate learning. A kit can be made up…
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iChatCast?
In preparation for a skype and blog inspired skypeconference that will hopefully take place later this week (and be subsequently published as a podcast/skypecast) involving educators in Texas, Canada, and Scotland, I have done some brief Skype audio-conference test calls this week. The connection was fine for the 2 users connecting with the Skype application,…
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Envisioning the Crusades
Over the recent holidays I watched the movie “Kingdom of Heaven,” an epic film from 2005 by Director Ridley Scott. This evening we watched the bonus features in DVD 2 of the film. With a cast including Liam Neeson, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, and Orlando Bloom, the film could hardly fail to be…
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Global Voices
The motto of Harvard University’s Global Voices project is, “The world is talking. Are you listening?” Another question projects like this should prompt educators to ask is, “Are you inviting your students to participate in this global dialog?” If not, we should be. Stephanie Rieger has a link to Global Voices on her blog that…