Category: digitalstorytelling
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Sara Armstrong on Digital Storytelling
Sara Armstrong of the Thornburg Center shared a presentation at the T+L2 conference in Denver in October 2005 entitled, “Digital Storytelling: Demonstrating Deep Understanding.” In his blog post about the preso, Jim Dornberg noted that Sara emphasized the following 21st century literacy skills addressed by school (and out of school) assignments involving digital storytelling: cultural…
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More classroom podcasts
Shaun Else has created an outstanding intro page to podcasting for teachers and students. He includes links to several classroom podcasts I had not heard of yet: Room 613 Talk: Class Weblog and Podcasts for Mr. Hetherington’s 6th Grade Social Studies Class in Connecticut, USA Radio Sandaig Otters: 6th Grade Podcasters from Glasgow, Scotland The…
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Top 10 NG Photos
The top 10 photos of 2005 from National Geographic are compelling. My personal favorite is the first-ever image of a live giant squid. For anyone who read “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” by Jules Verne growing up, these may seem like a nightmare come true. This National Geographic article from September gives more details about…
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Riya and Photo Face Recognition
Whoa, this is quite an exciting development. Still in invitation-only alpha testing phase, Riya is a photo search website with technology permitting users to search faces for similar photographs. This is 21st century technology for sure. Thanks to Ewan Mcintosh for alerting me to this.
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DigiTales and StoryMaking Steps
Bernajean’s Porter’s DigiTales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories is a great resource website for both novice and experienced digital storytellers, and especially good for educators (like me) wanting to help students learn how to more effectively tell digital stories. I love the anonymous quotation on the front page: Digital storytelling begins with the notion…
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YouTube and Technological Anarchy
A new website, YouTube, is now serving millions of Internet videos online every day to a global audience. A Google News search will provide more current articles on YouTube and the discussion it is raising as will a Technorati search for the same term. The marketing slogan of YouTube is: Broadcast yourself. Watch and share…
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Classroom Audio Podcasting
I have finished writing a new article for the TechEdge this evening/morning entitled, “Classroom Audio Podcasting.” I have had to write another article from scratch since TCEA refused to publish a 2nd article I wrote this fall, this time concerning digital curriculum and bandwidth. Admittedly the piece was politically strident, but I am still very…
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Great digital storytelling example and assignment
Thanks to a blog post from Lawrence Lessig I discovered this delightful, short digital story by Jonathan Coulton composed entirely with Flickr Creative Commons images. This will make an excellent assignment for the updated version of my Advanced Multimedia and Video spring course. Since students are only given the option of using Windows XP in…
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Presentation Simplicity
In his blog post “Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic,” Garr Reynolds highlights differences between the presentation styles of technology gurus Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Reynolds includes the following quotation to support his ideal of simplicity in presentation style from Dr. Koichi Kawana: Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. In…
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Lessig Method presentation
Lawrence Lessig is a favorite writer of mine, his blog is exemplary and his book “The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World” should be required reading for every teacher with students in 3rd grade and above. The Presentation Zen blog post, “The Lessig Method” of presentation reveals that Lessig…