Category: digitalstorytelling
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Morning with Marc Prensky
I spent some time recently driving to and from work with Marc Prensky, hearing him share some great insights about engaging digital natives in our classrooms and the value of games in helping students develop and refine problem solving skills. I actually did this by listening to podcasts of Marc’s keynote address from the Christa…
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Web 2.0 Digital Storyelling
The Primary Access project and website from the University of Virginia is a great example of many things, including: The power of the web to serve as a platform for digital storytelling, both in authoring original and communicating finished digital stories. A creative way to empower digital storytellers but also conform to existing copyright restrictions.…
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Angus King on 1:1 at NCETC
Many thanks to David Warlick for podcasting Angus King’s keynote speech from the recent North Carolina Educational Technology conference. (David posted it in three parts.) The content in this speech by Governor King at NCETC was similar to his comments for SEED in Maine on April 26, 2005, which was posted as a podcast by…
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Inaccessible School of the Future Video
Can someone please hike over to Redmond and provide a concise but blunt lesson on WEB ACCESSIBILITY to the computer industry gurus of yesteryear who still live and work there?! I am mildly glad to see Microsoft sponsoring an educational summit this month on the issue of school reform and designing “schools of the future.”…
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Hadron and PhotoPresenter
Hadron is a free shareware game similar to Pac Man for Macintosh computers that is simple and fun. One of the best features of Hadron is that it includes a levels editor, so you can create your own version of the game level by level. This provides a fantastic problem solving and video game development…
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Digital Storytelling with Squirrels
The Nike Squirrel Maureen ad (direct link to the QuickTime Movie file) is a great example of compelling digital storytelling. The approach is creative and novel, and both the narration, music, and camera shots really get you empathizing with this squirrel. I would have prefered a “go for your dreams” or “help kids realize their…
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PhotoStory 3 Tutorial
David Jakes has created and shared an 11 page tutorial on using the Windows-based program PhotoStory 3 (PDF format) that is worth checking out. David also has started a new blog specifically focused on digital storytelling, called “The Competitive Voice.” He attended a workshop last summer at the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley. I…
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Ken Burns’ Civil War
Last night I watched the first part of Ken Burns’ Civil War documentary series produced for PBS. Wow. I agree with the historian in the film who says it is impossible to understand the history and the culture of the United States without a deep understanding of the US Civil War. It defined us in…
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Killeen ISD Digital Film Festival
Shirley Boyd, an Instructional Technology Consultant for Killeen ISD in Texas, emailed me the URL this week for their district’s 2005 digital storytelling film festival. The K-2 category winning film, “The Lion and the Mouse,” is great. It actually could be published as an enhanced podcast too, since they primarily use still images of stick…
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Footfalls Toward Home
Inspired by what I have read so far in Daniel Pink’s “A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age,” and fairly exhausted from two very long and full days of technology integration workshops and sessions, I have spent some idle time in the Austin airport with Garageband making some music.…