Category: digitalstorytelling
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Marco Torres Multimedia Project resources
Marco Torres, one of the most dynamic and creative teachers you’ll ever meet– who is amazingly passionate about helping kids learn and innovate, was a presenter today at the Horseshoe Bay Leadership Institute. To get a small taste of Marco’s passion, check out the article and video clips Edutopia has put online about him, his…
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PhotoStory 3 for Windows
PhotoStory 3 looks like a superb, free tool for aspiring digital storytellers using Windows XP. I saw David Jakes demo this today at TechForum, and it is really super. The next time I teach digital media and graphics in a Windows lab I will definitely be using it, along with Moviemaker 2 (also free.) It…
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Ikea lamp advertisement
In today’s TechForum presentation on digital storytelling, David Jakes shared a wonderful example from Ikea. This “lamp advertisement” (linked from Duncan’s TV Ad Land blog) is precious and funny. Note the techniques: setting the scene, how the lamp is carried like a baby, the sound of the cold wind as it is taken to the…
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Digital Storytelling, Visual Literacy and 21st Century Learning
Digital Storytelling, Visual Literacy and 21st Century Learning by David Jakes and Joe Brennan http://www.jakesonline.org/ David’s resources on digital storytelling, including LOTS of examples! (FANTASTIC RESOURCES HERE) David is the Instructional Technology Coordinator for Community High School District 99, in Downers Grove, IL djakes@csd99.org Joe is the “Visual Literacy Facilitator” (AV guy in 2 buildings)…
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Thinking Big as the World is Small
Technology and Learning TechForum: Breakthroughs and Best Practices for Technology Leaders Welcome and Opening Keynote: “Thinking Big as the World is Small” by Hall Davidson The cameras in their cell phones make them citizen journalists. The web is their personal library and media center. They communicate in real time with the ends of the earth.…
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Storytelling with YackPack, Persuasive Technologies
I just learned about YackPack thanks to an email from BJ Fogg at Stanford, who found my eLearn2005 presentation about podcasting online. Yakpack is a really innovative web 2.0 free service that lets people stay in touch with their own “circles” of friends via recorded audio messages. Like podcasting, yakpack lets people use the power…
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Stories from Steve Jobs
I just finished listening to the 15 minute commencement address Steve Jobs gave at Stanford University in May 2005, downloadable for free from Stanford on iTunes. Wow. Podcasting really is “infomation” rather than “automation,” to use the parlance of Alan November. It allows us to do things with technology that we simply couldn’t do otherwise.…
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More from Jonathan Levy
Bonus session, demos from Jonathan on actual next-generation eLearning resources for CISCO eLearn2005 presentation Key idea for design: present as little information as possible, and then let the learner decide what else they need and want think of blended learning from being much-changed definition of today – not just some F2F, some online – this…
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Surviving Dachau, Liberating Mauthausen
I spent most of the day today with Mrs. Eva Hance and Mr. Mark Geeslin, who gave morning and afternoon presentations at the Texas Tech International Cultural Center on the topic, “Surviving Dachau, Liberating Mauthausen.” This is education that matters. Please take the time to listen to the podcast of their presentation, which is just…
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Vlogging and free journalism
“Report It Now” is a grassroots video blogging (vblogging) initiative that again, offers a glimmer of how disruptive and exciting social technologies like RSS are and can be. Just think where we will be when thousands of students across the globe are armed with laptops and PC cameras, and are invited to be local news…