Category: digitalstorytelling
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Videoblogging for iPods
If you are interested in some initial reports about the new functionality in QuickTime Pro 7.0.3 that allows an export for iPod video, you might check out this post by Alan Fraser. Also, and maybe even more informative, check out Apple’s online tutorial for creating video podcasts with QuickTime Pro. Does the pace of all…
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Podcasting as Disruptive Transmediation
Thanks to the thoughtful feedback of a few other educators, I made several changes and edits to my presentation for tomorrow, “Podcasting as Disruptive Transmediation.” More images, and the theme of “literacy quest” were the main additions. Technorati Tags: tecsigfall2005 | podcasting | disruptive technology Technorati Tags: disruptive technology, podcasting, tecsigfall2005
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Digital Kids Club
Adobe’s Digital Kids Club is loaded with resources for digital storytellers. The site includes intro movies about digital photography and digital videography, digital media tips, lessons and activities, tutorials, and more! Free online classes are also available for educators, after registering with Adobe.
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Podcast11: Storytelling and Cognitive Neuroscience
This podcast features a skypecast interview with Dr. Bill Casebeer on the topic of Storytelling and Cognitive Neuroscience. Bill is a remarkable scholar and scientific researcher, engaged in work that has broad applicability in the fields of education, psychology, medicine, ethics, philosophy, and defense policy.
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Great history resource suggestions from Tom Hale
Many thanks to Tom McHale in Flemington, New Jersey for his comment on my Veteran Oral History podcast and blog post this week! Tom’s team teaching approach combining Social Studies and English reminds me of one of my favorite classes from high school: the “combo class” taught by Mickey Bogart and Carol Adams at Manhattan…
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Veteran Oral History Interviews and the TTU Vietnam Center
We need students to be engaged in “History That Matters:” Educational activities that truly engage students in ways simply reading a textbook and writing an essay cannot. We also need to engage students in the process of CREATING multimedia, not just merely consuming it. Having access to a robust variety of “voices from history” like…
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ccPublisher
Creative Commons Publisher (ccPublisher) is a free software application running on Windows and Mac OS X (Linux version coming) that allows anyone to upload media content to the Internet Archive, along with meta data including a Creative Commons license selected by the publisher. The software tool (ccPublisher) is free, the Internet web hosting is free,…
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Webzine 2005
Amazing sounding conference, just based on the blog links of many of the speakers listed on the conference homepage. Wish I could have attended.
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Hotel Rwanda
Every human being on the planet over age 15 needs to see “Hotel Rwanda.” That is a strong statement and a strong opinion, but the facts of the film and the situation it describes justifies this imperative. Digital storytelling is a powerful medium. Watching a film is not as powerful as actually “being there” and…
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Increased iDisk Storage
I was thrilled this morning to read an email that my iDisk storage capacity has been increased to 1 gigabyte. By logging into .Mac and clicking on my account settings, I was able to reallocate the 1 gigabyte of storage capacity between my .Mac email (which I just forward to another account but don’t actually…