Category: digitalstorytelling
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Transparency and Candor
I had the wonderful opportunity this morning at my Friday morning church men’s fellowship meeting to hear Walt Huffman speak to us about his life experiences as a soldier, national leader, and now Dean of the Texas Tech School of Law. Many thoughts ran through my head as I listed to Major General (Retired) Huffman…
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Teacher’s TV
Teacher’s TV (www.teacherstv.org.uk) offers a wide variety of archived and live educational videos about a wide range of topics. Users need to register and login to download videos. Most are short, in the 15 minute range, and excellent for including in classroom lessons. Sessions are archived and dates/times for upcoming programs are provided (in GMT…
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BBC’s “Telling Lives” website
I continue to be enamored with digital storytelling as a method of 21st century communication and discourse. This evening, thanks to a comment left on my blog, I discovered the BBC’s “Telling Lives” website (www.bbc.co.uk/tellinglives). Really engaging stuff. The site features regular people, who have recorded short (all the ones I saw tonight were less…
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Notes on storytelling and improv, great 1st day as an ADE
Some misc notes from day 1 of the institute, best stuff is on storytelling and improv! ADE Institute 2005 From now till tomorrow we are going to do intros and have fun! Empire room is setup with G5s Wireless access in all the meeting rooms 150 black badges tomorrow: ADE alums We are authors, advisors,…
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QuickTime tips
Great session of cool tips by Keith Mitchell of Apple Computer Lots of cool quicktime tips by Keith Mitchell of Apple Computer– not an engineer, just going over practical stuff that he uses day in and day out, compression of video clearpano.com Pangea VR – http://www.pangeasoft.net/pano/plugin/chicnavigatorclickheredesign.com He manages digital content on the Apple Learning Interchange…
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Narnia Teaser Trailer available online!
Last night, the teaser trailer for the upcoming Narnia movie was posted online! “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” will come to the theatrical screen as never before in December 2005. The just-released teaser trailer looks great! As a Disney film and one clearly designed for children, hopefully there won’t be a question of…
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Veteran Oral History Interview with my father
I originally posted this in February 2004 on a blog I have now deleted. I am reposting it here with links. For my TCEA 2004 Presentation entitled “Veteran Wisdom: An Oral History Project with Digital Video” I interviewed my father, Tom Fryer (USAF-Ret) about his experiences in 1966 when he served as an Air Force…
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Major Milestone: Authenticated iMovies Online!
Originally posted to another blog in March 2004, I have moved this posting with its accompanying links here. I have wanted to learn how to do this for some time and finally succeeded today: I setup a configuration for students in our college to post their exported iMovies to our QuickTime streaming server, into a…
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Alexander’s “Back to the Corral” Stop Motion Classic
I originally posted this in February 2004, but I am deleting the blog that I had posted it on, and reposting it here. Stopmotion moviemaking is so much fun! For more fun examples of Stop Motion movies that may prove inspirational, visit this website from Apple’s UK division. What fun it is to create your…
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LOTR ROTK Extended = Nirvana
After viewing the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King extended DVD several times, I continue to amazed and thrilled and Jackson and company’s creative success bringing Tolkien’s world to life visually. As a passionate fan of J.R.R. Tolkien as well as Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth movies, I felt compelled by an unspoken mandate–…