Category: digitalstorytelling
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Introduction to Digital Storytelling by Alec Couros
These are my notes from Alec Couros‘s breakout session, “Introduction to Digital Storytelling,” on March 6, 2012, at the Heartland eLearning Conference at the University of Central Oklahoma. Alec blogs on “educationaltechnology.ca/couros.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The official conference description of Alec’s presentation was: Story telling is one of the most…
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Green Screen Photo Effects On The Cheap
This evening my 6th grade daughter asked for some help creating a photograph she needed for a printed program she’s making for drama class. In this post, I’ll explain how we used Keynote ’09 and Seashore software (Seashore is free/open source) to create a “green screen” effect that made it look like her sister was…
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Digital Storytelling by Anne Daugherty
These are my notes from Anne Daugherty‘s presentation “Digital Storytelling” at the Enhancing Teaching & Learning Conference (ETL) on March 3, 2012, hosted by the Kansas City Professional Development Council. Anne teaches at Baker University. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The official session description of this was: Digital storytelling affords ordinary people…
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Normalize Audio Recordings Before Publishing a Podcast
In this 11 minute screencast, I demonstrate how to use free software tools including Audacity, The Levellator, and Switch to “normalize” an audio recording before publishing it as a podcast. The process of normalization makes the volume levels in a recording more even, so the listening experience is better for podcast subscribers. The Levellator only…
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Moveable Feast Offers Tools for Multimedia, Mobile Walking Tours
(cross-posted to Storychasers.org) The free iOS app Moveable and its complementary web tool by Moveable Feast (currently invite-only) allow anyone to create and share “multimedia narratives.” These can be walking tours of a historic area in your community, for example, including text, images, and videos all connected to GPS coordinates and a “virtual trail” people…
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Narrate a SlideShow with ShowMe [video tutorial]
(Cross-posted to ipadwithwes.com) ShowMe is a free application for iPad which permits anyone to create narrated slideshow videos which can include telestrator (“John Madden”) style annotations. The following 7 minute video tutorial highlights the steps to follow to create a narrated slideshow with the ShowMe iPad app, using a photo gallery in Picasa (free from…
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We’ve Only Just Begun (to share our voices with media in Yukon Schools)
On February 15, 2012, the Yukon Review newspaper shared the following photograph and article about my work this semester as an “innovative instructional coach” for Yukon Public Schools in Oklahoma. I am focused primarily on helping a group of fifteen teachers integrate multimedia into their curriculum as required by the new Common Core State Standards.…
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Student Storychasers Begin Work at Skyview Elementary in Yukon, Oklahoma
(cross-posted to Storychasers.org) On February 15, 2012, the Yukon Review newspaper shared the following photograph and caption about the first student Storychasers group starting at Skyview Elementary School in Yukon, Oklahoma. 3rd grade students are working with their principal, Carla Smith, to write articles about school news and record their articles as a “radio show.”…