Category: digitalstorytelling
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New Video Editing Options with YouTube’s Browser-based Editor and Magisto
Cross-posted to the “Playing with Media” blog. The increasing availability of flash-based video recorders, or camcorders, continues to fuel the explosive growth of online video. “No edit” and “quick edit” videography has many advantages, but editing is still important at times and can be necessary in many cases. Fortunately, available tools continue to grow in…
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Join in a free eTechOhio Webinar Tues Sept 20th on #playingwithmedia
You’re hereby invited to join in a free webinar on Tuesday, September 20th at 11 am Eastern / 10 am Central / 9 am Mountain / 8 am Pacific hosted by eTechOhio in Elluminate Live / Blackboard Collaborate. This is the direct link to join the session using your web browser. (The link will be…
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Share “timed” comments on Audio Recordings with SoundCloud
Cross-posted from the “Playing with Media” blog. Soundcloud is an excellent website and smart phone application offering the ability to not only record and share “no edit” audio recordings (similar to AudioBoo, Cinch, and iPadio) but also add “timed” comments. A timed comment is linked to a specific minute and second mark in a sound…
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Visual Literacy, Talking with Images and Curiosity Amplifiers
About a month ago after completing her Masters program in Educational Practice, Canadian educator E Gregory wrote a powerful reflection on what she’d learned a result of her graduate studies. Among her thoughts were the following sentences, reflecting on the importance of visual literacy and communication skills with images: I learned that, in my humble…
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Boatlift: More Rescued by Sea after 9-11 than at Dunkirk [video]
In the course of your studies or the studies of your students on World War II, is the Dunkirk evacuation part of your curriculum? That was an amazing and inspirational rescue by sea, but did you know even more people were rescued by boat from Manhattan Island in New York City after the 9-11 terrorist…
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Sounds of My World – My new sound blog
Inspired by the Posterous-powered blog, “Life Sounds Like This,” by Australian Chinese-language educator Jess McCulloch, I’ve created a new blog: “Sounds of My World.” I’m using WordPress on a subdomain (sounds.speedofcreativity.org) of my main blog, and the free Blubrry PowerPress Podcasting plugin. I love the idea of having a “sound blog” for sharing ambient recordings…
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Documenting Adventures in Shanghai on an iPhone [video]
On September 11, 2011, I explored some new areas in Shanghai, China, with Gail Lovely, Jarrod Robinson, Jess McCulloch, Bruce and Anne Mirtschin. We had a wonderful day of adventures. On my fifteen hour flight from Shanghai to Atlanta today, I recorded several narrated slideshows on my iPhone using the SonicPics application. I used my…
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Using Film in Any Class
These are my notes from Erick Pessoa‘s presentation, “Using Film in Any Class” at the Learning 2.011 Conference in Shanghai, China, on September 9, 2011. Erick teaches IB Film and Digital Photography at Shanghai Community International School. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I ARRIVED A BIT LATE TO THIS SESSION UNFORTUNATELY –…
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The Best Conference I Ever Attended…
This short video, “The Best Conference I Ever Attended…” was shot and edited in 15 minutes on an iPad2 at the Learning 2.011 Conference in Shanghai, China, on September 8, 2011. Inspired the the satirical model of Marco Torres‘ “Teacher Movie,” we tried to highlight some of the things which need to change about professional…