Category: digitalstorytelling
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Nebraska Science Teachers Model “Go Outside” Best Practices with Students
As the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s project, “Go Outside!” exhorts us, we need to get outside and get our students outside in natural environments to learn REAL science as well as develop an environmental ethic as stewards of our world. Nebraska Loves Public Schools, one of my favorite digital storytelling and educational advocacy programs…
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Quick-edit Videography with iMovie for iPad
The following steps are included in the “Video” chapter of the forthcoming EPUB eBook, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing.” This is an example of “quick-edit” videography, which can compliment “no-edit” videography in support of the “ethic of minimal clicks.” This final video, “Learning About NASA Mission Control in Houston,” is available on…
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Dell Inspiron duo Convertible Tablet at the Microsoft Store
This video is a short (2:38) demonstration by Wesley Fryer of the Inspiron duo Convertible Tablet at the Microsoft Store in the Houston Galleria Mall on July 5, 2011. This is an example of “no-edit” videography, as described in my forthcoming EPUB eBook, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing.” Thanks to my son,…
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Humor Can Help End PowerPoint Abuse
Comedian Don McMillian‘s 2008 skit, “Life After Death By PowerPoint” (4 min, 24 sec) is a favorite video of mine to share with pre-service education students learning how to use images effectively in the “Presentation Zen” style of Garr Reynolds. photo © 2007 Gareth Saunders | more info (via: Wylio) Yesterday, thanks to a tweet…
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Voices of #iste11 – A Newly Minted FourSquare Mayor in Philadelphia
Equipped as a storychaser with my iPad2, a $60 iRig mic, and the help of friends (as well as some bystanders) willing to be short-term videographers, I’ve recorded a series of interviews this week here in Philadelphia for the 2011 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. This fourth episode is an impromptu interview…
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Voices of #iste11 – Copyright Advice for Teachers from Kristin Hokansen
Equipped as a storychaser with my iPad2, a $60 iRig mic, and the help of friends (as well as some bystanders) willing to be short-term videographers, I’ve recorded a series of interviews this week here in Philadelphia for the 2011 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. This third episode is an interview with…
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Voices of #iste11 – A Louis and Clark Story About Mercury & Thunderclapper Pills
Equipped as a storychaser with my iPad2, a $60 iRig mic, and the help of friends (as well as some bystanders) willing to be short-term videographers, I’ve recorded a series of interviews this week here in Philadelphia for the 2011 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. In this second episode, Missouri educator Cindy…
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The iTunes Album Which Was Lost Is Found!
In the fall of 2007 I traveled to Muskogee, Oklahoma, to share one of ten seminars around our state about the E-Rate program for my employer at the time, AT&T. While staying at my hotel, I purchased and downloaded Juan Luis Guerra‘s album, “La Llave de me Corazon” directly to my iPhone over local wifi.…
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A Live Action Charlie Chaplin Google Doodle #gct
Back in April 2011, a team at Google created the first “live action Google doodle” to commemorate the birthday of Charlie Chaplain. In a post about the project and Chaplain, Google doodler Ryan Germick wrote: Chaplin is also one of my creative heroes. Despite being an art-obsessed high schooler preemptively bored by anything in black…
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YouTube Now Supports Creative Commons BY Video Licensing #playingwithmedia
Today when I uploaded a new screencast to YouTube, I noticed a new menu option for YouTube video sharers: Creative Commons BY (attribution-only) licensing! This is great news, since it will open the door to more opportunities for legal remixing of YouTube video content and more chances to play with media! If you are not…