Category: digitalstorytelling
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Great Historical, Interpretive Remix Videos
Is your school or school district still blocking access to YouTube (even for teachers) and ignoring the ethical need to promote balanced content filtering? Perhaps some of these videos, available on the “History for Music Lovers” YouTube channel, can help you “change hearts and minds” of your administration to understand the constructive value of digital…
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Finger Puppet Videography with the iPad2: Lessons Learned
Today in our fifth grade Sunday school class, we used my iPad2 to shoot short finger puppet videos. Two students edited the six episodes into a single, three minute video using iMovie for iPad after class. That editing process took about ten minutes. I directly uploaded the edited video to Vimeo from iMovie for iPad,…
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Podcast375: Technology Leadership Advice for 60 New Oklahoma Superintendents
This podcast is a recording of Wesley Fryer’s presentation on April 6, 2011, for sixty new Oklahoma superintendents discussing technology leadership, blended learning, and ideas for successfully leading both teachers and students in our twenty-first century classrooms. Superintendents in the audience for this presentation were attending the tenth meeting of their first year superintendents academy,…
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Spoken Word Poetry, Project V.O.I.C.E. and Sarah Kay at #tedxokc
Today at the TEDxOKC conference, I had an opportunity to briefly meet our amazing MC for the day, Sarah Kay. She’s staying through Monday, and my top culinary recommendation to her was to go eat at Big Truck Tacos while she’s in the city! This is a photo of Tammy Parks (an amazing broadcast journalism…
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Kids are the real customers in schools: We need to LISTEN to them!
I love what Peter Senge observed about schools, innovation, and student voices in a 2001 interview with Dennis Sparks. Peter observed what some educators and parents know, but MANY either ignore or simply haven’t considered: Students are smart, creative, and filled with good ideas for improving schools. It’s important for adults to not only make…
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Spots available for April 2011 Storychasers Workshops
Spots are still available for teachers, librarians, and other educators to register for Storychaser workshops in April 2011. These opportunities include: A “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” digital storytelling and oral history workshop April 7-8 in Midwest City, Oklahoma, to be held in MidDel Public Schools A “Celebrate Texas Voices” digital storytelling and oral history workshop April…
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Shifting from Writing to Videography
Andrew B. Watt here… Over the last few months, I’ve made a shift in my online footprint, from being a blogger to a video-maker. It started as a foray into video work but it’s become a part of my classroom process, homework review process, and online activity. Wes asked me to write a bit about how…
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Volunteer Your Site to Host a Summer 2011 Storychasers’ Workshop
Are you interested in providing an outstanding, two or 2.5 day opportunity for educators in your area to learn about digital storytelling and oral history? If so, please consider “volunteering your site” to host a summer 2011 Storychasers’ workshop! We are providing workshops in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas in 2011 to support the Celebrate Oklahoma…
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Descending into the clouds at sunset (video)
On March 9th, I posted some photos of an amazing sunset over a beautiful cloud deck over Memphis, Tennessee, in the post, “Sunset over a sea of clouds.” Today I shared (on Flickr) a 44 second video of our plane descending just below the cloud layer from that same evening. It’s easy, as a regular…
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Catherine Orenstein on the Power and Importance of Female Storytellers
Catherine Orenstein is the author of “Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale.” She was interviewed along with movie director Catherine Hardwicke (“Red Riding Hood,” “Twilight”) in the March 2011 issue of Delta Sky Magazine. As a Storychaser as well as an advocate for the sharing of diverse…