Category: digitalstorytelling
-
Register for #iste11 BYOL: Simple Ideas for Powerful Sharing
Registration is OPEN for my free ISTE 2011 BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) session, Simple Ideas for Powerful Sharing. The short description is, “Let’s explore a variety of free, simple ways to share text and rich media (audio, photos, video, and geomaps) with a global audience.” This free session will be offered at the Pennsylvania…
-
Lessons Learned from Finger Puppet Theater on Vimeo
This past weekend for the 5th grade Sunday school class I co-teach, I helped students create short (approximately 60 second) finger puppet skits which we videoed and posted online to our class blog. I’ve done this kind of project from time to time the past three years I’ve taught this class, and in this post…
-
Podcast372: Sharing the Power of Digital Storytelling in Hangzhou, China with Joe Lambert and Wesley Fryer
This is a podcast recording of a presentation by Joe Lambert and Wesley Fryer on digital storytelling at the 21st Century Learning Conference in Hongzhou, China on November 2, 2009. Our English presentations were translated as we spoke into Mandarin Chinese. Joe Lambert is the executive director of the Center for Digital Storytelling, based in…
-
Open Registration for Storychaser Spring 2011 Workshops in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas
Storychasers is pleased to announce registration is now open for Storychaser “phase 1” workshops this spring for Celebrate Oklahoma Voices, Celebrate Kansas Voices and Celebrate Texas Voices. We are offering our workshops on a 2 day or 2.5 day model this year, depending on the preference of the hosting organization. Workshops now open for registration…
-
Heartland eLearning Conference with Michael Wesch: 7-8 March 2011 in Edmond, OK #HeartlandConf11
Make plans to attend the 2011 Heartland eLearning Conference March 7-8, 2011, in Edmond, Oklahoma at UCO. Today is the last day for discounted pre-registration. The keynote speaker on March 8th is Dr. Michael Wesch of Kansas State University, and I can’t tell you how enthused I am to hear him present in person! Up…
-
Manipulated FoxNews Video Shows Why eBooks are the WRONG Choice for K-12 1:1 Environments
The February 13th video from FoxNews, “Florida School Replaces Textbooks” provides a graphic illustration of why eBooks are the WRONG choice for K-12 learning environments. The 91 second news video also shows how reporters can knowingly manipulate media content to mislead the public and encourage false conclusions about “new eBook reader technologies.” A Kindle ain’t…
-
Podcast371: Cartooning Around in Language Arts by Malia Triggs
This is a podcast recording of Malia Triggs’ presentation “Cartooning Around in Language Arts” at the 2011 Mississippi Educational Computing Association annual conference in Jackson on February 8th. Malia is a 5th and 6th grade teacher in Forrest County School District. She discussed how elementary language arts teachers can use the website “Go Animate” with…
-
Options for Recording Stories on the iPad: Story Patch with Story Robe, Sonic Pics, & Story Kit
Today was yet another snow day for Oklahoma students in Edmond Public Schools. This provided a great opportunity for some “home school learning.” After reading about the $5 iPad application Story Patch yesterday, I purchased the program this morning and enlisted the help of my seven year old daughter to explore it as well as…
-
Create iPad Stories with StoryPatch
StoryPatch is a $5 iPad application designed to help students create stories. It looks very similar to StoryKit, which is a free iOS app from the International Children’s Digital Library. Instead of simply letting users add their own photos with text and audio, however, StoryPatch appears to be loaded with different icons and digital objects…
-
Podcast370: Cool Tools for the Classroom by Dr Carl Owens
This is a podcast recording of Dr. Carl Owens’ presentation, “Cool Tools for the Classroom,” at the 2011 Mississippi Educational Computing Association annual conference in Jackson on February 8th. Carl is a Professor and the Director of Technology at the College of Education, Tennessee Technological University. The official description of Carl’s session was: The session…