Category: digitalstorytelling
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iOS Movie App Recommendations from Tim Tyson #edapp
In his September post, “The New iPod Touch: Excellent School Choice,” Dr. Tim Tyson recommends several video applications for the iPod Touch (and iPhone / iPad) which I have not tried yet. These include: MovieSlate ($20) – “MovieSlate a convenient, all-in-one digital slate, clapper board, shot log, and shot notepad— designed for use in film,…
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PhotoShop, Art, and Ning Collaboration with Students in Maine and China
In this 5 min, 23 sec video, Abbie (a high school student in Yarmouth, Maine) explains how students in her class are using cameras, PhotoShop, and a Ning website to engage in a collaborative project with a partner classroom in China. Melissa Noack is the Yarmouth art teacher who designed and is facilitating this project…
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Milk Carton Recycling and Composting in Maine
As a third grade student in Maine, Sophie Towle became motivated to do something about our environment and recycling. As a result of her work with others in her community of South Berwick, the school district now recycles milk cartons and other organizations have taken notice. Sophie presented recently at a school cafeteria conference in…
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VoiceThread Image Attribution
VoiceThread provides a great way for students to provide “clickable” links to the websites where they originally found images used in their interactive digital stories. When editing an image in VoiceThread, click below the image in the thumbnail in the left column of the screen to add a title and link: Then add the desired…
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Take care of your laptop! (TPI: ThinkPad Investigation)
Do students at your school take care of their laptops, or the laptops they are able to use on carts kept at school? Lenovo sponsored the following ten minute CSI-spoof video to help students understand the critical need to take care of laptops, especially Thinkpad laptops featured in this video. This video was created by…
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Going Mobile with Digital Storytelling
The past few weeks I’ve been working with 5th grade students at our church to create digital stories which connect to our lesson themes. I have done this with students in the past, but this is the first time I’ve done a digital storytelling activity with students exclusively using mobile devices. It has been transformational…
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Mobile Digital Storytelling with StoryKit, Storyrobe, and SonicPics #edapp
Mobile digital storytelling is easier than ever thanks to applications like StoryKit, Storyrobe, and SonicPics on iOS devices. (iOS devices include iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads.) In the following five minute screencast, I provide an overview of these three applications, how they work, and some of their differences as well as relative advantages. This screencast…
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English learners in the digital age: natives, immigrants or outsiders #collab21
These are my notes from Ruslana Westerlund‘s keynote presentation “English learners in the digital age: natives, immigrants or outsiders” at the “Co-teaching and Collaboration Conference” in St Paul, Minnesota on 12 Nov 2010, at the School Community of Excellence. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Ruslana’s website: http://ellbillofrights.com Facebook: Educators of English Learners…
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I’m a teacher, and I have the best job in the WORLD #EdCampKC
This terrific, 4.5 minute video was taken on Saturday, November 6th at the EdCampKC conference in Lee Summit, Missouri, by Jon Orech. Teachers were asked to respond to the simple question, Why do you have the best job in the world? This is a great example of storychasing! Check out some of the archived sessions…