Category: digitalstorytelling
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Why blog when you can Glog?
These are my notes from an unconference session on Glogster in the classroom at the “Co-teaching and Collaboration Conference” in St Paul, Minnesota on 11 Nov 2010, at the School Community of Excellence. This session was facilitated by Angie Wrobleski. Glogster is an internet website where you can make a poster, add text, audio, videos,…
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Video Tributes to Oklahoma and Kansas Military Veterans
Happy Veterans Day, to all our military veterans from all branches of service! This year on Veterans Day, I encourage you to take a few minutes and watch some of the tribute videos which have been created in the past few months by students and teachers in Oklahoma and Kansas, participating in Celebrate Oklahoma Voices…
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A sad (but true) video commentary on higher education publishing
I’ve spent almost the entire day writing on my dissertation. Although the final results of this labor are months away from completion, my Friendfeed channel reveals many digital breadcrumbs from my research today. To take a short break this evening, I watched the 4.5 minute video Valerie Strauss shared in her Washington Post “Answer Sheet”…
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iPhoto ’11 First Impressions
I had an opportunity tonight to use iPhoto ’11 for the first time, and I’m generally pleased with the software improvements. One of the things I’m happiest to see is better uploading integration with and publishing options to Flickr. After selecting a photo or group of photos in iPhoto ’11, choose SHARE – FLICKR in…
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UNT Socialists Protest Upcoming Speech by former President Bush
As a Storychaser interested in amplifying voices not often heard in the mainstream media, I couldn’t resist an opportunity to interview UNT student Will Clark last week about the reasons he opposes his university paying $100,000 to former President George W Bush for a speech to students later in the month. Will also explained some…
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Ning Flash Videos now iOS Compatible with Skyfire Browser
Using the new Skyfire application for iOS devices (iPhone / iPod Touch and iPad) videos encoded to Flash format on Ning websites can be dynamically converted to HTML5 for viewing on an Apple mobile device. The app is available for $3.99 US. When viewing webpages in the Skyfire browser, users can select whether the desktop…
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Oklahoma Students Discuss Creativity, Art, Computers, Legos, and School Improvement #CWF2010
The 2010 Creativity World Forum is coming to Oklahoma City in two weeks. In advance of the event, Creative Oklahoma is sponsoring a Creativity Contest for Students, who are challenged to: … show us your creative ideas for improving communities, schools and businesses so that Oklahoma remains a creative frontier. We invite all forms of…
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Vote for Our Class Flip Video Scavenger Hunt Entries!
Last Wednesday and yesterday, undergraduate UNT students in my “Computers in the Classroom” course participated in a video scavenger hunt using Flip cameras. Each team was asked to embed their three favorite videos on a blog post. Please take fifteen minutes today to watch these short clips, and rate each team using the rating stars…
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AudioBoo provides a great opportunity to record and share holiday memories
You can’t put a pricetag on the value of your own child’s voice, sharing an exciting moment or explaining something in their own words. We publish a lot of things over on “Learning Signs,” our family learning blog, but one of the most important things we do is record and share our voices. Two weeks…
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Watch full length PBS documentaries on your iPad
I love documentary films, PBS, and my iPad. Small surprise that I love the new, free PBS iPad app which was released October 25th. Among many other things, users can now watch full length documentaries via the app like the five part “We Shall Remain” series. It’s a great day to be a learner. –…