Category: digitalstorytelling
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Digital Storytelling and Writing with the Story Arc and Freytag’s pyramid
Many good stories, whether we read them in books, hear other people tell them, or watch them in movies use the “story arc” or “dramatic structure.” This is a photo I snapped last week in Holland, Michigan, of a story arc drawing a teacher was using. Freytag’s pyramid is a five part model also referred…
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Video reflection from North Texas
Today I had an opportunity to spend the morning with Dr. Gerald Knezek visiting with educators in Irving ISD. There are lots of things to share which I’m thinking about now as a result of our conversations, but since I don’t have time to write them in a post at present I recorded a twelve…
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Ideas for a Flip Camera Video Scavenger Hunt
The department at the University of North Texas for which I’m teaching this semester (The Department of Learning Technologies, within the College of Information) has a new resource for faculty / instructors to checkout for student use: A set of 24 Flip video camcorders! Specifically, we have 8 GB Flip Ultra HD cameras. I’ve checked…
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Homegrown YouTube Clone Websites in Schools
Shanghai American School, a large international school in China, utilizes Social Media by MediaScripts.com for their own, in-house YouTube clone website for video sharing. Their site (portal.saschina.org/video/) not only supports video uploading, transcoding to Flash and playback, but also embedding and commenting just like other video sharing sites like YouTube, Vimeo, Blip, DotSub, SchoolTube, TeacherTube,…
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Powerful and Free Tools from the Cloud by Rushton Hurley
These are my notes from Rushton Hurley‘s afternoon featured session on “Powerful and Free Tools from the Cloud” at the “Teaching and Learning in the Cloud Conference” in Holland, Michigan on 21 Oct 2010. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. All session resources are on Rushton’s Google Site. Rushton is @rushtonh on Twitter and the…
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Do the Mash: Mixing Tools to Create a Custom Cloud-Based Learning Tool
These are my notes from Stephen Best‘s presentation, “Do the Mash: Mixing Tools to Create a Custom Cloud-Based Learning Tool” at the “Teaching and Learning in the Cloud Conference” in Holland, Michigan on 21 Oct 2010. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. All of Stephen’s resources are listed on his conference session page. THIS IS…
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Learning about AudioBoo from a 1st Grader at College
Today I had the wonderful privilege of providing my seven year old daughter with her first experience attending a college class at The University of North Texas. Perhaps even more exciting than attending and teaching in class together were the experiences of riding the shuttle bus to and from main campus, seeing all the students…
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Mobile Phone Photo Editing Fun #edapp
Each October our family has a tradition of spending time at Oklahoma City’s Frontier City and “Fright Night.” This time of roller coaster rides and Halloween fun took place this past Saturday, but unlike past years I was armed with several new photo applications on my iPhone 3GS. This provided plenty of amusement as we…
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From TEDxRedmond: Zoe Sprankle on Impact, Effect & Purpose
Last month on September 18th, the first student-organized TEDx event took place in Redmond, Washington. Some of the student presentations are now available on the TEDxRedmond website, under the “live” tab. These include the following nine minute presentation and song by Zoe Sprankle, who is the daughter of noted Maine educator Bob Sprankle. The title…
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Touring Australia at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo
Last month I had an opportunity to visit Shanghai, China for the Learning 2.010 conference. I was able to stay a couple of extra days and attend the 2010 World Expo, and over those days spent 16 hours visiting the “pavilions” of ten different countries and the United Nations. I’ve wanted to share some photos,…