Category: digitalstorytelling
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My TeachMeet Tennessee Shares on Digital Storytelling and Balanced Filtering in Schools #tmtn
I had about 16 minutes today at TeachMeet Tennessee to share some ideas, websites and tips related to digital storytelling and balanced content filtering in schools. I uploaded the audio recording of my session to Voisse. My links are below. https://www.speedofcreativity.org/ http://talkwithmedia.wikispaces.com/ Storychasing tools (workshop wiki) http://storychasers.org/ StoryKit (free iOS digital storytelling app) StoryKit example:…
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Why Celebrate Kansas Voices?
In this two minute video, Dr. Cyndi Danner-Kuhn explains her passion for digital storytelling, oral history, and the Celebrate Kansas Voices project. Cyndi is a professor in the College of Education at Kansas State University. This video was created by Jackie Baumgartner, an educator in Phillipsburg, Kansas. Celebrate Kansas Voices (CKV) is presented by Story…
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Assignment: Build a personal avatar!
This week, as part of our VoiceThread digital storytelling assignment, my pre-service teachers at the University of North Texas enrolled in “Computers in the Classroom” are required to create a free “avatar” for themselves. In this case, when we use the word “avatar” we’re NOT talking about James Cameron’s recent film by that name! Instead,…
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Chance favors the connected mind
Steven Johnson’s four minute video, “Where Good Ideas Come From,” resonates with many of my own thoughts as well as beliefs regarding creativity and innovation. Steven is the author of “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation.” This video uses a drawing-based, stopmotion digital storytelling technique similar to that employed by Dan…
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Culture shock can happen in different environments, but friends help minimize its effects
The English Wiktionary defines “culture shock” as: A state of anxious confusion experienced by someone exposed to an alien or unfamiliar environment. While we often think of culture shock as something experienced by people visiting different countries where people speak different languages than our own, it is not necessary to cross an international boundary to…
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Understand Creative Commons in 180 seconds
Instead of sharing the longer, 6+ minute Creative Commons video “Get Creative” during my “Trends in Higher Education” presentation tomorrow at Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma, I’m planning to share the 2.5 minute (180 second) video, “What is Creative Commons? Wanna Work Together RG Remix.” This video provides a great summary of Creative…
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World Expo Shanghai (a VoiceThread digital story)
The World Expo is currently running in Shanghai, China, and yesterday I had an opportunity to spend about six hours there touring some of the country pavilions. According to the official Shanghai Expo website, as of day 144 there have been over 53 million visitors from around the world to this year’s exposition. Yesterday alone…
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Create animated cartoon videos with GoAnimate #learning2cn
One team of participants in my cohort group at the Learning 2.010 conference this past weekend in Shanghai created this “Brave New Expo” animation as their final project, using the website GoAnimate. If you’re a Star Trek fan, you’re especially likely to think this is VERY clever. As a bit of related background, the World…
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Exploring Suzhou, China (a StoryKit mobile phone digital story) #learning2cn
Yesterday Chris Betcher, Gail Lovely, Melinda Alford and I spent the day exploring Suzhou, China. Suzhou is: … a prefecture-level city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Taihu Lake in the province of Jiangsu, China. The city is renowned for its stone bridges, pagodas, and meticulously designed gardens…
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Podcast357: Options for Saving and Trimming Online Video to Your Local Hard Drive
This podcast is a recording of an unconference session at the Learning 2.010 Conference in Shanghai, China, on September 18, 2010. The focus of our session was different techniques for saving online videos from websites like YouTube, Vimeo, etc. to your local computer’s hard drive. This skill is important for teachers and librarians wanting to…