Category: digitalstorytelling
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Educational TED Talks at #learning2cn
This morning after initial announcements, organizers of the Learning 2.010 conference in Shanghai shared the following three TED Talks with participants in our main commons / large group meeting area. Bring on the learning revolution!: Sir Ken Robinson Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves Renny Gleeson on antisocial phone tricks If you haven’t watched…
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Notes and finds from #learning2cn Tell a Story in 5 Frames Unconference session
Today at the Learning 2.010 conference in Shanghai, attendees attended both “cohort” sessions as well as “unconference” sessions led by other participants. I created a local Etherpad page on the server they’re running here at Concordia, and exported that unformatted document of links and notes as a webpage I’ve saved in my public Dropbox folder.…
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Talk with Media: Visual Literacy and Digital Storytelling #learning2cn
To provide our cohort participants at the Learning 2.010 conference in Shanghai this week with robust resources related to our topic, Carol Jordan and I spent most of the day creating a new site on Wikispaces titled, “Talk with Media: Visual Literacy and Digital Storytelling.” One of the wiki elements we spent the most time…
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Publish student stories online with artwork, text and audio narration with StoryKit (free)
StoryKit is a wonderful, free application for iOS devices published by the International Children’s Digital Library. I learned about the application and installed it on my iPhone several months ago, but until this month didn’t take time to actually use it. I’m delighted at how easy it is to use and publish student work. This…
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Share your 5 Photo Stories on Posterous!
Several years ago, Karen Montgomery created the Flickr Group, “Tell a Story with 5 Photos for Educators” to encourage visual literacy and this simple approach to digital storytelling: Using 5 images to share a visual story. This was inspired by the Flickr group, “Tell a story in 5 frames (Visual story telling),” which is excellent…
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When you fall, get back up: It matters how you finish (inspirational video)
The power of video to inspire and move us in less than three minutes is amazing. This video by Nick Vujicic (“Are You Going To Finish Strong?) can help anyone get some perspective on their life and day, as well be inspired. According to the current English WikiPedia article for Nick: Nicholas James Vujicic (born…
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The importance of VOICE and empowering others to share
These were my comments this evening on Tim Holt‘s re-blogged post, “Not Invited to the Buffet: Opinion.” I’m much more optimistic. A lot of what I hear you saying resonates with me under the concept of “voice.” We need to empower more people to share their voices, share their perspectives, share their dreams. There is…
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One Day on Earth: Help Storychase the World’s Story on 10.10.10
If you’ve heard of projects like the Millennium Photo Project and 24 Hours of Flickr, you’ll readily understand the basic idea behind the “One Day on Earth” video documentary project. In one twenty-four hour period of time, 10.10.10 or October 10, 2010, volunteers from around the world on seven continents will work together to document…
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Free eBook: Henry Jenkins on Participatory Culture and Media Education
In the last few weeks at some point I read that Henry Jenkins has published a new book through the MacArthur Foundation titled, “Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century.” I noticed the book cost about $13. This evening, however, I discovered (rather serendipitously) that the eBook version of this…
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Least Common Multiple Woes? Khan Academy to the Rescue!
This year I’m going to brush up on my Algebra I and II skills, as my 7th grade son is taking a combined, year-long Algebra I and II class at Classen SAS in Oklahoma City. Today he’s completing his summer math packet, and among other things he’s having to find the least common multiple of…