Category: digitalstorytelling
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Telling the story of last Friday’s PD in Maine with PhotoPeach
Beth Goodwin created a short “PhotoPeach” digital story to share a visual narrative (set to music) of last Friday’s professional development session in Wells, Maine. She titled it, “Teachers at Work-21st Century Literacy.” After an initial hour-long presentation, all junior high school teachers in attendance had about an hour and a half to work and…
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Flip Video Session Recording – With a Tripod!
Flip camcorders and other flash-based video cameras are not new (relatively speaking in the technology world) but this Friday was still the first time I’d seen one mounted to a tripod to record a conference session. The biggest challenge of video recording in sessions like this, I’ve found, is getting good audio quality. The built-in…
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Forget the iPad – The MacBook Wheel is what you really want
In the parody spirit of “The Doritos Tablet,” commentators at “The Onion” bring us “The MacBook Wheel.” Several good sound bytes here: Everything is just a few hundred clicks away… I’ll buy almost anything if it’s shiny and made by Apple… I like how the email automatically says, sent from a MacBook Wheel, that way…
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Gotta Keep Reading – A YouTube Remix of the Black Eyed Peas by Florida Students
Let’s hear it for innovative ways to help students get more excited about reading… AND… the legal, transformative remixing of copyrighted works like the song, “I’ve Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas! The five minute YouTube video, “Gotta Keep Reading,” was created by students and staff at Ocoee Middle School, working with college students…
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Imagineering iPad Educational Apps
The folks at Penguin books have been doing some imagineering, inspired by the soon-to-be released iPad: The imminent launch of the iPad has galvanized our children’s publishing teams to think about how the work they publish can be reinvented for devices where touch and sound and movement can enhance stories and provide a rich engaging…
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PSAs to stop texting and driving
Texting and driving is a big problem with teens as well as adults. According to PEW’s November 2009 report, “Teens and Distracted Driving:” One in three (34%) texting teens ages 16-17 say they have texted while driving. That translates into 26% of all American teens ages 16-17. 48% of all teens ages 12-17 say they…
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Announcing Celebrate Kansas Voices! #mace2010
On behalf of our non-profit Story Chasers Inc. I’m pleased to announce the start of the Celebrate Kansas Voices project. (CKV) Celebrate Kansas Voices is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. Our project is…
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Remix: Blending Creative Works to Show Mastery of Classroom Content #mace2010
These are my notes from Bob Lee’s session “Remix: Blending Creative Works to Show Mastery of Classroom Content” at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. All resoruces are on tinyurl.com/leeremix – bob [dot] lee [usd382 [dot] com Bob Lee is…
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Web 2.0 Projects by Laura Sadler #mace2010
These are my notes from Laura Sadler presentation “Web 2.0 Projects” at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. All links from this session are available via Glogster. Kim will first talk about our blogging in the library project – our…