Category: digitalstorytelling
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Our rock stars aren’t like your rock stars
If you haven’t seen the 30 second Intel advertisement, “Sponsors of Tomorrow,” check it out now. It’s an effective teaser video for the life work of Ajay Bhatt at Intel, where he currently serves as “Chief Client Platform Architect.” Ajay is the the co-inventor of USB. I referenced this in my presentation last Monday, “Communicating…
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Attribution links in VoiceThreads
I answered the following question this evening on the FAQ blog for the course I’m teaching this semester, “Technology 4 Teachers” at the University of Central Oklahoma. Question: When you are using home grown media in voice thread do you just leave the link blank for every picture, since there is not a link for…
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Creative Commons and Flickr
I answered the following question this evening on the FAQ blog for the course I’m teaching this semester, “Technology 4 Teachers” at the University of Central Oklahoma. Question: I don’t understand the difference between Creative Commons and Flickr. To me they look like they are interconnected with each other. Answer: Creative Commons is a nonprofit…
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Poll Results: How much would you / your school pay for PollEverywhere?
Here are the results of the two polls I included in this weekend’s post, “PollEverywhere grappling with Monetization and Free Educator Plans.” There were 24 respondents to the first poll, and 20 respondents to the second. Those participation totals are not sufficient to give these informal polls much statistical power, but they do highlight the…
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The Night Before Valentine’s Day
“The Night Before Valentine’s Day” is a four page book my six year old wrote today. She is REALLY into writing, and I want to encourage her as an author / illustrator as much as possible. After she shared this with us tonight, we snapped four pictures of the pages using my iPhone, uploaded those…
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Embedding Video in a VoiceThread: Role Playing Annabeth Chase from The Lightning Thief (book)
Cross-posted to Learning Signs. Sarah [my 9 year old 4th grader] created the following digital story today before school using VoiceThread about the book, “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.” She role-played Annabeth Chase in a video we shot last Wednesday in St Louis using my iPhone. This is the first VoiceThread we’ve…
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Photo memories in an old box
This weekend my mom shared a box of old family photos with me, which were collected over the years by our dear friends, Fred and Alice McPherson. Lots of great memories here. Super photos to reflect and reminisce on both in person and via VoiceThread! Stay tuned! Digital technologies make our modern era, in some…
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Favorite photos and videos from METC 2010
I’m catching up on my Flickr media posting this evening as we watch the Olympics, and just uploaded 146 photos and videos from the METC conference this past week in St Louis. Here are a few of my favorites! The biggest highlight for me at METC 2010 was definitely being able to meet Darren Kuropatwa…
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Planning outline for METC 2010 keynote
This was the rough draft / outline for my METC 2010, keynote, “Storychasing Literacy.” I had been thinking about this keynote for months, but this was the outline I sketched out the week prior when I was in Minnesota leading workshops for school administrators on behalf of CASTLE. This was my final copy. 🙂 Storychasing…
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Scan at higher resolutions with Preview on your Mac
A few months ago I discovered the Preview application, which is built into the Macintosh operating system, can function to scan photos and documents into an Apple computer. You need to have a scanner driver for your device installed, but this method can be faster (in some cases) than using vendor-provided scanning software. It also…