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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: digitalstorytelling

  • I’ve Got a Feeling we’ll see more Lip Dubs like this one

    According to the English Wikipedia, a “Lip dub” is: …a type of video that combines lip synching and audio dubbing to make a music video. It is made by filming individuals or a group of people lip synching while listening to a song or any recorded audio then dubbing over it in post editing with…

  • Power of Google Voice Transcriptions comes to YouTube with Automatic Annotations

    Two weeks ago in Oklahoma City at the “Oral History for the 21st Century” symposium, I mentioned in my presentation that the transcription power of Google Voice suggested that exciting new transcription possibilities are on the horizon for oral historians. On November 19th, Google announced new functionality for YouTube including automatic annotations and language translation…

  • Oklahoma Bears, Tar Pits, Mountains, Girls Circles, and Marriages of 70+ years

    Cross-posted to the Storychasers blog. This week Oklahoma educators participated in our 29th “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” workshop since 2008, and created some fantastic digital stories about the history, geography, and people of our great state. Did you know Oklahoma is home to a growing black bear population and just had its first open hunting season…

  • Thoughtful teachers need to engage students collaboratively across the web

    This is an excellent thirteen minute video of ideas from Alan November about transforming our schools into the learning spaces we need in the 21st century. Find more videos like this on NL Connect Among many things, Alan says: We need to redefine learners as contributors. This requires a fundamental shift in our thinking about…

  • Harry Potter Puppet Show on YouTube

    Our 15 year old babysitter recently showed my kids the YouTube video, Potter Puppet Pals in “The Mysterious Ticking Noise.” This 2 minute and 6 second video has had over 71 million views to date. If your students have access at home to YouTube, chances are good many of them have seen this. My 11…

  • Unlocking the Past: Techniques for Conducting Meaningful Interviews

    These are my notes from the panel presentation, “Unlocking the Past: Techniques for Conducting Meaningful Interviews” at the “Oral History for the 21st Century” Symposium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This conference is sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma Historical Records Advisory Board, Oklahoma Humanities Council, Oklahoma Museums Association, and Oklahoma…

  • Fast Forward: Oral History in the 21st Century by Donald Ritchie

    These are my notes from Donald Ritchie’s presentation, “Fast Forward: Oral History in the 21st Century” on November 12, 2009, at the “Oral History for the 21st Century” Symposium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This conference is sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma Historical Records Advisory Board, Oklahoma Humanities Council, Oklahoma…

  • Video Tributes to Oklahoma Veterans

    Yesterday was Veteran’s Day here in the United States, and three students of Pam Henley in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, contributed videos to our statewide “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” project which pay tribute to our Oklahoma veterans. “In Honor of My Grandfather” was created by Laney Miller, as a tribute to her great-grandfather who was born in 1929…

  • Digital Citizenship in Libraries: Constructively Leveraging the Power of the Social Web

    Today I had an opportunity to co-present with my 6 year old daughter, Rachel, at the Norman Public Library for approximately forty librarians working in the Pioneer Library System of Oklahoma. The topic of our two hour presentation was, “Digital Citizenship in Libraries: Constructively Leveraging the Power of the Social Web.” System librarians have re-evaluated…

  • NASA Resources for Millennial Learners by Mark Clemente

    These are my notes from Mark Clemente’s presentation, “NASA Resources for Millennial Learners” at the One to One Institute‘s conference on November 9, 2009 conference in Chicago, Illinois. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I am recording this session and hope to share it as a podcast later. NASA eClips is NASA’s newest program, one…