Category: digitalstorytelling
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Calling all Oklahoma Storychasers – OKC3 Deadline extended to Nov 15th!
If you are an Oklahoma teacher, administrator, or student, and are interested in participating in an engaging digital learning project involving your local community history, videoconferencing technologies, and digital storytelling, this announcement is for YOU! The deadline for the OKC3 Project (Oklahoma Kids Create, Communicate, Collaborate) has been extended to November 15, 2009. $30,000 in…
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Beautiful Kansas fall colors and more iPhone panoramic picture fun with Pano
Last week in Maine, I was delighted to learn about the $3 iPhone application Pano which makes amazing panoramic photos easy to take and make. Today in Manhattan, Kansas, and on our way up to Manhattan along K-177 (an official Kansas Scenic Byway) I took several new panoramic images which were a lot of fun.…
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More Marco Torres at ACTEM 09
These are my notes from Marco Torres‘ second keynote follow-up session at ACTEM 2009 in Augusta, Maine, on 16 October 2009. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Marco is showing Inspiration 8 now, and how he uses it for project planning – using notes under Inspiration bullets Taking a production approach to teaching:…
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Marco Torres at ACTEM 09
These are my notes from Marco Torres‘ keynote at ACTEM 2009 in Augusta, Maine, on 16 October 2009. MY COMMENTS AND THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The last time I was able to hear Marco speak and hang out a bit with him was in February 2009. See my post, “Marco Torres Keynote: ITSC 2009…
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Kodak Zi8 Pocket Video Camera: Awesome!
Cross-posted to the Storychasers blog. I’ve heard from several folks that the Kodak Zi8 Pocket Video Camera is a flash-based camcorder worth waiting for, and based on the review from Wired it looks like that predication is accurate. It is now available for $180 retail. Marco Torres had told me to be on the lookout…
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Perceptions of Beauty, PhotoShop, and Media Literacy
The “Dove Campaign for Real Beauty” is a marketing campaign for Dove soaps, but also an effort to address widespread, destructive advertising which creates false perceptions of beauty among girls, boys, women and men worldwide every day. The following video, “Evolution,” is an advertisement for Dove soap but also makes a powerful statement in 75…
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Dean Shareski at ITSC 2010
Dean Shareski is going to be presenting several GREAT sessions about visual literacy, why sharing matters, Twitter, and RSS at the 2010 ITSC conference in Portland, Oregon in February. In this 4 minute YouTube video, Dean gives a preview to his sessions. What a great teaser video! If I was going to ITSC this year,…
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LAME much easier to install on latest Audacity for Mac
I am a HUGE fan of the free, open source audio editing program Audacity. I installed Audacity on a new Mac today, and was pleased to learn that the default Mac installer for the LAME encoder now has an installer file, and places the LAME “library” in a convenient location which is easily browseable from…