Category: digitalstorytelling
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A VoiceThread on Hawaii Adventures
Today I led a personally challenging day-long workshop for 70 teachers in NewKirk, Oklahoma, and had the TREMENDOUS joy to co-present with my 9 year old daughter, Sarah. I titled the workshop “Getting Started with Blended Learning.” We were all in the elementary cafeteria together from 8:30 to 11:30 am, and after lunch we moved…
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Believe in Me (Inspirational video for the start of school)
Three simple words, formed as a question, can be exceptionally powerful. Do you believe in me? This video, posted to YouTube and created for the Starkville (Mississippi) School District by Broadcast Media Group, is a great video to share with teachers, administrators, students, parents, and other constituents in your educational community as we start the…
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Go Green, Go Electric” featuring Miles Electric vehicles wins 1st place
I was unable to submit the following message to NewsOK (Our largest Oklahoma City newspaper) today using their online contact form. As a result, I’m posting the message (with all the links) here and submitting this single blog URL to them. Back in April 2009 a representative of Miles Electric Vehicles of Tulsa showed my…
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Notes from the RTNDF Multimedia Workshop (Oklahoma)
This morning I shared a presentation titled “Multimedia and Social Web School Publishing Exemplars” with educators gathered at the University of Oklahoma for the Oklahoma RTNDF Multimedia Workshop. Many thanks to Tammy Parks of Howe, Oklahoma, for getting me involved with this GREAT summer learning opportunity for teachers. After my presentation, Dr. Syb (“The Multimedia…
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Digital Voice Recorders Turn Students Into Interviewers
Katie Ash‘s July 12, 2009, article for Education Week’s Digital Directions magazine, “Digital Voice Recorders Turn Students Into Interviewers,” includes several quotations from Don Wilson, director of instructional technology for Mid-Del Schools in Oklahoma as well as yours truly, concerning Storychasers and our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project. Katie did a GREAT job with her quotations…
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Thoughts on Macs and Netbooks
I absolutely love using Apple computers, Apple mobile devices, and Apple software. Netbooks have really challenged my thinking about 1:1 computing in schools in the past year or so, however, and I am definitely not alone. Yesterday at an Oklahoma City AT&T store, I had a chance to get my hands on a Dell Inspiron…
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Exemplary Digital Stories from Hugo, Oklahoma
We wrapped up our tenth 2.5 day “phase 1” Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling workshop for summer 2009 today in Hugo, Oklahoma. These were five of the fifteen wonderful stories created by the K-12 teachers who participated in our workshop this week. All but one of those stories are available now on our COV learning…
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Video game skills are serious business for the USAF: Meet the fleet of 7000 UAVs
The highlight of my visit to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum at the end of June this summer, when I was in Washington DC for NECC 2009, was definitely seeing the completed UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) exhibit. My son, Alexander, helped me film and upload (from the Smithsonian, on-site) a five minute video from…
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Full Solar Eclipse Images
Full solar eclipses don’t happen very often. One just did on July 22nd. The Flickr images are coming in. From Shenzhen, China: From Hanoi, Vietnam (I think): Some of my favorites are not embeddable from Flickr, like this one from Hong Kong, this one from Guam, and this one from Manila in The Philippines. Hat…
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Learning, memory, stories, and books to read
Two new book recommendations worth noting from Ric Murry in his post, “Why Don’t Students Like School (ch. 3).” I’ve added both to my Amazon Wish List. (Hint to all you wealthy benefactors out there, my birthday is next month on the 20th. 😉 ) First, “The Back of the Napkin” by Dan Roam. Second,…