Category: digitalstorytelling
-
OKC Bombing, Underground Chinatown in Oklahoma, Veteran Stories, and an Amazing Adoption from Russia
We wrapped up another Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling workshop for twenty more educators today, and again I was blown away by the quality and themes of the 3-5 minute stories they chose to tell with still images and audio narration in the space of just 2 and a half days. “Innocence Lost” by Andrea…
-
An Oklahoma, USA to Winnipeg, Canada Connection: Indian Jack Jacobs
“Indian” Jack Jacobs was a remarkable athlete. Born in Holdenville, Oklahoma in 1919, his exciting passing skills eventually led the Canadian Football League franchise team, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, to build the larger Winnipeg Stadium, now called Canad Inns Stadium. This week in a Celebrate Oklahoma Voices workshop on oral history and digital storytelling, Holdenville…
-
A recipe and tutorial for iPhone GS mobile video blogging
This weekend my kids and I visited our new lego store in Oklahoma City and explored the possibilities of mobile video blogging with the iPhone GS, as well as the latest offerings from Lego. The iPhone GS now supports video recording and copy/paste, with no jailbreak required, which are two key ingredients for mobile video…
-
First YouTube video published directly from the iPhone GS (Irrelevant Paper)
Yesterday was release day for the new iPhone GS, and our family now owns two iPhones. We upgraded my wife’s “normal” cell phone to the iPhone GS, and are going to the AT&T store later today to swap SIM cards and register that swap with AT&T so our numbers will remain the same. She is…
-
Final StopMotion Project Videos (2009 Edmond Fine Arts Institute Summer Camp)
We wrapped up a week-long summer camp on StopMotion Film Making today at the Edmond Fine Arts Institute, and students showed off the results of their creative week of filmmaking during a “showcase” at the end of class. All told, each student pair created four films each. Day 1 was an experimental film learning the…
-
Turning Point Ministries on Flickr
Today I helped leaders of Turning Point Ministries of Oklahoma create and upload about three hundred photos to a new Flickr Pro account for the organization. I still need to switch the organization’s website from Drupal to WordPress, and recruit some family help to upload/post past press releases about Turning Point’s work to the blog.…
-
First DimDim online meeting: Debriefing Celebrate Oklahoma Voices Summer09 Workshops
This evening I used DimDim for the first time to host and lead an online meeting, and the results were very positive overall. This was a “facilitator debrief” for our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project, discussing guidelines for co-facilitators and lead facilitators, as well as lessons learned from our summer workshops to date. The free version…
-
More amazing stopmotion examples
I’ll hopefully be able to post more reflections on our first day of Stopmotion Film Making summer camp soon, but I want to at least share the following two AMAZING stopmotion video examples tonight. This first one comes via a tweet from Oregon 5th grade teacher David Cosand. The stopmotion film “Sorry I’m Late” was…
-
3 months of planning for 2 minutes of StopMotion
3 months of planning. 4 days of shooting. 6000+ post-it notes. A completed senior project by Bang-yao Liu at the Savannah College of Art and Design. 1 minute and 54 seconds, now on the global stage via YouTube. Here’s the visual backstory. I added this amazing example to my Stopmotion workshop wiki, not because I…
-
Stopmotion Film Camp Starts Monday!
I’m looking forward to teaching and leading a week long fine arts camp starting Monday here in Edmond, Oklahoma, on stopmotion film making. I’m teaching this as a three hour class, Monday through Friday, at the Edmond Fine Arts Institute. Last summer I taught this workshop at our church’s fine arts camp, but it was…