Category: digitalstorytelling
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Podcast320: Lessons Learned Recording, Editing, and Publishing Digital Audio
This podcast is a collection of recorded audio from a workshop shared with teachers in Gadsden City Schools, Alabama, on June 10, 2009. In the workshop, teachers learned how to use a Sony UX-70 mp3 digital audio recorder to record audio in an oral history interview. Teachers also learned how to use free Audacity software…
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Control your own destiny through education
In this powerful speech shared by U.S. first lady Michelle Obama in the UK in April 2009, students in the audience are encouraged to control their own destinies through education. Michelle exhorts students to use their talents to “create the world as it should be.” Her words are moving and powerful, and her personal story…
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Incredible tornado footage
Thanks to both Eric Langhorst and Beth Still for tweeting the link to this amazing footage from Vortex2 of the tornado this past week in Wyoming. The most remarkable part of this video for me was this section which showed a “tornado within a tornado.” I remember many years ago talking about tornados with my…
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Public Service Announcements To Combat Meth
Methamphetamine addiction is a plague. Back in January, I participated in the “Crystal Darkness” campaign here in Oklahoma to raise awareness about the scourge of meth as well as other problems we face in our communities with substance abuse. The Meth Project has a series of hard-hitting public service announcement (PSA) videos which draw attention…
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Downloading and Converting Ustream FLV Videos to DVD
The medical missionaries to Niger whose presentation I recorded and webcasted on Sunday (with permission, of course) asked yesterday to have the Ustream video recordings of their presentation taken offline. They reviewed the recordings and were concerned that some of the things they said might be perceived negatively by the Niger government, and they didn’t…
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Digital Storytelling on a Shoestring
We had a great turnout for the Oklahoma City Public School’s annual “Tech Day” conference, held at US Grant High School in southern OKC today. I had fun live-blogging Tammy Worcester’s keynote, “Beyond Copy and Paste: Building Integrated Technology Projects.” Tammy is a wonderful presenter and her message really resonated with the diverse group of…
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Learn some new history via videos from teachers in Stratford, Oklahoma
Last week Sherri Pankhurst from Cordell Public Schools was the lead facilitator for a Celebrate Oklahoma Voices workshop in Stratford, Oklahoma. These are some of the best videos created during the 2.5 day workshop by Stratford educators which Sherri has “featured” this week on our COV learning community. As a lover of western heritage and…
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Podcast319: Integrating Podcasting into the Classroom Using Moodle by Dean Mantz and Brian Richter (PodStock2009)
This podcast is a recording of Dean Mantz and Brian Richter’s presentation on May 2, 2009, at the PodStock 2009 conference titled, “Integrating Podcasting into the Classroom Using Moodle.” The session description was: How you use podcasting in the classroom-Integrating them into the class using moodle. This will include a quick lesson on how to…
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Slidecast of Part 2 of 2: Storychasing – Empowering Students as Digital Witnesses
This evening I uploaded and synchronized an audio recording my keynote Saturday for the Webheads in Action Online Convergence 2009 Conference, publishing a Slidecast on Slideshare: Empowering Students as Digital Witnesses (Part 2 of 2) View more Microsoft Word documents from Wesley Fryer. I apologize for the rather poor audio quality of the recording at…
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A ready-made slideshow of great education quotations
Next time you have an opportunity to share some quotations with a group of educators, parents, or others interested in learning and school change, consider sharing a slideshow of the images in the “Great quotes about Learning and Change” Flickr group. Just be sure to check if Flickr is accessible in the location where you’re…