Category: digitalstorytelling
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Film on the Fly – Earth Day Contest Starts Monday!
Don’t forget to register for the next “Film on the Fly” cell phone / mobile phone digital storytelling contest! It’s free to participate and the fun begins this coming Monday, April 20th, at 9:00 AM PDT. Complete this Google form to sign up. Participants will receive the contest prompt via SMS, and have 48 hours…
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Storm Stories from Texas and Oklahoma
Today’s severe weather in Lubbock, Texas, (where we’re visiting currently) reminded me of storm stories which have been recently shared in our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling and oral history project. This is a photo I snapped today of storm clouds in Lubbock, just after a tornado warning expired in the SW part of town.…
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Episode 1 of the International Cooking Show
When I visited New Zealand at the end of February 2009 for the Learning@School conference, I met Mr W00dy and we came up with a rather creative project idea. It seems we both have young daughters who love cooking, and would like to share their cooking with others. Why not start an International Cooking Show,…
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Key for posting video embeds to WordPress – Disable visual editing
I figured out a mystery which had troubled me for some time: Why can I readily post embedded videos to my personal blog (this one) using MarsEdit, but when my children try to do the same thing to our family learning blog (Learning Signs) the video embed code gets stripped out? The answer, it turns…
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Geo-StoryChasing and Gabcast call limits
I’ve created a new presentation and workshop I’m calling, “Geo-StoryChasing.” I’ve listed a variety of mobile audio, video, and photo sharing options (many supporting geolocation) on the wiki curriculum page I started. If you know of others I should include, please let me know by commenting here. This is the short description for this session:…
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AudioBoo will upload over EDGE
I drafted my daughters to record some audio reflections using the free iPhone application AudioBoo this evening, after we had enjoyed some exciting new things at the annual Medieval Fair in Norman, Oklahoma. Rachel shared some thoughts about her camel ride: Listen! Sarah recapped of the evening’s highlights from her point of view: Listen! I…
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Professional Development Opportunities Over Video via the CILC
The Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) is a great resource for not only identifying and/or announcing classroom collaborative projects, but also for finding professional development providers for your school and district who present over video. I’m pleased to announce that five of my educational presentations / workshops are now being offered over video…
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Plan to attend PodStock May 1-2, 2009 in Wichita, Kansas!
Check your calendar for Friday, May 1st and Saturday, May 2nd, 2009. If at all possible, please plan to join the learning and fun at the first PodStock conference to be held in Wichita, Kansas. According to the PodStock website: Podstock is a brand new conference designed to bring podcast creators and those who see…
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The Thursday Folder and Worksheet Measured Learning
At the February 2009 Oklahoma Technology Association’s conference, keynote speaker Will Richardson told a story about the worksheets his own students bring home from their public school each week which resonated with me. Will said he’d contemplated keeping all the papers for an entire school year in a big stack, and then photographing them to…