Category: digitalstorytelling
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Reviewing Captain Underpants and other favorite books on Ustream
Elementary student Drew Danker shared an outstanding book review (4 and a half minutes long) about “Captain Underpants” and some of his other favorite books recently via Ustream.tv: Kudos to both Drew and his tech-saavy mom, Dawn! If you watch the video, please take a few minutes and leave an edifying comment for Drew! We…
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A First Place Tie for Film on the Fly about Pi
Results are in for the 2nd round of the “Film on the Fly” mobile phone video challenge, which took place this past weekend on Pi Day! There was a two-way tie for first place: The Labyrinth: A Pi Day Cell Phone Film by David Cosand and the Cosand Offspring Why We Need Pi by Wesley…
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Why We Need Pi
Today is Pi Day! To celebrate as well as have some creative fun, my kids and I participated in the second round of the “Film on the Fly” mobile phone video challenge sponsored by the Orange County, California PBS television affiliate KOCE-TV. The story prompt was sent by text message and email to participants this…
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Navigating Beyond the Now: The Force, Trends, and Signals that will impact Learning in the Next Decade
These are my notes from Monica Martinez’s CoSN09 spotlight session, “Navigating Beyond the Now: The Force, Trends, and Signals that will impact Learning in the Next Decade.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. THERE ARE SOME AMAZING VIDEOS HERE. POWERFUL IDEAS. GOOD SYNTHESIS AND RESOURCES. Grassroots Economy The Institute For The Future –…
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Some recent notable pics and reflections
I love to take photos. My iPhone is the best digital camera I’ve ever owned, because it is almost ALWAYS with me. Here are a few recent photos I’ve snapped which have seemed notable for different reasons. These are all posted to my Flickr account. I found this juxtaposition of the high-tech digital and the…
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Free image editing options and student voices on edtech
I posted twice on the NECC 2009 ISTEconnects blog today: Free image editing options Student Voices about technology and creating the future Don’t miss either of the videos discussed in the latter post, “Learning to Change, Changing to Learn – Kid’s Tech.” …and… “No Future Left Behind.” Hat tip to Tammy Stephens for the first…
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A Passion for making learning fun, Memories of Growing Up Poor, Coming to Oklahoma in a Covered Wagon, One Room Schoolhouses
We wrapped up another great Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling workshop today in Oklahoma City, with 22 more Oklahoma educators completing the 2.5 day workshop and creating their own short digital stories. Here were some of my favorites from our “show and tell” time today at the end of the workshop. Ranee Butler did a…
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Students interviewing students over Skype at school
Last week at our Oklahoma Technology Association‘s annual conference, high school journalism teacher Tammy Parks shared a presentation titled “Student-Created Virtual Field Trips: Howe Public Schools Live and On Location!” In the presentation, Tammy showed how one of her students has been using Skype to conduct interviews over video with national school organization presidents around…
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Marco Torres Keynote: ITSC 2009 Portland
These are my notes from Marco Torres‘ keynote at ITSC 2009 “Rethinking It.” I AM RECORDING THIS SESSION, AND MARCO HAS GIVEN ME PERMISSION TO SHARE SOME EXCERPTS/CLIPS FROM IT. “The Community Inspiration Studio” is the name of Marco’s classroom – In addition to being an educator Marco is an artist, photographer, and filmmaker –…
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Feedback via Gabcast, VoiceThread and Qik from ITSC 2009
Yesterday and today I led half-day workshops on “Cell Phone Digital Storytelling” at the 2009 ITSC (Instructional Technologies Strategies Conference) in Portland, Oregon. We focused on using the websites GabCast and VoiceThread. This is the VoiceThread participants created, sharing their feedback about Sir Ken Robinson’s Sunday night keynote as well as their overall “takeaways” from…