Category: digitalstorytelling
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Film on the Fly: Get your Cell Phones Ready for Movie Making!
Thanks to Orange County, California, educator Dennis Grice, I learned last night and today at ITSC 2009 about the “Film on the Fly” digital storytelling contest: A “Mobile Phone Video Challenge.” Karen Mongomery had mentioned this to me awhile back but I had not seen any of the videos submitted to the contest until today.…
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Copyright for Educators
Tomorrow here in Portland for ITSC 2009 I’m sharing a workshop on “Cell Phone Digital Storytelling” as well as a repeated session titled “Copyright for Educators.” I’ve presented multiple times on the topic of copyright, but for this conference I completely redesigned my presentation and slides. I’ve published my presentation to SlideShare. Referenced links are…
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One of the best visual presentations I’ve ever seen
Last week at eTechOhio2009 I had a wonderful opportunity to see and hear Alvin Trusty present a session on multimedia design tips and copyright titled “How to Create a Great PowerPoint Without Breaking the Law: Take 2.0.” I posted my own audio recording of that session as well as session text notes last week. Alvin…
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161 Museums in Oklahoma!
I had a great visit this evening with Jason Schubert, a friend of mine from Lubbock who is the interim-director of the J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma. Jason told me about the Oklahoma Museums Association, which lists 161 Oklahoma-based museums on its website. This is an amazing list! I knew we…
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ISTEconnects: Cell Phone Audio Recordings and another NECC Travel $ Opportunity
I shared two new posts on ISTEconnects this weekend: Cell Phones as Audio Recorders Attend NECC for free on ISTE If you have any topics you’d like to see addressed on ISTEconnects, or if you’re interested in writing a blog post there, please let me know. Technorati Tags: necc, necc09#, necc09, iste
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iPhone iTalk Application: A Great Event Recorder
This evening our son bridged up from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts and earned his Arrow of Light Award. Before the ceremony began, however, I realized it might be wonderful to audio-record the event to share it with grandparents as well as archive it for our own enjoyment later. The problem was I had forgotten…
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How to Create a Great PowerPoint Without Breaking the Law: Take 2.0 by Alvin Trusty
These are my notes from How to Create a Great PowerPoint Without Breaking the Law: Take 2.0 by Alvin Trusty at the eTechOhio 2009 conference on Feb 2nd. MY REFLECTIONS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Alvin is at The University of Findlay (trusty [at] findlay [dot] edu) The number of sites in my presentation…
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Digital Witness to President Obama’s Inauguration
Renee Hall is a middle school teacher in Hugo, Oklahoma, and had the wonderful opportunity last week to witness the inauguration of President Barack Obama in Washington D.C. Renee participated in our “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” workshop this week in Oklahoma City, and created the video “A Day to Remember” with her own photographs from the…
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Mind blowing photo resolution from the inauguration
Wow. I have been a big fan of QuickTime VR panoramas for years, but after viewing this image of the inauguration scene in Washington D.C. this past week by David Bergman, I’ve just become an immediate cheerleader for Gigapan. According to David’s description on the Gigapan website: I made this Gigapan image from the north…
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Student Storychasers in Washington DC this week
I’ve just shared the post “Colorado students blog inauguration experiences” on the ISTEconnects blog, which includes some background about the fantastic “When History Happens” project affiliated with the larger “Teaching with Primary Sources – Colorado” initiative. The U.S. Library of Congress is a partner in this collaboration. I’m thrilled this initiative has started in Oklahoma…