Category: digitalstorytelling
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Podcast299: Dreaming of the Storychaser’s Peace Train
This podcast is a bit of an ecclectic mix of ideas, song snippets, and educational project ideas. Foundationally, these relate to the idea that we’re going to have an enduring need to help younger students as well as older learners use digital tools in powerful, appropriate, and constructive ways. Whether we use the words citizen…
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Geotagged iReports from President Obama’s Inauguration
The iReporters were out in mass yesterday, and the geo-tagged map of their submissions to CNN looks quite different than it did right before inauguration day. Before: After: I love these types of mashups involving storychasing (citizen journalism and digital storytelling) with geographic maps. Geotagged content offers great opportunities for exploratory learning. Technorati Tags: cnn,…
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Watch and Read Citizen Journalist Reports from the Inauguration Tuesday
Tuesday, January 20, 2009, will be a historic day in the history of my nation. Although we have our share of shortcomings and faults, the United States of America continues to provide a good example for the world in periodically demonstrating the capability of a large and powerful nation to peacefully transfer power from one…
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Preparing for digital storytelling workshops (Celebrate Oklahoma Voices)
Because of some staffing changes, I had responsibility this week for packing 50 “digital backpacks” of supplies in advance of two Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling workshops coming up this weekend and later in the month. Before packing equipment in individual backpacks, we stacked everything up and took inventory. These were the Olympus WS-110 recorders:…
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Join me on Ustream from UCO Tuesday for the Crystal Darkness Documentary Post-Show
Crystal Meth, aka “methamphetamine,” is a highly addictive drug. Addiction to meth is epidemic in my home state of Oklahoma. Tuesday evening, January 13, 2009 at 6:30 pm CST a special 30 minute documentary called “Crystal Darkness” will simultaneously air on multiple Oklahoma television stations as well as online via the Oklahoma Department of Mental…
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A Creative Designer’s Solicitation for Employment via StopMotion
Judson Collier, a “16 year old high schooler from Florida [and] Advocate of Blogging and Social Media” (according to his Flickr profile) created a very creative, funny, and effective three minute video on Vimeo titled “Stop-Motion App-uh-lu-cat-ion” to market both his own graphic design skills as well as the website CrowdSpring: Stop-Motion App-uh-lu-cat-ion from Judson…
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Wanted: PhotoDropper Macintosh Application
I dearly love the free Photo Dropper plugin for WordPress. Although I compose almost all my blog posts offline in MarsEdit, I often use a temporary post on a different WordPress blog just so I can use Photo Dropper to readily find Creative Commons Flickr images. Photo Dropper provides resized as well as properly attributed…
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VoiceThread Vandalism and our need to encourage constructive media creation
Here in the United States, we live in a relatively free society compared to some other nations. North Korea and China come to mind first in this regard, but there are many others too where individual freedoms are more sharply limited and restricted. I highly value and treasure those freedoms, and try not to take…
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Copyright-friendly image source websites
One of our “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” digital storytelling project participants asked a good question today on our learning community forum: Does anyone have any suggestions for websites to safely download pictures off the internet? This was my answer. Julie: Great question. Flickr Creative Commons is one of the best and one we recommend in our…
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Videos from the USS Oklahoma Memorial Dedication in December 2007
Last year, in December 2007, I was fortunate to be a digital witness— attending and helping document the events surrounding the dedication of the USS Oklahoma Memorial on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This evening, I’ve been working on a family DVD for 2007 (yes, I’m a year behind) and ran across several video…