Category: digitalstorytelling
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What’s going on with oil prices these days? (Challenge your students in 2009 to find out)
Looking for a challenging research topic for students to tackle after the holiday break? How about this: Explain in detail what is going on with oil and gasoline prices these days. Want to supplement lessons relating to oil and gas economics with some current, high quality videos? No need to subscribe to a commercial video-on-demand…
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Give the gift of family oral history this holiday
Last December, 8th grade US history teacher Eric Langhorst exhorted listeners to his “Speaking of History” podcast to “Create a Family Memory This Holiday Season.” I’d like to repeat that holiday gift suggestion this year and share a few related links, ideas and stories. The StoryCorps National Day of Listening has been extended through the…
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Live (and archived) student news from Howe, Oklahoma!
This past Thursday, thanks to an email heads-up from Tammy Parks, I watched high school journalism students in Howe, Oklahoma broadcast their weekly news show LIVE on the web: CLE-Live! I snapped a few photos of the broadcast with my iPhone as I watched from Oklahoma City. I wrote about Howe students and teachers back…
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Considering options for a COV digital backpack camera upgrade
Educators participating in our 2.5 day “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” digital storytelling workshops receive a “digital backpack” of equipment which includes: A 7 megapixel Sony digital camera An Olympus WS-110 Digital Recorder A Plantronics Audio 650 USB Headset A 2GB USB Flashdrive A 2 GB Sony memory card Ever since I first learned about Flip video…
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Dust Bowl Oral History preserved via Gabcast
Jeanette Hale grew up in Guymon, Oklahoma, and participated this week in a 2.5 day Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling workshop. Jeanette created and published the digital story “The Dirty Thirties” yesterday and today, which tells the story of her grandparents growing up in the Oklahoma panhandle. Find more videos like this on Celebrate Oklahoma…
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Workaround for Parallels problem with USB Mic in WinXP Audacity
This week I’ve helped facilitate another Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling workshop in Oklahoma City. This workshop is the first one for COV where we’ve used MacBook laptops running Windows XP via Parallels for all participants. This is a great lab configuration, since it lets participants choose their platform: Either WinXP or Mac OS X.…
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A spooky museum experience tonight
Ever since I started working at our museum in downtown Oklahoma City this past summer, I’ve heard a variety of different “spooky” and strange stories from current and former employees. In my office, which is the archives where the original “walk-in” insurance company safe is still located, a previous employee either placed or was given…
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Movie trailers for books – Too bad they are not cross-platform compatible or published to permit feedback
Many thanks to Chris Atkinson not only for contributing to an amazing list of chapter book recommendations for my 8 year old daughter and I to consider (which continues to grow and I have compiled into a new Amazon wish list this evening) but also for linking me to Dr. Mark Geary’s collected Windows PhotoStory…
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Differentiated instruction and digital storytelling
I believe we need to give our students choices in the ways they “show what they know.” A hallmark of high-quality education in the 21st century is “differentiated assessment,” as well as differentiated instruction. In making this case to your administrator, consider using the 2001 revision to Bloom’s Taxonomy by Anderson and Krathwohl. New Zealand…
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VoiceThread compared to GarageBand
The following is a reply I shared tonight in a closed online learning community to the question, “Is VoiceThread something you can use [for digital storytelling] instead of GarageBand?” — start of response — VoiceThread can be used for digital storytelling instead of Garageband, but I see it as a different tool with different benefits…