Category: digitalstorytelling
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Tips for digital story evaluation
The end of the fall term for North American learners sometimes (if students are lucky enough to have a willing teacher) also means the conclusion of digital storytelling projects. When it comes to the evaluation stage of videos, I highly recommend Bernajean Porter’s resources about Peer Review of Digital Stories on DigiTales. Her scoring guides/rubrics…
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Connecting place to stories with Google Maps
“The 21 Steps” by Charles Cumming is a wonderful example of a multi-part, text-based digital story related as a Google Maps mashup. More background information about this story is available on Charles’ blog. Unfortunately the story does not appear to be embeddable, so you’ll have to click the story link itself to view it. This…
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VoiceThread supports template-based digital storytelling!
It would be great if students had all the time they needed to create digital stories from scratch during class time at school, but the fact is they don’t. Time is in shorter supply today in our classrooms than ever before, with a seemingly endless number of new mandates from different authorities and groups proliferating…
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Concise writing, digital storytelling, timelines and six-word memoirs
Maria Henderson alerted me tonight to Rachel Fershleiser’s Twitter-inspired book, “Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.” According to the video, “Six-Word Memoirs, the book,” 11,000 submissions via Twitter yielded this book. Amazing. The video is, itself, a great example of Flickr-powered digital storytelling. I would recommend previewing the…
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Comparing oral fluency at ages 4 and 5, discussing sausage ball cooking
As we did last year, my daughter Rachel and I made some sausage balls tonight for an upcoming holiday party. We recorded another VoiceThread, and she described the steps and process involved in making sausage balls. I particularly like photo number four, when she describes “getting a snitch!. We used my iPhone to snap these…
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Book recommendations for digital storytellers
I was asked recently for book recommendations on digital storytelling in the classroom. Here are a few suggestions which come to mind, as well as some links to electronic resources on digital storytelling. If you still need to do some Christmas shopping for digital storytellers in your family or circle of friends, these books would…
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Examples of digital storytelling types
This is a post I’ve written to share on a private / closed professional development Ning site, but I’m cross-posting it here in case these ideas and links are of interest to you. As always I welcome feedback, push-back, and additions. 🙂 — POST BEGINS — What are some outstanding examples of digital storytelling as…
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Podcast294: An Interview with NASA Flight Engineer Tom Weichel discussing Gemini, Apollo 11 and Apollo 13
This podcast features an interview from November 2008 with Oklahoman Tom Weichel, who served as a flight engineer for the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the 1960s and in 1970 for the Gemini and Apollo space programs. Tom was at mission control in Houston for both Apollo 11, the first successful moon…
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Reflections about old jails, land appraisal, and high speed infrastructure in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
Yesterday was our 2008 family Thanksgiving travel day, as we ventured from our home in Oklahoma to “grandmother’s house” in Manhattan, Kansas. View Larger Map There are three basic routes we take when we drive up to Manhattan, which all involve Interstate 35. Yesterday, since we had plenty of time, we opted for the prettiest…