Category: digitalstorytelling
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
Tuesday was Veteran’s Day here in the United States, which is a time to remember, reflect, pay respects, and honor veterans. I was able to help facilitate a Veteran’s Day presentation (over a videconferencing and webstreaming connection made possible by Tandberg) by high school students and veterans in Asher, Oklahoma, Tuesday morning, and I’ll be…
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Gong Show dreams amidst amazing tales of Oklahoma and midwest history
Today was the final day of our November Celebrate Oklahoma Voices workshops on digital storytelling for 17 new participants in Tulsa and 19 new participants in Oklahoma City. While I was only able to see one-fourth of the newly published participant videos this morning during our “show and tell” time (I saw half of those…
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Voting in Oklahoma 2008
I snapped 25 photos this morning when I voted before I drove downtown into work, and recorded a few thoughts about our voting system in Oklahoma and my experiences voting in a VoiceThread with five of those photos tonight. Technorati Tags: election, vote, voting, oklahoma, edmond
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Why is voting cool now?
Our education committee for the Oklahoma Creativity Project had an interesting discussion during our monthly meeting regarding today’s U.S. elections. Why is voting “cool” now, in the perception of many people in our country? Certainly participatory technologies have played a role in these changing perceptions. The CNN-YouTube presidential debates were a big part of this.…
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Phenomenal Oklahoma family stories from COV this week
We had a wonderful “partners” Celebrate Oklahoma Voices (COV) workshop this week on Thursday and Friday in MidDel Schools. These are just two of the amazing stories our participants created in a very short and concentrated time together. Scott Charlson created “A Few Sketches of Minnie’s Cafe,” telling the story of his grandmother and her…
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Mr. T is not familiar with connectivism
In this rather amusing advertisement for Hitachi, Mr. T claims “intelligence is never in the network.” Apparently Mr. T has not been introduced to the concepts of connectivism. 🙂 Even though this video script for the the actor formerly known as Laurence Tureaud may not reflect a basic understanding of connectivist learning theory, I do…
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Beware: YouTube video annotations may be inappropriately disruptive
I had a big surprise today during our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices “partner’s workshop.” For fun and to make some serious points, to kick off our discussion of copyright and intellectual property issues as they relate to digital storytelling I started to show a YouTube version of the 1992 video “Don’t Copy That Floppy.” This was…
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Step up and help classroom teachers with DonorsChoose!
I have a personal challenge for you: Provide a small donation for a classroom teacher who has posted a purchasing wish on the Donor’s Choose website. I’ve created a custom giving page for “Moving at the Speed of Creativity,” and I’m considering what type of incentive to offer if readers and contributors reach a specified…