Category: digitalstorytelling
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Research-based suggestions for the digital storytelling process
Update on 29 July 2016: Viddler (@viddler) is referenced in this post from 8 years ago and has shifted its business model/focus in a different direction. This morning I took 15 minutes and watched the wonderful presentation “Student Creation of Digital Documentaries in History Classrooms: Research Findings” by Glen Bull, Tom Hammond, and Curby Alexander published…
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Lunch with Clay Shirkey and Alan Kay
From time to time over lunch during the week when I’m not eating with others, I’ve started to watch a TedTalk video on my iPhone. I’ve subscribed to TedTalks in iTunes for at least the past year, and am frequently amazed by the ideas, talent, creativity, and stories of the presenters. Most recently I’ve “had…
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Visualizing field trip school visitors with Google Maps
Today I created a Google Map highlighting the locations of schools which have sent students on field trips (many of them FREE thanks to a generous grant from Dell as well as funding from the OHA Teen Board) to the Oklahoma Heritage Association and Gaylord-Pickens Museum in Oklahoma City so far during the 2008-2009 school…
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A worthless worksheet and a voluntary VoiceThread
My daughter’s 3rd grade homework assignment this evening was completing the following “Listening for Syllables” worksheet. Sarah has a fantastic teacher, and my perception of the value of this homework assignment is not reflective of my perception of the overall quality of the educational experiences I think she’s having regularly in her public school classroom.…
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Fair use guidance on including a YouTube video clip in a noncommercial, web-published presentation
One of our presenters for K-12 Online has raised some good questions regarding fair use in an email to me. Their question is whether or not including a 30 second video clip from a past episode of a syndicated television program (now off the air but still covered by U.S. copyright law) would qualify as…
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COV project website updates and a group for Oklahoma TitleIID winning districts
I used SeaMonkey’s free webpage composer application and the Cool Text website (Thanks the “No Time To Sleep” blog author) to update the homepage of our main “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” project website today with simplified links: Our installation of Joomla is still running VERRYYY slowly on POWWEB servers, and we’ve needed to migrate our site…
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The Revenge of the Digital Immigrants – Teaching to the New Brain (Hall Davidson)
These are my notes from Hall Davidson’s keynote at the Oklahoma Technology Association’s luncheon on 18 Sept 2008 titled “The Revenge of the Digital Immigrants – Teaching to the New Brain.” MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. HALL IS LETTING ME RECORD THIS SESSION TO SHARE LATER AS A NON-COMMERCIAL PODCAST. digital immigrants…
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Fantastic screencasts, PDF tutorials, and tech integration video examples from Florida
This evening when I was browsing through the iTunes podcast directory listings, I discovered Luis Perez’s amazing collection of screencasts titled “Tech-Ease: Classroom Tech Help.” The Tech-Ease website and resources are part of the the Educational Technology Clearinghouse by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology. I heard Luis present at NECC 2008 with Shannon White…
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Flip Video First Impressions
I had my first opportunity today to play with a “Flip” brand flash video recorder. (Specifically, the Flip Ultra.) Wow! I was very impressed. Light, small, easy to use, and battery operated. Without installing any software the AVI video files could be played on my Mac laptop in QuickTime Player. To import a video into…
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Podcast278: TechShoppingCart Podcast09: Digital Wishes, Flip Video Labs, and Manifest Destiny for EdTech
Welcome to episode 9 of the Technology Shopping Cart Podcast, a podcast (and now live webcast) where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas. This episode features a conversation with Heather Chirtea of ToolFactory, Vicki Allen, Karen Montgomery, and Wesley Fryer about podcasting, digital storytelling, mobile podcasting labs, mobile flip video labs, “ushering”…