Category: digitalstorytelling
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Pocket camcorder first impressions
Ever since Dean Shareski showed me his Sony GC1 Net-Sharing Cam (along with some other, similarly priced cameras) at NECC 2008 several weeks ago I’ve aspired to add a camera like this to my digital backpack. Yesterday at our local Ultimate Electronics store in Oklahoma City, I found a Sony GC1 display model for sale…
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A free online musical – But watch out – No ratings here…
Warning: This is an Internet-released film and as such does not have a “rating.” As Miguel Guhlin points out in his comment, the sexual reference for “the hammer” is both surprising and out-of-place to an extent– It certainly earns this film a “not appropriate for young kids” rating, I think. Full disclosure: I had watched just Act…
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Know any fantastic Drupal developers?
Our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling and oral history project has re-released an RFP for the redesign of our existing learning community website. We anticipate utilizing an open source content management system like Drupal and the Media Mover Plug-in (among others) to have a more robust and flexible learning environment than our current Ning website,…
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New Audacity QuickStart Guide
The advisory council for our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project had a good planning meeting this morning and working session this afternoon, in which we updated many of the handouts we use during our 2.5 day educator workshops. Our summer workshop takes place next week, 21-23 July in Oklahoma City. These materials are Creative Commons Attribution-Only…
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Empowering student picture book publishing with BigUniverse
One of my graduate education professors, Dr. Barbara Morgan-Fleming, made a strong impression on me several years ago about the vital importance of helping students become published authors. Even if students “just” publish a real book for a local audience (in their own classroom and/or school) the cumulative impact of that writing and publishing process…
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OHA Day 1 – No Ghost Sightings so far!
Today is my first day of work for the Oklahoma Heritage Association in downtown Oklahoma City as their director of technology and education outreach. It’s been a great day so far, and has NOT been punctuated by any ghost sightings in my 3rd floor office (yet) despite the fact that my provided office supplies include…
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They Have Names
Thanks to my mom for sharing the link to “They Have Names,” a website dedicated to the soldiers, sailors and airmen who have given their lives in the service of the United States and both need and deserve to be remembered not as simply “another statistic” in our ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but…
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Faces of the Fallen – Supporting our soldiers and their families
Today on July 4, 2008, we celebrate our independence day in the United States. I saw part of a documentary this afternoon about Rocky Mountain News reporter Jim Sheeler’s book “The Final Salute.” In the book, Jim documents the moving stories of US servicemen and servicewomen who are the first to speak with and support…
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One Hour PowerPoint: A Strategy for Improving Presentations by David Jakes and Dean Shareski
These are my notes from David Jakes and Dean Shareski’s NECC 2008 presentation, “One Hour PowerPoint: A Strategy for Improving Presentations.” http://jakes.editme.com/ Dean Shareski’s blog: http://ideasandthoughts.org/ 10 things you can do tomorrow with your kids to improve your PowerPoint I still see many kids doing pretty bad things with PowerPoint in our schools – we…
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Lots more stopmotion fun and lessons learned
Our fourth day of stopmotion filmmaking fun at our church’s fine arts camp ended today, and our final completed video count stands at 22. None of these films tell complete stories, and many are pretty random, but they do represent a great deal of learning, work, and fun! I published all our videos this evening…