Category: digitalstorytelling
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Podcast250: An Overview of Streaming Video Formats, Standards, Technologies, and Considerations from John Copeland of VBrick
This podcast is a recording of a presentation shared by John Copeland of VBrick at the Oklahoma Distance Learning Association (ODLA) spring conference on April 28, 2008, in Oklahoma City at MetroTech Springlake. John discussed the company VBrick as well as their products, but also provided an excellent overview of streaming video formats, standards, technologies,…
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Digital Storytelling as THE Disruptive Change Agent for the 21st Century Learning Revolution
I’ve added a new session entitled “Digital Storytelling as THE Disruptive Change Agent for the 21st Century Learning Revolution” to the EduBloggerCon San Antonio 2008 Session Offers wiki page. The description I suggested is: The digital connections now possible via blogging and other social networking technologies are phenomenal and potentially transforming for educators around the…
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Can we fathom the reality of the Katrina disaster?
This weekend our family rode the Heartland Flyer from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth, Texas, and fell in love with travel by train. I was not only reminded of the messages of Carl Honore in his book “In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed,” but I actually watched his TedTalk again during the…
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Video Media Server RFP
Our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project advisory council has officially released an RFP for a video/media server solution. This RFP is available as a public Google document. The deadline for response is 5 May 2008. (In two weeks.) Vendors wanting to respond are required to submit a screencast and 2 page product summary to our covrfp.ning.com…
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Podcast246: A Tech Talk for Retirees by Eric Hileman and Wesley Fryer
This podcast is a recording of a 1.5 hour presentation I co-presented with Eric Hileman at a local Oklahoma City church about a variety of technology topics including Internet searching, debunking email myths (urban legends,) digital photography, iPods, iTunes, iTunes University, and more. We touched on a lot of topics but certainly didn’t cover EVERYTHING…
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Podcast245: Technology Shopping Cart Podcast05 – Digital Citizenship and an Interview with Kristine of PBWiki
Welcome to episode five of the Technology Shopping Cart podcast where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas! This week Karen Montgomery, Vicki Allen and Wesley Fryer host an interview with Kristine Molnar of PBwiki. PBwiki is one of our favorite web 2.0 sites for creating collaborative wiki documents with teachers and students.…
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Podcast244: Stories of Life on the High Seas by Jonathan Gayton in Perth, Australia to Oklahoma Over Skype
This podcast is a recording of a wonderful videoconference conversation with Jonathan Gayton and Sue Waters from the Western Australia Maritime Training Centre in Perth, Australia, with our family in Edmond, Oklahoma. At the time of this videoconference, it was 8:30 pm on Thursday, April 10, 2008 in Oklahoma (US Central time.) It was 9:30…
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The power of digital storytelling to help students understand immigration, sacrifices and war
I was both impressed and thrilled by the quality of the digital stories created a couple weeks ago by the largest group of teachers we’ve had participate together to date in our statewide digital storytelling project, “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices.” My interest in and passion for digital storytelling has been fueled by multiple people and experiences,…
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Family member tribute digital stories
We finished up another great Celebrate Oklahoma Voices 2 1/2 day workshop today, and twenty Oklahoma teachers have now been introduced to digital storytelling and submitted their digital stories to our growing archive in our COV Ning website. Because we had twenty participants for this session, which is twice the size we’ve normally had in…