Category: digitalstorytelling
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Mobile Phone Media Collection and VoiceThread
I just wrapped up my second workshop at NCCE in Seattle, titled “Cell Phones for Learning.” Participants learned how to use Gabcast to record audio interviews “in the field” as well as Flickr upload by email to share digital photos. We took the photos (from Flickr) and web-posted mp3 files (from a new Gabcast channel…
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Compelling Oklahoma Oral Histories
I was blown away by several of the digital stories created by our participants this week in our first “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” oral history digital storytelling workshop of the year. Karen Jo’s story, “Lillie and John,” relates an amazing account of her grandmother whose family moved away when she was 13 to prevent her planned…
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Podcast229: Educators Share Learning Points about Audacity, Switch, and Mobile Audio Recording
This podcast is a recording from Thursday, February 21, 2008, on day two of a three day workshop shared as part of the Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. Participants had just spent an hour using their Olympus WS-110 portable digital audio recorders, Switch software, and Audacity software to…
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A superintendent for whom I’d like to work
I’ve shared a new post titled “A superintendent enthused about digital storytelling” on the TechLearning blog, about Doug Taylor of Gage Public Schools in western Oklahoma. Our collective efforts to “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” continue! Find more videos like this on Celebrate Oklahoma Voices! Technorati Tags: oklahoma, cov, cov08, digitalstorytelling, gage, dustbowl, history, oralhistory, education, school
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Why Celebrate Oklahoma Voices Matters
Today was day one of our first Celebrate Oklahoma Voices 3 day workshop for educators in 2008. The project team is facilitating five of these workshops during spring and summer 2008 at different five locations in our state. Of all the topics I have addressed in professional development workshops over the past two years, digital…
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Mathcasts and Presidential reports on VoiceThread
Inspired by the K-7 Mathcasts 500 Project, I worked with my kids this weekend creating some mathcasts using VoiceThread. I think it is great to hear them explain their thinking as they solve math problems, even if these involve just basic arithmetic. Of course in 2nd and 4th grades, respectively, “basic arithmetic” IS a major…
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Good morning, your workshop materials have been blocked
BYOB is not just convenient, it can mean survival in the 21st century educational technology and information landscape. After trying to pull up my workshop curriculum and handouts site today at the school where I’m presenting 4 workshops this morning, I was greeted by the following screen:After trying 1 more time to reach the root…
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Discussing Copyright, Creative Commons, IP and Education
Steve Hargadon facilitated a great conference call this afternoon about copyright issues in education on his Talkshoe Channel for Classroom 2.0. The recorded conversation is available now (15 minutes after the conversation ended) as a mp3 file. I had never participated in a TalkShoe audio conference before, and I really liked it– especially the way…
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Podcast227: Digital Storytelling Through the Eyes of a Child by Christy Paradise
This podcast is a recording of a wonderful presentation by 4th grade teacher Christy Paradise at the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s annual Social Studies and Fine Arts conference on Saturday, February 2, 2008, at the Moore-Norman Technology Center just south of Oklahoma City. Christy applied and was selected to participate last fall in a…
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Podcast226: Celebrate Oklahoma Voices (A statewide digital storytelling project)
This podcast is a recording of a session which I co-presented with Dr. Dana Owens, Dr. Don Wilson, and Whitney Allen at the 2008 Oklahoma Technology Association’s annual conference on February 6, 2008 in Oklahoma City. The program description was: The Celebrate Oklahoma Voices Project seeks to equip and empower Oklahomans to record and share…