Category: digitalstorytelling
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Historical and Current Abolitionists: Fighting to end slavery
I saw the remarkable film “Amazing Grace” when it was released in US theaters this past April, but for some reason I did not blog about it or the issues it raises before. That is an oversight I am pleased to remedy this evening. I adore NetFlix. Our use of NetFlix waxes and wanes, but…
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Holiday traditions around the world
VoiceThread is not just a wonderful tool for sharing ideas and and school presentations like book reports. It’s also a a great venue to ask an international audience to share experiences like holiday traditions. Currently, this one includes folks from the U.S. (Mays, Kansas), New Zealand, and Israel: I either had never heard, or didn’t…
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4 Year Old Perceptions of Christmas
This evening Rachel (my 4 year old) recorded an eight-image VoiceThread digital story, sharing some of the things she knows about Christmas. Her thoughts ranged from Santa and stockings to baby Jesus and the star of Bethlehem. At age four, her recorded voice reveals the stream-of-consciousness way in which she processes the world and connects…
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USS Oklahoma Memorial Dedication Ceremony Videos
I reorganized the pages in our Oklahoma World War II Veteran Stories project wiki today, and added links to 13 different videos of and relating to the USS Oklahoma Memorial Dedication Ceremony on Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 2007. That wiki page is now part of the section “Videos and MultiMedia” on…
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Recording with multiple mics in Garageband
My son and I recorded a podcast interview today in Garageband using two different USB microphones at the same time. We had not ever done this before, but learned how by using this YouTube video from MacMost as well as this Apple Garageband support article. We’ll be posting this podcast here later today, which lasted…
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Wrestling with website registration limits
We had an important and thought provoking conversation this evening at home regarding digital ethics. For his 10th birthday, thanks to the generosity of my in-laws who were willing to negotiate a “trade” for their old titanium G4 Powerbook, my wife and I were able to give our 10 year old son his own laptop…
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Digital Witness from Pearl Harbor
I uploaded the last set of photos from last week’s Oklahoma Digital Learning Project trip to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii this evening. All photos are now available in a collection, and they are organized by day in each set. I need to make several additional VoiceThreads with these images. This trip was filled with powerful experiences,…
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December 6th videoconference from Pearl Harbor
Our 47 minute videoconference on December 6, 2007, from Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is available in three different segments from OETA and NewsOK.com. This was a fantastic interactive videoconference, and was followed by an additional 45 minute question and answer videoconference with Oklahoma students. Dick Pryor of OETA hosted and facilitated conversations with…
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Videos of yesterday’s USS Oklahoma Memorial Dedication
Our ODLP (Oklahoma Digital Learning Project) team is still in Honolulu, but we are leaving in about an hour for the airport. I’ve spent several hours this morning and afternoon importing the video of the entire USS Oklahoma Memorial dedication yesterday at Pearl Harbor from the DV camera onto a hard drive. I’ll then be…