Category: digitalstorytelling
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Book cover copyright issues with VoiceThread stories
This past week, a friend of mine shared the “Great Book Stories” project with a group of librarians and received some VERY strong pushback from a few of them over copyright issues. Several of the librarians were FIRMLY convinced that using a photograph of a copyrighted book cover in a student project posted on the…
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Another compelling reason to work online
I learned this evening (via Darren Kuropatwa) that Google Documents has a wonderful new feature– online collaborative presentations! Google announced this on Monday. I’m eager to give this a try. There are several presentations (most notably my session on safe digital social networking) which I’ve repeatedly shared with others. (Download links to the slides of…
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ProfCast summer stories contest
ProfCast is an excellent program for Mac OS X which makes creation of enhanced podcasts including PowerPoint or Keynote slides synchronized to audio narration relatively straightforward. I’ve used ProfCast several times with good results, including last December when I recorded a “draft” of my presentation on cultivating digital literacy skills via blogging and pocasting for…
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Morning street scenes from Puxi, Shanghai
Shelly went out early this morning and captured about twenty images of street scenes in the neighborhood outside our hotel in Puxi, Shanghai. Today is the first cloudy, rainy day since we’ve been in China. I think Shelly has a good “photographer’s eye” for capturing interesting scenes. Some images from this series would make a…
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Podcast194: Global Voices: Distributed Learning Projects With Interactive Podcasting and VOIP Tools
This podcast is a recording of my final session at the Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai, China, on September 16, 2007. The title of my session was “Global Voices: Distributed Learning Projects With Interactive Podcasting and VOIP Tools.” The description of this session in the conference program was: Amazing new voice technologies are enabling classrooms…
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Podcast193: Inventing The Future: Safely Empowering Learners in the Read/Write Society
This podcast is a recording of my first morning session at the Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai, China, on September 16, 2007. The title of my session was “Inventing The Future: Safely Empowering Learners in the Read/Write Society.” The description of this session in the conference program was: As Dr. Lawrence Lessig has observed, we…
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Organic grocery store surprises in Shanghai
After lunch today we explored some of the stores around our hotel in Pudong, Shanghai, China. We found quite a few surprises at an organic grocery store! I recorded some comments about these on a VoiceThread this afternoon: I’m publishing our photos to both a Flickr set as well as a .Mac photo gallery. I…
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Hello from Shanghai!
We had a good night sleep after finally arriving in China last night (it was morning “body time” from North America) and are ready for our first full day. I recorded a few thoughts on nine different images with VoiceThread, to share some of the things we’ve seen and noticed so far on our trip…
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Podcast190: Implications of the Attention Economy for Schools (Part 3 of 3)
Partly recorded on the airline flight from Detroit to Tokyo and partly recorded from our hotel in Shanghai for the Learning 2.0 conference, this podcast features four additional implications of our 21st century “attention economy” for teachers and students. This is the last part of a three part podcast series focusing on Michael Goldhaber’s 1997…
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Entroute to Shanghai
I’m afraid I am going to become addicted to Animoto. I timed “image upload to published movie” time for the following Animoto movie, and it was 14 minutes, 13 seconds. This included uploading 20 images from my hard drive to Flickr using the Flickr image uploader as a new set, selecting that image set in…