Category: history
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Comparing Worldbook Encyclopedia 2008, WikiPedia, and Digital Stories
Tomorrow I’m sharing the opening keynote for the 2009 Annual Scholars Academy, hosted by the Educational Service Center of Cuyahoga County in Aurora, Ohio, for area school administrators. The presentation will be a remix of my opening keynote for eTechOhio 2009: “Reinventing Education for the 21st Century: Designing School 2.0.” In the introduction, to try…
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Digital Voice Recorders Turn Students Into Interviewers
Katie Ash‘s July 12, 2009, article for Education Week’s Digital Directions magazine, “Digital Voice Recorders Turn Students Into Interviewers,” includes several quotations from Don Wilson, director of instructional technology for Mid-Del Schools in Oklahoma as well as yours truly, concerning Storychasers and our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project. Katie did a GREAT job with her quotations…
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Exemplary Digital Stories from Hugo, Oklahoma
We wrapped up our tenth 2.5 day “phase 1” Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling workshop for summer 2009 today in Hugo, Oklahoma. These were five of the fifteen wonderful stories created by the K-12 teachers who participated in our workshop this week. All but one of those stories are available now on our COV learning…
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Lincoln in Kansas – Ideas for a collaborative Kansas student podcasting project
This past Wednesday I drove up to Wichita, Kansas, and saw a brochure for “Lincoln in Kansas” in the Kansas visitor’s center located at the rest stop just south of Wichita on I-35. The sponsoring organization is: … an all volunteer group representing various agencies, museums, historical societies and visitor centers/chambers of commerce working to…
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Ustream at Night from the Lincoln Memorial
Happy Independence Day, everyone, from our nation’s capitol city! The following UStream video was recorded the evening of July 3, 2009, at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C. At the start we had some audio feedback for a few seconds because of a second Ustream window I had opened, but after…
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International Spy Museum Report and iPhone GS powered Google Maps
Alexander and I arrived safely in Washington D.C. today and spent about three hours touring the International Spy Museum in the afternoon. Alexander recorded some of my reflections after seeing the museum using my iPhone GS. This is our first “report from the field” in D.C. for this week! In addition to seeing and enjoying…
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OKC Bombing, Underground Chinatown in Oklahoma, Veteran Stories, and an Amazing Adoption from Russia
We wrapped up another Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling workshop for twenty more educators today, and again I was blown away by the quality and themes of the 3-5 minute stories they chose to tell with still images and audio narration in the space of just 2 and a half days. “Innocence Lost” by Andrea…
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An Oklahoma, USA to Winnipeg, Canada Connection: Indian Jack Jacobs
“Indian” Jack Jacobs was a remarkable athlete. Born in Holdenville, Oklahoma in 1919, his exciting passing skills eventually led the Canadian Football League franchise team, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, to build the larger Winnipeg Stadium, now called Canad Inns Stadium. This week in a Celebrate Oklahoma Voices workshop on oral history and digital storytelling, Holdenville…
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U.S. farm subsidies, Land Runs, and Hopelessness in the Dust Bowl
I am continuing to appreciate the easy access we have to food in supermarkets, air conditioning, clean air to breathe, and many other things we normally take for granted as I read “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl,” by Timothy Egan. It’s also providing a…
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Learn some new history via videos from teachers in Stratford, Oklahoma
Last week Sherri Pankhurst from Cordell Public Schools was the lead facilitator for a Celebrate Oklahoma Voices workshop in Stratford, Oklahoma. These are some of the best videos created during the 2.5 day workshop by Stratford educators which Sherri has “featured” this week on our COV learning community. As a lover of western heritage and…