Category: history
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Podcast270: A Conversation with Benjamin Franklin- Inventor, Statesman, Author and Civic Activist
This podcast features a recording with Steven Smith, a wonderful re-enactor of Benjamin Franklin, at the 2008 Oklahoma A+ Schools Conference on August 1st. In the character of Benjamin Franklin, Steven recounts historial events of his life as an inventor, statesman, author and civic activist. If there is a more memorable and impactful way to…
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Podcast269: Background and Formative Ideas for the Storychasers Project
This podcast is a recorded skype conversation between Cheryl Lykowski and Wesley Fryer, discussing a new idea for a collaborative project titled “StoryChasers.” The current (but evolving) “about” page for the StoryChasers website states: Storychasers is a multi-state (and potentially multi-national) educational collaborative empowering students and teachers to responsibly record and share stories of local,…
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Empowering Oklahoma Educators to Preserve and Share Oral History
I’ve written a draft of an article for the Oklahoma Heritage Association‘s membership magazine entitled, “Empowering Oklahoma Educators to Preserve and Share Oral History.” This is shared as a published Google document. It will likely be revised at least a bit later this week, but as it stands it provides a great deal more background…
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First experiences with web-based digital story editing: JumpCut!
Update on 29 July 2016: Viddler (@viddler) is referenced in this post from 8 years ago and has shifted its business model/focus in a different direction. Today was day 2 of our July Celebrate Oklahoma Voices workshop for educators, and this afternoon’s agenda involved three hours of (almost) uninterrupted work time for teachers, administrators, and librarians…
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OHA Day 1 – No Ghost Sightings so far!
Today is my first day of work for the Oklahoma Heritage Association in downtown Oklahoma City as their director of technology and education outreach. It’s been a great day so far, and has NOT been punctuated by any ghost sightings in my 3rd floor office (yet) despite the fact that my provided office supplies include…
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Beyond the Virtual Fieldtrip and the Collaborative Project…KC3: A National Challenge
These are my notes from Jan Zanetis’ presentation at MODLA 2008 titled, “Beyond the Virtual Fieldtrip and the Collaborative Project…KC3: A National Challenge.” MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I am recording this session with permission and will post it later here as a podcast. This is a GREAT project and exactly the…
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RoundTrips: Interactive Video Conferencing from Anywhere (Lewis and Clark trail – roundtrips.org)
These are my notes from Tim Gore and Jim Sturm’s presentation at MODLA 2008 titled “RoundTrips: Interactive Video Conferencing from Anywhere.” I am recording this session with their permission and will post it subsequently as a podcast here. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Their website is roundtrips.org. The official conference program description…
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Taking notes on effective electoral video marketing
U.S. Presidential elections inevitably lead to interesting and thought provoking advertisements, but I am not sure previous elections generated as many opportunities to learn from effective electoral marketing ads as the 2008 campaign. The primary reason for this is user-created content: It continues to explode, and the variety as well as quantity of video content…
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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,…