Category: history
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Family member tribute digital stories
We finished up another great Celebrate Oklahoma Voices 2 1/2 day workshop today, and twenty Oklahoma teachers have now been introduced to digital storytelling and submitted their digital stories to our growing archive in our COV Ning website. Because we had twenty participants for this session, which is twice the size we’ve normally had in…
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Podcast241: 100K of New AT&T Foundation Grant Funding for Oklahoma Digital Storytellers, Museums and Memorials
This podcast is an audio recording of a fifteen minute press conference held on April 1, 2008, at the Oklahoma Heritage Association in downtown Oklahoma City. During this event, AT&T Oklahoma President Don Cain announced $100,000 of new grant funding from the AT&T Foundation for Oklahoma non-profit organizations. These groups include the Oklahoma Heritage Association,…
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Oklahoma City National Memorial Videos and Possible VFT
Wow. Based on my successful experiences sharing some live webcasts over Ustream.tv a couple of weeks ago in Washington DC from the National Air and Space Museum sites, I am contemplating offering/facilitating a free virtual field trip (at least one but maybe more) from the Oklahoma City National Memorial. The memorial and accompanying museum is…
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Washington DC Experiences
Alexander and I spent some time this morning working together to create a VoiceThread about his experiences in Washington DC this week. Full disclosure: Alexander is 10 and in 4th grade. He selected the images for this VoiceThread, which I had imported into iPhoto from my iPhone and exported to the desktop for him. We…
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Spinning history and the means of publication
It has been a wonderful opportunity to be in Washington DC this week for many reasons. This is the fifth time I’ve had a chance to visit this area in my short lifetime, and I think I’m learning more than ever. As we age and gain more experiences, I think we obtain more background knowledge…
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Reflections on changing history, national identity, and cultural events in the American midwest
I did quite a bit of driving this past week, traveling to and from Tulsa, Oklahoma, on both Wednesday and Friday. It’s about two hours of driving one-way from where I live north of Oklahoma City, so that’s almost eight hours of driving in two days. One of my favorite things to do when commuting…
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Podcast236: Let’s Invent the Future – A Presentation for Oklahoma Superintendents
This podcast is a recording of a presentation I shared with Oklahoma superintendents on March 5, 2008, in Oklahoma City at an Apple Leadership Institute. If the world is flat for those with connectivity, what are we going to do to change our learning environments in schools to support the development of 21st century skills…
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A Short, Strange Trip into the 21st Century, Part 1 (guest post by Clay Burell)
Prologue: A Remembrance Before I was sentenced to twelve years of forced labor at this modern invention called “school,” I had a couple of years of toddler freedom to explore the vast wonders of my small world. A particularly magical place was my father’s closet. A costume gallery of shirts, pants, coats, ties, and suits…
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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…