Category: history
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Reflections on Dr. King’s Dream
During my breakout sessions today at the STARtech conference in Salina, Kansas, I invited participants to reflect on the meaning of Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream for them today: At their school, in their community, in their own context. I used the first image of Dr. King included on his current WikiPedia page, and then we…
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Reflections about “The War” and oral history
I’ve shared a new post on the TechLearning blog titled, “Digital learning and “The War.” Technorati Tags: kenburns, thewar, worldwarii, oralhistory, history, war, stories, digitalstorytelling
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Podcast214: Surrender of the Japanese to the United States Aboard the USS Missouri (a retelling in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii)
This podcast is a recording of a presentation shared by a docent aboard the USS Missouri battleship, now docked at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 5, 2007. It was on September 2, 1945, in Tokyo Harbor aboard the USS Missouri that generals representing the Empire of Japan surrendered to General of the Army…
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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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The novelty of news and importance of media literacy
The Engines of Our Ingenuity podcast has a great, short episode narrated by Catherine Patterson titled, “INVENTING THE NEWSPAPER.” Students in school today may take the terms “current events” and “news” for granted, but these types of real-time and near real-time information sources were invented and became popular, relatively speaking, only yesterday. Here in the…
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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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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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USS Oklahoma Memorial Dedication
I have uploaded the entire dedication ceremony for the USS Oklahoma Memorial from December 7, 2007, in Pearl Harbor Hawaii to the OETA ftp server for subsequent transfer and posting to the NewsOK.com “Brightcove” video server. The entire ceremony was approximately two hours long. These videos will be subsequently “chunked” into pieces that are less…
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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…