Category: history
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A Live Action Charlie Chaplin Google Doodle #gct
Back in April 2011, a team at Google created the first “live action Google doodle” to commemorate the birthday of Charlie Chaplain. In a post about the project and Chaplain, Google doodler Ryan Germick wrote: Chaplin is also one of my creative heroes. Despite being an art-obsessed high schooler preemptively bored by anything in black…
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Celebrating Texas Voices in White Oak – TCEA Area 7 Tech Conference #tatc11
Today I’m in White Oak ISD, Texas, just outside Longview sharing two presentations with educators at the TCEA Area 7 Summer Conference. My opening keynote, “Leading Schools with Digital Vision in a Bubblesheet World,” is a longer version of yesterday’s presentation in Houston and includes two additional videos. Links and my presentation slides (2.6 MB…
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Kansas Educators: Become a Storychaser this summer in Haysville, Greenbush or Andover!
Cross-posted to the Storychasers’ blog. Storychasers is hosting THREE two day digital storytelling workshops this summer in Kansas for teachers, librarians, administrators and others interested in technology integration, multimedia video production, oral history and preserving community voices. The three workshop dates and locations are: June 28-29, 2011 in Haysville, Kansas July 25-26, 2011 in Greenbush,…
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Storychasing in the Heart of Oklahoma Cherokee Country
Last week I had the privilege to lead a “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” workshop for Storychasers at Kenwood School, which is located about an hour northeast of Tulsa, Oklahoma. 100 percent of the students attending Kenwood School are Cherokee. The school is small, with about 80 total students, and serves students in grades K-12. The teachers…
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Digitally Resurrecting the 1957 Wyoming 4A Football Finals
Thanks to a high school classmate who was able to digitize ancient silent movie footage of the 1957 Wyoming 4A Football Finals and Semifinals, my dad has been reliving his glory days as a high school quarterback for the Powell Panthers. This evening after watching both games on DVD, I asked if he’d like to…
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Super Digital Stories from Celebrate Texas Voices in Lubbock
This week was historic: the first workshop for “Celebrate Texas Voices” was held at Region 17 Service Center in Lubbock. Twenty five educators from around West Texas gathered for two days to learn how to create digital stories using a “digital backpack” of equipment and free software. Here are a few of the wonderful stories…
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Great Historical, Interpretive Remix Videos
Is your school or school district still blocking access to YouTube (even for teachers) and ignoring the ethical need to promote balanced content filtering? Perhaps some of these videos, available on the “History for Music Lovers” YouTube channel, can help you “change hearts and minds” of your administration to understand the constructive value of digital…
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Volunteer Your Site to Host a Summer 2011 Storychasers’ Workshop
Are you interested in providing an outstanding, two or 2.5 day opportunity for educators in your area to learn about digital storytelling and oral history? If so, please consider “volunteering your site” to host a summer 2011 Storychasers’ workshop! We are providing workshops in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas in 2011 to support the Celebrate Oklahoma…
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Summarizing the 2011 MACE Keynote with Mobile Video and Glogster
Last week I had an opportunity to share some of the background behind our Storychasers nonprofit as well as the Celebrate Kansas Voices oral history project with attendees at the 2011 MACE Conference in Manhattan. Lori Hollar Swim was in the audience, and after the conference used video she recorded with her mobile phone as…
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What Skills Can Storychasers Develop?
In putting the finishing touches on my presentation for tomorrow’s MACE conference in Manhattan, Kansas, I created the following Wordle to summarize many of the key skills Storychasers participating in the Celebrate Kansas Voices project can develop. In case you can’t see this image saved to Flickr, I’ll list them below: planning organizing asking wondering…