Category: Digital Storytelling
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Notes from “Digital Storytelling: Enhancing Language, Visual, and Media Literacies”
Digital Storytelling: Enhancing Language, Visual, and Media Literacies MRA 2009 Presentation Ledong Li, Tingfeng Luo, Wen Wu, Fan Zhang, Oakland University What’s Your Story? Stories Surround Us What is digital storytelling? Daniel Meadows: “short personal multimedia tales toldfrom the heart” Educational Use of Digital Storytelling Focus on specific topic and contain a particular point ofview…
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Brief Review of Webb and Rozema’s “Literature and the Web”
Earlier this summer, Allen Webb and Robert Rozema published their text through Heinemann, Literature and the Web: Reading and Responding with New Technologies. I received a copy as a gift, and just got a chance to read it over Labor Day. Besides thanking the two of them for mentioning my blog in the book, I…
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Reflections on Project WRITE’s Summer Institute
Today marked the end of our Project WRITE summer institute, and there were both smiles and tears to be found amongst the many of us who shared our writing this morning and our professional learning this afternoon. My partner, project leader Liz Webb, structured an amazing week, given all that we had to do from…
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Two More SITE Sessions: Digital Storytelling
A Digital Storytelling Implementation Experience with Early Childhood Students Aslihan Kocaman-Karoglu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey What is digital storytelling? Story telling as an ancient tradition; digital storytelling integrates visual, interactive, and reiterative with constructive ideas “combining the art of telling stories with some mixture of digital graphics, text, recorded audio narration, video…” B. Robin,…
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Notes from Three Digital Storytelling Sessions
This week, I am at SITE 2008, preparing for a presentation on Project WRITE tomorrow. Today, I will try to blog from some of the sessions (as wifi will allow). Here are three sessions on digital storytelling that I attended this morning. (I will also cross-post on the Using Technology to Tell Stories Blog): An…
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From Workshop to Classroom: The Problems of Enacting Professional Development
This past week, I was invited to present an introductory workshop on digital storytelling to a group of teachers in Alpena. Minus some minor glitches in figuring out file management with brand new jump drives, the session went well from both my perspective and that of the attendees. Exit comments were generally positive and, since…
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Thoughts on Technology and Literacy Professional Development
Last week, a number of RCWP teachers met to plan professional development for the 2007-08 school year. The meetings went well, as we discussed a number of issues about how and why we should be doing technology/writing PD and we all agreed that we needed to make the sessions compelling to teachers in terms of…
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Pondering the Curricular Value of Digital Writing
A few weeks ago in Chico, I was fortunate enough to meet John Bishop from the other RCWP, Red Clay Writing Project located near Atlanta, and we had a splashing good time there! Since then, I have been following his blog and I am particularly interested in the recent post that he created about exploring…
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“Using Technology to Tell Stories” Blog
Bonnie, Kevin, Tonya, Mary, and I are blogging at the “Using Technology to Tell Stories” blog. Thanks to Bonnie and Kevin for getting the ball rolling on this. We are focusing much of our attention on digital storytelling, but there are other threads evolving, too. So, check it out. Also, just to continue the read/write…