multimedia
Blogging: Teacher Experiences
Submitted by lmcisaac on Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:23Teacher forum about Blogging in the classroom. Classroom2.0's discussion forum for teachers about using blogging in the classroom.
Anne Mirtschin's ideas and experiences with blogging. Loaded with information, ideas, tips, assignments, and experiences about an Australian teacher's classroom blog ideas, tips, etc.
First sentence activity. A Vermont middle school teacher writes about having her students write the first sentence of a story.
Digital Storytelling: Tools
One of the things that makes it easy for teachers to incorporate digital storytelling into their classrooms is the number of high-quality tools and software that is available to use free online. Here are some of the most useful ones.
Podcasting
Audacity. Free, open source software for recording and editing sound. This, plus a microphone, is all you need to make high quality audio recordings. The microphone that comes with some computers will work fine. Or, if your computer doesn't have a microphone, you could invest about $10 for an inexpensive one.
Images
Digital Storytelling: Examples
Here are a few examples of successful digital storytelling projects. Add to the list if you find some you really like.
Collections of Digital Stories
Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Examples of short films made in the Digital Storytelling Workshop at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in
Global Warming -- What is your part?
Submitted by lmcisaac on Tue, 12/23/2008 - 14:17An assignment for middle school students:
Write a persuasive essay on your blog after watching this video:
Digital Storytelling
Would your students enjoy creating stories by combining words, sound, images, and interesting special effects? Once they've learned the more basic skills of multimedia writing through regular blogging, podcasting and using images, it's time to get them involved in creating their own digital stories.
The term "digital storytelling" describes a wide variety of new media production practices. What ties them all together is the use of audio --both narration and sound -- and images to enhance the telling of a story that has been written. The stories can be about memorable experiences or events, beloved people or pets or places.
Art of the interview
Interviewing is the art of conversation, of making people comfortable, getting them to open up and learning things you didn't know. An interviewer needs to control the direction of the discussion while letting the person being interviewed think they are controlling the discussion. An interviewer should be armed with questions to ensure the proper ground is covered; often, though, many of those questions never need to be asked.
Here are some pointers on interviewing for students:
Multimedia Writing
Submitted by ggevalt on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 13:30One of the greatest attractions of using digital technology to teach writing is the opportunities it offers for multimedia writing. Multimedia writing starts with writing text, and then uses a combination of text, images, audio and/or video to illustrate the story and/or enhance the viewer's experience of it. The information presented in each medium is complementary, not redundant, so that different parts of the story are told using different media.
Using multimedia is a great way to engage students in many of the disciplines of writing. It also often entices the less engaged student to participate. Among the attributes of a multimedia project are these:
Image-based Writing: Examples
Slide your mouse through this and experience an interactive photo collage of a student trip to China. Click on the "hotspots" to listen to the audio and look at the slideshows.
