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cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog It was an honor, privilege, and a hoot to be invited to come to Melbourne to do a 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story presentation for the PLP Network project here. This all came about because in October, during my road trip, I paid a visit to the home of Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach in Virginia Beach (get it, beach? beach?). We have known each other for a long time online but had never met in carbon form. Over dinner, she told me that her colleague, Will Richardson (whom I did not get to meet on the loop) was unable to attend the culminating meeting for their project in Australia, and would I be interested in going in his place to do a keynote? I think I said yes before her question ended. Thanks Will, we had way too much [...]

It’s beena while since I played with dotSUB, the crowdsource site for translating video captions into other languages. I decided to givre it a play with the video I made last month for 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to tell a story. I first uploaded the video to dotSub. I thne noticed that it had an option to import a caption file (which I dont have in the proper format). But… I know that YouTube can do a fair job of filling in captions if you can provide it a text version of the script. And I had a script made when I made the movie (I did have to go back and re-edit, a the narrator went off script a lot- that was me). And YouTube does an okay job, some of the timing is a little off: But it offers the option to download the caption file… which I [...]

The cryptic math is meant to communicate that over the last 2 days (48 hours), I have presented 3 times online 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (if you do the math you get a bad pi). Last night was a presentation for Dean Shareski‘s ECMP 355 Course (no web site?), which I believe is a University of Regina course for pre-service teachers, “Computers in the Classroom”. And I did two more ones today for the Powerful Learning Practice group from El Paso that Sheryl Nusbaum-Beach and Will Richardson leave. I gotta give Sheryl and hear team a to of credit in providing tech support to these teachers; they had them ALL verify and test their voice connection before I started, and rally provided a lot of energy to the back channel. All the participants were highly active, and took on my game of story prompts, this time [...]

I had fun going overboard on making this promo video for 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story This was created for today’s keynote at the Learning Connections District Champions meeting in Toronto. When Deb invited me to speak she asked me to do a video she could use to summarize the workshop after it ended. I really should have just turned on the web cam and blabbed away, and I might have been done in an hour. But I had this half idea to piece together a message from it using the tools themselves, so I wrote a script, and assigned tools for each line. For the tools that have audio or video capability, I use it directly; otherwise, I made voice-overs in iMovie. To capture the animated/bviudeo segments, I did screen capture with iShowU. The slides for today’s session are posted on Slideshare 50 Ways Workshop for [...]

I’m tickled, not ecstatic rolling on the floor, about the response among the ds106 participants in creating examples of mini stories using the tools from 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story. I’ve always wanted to have more examples to include, and ds106 provides, abides, subsidizes…What is really cool is that they seem to be covering every tool, even the obscure ones. I’ll be combing through them all soon, and will be rolling into the new version of the site I need to round out over the next months. Part of the new model is making it easier for people to add directly to the site. In tribute, I whipped together a comic with gnomz, which has been around a long, long time (gnmoz can be wonky, the embed is not working so I did a full page screen grab with Aviary) Full comic is at http://en.gnomz.com/227499-50-nuggets.html

cc licensed flickr photo shared by dannyphyo Take a long nap, Jack, Make a big snore, Elanor. Dont need to be awake, Jake, Just listen to me. Eek, time slipped away and I was not paying attention to ds106 assignment 3 referring to 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story. I’m excited to see what people create ’cause it means I will have a bunch of new examples to add to the site. A caveat, I’ve been dragging my paws on updating that site. Well, I did start with a new one, but it is not filled out — I have a new design that will be (hopefully) better organized/structured, and offer more routes in to have people contribute. But alas, it is about 48 short, but FYI can be found at http://50ways.wikispaces.com. As is, the old one is most complete, but keep in mind that some of descriptions [...]

It has been more than three years since I did the first iteration of 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (that was October 15, 2007 in Hobart, Tasmania). It’s been on my mind for months to recast the site into a new version. Much of the information needs updates, some of the tools have fallen off the vine– it was time for a fresh coat of paint. I got the perfect driving inspiration when a colleague asked me to do a version of the workshop for the 2010 Museum Computer Network Conference a week ago, in Austin. I had nailed down a new wikispaces site and got most of the structure set up in time for the conference, and the new home is at http://www.mcn.edu/mcn-2010-austin. It has the three parts of the story making process (Outline a story Idea, Find Media, and Pick a Tool). I have my [...]

Jon Breitenbucher invited me back again to do a remote (via Skype) presentation on 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story for the week-long Instructional Technology Faculty Fellows program he and his crew run at the College of Wooster (by the way, they are rocking with wordpress multiuser there). When I did this last year, it was one of the best sessions I’ve had; a lot because Jon’s team had prepped the faculty, so they already had done some pre-work to pick their story idea. The way we run it is I do the presentation first thing in the morning (wich was really early here on the west coast time!), the faculty spend about 3 hours working with the tools. We then convene after they are done, and they get to talk about what they were able to create (or the problems they had). This time around, I used [...]

I pulled out all the Hawaii in yer eye themes for the latest incarnation of my dog and dog show, presenting 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story for the EDMEDIA 2009 conference (all links mentioned in the show are just a scroll away from that link) It went fine, I had fun, people laughed at the Blabberize Alpaca. There is an audio recording coming from EDMEDIA, which is going to be full of me popping my p’s a bit loudly. It was a few days before that I realized I was missing a key cultural reference: Hawaii 50+ Ways the trailer Going into this I felt I needed something new as an angle. ED-MEDIA is a big international conference, and swirls around the thousands of papers presented. Egads, I needed something academic? I’m really ready to hang it up and retire the shtick. This time I tried to [...]

In two days will be lifting off from Phoenix towards Honolulu for the 2009 ED-MEDIA conference which means I have 48 hours of presentation prep (actually more since I don’t present til Wednesday). I am doing another spin of 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story again using hand coded RSS and CoolIris to run the show. I hear from folks who want easier ways to run presos in CoolIris (if you missed that boat, get the cool Firefox add on)- and there are more options now, including running it from a set of photos on your desktop, and likely the easiest, IMHO, is to create a flickr set and view that in CoolIris. A recent tweak I found, which adds zero to the presentation itself, but I could not resist, is the new ability to add your own custom logo to the CoolIris menu bar: This is just [...]