Alan Levine • cogdogblog.com • cogdogblog@gmail.com

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Not long ago producing multimedia digital content required expensive equipment and deep levels of technical expertise. Now anyone can create, publish, and share compelling works with nothing more complex than a web browser. Open licensed media is easy to find/re-use, and combing that with our own content and a set of free tools, means we have powerful ways to express ideas beyond text and bullet points.

This session will cover a basic process that can be used to create a story in a web 2.0 tool using images, audio, and/or video. We use the word "story" its broadest sense; it may be a deeply personal one of the digital storytelling variety, or it may be a tale of a travel trip, a simple presentation, or a report. What you can make includes more than one type of media (images + text, audio + images, etc) that are assembled and published on the web, and can be linked to or embedded into other web sites.

I discovered more than 50 tools for anyone to creatively use. Just to prove it can be done, we will aim to construct same story in multiple tools, and examine what the implications for what shapes more of our message- ideas or tools. The point is not that these can professional production tools, but that the barrier of entry to content creation can be drastically low. And, in the process of using a limited tool, we will see how it expands our skills of creativity.

50+ Ways Presentations

• Baruch College students and faculty workshop, New York NY (May 5, 2011) event flyer (PDF)
• Learning Connections District Champions meeting, keynote, presentation slides Toronto, ON, Canada (April 29, 2011)
• 2010 Museum Computer Network (MCN) Conference, pre-conference workshop, Austin, TX (Oct 27, 2010)
• College of Wooster Faculty Fellows remote presentation using Google Presenter, talk via Skype, recorded audio (May 20, 2010)
• Discovery Educators Network online presentation via Web-Ex (Feburary 17, 2010)
• Remotely presented for Dean Shareski's digital storytelling workshop, audio via Skype, slides via Google Presenter. (February 8, 2010)
• ED-MEDIA 2009 invited feature session, Honolulu HI (June 24, 2009) audio recording at Ed/ITLib
• College of Wooster Faculty Fellows remote presentation via Skype (May 21, 2009)
• Salem State College Future is Now conference, Salem MA (May 13, 2009)
• Invited presentation at Penn State University, State College PA (May 5, 2009)
• Baruch College Schwartz Communication Symposium, New York NY (May 1, 2009)
• Remote presentation for Dean Shareski's teacher ed class and Alec Couros ECMP 455 class (Feb 25, 2009)
• Remote presentation from Iceland to Canada for Dean Shareski's workshop; recorded from uStream (Nov 20, 2008)
• University of Delaware, Summer Faculty Institute high quality video, questionable quality of presenter ;-) Newark DE (Jun 4, 2008)
• Maricopa Community Colleges Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference audio and ustream recording Mesa AZ (May 13, 2008)
• eLearning Guild 2008 Annual Meeting, Orlando FL (Apr 17, 2008)
• Brown Bag presentation at University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC (Feb 28, 2008) recorded on ustream.tv and video from UBC web site
• Northern Voice 2008 in front of a jam-packed auditorium. Vancouver, BC (Feb 23, 2008)
• Slidecast from presentation at 2007 NMC Regional Conference at Tulane University
  http://media.nmc.org/2007/11/50ways.mp3 (51.2 Mb MP3) New Orleans, LA (Nov 17, 2007)
• Crunched down into a 15 minute fire house in Darwin, Australia
• The first one ever- done as a hands-on workshop Hobart, Tasmania, (Oct 15, 2007)