The long run of 50 Web Ways to Tell a Story which still lives on at https://50ways.cogdogblog.com/.
Today was a full on day at the opening end of a 2 week road dog trip around New England. Yesterday I flew into Newark, and did the train into New York for today’s fantastic experience at the Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication Intensive Instruction at Baruch College, thanks to a generous invitation form […]
Help! Please. I am taking 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story on a spurt of road shows over next 2 months- Barcuch College, Penn State University, Salem State College, and online version for Wooster College, and then a session at Ed-Media. Gulp, am I becoming one of those shlock presenters that milks a […]
From Iceland to the Big Screen in Moose Jaw by cogdogblog posted 20 Nov ’08, 12.25pm MST PST on flickr We used Skype today for me to present live from Iceland to a group of teachers gathered for a workshop with Dean Shareski in Saskatchewan. Through Skype video and Dean flipping Firefox tabs with me, […]
It’s been almost a year since my half baked idea emerged for 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story — I presented it 7 times, which for me, a reluctant presenter is a lot of repeats. But it is a fun show, and the highlight was getting a packed auditorium at Northern Voice 2008– I was sure everyone had my session confused with celebrity keynote. I was shaking in my cowboy boots.
By the time of the last presentation at the University of Delaware, I had achieved the Magic Heinz Number… 57 Tools…. and since then I have added another 12 on the “to do” list (sometime when I can stomach doing the same story again) including 280 slides, flowgram, SlideRocket, dipity, gloster, and more. A few of these are in beta, and I have access, but hope they emerge soon.
Vuvox Collage has been in beta a long time (and who knows what will happen, they were bought in June by eBay). I still love that one, and put along with gloster and I think the “Scrapbook” category may be renamed “Collages”.
A lot of folks keep telling me how useful the list is. And they keep asking me to recommend “best” tools. That’s really not the purpose to rank or say one is better than another. Most of the presentation ones and the slideshow ones are same in functionality, and differ maybe in template or background music choices. But I worry that people get fixated on the tools and not the process.
And I am seeking more examples to list! While the site is a wiki, I dont leave it open because (a) when I did, someone munged the format; and (b) when I did, some ***hole added spam links. So its my wiki, not yours (to edit). But what I do ask is that if you or your students or your mother-in-law or your mother-in-law’s dentist’s accountant makes a story in one of these tools, please go to the discussion tabs and share the URL (or just comments). I am watching the RSS feeds on these and boy is my reader lonely.
Three people from my University of Delaware workshop in June provided links to stories… so i will share them.
My second presentation yesterday for the Maricopa Teaching & Learning with Technology Conference was my favorite gig these days, the 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story — which, as the audience learned, is actually hovering at ter Magic Heinz Number of 57 (well technically today 56, as toufee, one of the video editing […]
I am rather overwhelmed and honored when people tell me how they use, refer or just like the 50 Ways to Tell a Web 2.0 Story (heck I just found out the Andy Carvin blogged it with some nice words way back in November at PBS). It was just a half crazy idea that has […]
Today I spent at UBC, first an informal meeting with some course designers where Brian Lamb and I did some blog talk, and my bit from Northern Voice Not Cat Diaries / Lets Rip WordPress Apart to Make a Web Site, and an informal romp through Second Life. Then it was over to the Land […]
Ugh, will this one ever end? I decided to create an audio narrated slidecast of my 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story, using the audio I recorded when I did the presentation at the 2007 NMC Regional Conference at Tulane. It took a bit more time, as I had to grab screenshots, stuff […]
Here I get to try and blog my own presentation (?). 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story presentation by Alan Levine at NMC Regional Conference at Tulane. So this is not a detailed blog coverage- pretty much as I said in the talk, the entire pile of stuff is freely, openly available for […]
After my excitement of how easy it was to create a rich media piece with Voice Thread, I got this notion of a workshop where participants could not only explore that one tool, but perhaps an array of others I was marginally aware of. So maybe it was after the evening of watching the Paul […]
