Hello from the Left Coast
Hey there folks,
Okay, somehow the blogger invite Michael Searson sent me on Feb. 2 got lost. Oh well.
Anyway, I dropped in tonight and this is an absolutely wonderful dialogue. Thanks so much to Glen for facilitating this, and I will try to get our educator friends around the world to check it out as the conference approaches, as well as try to post myself.
My small contribution is to call your attention to this site that appeared today in my email box. It comes from a broadband effort in Education in the East of England, and it is a most impressive interface for showing work, and the two movies I saw were quite wonderful. Check it out at http://story.e2bn.net/index.php.
Also someone mentioned we have a couple of places to see movies by our center, www.storycenter.org/movies, and www.silencespeaks.org, but also track the postings on our little podcasting experiment. I have posted three so far from the library and hope to post more and more over the days.
this ridiculous URL
http://web.mac.com/storyplace/iWeb/storyplace/Welcome%20to%20Storyplace.html
and then the user name: storyteller password: cdsguest
I look forward to seeing you all in Orlando.
-joe
posted by Joe Lambert @ 9:04 PM
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Welcome, Joe. As a relative newcomer to Digital Storytelling, I’m looking forward to hearing more about your work at the CDS and discussing how SITE members can collaborate with you and your colleagues. I know that in Houston, where I work with undergraduate & graduate students, university faculty and public school teachers, Digital Storytelling is one of the most exciting and most well-received educational tools I’ve ever seen. As you’ve noted, a rich dialogue has emerged in this blog that covers many fascinating topics and I hope you will continue to share your ideas and insights on the blog and in Orlando. Looking forward to meeting you at the conference.
Bernard Robin
University of Houston
Joe, I'm looking forward to meeting you in Orlando and having an opportunity to talk with you further about your work. We're fortunate to have Ellen Cushman on our faculty at Michigan State University. I don't know if you and Ellen know one another, but I think she was at the Center for Digital Storytelling while at Berkeley. Since then, she's done workshops for teachers in the Denver National Writing Project site, and for our NWP site at Michigan State University, RCWP. (sorry everyone about this feeble attempt to make a personal connection with Joe in this public space!).
Anyway, I haven't done near as much with digital storytelling as anyone else on these blogs, so I'll now go back to lurking and learning!!
Janet
Joe, I'm looking forward to meeting you in Orlando and having an opportunity to talk with you further about your work. We're fortunate to have Ellen Cushman on our faculty at Michigan State University. I don't know if you and Ellen know one another, but I think she was at the Center for Digital Storytelling while at Berkeley. Since then, she's done workshops for teachers in the Denver National Writing Project site, and for our NWP site at Michigan State University, RCWP. (sorry everyone about this feeble attempt to make a personal connection with Joe in this public space!).
Anyway, I haven't done near as much with digital storytelling as anyone else on these blogs, so I'll now go back to lurking and learning!!
Janet
In looking at Joe's podcasting experiment, my thinking about digital storytelling has just gone in a completely new direction. I was "trained" (sorry about that word choice, Joe) at the CDS three years ago, and since, have carried the model into my work with preservice and practicing middle and high school English/Language Arts teachers -- even "reinventing" parts of it to create virtual think alouds where reluctant readers work to make what was formerly an invisible process tangible and "real." Up until this point, I'd anchored all of that work in either using a series of images (visual essay) or a series of slides (powerpoint) or a digital video (iMovie). The connection had always been that students needed to add their voice to the visual work - either through oral presentation with images in the background - or through the filmic pieces developed in iMovie. In looking at the podcasts alongside the blog entries, something clicked -- and I'm seeing the "product" of the digital story in a more compelling way. Several of us on this blog have wrestled to keep storytelling at the center of the work (as opposed to it becoming consumed by the tools) -- and what I see in your "experiment" takes the tools away and pushes the storytelling (in multiple modes) to the forefront. THANK YOU for sharing this. (Am I the only one who just had an "ah ha?")
I'm also looking forward to meeting you. I've often pointed people at your site(s) when they are looking for examples and resources for digital storytelling.
Hi Joe,
I was wondering why you had not contributed to the blog as of yet. I thought you were just so busy with CDS you may not have had the time.
I'm sure you don't remember me, but I met you at the Kean Univ. Digital Storytelling Conference this past June. I had the pleasure of buying and reading your book. I really enjoyed the book. I had also bought a copy for one of my colleagues. She also enjoyed it.
The podcasts are great. I will show them to my students prior to their creation of their own stories as examples. In the past I just showed previous students work. I think by showing them the websites listed here in this blog will provide them with a wide variety of uses of digital storytelling.
Thank you for providing another resource.
Hello Joe
I'm so glad someone else got a 'ridiculous' url when creating with iWeb, I love the tool but I'm still working out the glitches in how I use it.
Lately my work has been dedicated to an in depth literature review to preface my dissertation work in digital storytelling. I found the research and literature on storytelling to be a key piece as I work through the connection of storytelling, sense-making activities and the important piece storytelling plays in learning...currently I'm working on that connection that brings images, narration and sound/music into the combination.
I look forward to SITE this year almost as much as the Digital Storytelling Festival...
thank you for joining the discussion, your insight is always an inspiration and you always remind me to keep my eye on the story itself when I work with learners of any age.
Cynthia
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