Storytelling gets an upgrade: Beyond tactile stories — from digitalbookworld.com by J.C. Hutchins, novelist and transmedia storyteller

Excerpt:

Over the course of my two previous pieces on storytelling upgrades, I showed how tactile and kinetic features native to the iPad can be linked to traditional narrative devices, such as foreshadowing. However, where it gets really exciting is how the device can unlock a deeply interactive and immersive environment in which the “reader” is an integral part of a nonlinear story—all narrative features that cannot be rendered in print.

Up to now, I had been focusing on the tactile and kinetic, but there are dozens of ways exist to leverage the iPad’s other built-in features, including…

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StoryWorld 2011

StoryWorld Conference + Expo is a timely event for:

  • Transmedia content developers
  • Book publishing professionals
  • Television development and acquisition professionals
  • Film professionals
  • Advertising agencies and multi-media marketing firms
  • Game developers (including web, video, roleplaying and alternate reality games)
  • Mobile developers
  • Production companies
  • Literary and entertainment agencies
  • Writers and content creators
  • Media consultants
  • Any firm or professional in the business of producing cross-platform content

Teaching students to be multimedia storytellers — from Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning

From DSC:
With a special congrats out to Laura Fleming on her curation efforts:

We wanted to point Spotlight readers to a new, powerful collection on the National Writing Project’s Digital Is website. Reading and Writing Transmedia is curated by Laura Fleming, a library media specialist in River Edge, N.J., who blogs regularly about the connection between transmedia and education.

Check out the Teachscape Reflect product — looks very promising!

 

http://www.teachscape.com/reflect/

 

teachscape.com

 

Excerpt:

What if you could accurately capture everything that happens in the classroom? Imagine being able to catch every detail of teaching and learning, and then being able to review the captured material online anytime, anywhere, to assess instructional practices.

By combining 360-degree video and high-quality audio capture with online collaboration tools featuring research-based frameworks—including Charlotte Danielson’s Framework for Teaching—Teachscape Reflect delivers a classroom observation system and virtual professional learning community anchored in a common definition of teacher effectiveness.

From DSC:
We may be investigating this product for use with supporting remote student teachers. But Reflect can also be used for professional development purposes as well.

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Teachscape’s omnidirectional camera is used to capture in real time a 360-degree classroom scene. In the video stream it creates, both the instructor and the students can be seen. —Zhigang Zhu/Department of Computer Science, City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center

 

New software and hardware tools are being developed to help teachers get a more panoramic view of how things are going in their classrooms

 
 

Expand TV

Excerpts (emphasis DSC):

What is interactive TV?
Interactive TV is technology that allows viewers to interact directly with content and brands through use of their TV remote control to request product samples, discounts and information, express opinions, engage in polling and trivia, and more. In a study, 82% of viewers said they would like to be exposed to additional interactive television advertising. (The Efficacy of Advanced Advertising and In-Program Interactivity, Canoe Ventures, 2010)

Also see Canoe Ventures (New York, NY):

The Next Great Digital Medium
Canoe VenturesTM is changing television. We’re creating innovative products and services for networks to enhance programming and empower viewers to interact with their TVs.

We are accelerating TV’s evolution by combining the impact and reach of traditional TV with new technologies and marketing solutions that will better connect consumers with brands.

Founded in 2008 by the country’s leading cable operators, Canoe is making TV the next great digital medium.

 

Addendum from later on 6/27/11:

Final Cut Pro X released today -- 6-21-11 -- download it from the App Store for $299

 

Some of the other items/articles on this include:

 

Announcing the Cisco umi Mobile App for iOS and Android– from Cisco by Gina Clark

 

Cisco umi mobile app


Excerpt from Cisco (emphasis DSC):

Today, I’m pleased to announce a new addition to the umi family — the Cisco umi mobile app is now available for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Android devices.

The umi mobile app is a cool new way for umi subscribers to access video messages and recorded videos on the go. In addition, you can use your mobile device’s touchscreen to add/edit contacts easily with the onscreen keyboard, or even as a remote control for umi on your HDTV.

 

Relevant addendum later on 6/16/11:

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videogamedesignschools.net

From DSC:
My thanks to Sara McDowell for this resource, which she developed.

 

 

Addendums on 6/16/11 — also see:

Digital storytelling tools (K-12) — from Tech & Learning by Özge Karaoglu

  • Audio tools
  • Picture tools
  • Animations tools
  • …and more

Apple unveils iMessage, its BBM competitor, at WWDC — from engadget.com by Jacob Schulman

OS X Lion launching in July for $29.99 — from engadget.com by Donald Melanson

Apple’s iOS 5: all the details — from engadget.com by Vlad Savov

iCloud unveiled at WWDC, free for all 9 cloud apps, MobileMe RIP — from engadget.com by Joseph L. Flatley

Apple announces iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match — from engadget.com by Donald Melanson

Steve Jobs helps announce iCloud, new software — from theglobeandmail.com by Marcus Wohlsen,Michael Liedtke

Apple iCloud: Everything you need to know — from digitaltrends.com by Kelly Montgomery

Five tips for emerging video journalists — over at the Innovative Interactivity blog by Paul Franz

Excerpt:

But there are a few skills that I strongly believe all budding video journalists should take note of as they begin their careers in multimedia production.

a) Get used to editing as if you were working for MTV. For example, TIME recently rolled out a new magazine feature called “Pop Chart,” which is tantamount to a kind of a whacky news round-up. Normally, these affairs can be boring time sinks that do not attract a whole lot of viewers or interest. But with a few editing tricks and changes to your style, they can become fun little shows that entertain as well as inform.

b) Start getting comfortable with your voice. Many pieces just won’t have all the content you require to have a single character narrate an entire piece. Purists will argue that not having enough A-roll is tantamount to laziness, but the realities of the job will force you to use your voice frequently as a narrative bridge.

 

 

video camera

 

LiveScribe's new connections -- sharp!

 

From DSC:
Taking this concept into learning spaces…I would like to see this type of thing in all Smart Classrooms; for example:



 

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