From DSC:
For those of us in higher education, what occurs in K-12 affects us, as it affects our incoming students’ expectations. We need to prepare now for our students of tomorrow! And congratulations to those of you in K-12 who are working hard to keep your students engaged, growing, challenged, participating, and learning!
ToonTastic is a storytelling and animation tool that empowers 5-10 year-old children to create their own cartoons and share stories with other kids around the world. Using a multitouch screen, kids can draw characters, objects, and settings and then animate their creations through simple gestures and real-time audio recording. The system is designed to not only scaffold the storytelling process, but to seamlessly capture the visual and narrative nature of play – thereby enabling even the youngest computer users to share ideas, art, and stories with friends and family worldwide on our “Global Storytelling Network – for Kids, by Kids”.
Original resource from:
Creating Digital Storybooks on the Fly with Sonic Pics — Living in the 4th Screen
Resource from http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/toward_ecosystem_learning_reflections_first_digital_media_learning_conferen/
From DSC:
Wow! You talk about the power of creativity, of multimedia, of combining multiple/powerful/engaging technologies! I look forward to seeing how this project grows and what it can produce for today’s students. Check out the scenarios on their site.
It will also be interesting to see how this relates to trends within publishing (iPad, interactive magazines) and the continued convergence of technologies. The learning ecosystem continues to move, morph, grow, connect, engage.
The International Journal of Multimedia & Its Applications (IJMA) is a quarterly open access journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of the Multimedia & its applications. The journal focuses on all technical and practical aspects of Multimedia and its applications. The goal of this journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding recent developments this arena, and establishing new collaborations in these areas.
Authors are solicited to contribute to the journal by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of Multimedia & its applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following
JayCut.com — for online video editing — resource from Daniel Laninga
3 educational web applications I’d like to make — from edte.ch blog
“I am sure you have had moments when you discover your inner inventor too. Here are three web based applications I have much pondered and if I had more time, money, expertise would probably have made by now.”
- StoryBook Earth
- My Reading Diary
- Connect Collaborate Content
From DSC:
In terms of digital storytelling, I prefer using Apple’s iLife suite of tools along with some of the products from Adobe to develop the materials. However, Microsoft has some solid points about the positive and engaging learning experiences that come from the use of digital storytelling within the classroom.
For me, digital storytelling:
The Digital Journalist’s Handbook is composed of 12 chapters, each covering a different tool in the digital journalist’s arsenal:
An examination of the current state of journalism and what it means to be a digital journalist.
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Headlines
• Linking
• Breaking news
• Comments
• Analytics
• Computer-assisted reporting
• Getting started
• Blog platforms
• Design
• Other types of blogs
• RSS
• Creating a successful blog
• Choosing a camera
• Composing a photo
• Shooting in the field
• Digital photo editing
• Choosing an audio recorder
• Microphones and accessories
• Recording in the field
• Interviewing
• Ambient sound
• Narration
• Audio editing
• Posting and sharing audio
• Podcasting
• Creating the slideshow
• Soundslides
• Choosing a camera
• Camera accessories
• Composing video
• Recording in the field
• Interviewing
• Video editing
• Posting and sharing video
• Content Management Systems (CMS)
• HTML
• CSS
• Journalism and programming
• Twitter
• Facebook
• MySpace
• Digg
• StumbleUpon
• YouTube
• Flickr
• Delicious
• Making the most of social networks
• Interactive maps
• Databases
• Creating a visualization
• The Flash interface
• The capabilities of Flash
• Publishing Flash files
• The disadvantages of Flash
Advice and lessons on what digital journalists should do with the tools they learn
The glossary contains more than 130 definitions of everything from ActionScript to zoom. It includes simple definitions for commonly used terms such as convergence, geotagging, flame war and technologies like Drupal, Creative Commons, and Ruby on Rails.
Learning in a Participatory Culture: A Conversation About New Media and Education (Part Three) — from newmedialiteracies.org by Henry Jenkins
Sections/sub-topics include:
Also see:
2010 NMC Symposium on New Media and Learning — New Media Consortium
The 2010 NMC Symposium on New Media and Learning, the fifteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia, will explore the impact of new media on teaching, learning, research, and creative expression, especially in higher education. New media, for this event, is interpreted broadly as anything from creative uses of digital media and new forms of communication to alternative publishing methods and media-rich tools. The Symposium seeks to explore new media in the context of a current social phenomenon and not simply as a means of content delivery.
Join keynote speakers Joe Lambert of the Center for Digital Storytelling and Constance Steinkuehler of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in sessions that delve into topics from educational gaming to telling deeply compelling stories using digital media. The annual Symposium on New Media and Learning is a conversation about the most vital and relevant applications of new media for education.
