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Creative Commons, Adsense and Copyright

Will begins a great conversation about others grabbing his feed including ads to profit from his writing. I’ve had this happen on occasion but always viewed it as a compliment. Will thinks differently about it. The comments bring more complexity to the conversation. (including a Tom Hoffman zinger. BTW, is there a way to subscribe [...]

Tell a story in 5 frames

Flickr has become an essential in digital storytelling. This group uses 5 photos to tell a story.

This would be a great and simple way to introduce digital storytelling to your students. We used to call it sequencing but digital storytelling sounds much better. There are many great and not so great examples.

Citation:gtj-45. “Peacock Butterfly.” [...]

Cite your wikipedia sources

Tim Wilson discovers a wikipedia citing tool. As with http://citationmachine.net/, wikipedia offers many formats and flavours for your choosing. Here’s an example for Moose Jaw:

Bibliographic details for “Moose Jaw”

Page name: Moose Jaw
Author: Wikipedia contributors
Publisher: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
Date of last revision: 10 March 2004 13:31 UTC
Date retrieved: 28 July 2006 17:28 UTC
Permanent link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moose_Jaw&oldid=16357282
Primary contributors: [...]

Everybody’s Got a Story

I’ve set up my wiki for my digital storytelling workshop on Monday and Tuesday. I really struggled with the format, the tools and the pedagogical approach.

The format:

How many activities/projects can be done in 2 days? I know many workshops will focus totally on one project. They’ll spend much of day one setting the stage for [...]

I talk too much

Social Software Workshop

Yes it’s true.

Today I facilitated a workshop on Social Software. While the comments were all positive and I sensed excitement about the tools and new considerations for learning, I know I talked too much.

I began the workshop with an introduction to Web 2.0 and the changing classroom. I wanted to set the stage for day [...]