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 only to Tom’s...

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.”...

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...

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 digital storytelling and...

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 and provide context to all the tools...