My friends Laura and Kate, along with Geoff and Tanya remotely, presented about the idea of Small Stories and the Pedagogy of Small at the OER19 Conference. I’ve been part of the SmallStories gathering over at Mastodon for some time (often with CLMOOC friends), first drawn there by Tanya and Kate and others, and now […]
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Slice of Life: Brewing an Audio Stew with Words, Loops, and Sounds
(This is for the Slice of Life challenge, hosted by Two Writing Teachers. We write on Tuesdays about the small moments in the larger perspective … or is that the larger perspective in the smaller moments? You write, too.) We’re in a digital writing unit that centers on expanding the notions of what it means to compose, […]
Annotation Invitation: Critical Literacies and Student Stories
As part of the ongoing Writing Our Civic Futures project, through Educator Innovator and Marginal Syllabus, a crowd annotation of Linda Christensen’s deep article on how she turned her classroom around to focus on the lives of her students is underway. And you are invited. The project uses the open sourced Hypothesis tool, which allows […]
#NetNarr: Writing with Sound(s)
This week, at Networked Narratives, the focus is on using sound for writing and writing for sound. There are a few suggested activities (including gathering sounds from your surroundings), but I figured I would dig back into some past posts where I did focus on sound, both as a writer and as a teacher encouraging […]
#NetNarr: Weaving Stories with Invisible Thread
Alan Levine has jumpstarted his wonderful Five Card Story activity — which uses Flickr images for inspiring a story — for the Networked Narratives. Here’s mine, called Even Dead Ends are Starting Points. She heard the sounds of the guitar, and the song came suddenly. Melody. Words. Harmony. She hurried out to meet the musician, […]
Making Soundscapes: The HearMyHome Project
I’m always intrigued by sound. Either with the emotional power of music — listening and writing — or with using soundscapes for telling stories. There’s something oddly cool with how we can use audio to capture our world. This past fall, I even did Sound Stories with my sixth graders. So I was interested in […]
The Snow Tells Stories: A Video of Vines
After sharing yesterday’s post about using Vine to make a multimedia poem about Vine, Terry suggested that maybe a collaboration with Vine might be something to consider. Yep. We jumped right on that, with each of us shooting our 6 second segments and then pulling them together into this video story: Director’s Notes Script: Terry […]
Six Second Stories (or What’s Your Moment?)
Over at the K12Online Conference, Ben Wilkoff quilted together a presention entirely constructed of 6-Second Vine videos, using the overall piece like a canvas effect to talk about how teachers can tell our stories — not just in the larger scope of education but also of the smaller moments in time. Check out Ben’s presentation, […]
Soundscape Story: From Sunrise to Sunset
I’ve been challenging myself to do something around the theme of “light” this week at the Making Learning Connected MOOC, using only audio to tell a story. I failed at it many times. It turns out that telling a story completely with sounds is pretty difficult, even with the experience I had doing this with […]
Projects Collide: When the #Nerdlution Song Met the #Nerdlution Stories
This post combines a few different #nerdlution projects from the week. I used the collaborative song for a soundtrack in Animoto, with the images being the files from the weekend’s six word stories. I just popped them into the blender and came out with this #nerdlution smoothie that has to be good for your heart, […]