A proposed London based movie that will incorporate social networking and an alternate reality game. The creative director's plan is to "remove people from their passive positions at their computers and bring them close to the action"... They plan to use "blogs, YouTube, GPS, telephone, secret meetings, IM, auditions... role-play, cinema, and music" to pull viewers into real life interactions.
Channel 13, PBS station in NYC, is hosting a teaching and learning
conference. There is also a multimedia in the classroom competition. It
celebrates "teachers and students who collaboratively transform
learning environments through technology."
Ask someone to describe educational TV and chances are they'll mention kids stuck in front of a screen.
It doesn't need to be so, says Gordon Dryden, and these days it is increasingly likely the kids themselves will be creating the content. In some New Zealand schools, even new entrants are given digital camcorders to record their experiences, giving them a chance to be multimedia journalists fro
Schoolwires has released an upgrade of Schoolwires Centricity, which adds homework management functionality to its Web-based community communications platform for schools and districts.
With REPLAY, the Multimedia Services of ETH Zurich are developing a system for the holistic processing of audiovisual content. From the recording of lectures and events, indexing, archiving and searching, to the distribution of content in different formats, REPLAY covers the complete life cycle of an audiovisual production.
Welcome to a website devoted to the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling. Click on the links on this page to learn more about watching and creating stories made with digital technology tools.
A simple web-based application that enables the creation of multi-media presentations (i.e. audio with powerpoint, images, youtube). Great tool for educators to consider…limited time required to produce some fairly decent presentations.
Today, students at Alta Vista elementary school in Sarasota, Fla., are sitting in their classroom and controlling an ROV camera in a shark tank at Mote Marine Laboratory across town. Students in New York are interviewing a Pearl Harbor survivor at the Arizona Memorial Museum in Hawaii. Students in a one-room schoolhouse in rural Alaska are taking part in the 400th anniversary celebration of Jamestown, Va., by connecting to The Mariners’ Museum, which sits on the James River just a few miles from this historic site. How is this possible? As it turns out, all you need is a good Internet connection and videoconferencing equipment.
Like MS Producer, but online... free.