Storytelling has existed since the beginning of time as a form of human interaction. It evolved from cave paintings and oral transmission of how and why our people existed and as an explanation of the world around us to troubadours who traveled the country to inform others of news and happenings of places and people [...]

Michele Martin posts on her Bamboo Project Blog the Web 2.0 Wednesday Challenge
One of the beauties of Web 2.0 is how it connects us to people from all over the world, in different cultures with different ways of life. This gives us wonderful opportunities to learn from each other. So here’s this week’s activity:
Use a [...]

Found this little tool, called Wordle , via CogDog Blog .
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create [...]

I have decided to introduce Scatch in my upcoming TechCamp.
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As [...]

Storytelling used to be the only way to pass one generation’s knowledge on to the next one. Oral transmitted legends, fairy- and folk tales for example allowed elders to explain and help understand the world around them to their descendants. When books were scarce or did not exist and few knew how to read them, [...]

Windows Movie Maker is a program that already comes pre-installed on your Windows XP or Windows Vista computer.
Creating a movie in this program involves three basic steps:

Get started by clicking Start > Programs and then locating the MovieMaker icon

Double-click to launch the program.

You will want to use Windows Movie Maker if you have video [...]

Day 10: Do a Comment Audit on Your Own Blog
So far in the challenge, we’ve been focusing on making comments. But most of us are also bloggers and we need to consider what we’re doing to invite conversations on our own blogs. Are we doing all that we can to build a sense of community [...]

If you own a PC, you can download Microsoft’s PhotoStory for free .

To get started creating a story:

Download and install the program on your computer.
Once installed open the program by clicking “Start”, then “Programs”

Find the icon for “PhotoStory 3 for Windows”
Begin a new story by selecting the radio button and pushing the [...]

Storytelling has been a great part of our school year, which is already winding down. From…

telling about our and Jose, the travel bear ’s adventurous stories live while in Egypt
outfitting EVERY classroom in our school with their own digital cameras, so teachers and students could create a visual of their daily activities or create [...]

My school updated all computers with the newest version of Microsoft Office 2007 suite last summer. I have to admit, that I have been slow to warm up to it. I do want to share with you the feature of creating visuals from PowerPoint 2007, that I am enjoying tremendously. I don’t necessarily use [...]