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=  O pen Discu ssion on Web 2.0 Storytelling   = //Bryan Alexander and Alan Levine//

This wiki will be open during the month of November, 2008 as an accompaniment to our just published EDUCAUSE Review article, [|Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre] in which we propose that the new tools and forms of online creation represent a new genre of storytelling and creative expression. We have set this site up partly to add a few additional resources, but more so to engage you in an open discussion where you can push back against our ideas or share more examples.

To set the stage, we have opened four broad question areas where you are invited to respond-- how you do that is completely up to you- text, links, images, video, or better yet, explore some of the web-based story tools and embed a web 2.0 responses.



What is Web 2.0 storytelling?
We have described it in our article as //"the telling of stories using Web 2.0 tools, technologies, and strategies... For our present discussion, we will identify two essential features that are useful in distinguishing Web 2.0 projects and platforms from the rest of the web:// microcontent //and// social media//."//

Inside you can find resources we have tagged (and you can too!) in delicious.com as well as a collection of tools, but more so, we want to hear ideas on how other people would describe it. How broad or narrowly can it be defined?

Should we call it something else?
Storytelling has existed and been practiced long, long before the web existed; is there anything different in the form a story is told? Is there really a "thing" we can identify as web 2.0 storytelling? Did we just make it up to get published? ;-)

Or is there a better name to describe what we outline in the article?

Where are they? Share some examples!
We've provided quite a few examples in our artlcle, but there are more than any two authors can find. Share examples of what you might consider Web 2.0 Storytelling examples, describe them, add links, embed them right in the wiki.

Are they best organized by type of story? by media form?

curriculum, and campus life?
Okay, so this might be interesting forms of creative expression, what are the effective ways to integrate this into the teaching and learning process? Perhaps it is easy to see a fit for subjects such as media arts, communication, etc, how can this be used in say, chemistry or economics? What do these new forms of literacy mean for educational systems based more on the written form?

enter this discussion...
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 * **Bryan Alexander**, Director of Research at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE, http://nitle.org). He blogs at http://b2e.nitle.org/.
 * **Alan Levine** is Vice President, Community, and Chief Technology Officer for the New Media Consortium (NMC, http://www.nmc.org). He barks about technology at http://cogdogblog.com