Workshop

Web 2.0 Storytelling in Education Workshop
Web 2.0 storytelling is the practice of using social media to tell and share stories. This session explores the growing number of examples in a wide variety of platforms, from blogs to twitter to YouTube and much more. The presenters will focus on educational applications and issues, and attendees will have an opportunity to experiment with some of the tools.

This workshop will cover a lot of ground and we intend to provide yo a firehose of resources, more than we dare think we can achieve. You will be working in groups and individually creating media using a variety of desktop and web-based tools.

What You Will Need Before You Show Up

 * A Wikispaces account, so you can participate in this wiki. Go to http://www.wikispaces.com/
 * A twitter account- if you do not have one, create one now at http://twitter.com.
 * A VoiceThread account - http://voicethread.com/
 * A Glogster account - http://www.glogster.com/
 * A flickr account http://www.flickr.com/
 * An xtranormal account http://xtranormal.com
 * Bring whatever you can for media capture/creation including a laptop computer equipped with wireless connectivity, plus if you have them (not all are necessary, we will share ours)- a digital camera, some kind of video recorder (get a Flip camera from the [|NMC store]!), a mobile phone that can record audio/video/images, an audio recorder.
 * Pick a video editing application, doing whatever is necessary to have it ready to use on site - iMovie, FinalCut, Windows MovieMaker, Jaycut (http://jaycut.com)
 * Make sure your web browser has the current version of Flash installed http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Tweeting About web2storytelling
This messages come from all twitter messages containing [|our "hash" tag of #web2storytelling]. rss url="http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23web2storytelling" link="true" number="10" =**Tentative agenda**=

**1 pm - Introductions**

 * 1) Participants - A few intros in person, we invite... er... //implore// everyone to [|send a 140 charcter greeting via twitter] (and use the [|#web2storytelling tag])
 * 2) Meet Facilitators Bryan Alexander (http://let.blog.nitle.org/ and http://www.nitle.org/) & Alan Levine (http://cogdogblog.com and http://www.nmc.org)
 * 3) Let's talk about Web 2.0 Stoytelling - see our //EDUCAUSE Review// paper at http://www.educause.edu/library/erm0865
 * 4) [|Bryan's Introduction]
 * 5) //50+ Web 2,0 Ways to Tell a Story// http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+ways
 * 6) Infocult blog entries: http://infocult.typepad.com/infocult/web_20_storytelling/
 * 7) Form groups, select group name from below, draft a group "scribe" (these group names were chosen for first iteration of this workshop at the [|2009 NMC Summer Conference] in Monterey, CA)
 * Group One: Whale Watchers
 * Group Two: Steinback Fans
 * Group Three: Canners from the Row
 * Group Four: Looking for Clint Eastwood (extra, not used)
 * Group Five: Summer of Love (extra, not used)


 * 1:45 - 3:15 - Platform and media exercises**
 * Setting/wiki exercises**
 * 1) -[prompt] what is //not// a story? (wiki)
 * 2) -[prompt] Describe more full the setting based on your selection from the VoiceThread exercise (use your group wiki page)
 * 3) Swap group exercise (groups build on the work of another group)

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 * Multimedia intro exercise**
 * Using Voicethread- log in to [|Voice Thread]. Pick one image from the [|Mystery Places collection] we built and add onto any of the images by thinkiing what may happen in these places. Use the voice, video, text commenting as well as the markup tools.


 * Visuals for storytelling**
 * **Using Flickr for Creative Commons images**
 * On the flickr site (must ID the license type) http://flickr.com/creativecommons
 * Compfight (Alan's favorite!) http://compfight.com
 * FlickrCC http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/
 * Flickr Storm http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/
 * One prompt: use image as inspiration. Select one image that you can add you uor story that grabs your attentions from these creative commons search strings. Be sure to (a) record the attribution information; and (b) download a copy of the image to use.
 * [|search 1]
 * [|search 2]
 * [|search 3]
 * [|search 4]
 * Another prompt: what happens next? (write out in text on your wiki page)
 * More media sources
 * See Leigh Blackall's Customize Google Search for Free Media http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=012356173952156030296:fxuin7rsmvq
 * 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story: media Sources http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryMedia


 * Character Voicing** - develop the persona of your characters
 * 1) Check out a blog storytelling example, and see how it serves a narrative function ([|one list to use])
 * 2) Voice a character, choosing one of these platforms:
 * Generate dialog in Twitter (use the [|#web2storytelling hash tag])
 * Try developing a character in Xtranormal http://xtranormal.com - a movie making web tool where characters you select can be put onto sets, and then dialog added just by typing text
 * Use the character tools to design the avatar appearance.
 * Select a set to place them in
 * Create a few frames with different angles
 * Type in what the character might say as dialogue to describe themself.
 * Publish the movie in Xtranormal and/or to YouTube. Demo version http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20090606155701451

-intro: Animoto -independent platform choice (Jaycut) -require samples from our flickr group pool http://www.flickr.com/groups/web2storytelling/ (and feel free to contribute!) Voiceover exercise
 * Video exploration**
 * Digital storytelling @ Williams College - http://oit.williams.edu/itech/digitalstorytelling/
 * Chemistry content video - [|http://chem.acad.wabash.edu/~trippm/Lipids/]


 * Sense of an ending exercise**
 * [prompt]: we hand out cards, and they have to get there.

(peer optional)
 * 3:15 - 4:00 Back to your projects**
 * Use wiki pages from today to grow more notes
 * Use [|Glogster] to assemble a final version of a story- draw from media on flickr, YouTube, etc
 * Discussion, next steps
 * More platforms and projects:
 * tagged at http://delicious.com/tag/web2storytelling
 * Five Card flickr http://web.nmc.org/5cardstory/flickr.php
 * Things we pointed to, but didn't get to have everyone work on:
 * Twhistory (http://www.twhistory.com/)
 * Jaycut (http://jaycut.com/myjaycut)
 * Glogster (http://www.glogster.com/)
 * ECAR study "Exploring Diversity and Creating IT Community through Storytelling" (http://www.educause.edu/Resources/ExploringDiversityandCreatingI/172997; subscription required)

Image Creative Commons licensed flickr photos modified with [|Photo Notes generator]. Photo credit [|Hyperwerk 033 Lenny Laser cut] by watz.

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