Web 2.0 Pedagogical Implications

Digital storytelling

Digital storytelling is a productive framework for characterizing how Web 2.0 tools can be used to engage students in productive endeavors yielding constructivist outcomes:

• Alan Levine's CogDog "50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story" http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools
• Wesley Fryer's Teach Digital: http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/digitalstorytelling
• Wesley Fryer's recording of his keynote address on Digital Storytelling in the Classroom at the 2006 Hawaii Library Association’s annual conference in Honolulu: http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/11/30/podcast103-digital-storytelling-in-the-classroom/

Digital photostories

Here are some sources of digital photo tools compiled from postings on the Webheads list in August 2007

• http://jingproject.com/ "fantastic ... easy to use ... free"
• http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
• http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory.htm
• http://www.slidestory.com/
• http://www.slide.com/
• http://www.bubbleshare.com/new
• http://photobucket.com/ - allows 'auto-shifting and zooming' photo and slide shows, with music or voice overlays
• http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
• http://voicethread.com/ - Free tool, gives you the opportunity to comment on the single images
• MSNBC has photostories for listening and discussion: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5114929/

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Last updated: August 22, 2007

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