Presentation by Tom Hapgood and Alan Levine for the NMC 2006 Regional Conference. An overview and attempt to solicit input for the new iteration of NMC's web presence.
A presentation on digital storytelling fot Alec Corous's ECI 831 course covering 50+Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story, Five Card Flickr Stories, Pechaflickr, and the StoryBox.
The Open Assignment Bank of ds106 and Remixing ThereofAlan Levine
Presentation for the 2012 Open Education Conference- ds106 is an open course in Digital Storytelling based at the University of Mary Washington. Central to the course is a collection of assignments created by participants (well over 300), each ranked by degree of difficulty. This year we added a remix generator, combining random assignments with a remix "card" detailing how to do it differently. Students are asked to use as starting material the work of other students from the original assignment. Experience these first hand at this session.
Presentation by Tom Hapgood and Alan Levine for the NMC 2006 Regional Conference. An overview and attempt to solicit input for the new iteration of NMC's web presence.
A presentation on digital storytelling fot Alec Corous's ECI 831 course covering 50+Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story, Five Card Flickr Stories, Pechaflickr, and the StoryBox.
The Open Assignment Bank of ds106 and Remixing ThereofAlan Levine
Presentation for the 2012 Open Education Conference- ds106 is an open course in Digital Storytelling based at the University of Mary Washington. Central to the course is a collection of assignments created by participants (well over 300), each ranked by degree of difficulty. This year we added a remix generator, combining random assignments with a remix "card" detailing how to do it differently. Students are asked to use as starting material the work of other students from the original assignment. Experience these first hand at this session.
Mobile commerce - How to Sell More (Hebrew)Uniq UI
What are the prospects of mobile commerce?
What is the UX Design Challenge for mobile commerce platforms?
My talk from the awesome UXI Live 2013 conference
Testemunho de uma visita de estudo à estação dos CTT de Faro, elaborado pela Flávia, aluna da turma 6ºG, da E.B. 2,3 de Santo António, em Faro, no ano letivo 2014-15.
Here is a not so secret method for how to be successful at anything. Practice it every day. But there's more to sustaining this than repeating it for 10,000 hours. That's boring. We have something in the DS106 Open Digital Storytelling course that has helped people improve their creativity and imagination. The Daily Create is modeled the defunct Daily Shoot, which offered a daily challenge designed to help people practice their photography skills. For over two years, the ds106 Daily Create has offered a daily creative prompt in written, photographic, drawing, audio, and video form. These challenges are now to no stake and encourage participants to try things that may have never done before. What makes this different from exercising or learning to play the saxophone is that the Daily Create is fun, open, and generates connections between people around the world. And you can modify the same approach for any subject.
Invited keynote for Riding the Wave of Change conference, Gimli (Manitoba) May 2014
"Storytelling" is a long time resident of the charts of educational ideas. As a topic of workshops and presentations (I've done plenty), books (none for me), TED Talks (definitely not), the word to me conjures up the idea of performance. Plus my own internal conversation-- "I'm not a storyteller". Peel away the connotations of campfires, cave drawings, and performers on a stage, the elements of storythinking are much more important to me than the show. A hook of interest, the shape of a narrative, a character to care about, suspension of belief, using less, media metaphors are story techniques that you can integrate into your work as educators. While technology provides plenty of tools to tell stories, more compelling is what they afford us to practice and develop our own skills of making and incorporating story not only into teaching, but many forms of expression. I will share my own experiments in improvisation (pechaflickr), visual storytelling (Five Card Flickr Stories), a method hidden within a list of tools (50 Web Ways to Tell a Story), and online teaching (ds106) -- not as magic answers but perhaps a way of thinking about story elements beyond the performance aspect.
Keynote for 2014 Riding the Wave for Change Conference, GImli, Manitoba
OER14 3M/DS106 NOT The Presentation DeckAlan Levine
A faux badly designed presentation that still includes all the content for our presentation at OER14 "A DS106 thing happened on the way to the 3M Tech Forum" by Rochelle Lockridge, Mariana Funes, and Alan Levine (http://www.medev.ac.uk/oer14/109/view/)
Enquire Within Upon Everything: True Stories of the Wondrous WebAlan Levine
Keynote presentation for the eLearning Consortium of Colorado 2014 conference -- their 25th year of the conference; the firs took place a month after Tim Berners-Lee got approval for his World Wide Web project.
A Victorian era book represented the best technology of its time to organize, via a crude hypertext system, a collection of world knowledge. In the hands of a young boy growing up in the 1960s, it inspired a spirit of magic, wonder, and the vision of an open portal to the world of information. As an adult, he invented the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee's original vision was of "the Web being so generally used that it became a realistic mirror of the ways in which we work and play and socialize. That was that once the state of our interactions was on line, we could then use computers to help us analyse it, make sense of what we are doing, where we individually fit in, and how we can better work together."
As an open, connected space, the web remains a near infinite place we ought to revel that same wonder. Our educational careers begin in kindergarten, knowing intrinsically the value of sharing. Somewhere between there and graduate school, we lose track of this simple concept, be it worrying about theft of intellectual property or questioning the value of what we do. The open ecology of an Enquire Within Upon Everything web can undermine this limiting attitude and rekindle that sense of wonder. It's all about creating more potential serendipity. Let's celebrate the True Stories of what happens when educators share something openly on the web.
Links and more at http://go.cogdog.it/elcc2014
A keynote for Skidmore College "PRofcamp" March 18, 2014- resources and URLs at http://go.cogdog.it/skidmore-storytelling
See the collection of web documentary examples http://lab.cogdogblog.com/i-docs
How to Give a [TED Worthy] Power of Storytelling TalkAlan Levine
The category is HUMOR. I am nto serious. And I regularly commit several of this things I take swipes at. The real motivation is a curiosity why people present about storytelling but do not seem to use the elements that talk about.
The ds106 Files: Outbreaks of Infectious and Open Acts of CreativityAlan Levine
Keynote presentation for TechFest 2013, University of Alaska-Fairbanks http://www.alaska.edu/oit/techfest/
While much of higher education seems hunkered down in crises of a broken system or MOOC takeover, reports are filtering in from the distal portions of the internet where open, spontaneous, volunteered acts of creative expression seem to be spreading at alarming rates. These reports have been traced to a loose federation of registered students, teachers, and openly participating individuals of all ages in something known as ds106, an open course in digital storytelling. Patient Zero has been traced to students at the University of Mary Washington, but activity has spread to multiple institutions, K-12 schools, retirees, artists, and people of various affiliations across North America, Europe, Africa, and Australasia. The report highlights the manifestations of this creativity in individually managed internet domains and self-hosted blogs, demonstrated in visual, audio, video, and remixed media, extensively reflected upon. Intense activity has been spotted in blog comments, twitter, Google Plus, and social media platforms, including the current incarnation as a "headless" course. The most intense focus areas are around atypical course constructs of daily creative challenges, a web-based radio station, and an open assignment bank.
It is likely some of you will be affected by contact with this information and may end up devoting time to creating animated GIFs, remixed movie trailers, and radio shows.
Keynote presentation for the 2013 TCC World Online Conference
Dim the lights, cue the music, roll the open credits… but the ds106 show is not where the audience just sits quietly in their seats. You will not only learn how this open online course in digital storytelling works, but have a chance to try a few of the creative challenges and assignments we give to our students.
Digital storytelling 106 (ds106) offers a versatile opportunity to create a learning community. This open online course in digital storytelling is part of a networked architecture built of participants’ own blogs to which our web site subscribes and shares back content published by individuals. Special features of ds106 include an open assignment bank that participants populate, a daily creative challenge, and even its own internet-based radio station. You can tune in to the show at any time; we are located at http://ds106.us/ on your Internet dial.
http://2013.tcconlineconference.org/sessions/dim-the-lights-the-ds106-show/
Mobile commerce - How to Sell More (Hebrew)Uniq UI
What are the prospects of mobile commerce?
What is the UX Design Challenge for mobile commerce platforms?
My talk from the awesome UXI Live 2013 conference
Testemunho de uma visita de estudo à estação dos CTT de Faro, elaborado pela Flávia, aluna da turma 6ºG, da E.B. 2,3 de Santo António, em Faro, no ano letivo 2014-15.
Here is a not so secret method for how to be successful at anything. Practice it every day. But there's more to sustaining this than repeating it for 10,000 hours. That's boring. We have something in the DS106 Open Digital Storytelling course that has helped people improve their creativity and imagination. The Daily Create is modeled the defunct Daily Shoot, which offered a daily challenge designed to help people practice their photography skills. For over two years, the ds106 Daily Create has offered a daily creative prompt in written, photographic, drawing, audio, and video form. These challenges are now to no stake and encourage participants to try things that may have never done before. What makes this different from exercising or learning to play the saxophone is that the Daily Create is fun, open, and generates connections between people around the world. And you can modify the same approach for any subject.
Invited keynote for Riding the Wave of Change conference, Gimli (Manitoba) May 2014
"Storytelling" is a long time resident of the charts of educational ideas. As a topic of workshops and presentations (I've done plenty), books (none for me), TED Talks (definitely not), the word to me conjures up the idea of performance. Plus my own internal conversation-- "I'm not a storyteller". Peel away the connotations of campfires, cave drawings, and performers on a stage, the elements of storythinking are much more important to me than the show. A hook of interest, the shape of a narrative, a character to care about, suspension of belief, using less, media metaphors are story techniques that you can integrate into your work as educators. While technology provides plenty of tools to tell stories, more compelling is what they afford us to practice and develop our own skills of making and incorporating story not only into teaching, but many forms of expression. I will share my own experiments in improvisation (pechaflickr), visual storytelling (Five Card Flickr Stories), a method hidden within a list of tools (50 Web Ways to Tell a Story), and online teaching (ds106) -- not as magic answers but perhaps a way of thinking about story elements beyond the performance aspect.
Keynote for 2014 Riding the Wave for Change Conference, GImli, Manitoba
OER14 3M/DS106 NOT The Presentation DeckAlan Levine
A faux badly designed presentation that still includes all the content for our presentation at OER14 "A DS106 thing happened on the way to the 3M Tech Forum" by Rochelle Lockridge, Mariana Funes, and Alan Levine (http://www.medev.ac.uk/oer14/109/view/)
Enquire Within Upon Everything: True Stories of the Wondrous WebAlan Levine
Keynote presentation for the eLearning Consortium of Colorado 2014 conference -- their 25th year of the conference; the firs took place a month after Tim Berners-Lee got approval for his World Wide Web project.
A Victorian era book represented the best technology of its time to organize, via a crude hypertext system, a collection of world knowledge. In the hands of a young boy growing up in the 1960s, it inspired a spirit of magic, wonder, and the vision of an open portal to the world of information. As an adult, he invented the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee's original vision was of "the Web being so generally used that it became a realistic mirror of the ways in which we work and play and socialize. That was that once the state of our interactions was on line, we could then use computers to help us analyse it, make sense of what we are doing, where we individually fit in, and how we can better work together."
As an open, connected space, the web remains a near infinite place we ought to revel that same wonder. Our educational careers begin in kindergarten, knowing intrinsically the value of sharing. Somewhere between there and graduate school, we lose track of this simple concept, be it worrying about theft of intellectual property or questioning the value of what we do. The open ecology of an Enquire Within Upon Everything web can undermine this limiting attitude and rekindle that sense of wonder. It's all about creating more potential serendipity. Let's celebrate the True Stories of what happens when educators share something openly on the web.
Links and more at http://go.cogdog.it/elcc2014
A keynote for Skidmore College "PRofcamp" March 18, 2014- resources and URLs at http://go.cogdog.it/skidmore-storytelling
See the collection of web documentary examples http://lab.cogdogblog.com/i-docs
How to Give a [TED Worthy] Power of Storytelling TalkAlan Levine
The category is HUMOR. I am nto serious. And I regularly commit several of this things I take swipes at. The real motivation is a curiosity why people present about storytelling but do not seem to use the elements that talk about.
The ds106 Files: Outbreaks of Infectious and Open Acts of CreativityAlan Levine
Keynote presentation for TechFest 2013, University of Alaska-Fairbanks http://www.alaska.edu/oit/techfest/
While much of higher education seems hunkered down in crises of a broken system or MOOC takeover, reports are filtering in from the distal portions of the internet where open, spontaneous, volunteered acts of creative expression seem to be spreading at alarming rates. These reports have been traced to a loose federation of registered students, teachers, and openly participating individuals of all ages in something known as ds106, an open course in digital storytelling. Patient Zero has been traced to students at the University of Mary Washington, but activity has spread to multiple institutions, K-12 schools, retirees, artists, and people of various affiliations across North America, Europe, Africa, and Australasia. The report highlights the manifestations of this creativity in individually managed internet domains and self-hosted blogs, demonstrated in visual, audio, video, and remixed media, extensively reflected upon. Intense activity has been spotted in blog comments, twitter, Google Plus, and social media platforms, including the current incarnation as a "headless" course. The most intense focus areas are around atypical course constructs of daily creative challenges, a web-based radio station, and an open assignment bank.
It is likely some of you will be affected by contact with this information and may end up devoting time to creating animated GIFs, remixed movie trailers, and radio shows.
Keynote presentation for the 2013 TCC World Online Conference
Dim the lights, cue the music, roll the open credits… but the ds106 show is not where the audience just sits quietly in their seats. You will not only learn how this open online course in digital storytelling works, but have a chance to try a few of the creative challenges and assignments we give to our students.
Digital storytelling 106 (ds106) offers a versatile opportunity to create a learning community. This open online course in digital storytelling is part of a networked architecture built of participants’ own blogs to which our web site subscribes and shares back content published by individuals. Special features of ds106 include an open assignment bank that participants populate, a daily creative challenge, and even its own internet-based radio station. You can tune in to the show at any time; we are located at http://ds106.us/ on your Internet dial.
http://2013.tcconlineconference.org/sessions/dim-the-lights-the-ds106-show/
The mechanics and art of photography unveil an intriguing metaphor for thinking about learning and our world view. For a photographer, the operation of cameras-- exploiting apertures, shutter speeds, optics, -- coexist with the artistic skills of pre-visualization, framing, composition. It is no longer a field dominated by pros with expensive gear, we can all make photographic art.
Taking the metaphor farther, creating an engaging learning experience is much more than point and shoot or flipping the settings into automatic mode. Photography is a beautiful example of how you can get better at doing something just by regularly doing (and sharing) your craft. Regular acts of photography, such as the Daily Create, are a model of informal learning that works.