Literature in Digital Environments
There is a plethora of tools in the virgin outback of digital storytelling. This does not make one's life any easier, plus there is the chorus of cellos in the background warning you that most of these tools that you invest time and effort into learning and using may not be around forever, or even … Continue reading Digital Storytelling tools worth looking at (1)
Part A: Context for Digital Story Telling Project “Knowledge, then, is experiences and stories, and intelligence is the apt use of experience, and the creation and telling of stories. Memory is memory for stories, and the major processes of memory are the creation, storage, and retrieval of stories.” (Schank & Abelson, 1995, p. 8) In … Continue reading Assessment Item 8: Digital Storytelling Project and Reflection
I absolutely couldn't have said it better, so I'd like to share this movie by Marcus Armitage. What is Literature for? from Marcus Armitage on Vimeo, animated by Marcus Armitage and Ignatz Johnson Higham. Voice over Alain de Botton.
Electronic media are not simply changing the way we tell stories: they’re changing the very nature of story, or what we understand (or do not understand) to be narratives. To what extent is this true? From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6E8jpFasR0 Many authors have argued that storytelling is intrinsic to humanity (Schank & Abelson, 1995) and part of memory … Continue reading Assessment item 7: Blog 4 – Electronic media and the nature of the story
Electronic media are not simply changing the way we tell stories: they’re changing the very nature of story, or what we understand (or do not understand) to be narratives. To what extent is this true?https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/p6E8jpFasR0&source=udsFrom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6E8jpFasR0Many authors have argued that storytelling is intrinsic to humanity (Schank & Abelson, 1995) and part of memory and learning. … Continue reading Assessment item 7: Blog 4 – Electronic media and the nature of the story
Question: What exactly is Fair Use? (keep in mind that Australia has Fair Dealing, which is not quite the same). Why did the Judge consider Googles Book search project to be transformative? What are the possible benefits and possible issues with such a project? ____________________________________ According to Stim (2014) “a fair use is any copying … Continue reading Fair use? Transformative?
“Knowledge, then, is experiences and stories, and intelligence is the apt use of experience, and the creation and telling of stories. Memory is memory for stories, and the major processes of memory are the creation, storage, and retrieval of stories.”(Schank & Abelson, 1995, p. 8) Red Dragon Wallpaper Download. (2011) Proposal Topic: “追龍 - Chasing … Continue reading Assessment Item 6: Digital Storytelling Topic Proposal
What questions (or answers) have formed in your mind in relation to digital storytelling? How does social media fit into the mix for you? What are the most important connections to learning overall? ================================= I guess my prime question after watching these extracts of digital storytelling is: "how the heck do they do it?" In … Continue reading Module 4.1: What questions or answers do you have in relation to digital storytelling?
Response comment to: Bec Spink - Reflecting on Digital Literature I was most interested in your observations on incorporating digital literature in the classroom. And yet, as I attempt to respond to your posting, after a few minutes of futile scrolling up and down as I tried to reply and refer back to what you … Continue reading Assessment item 5: Blog task 3
What makes a good digital text Despite Goodreads’ narrow interpretation of a book as being something with an ISBN number, “the book as a physical object with paper pages is now only one version of what a book might be” (Hancox, 2013, para. 7). As many have discussed before, a digital text can take many … Continue reading Assessment Item 4: Critical Reflection of Digital Literature Experiences
Informative Flights - Musings of a Teacher Librarian 