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Entries from March 17, 2008

Digital Storytelling w. Jason Ohler – live blogging

March 17, 2008 · 4 Comments · Conferences, Education, technology

Live blog of Jason Ohler’s keynote to open Digital Storytelling workshop…Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, March 17, 2008 —————- Cell phone are “screasels”…screens + easels = what our kids see these new technologies as…our kids are creating content for these screasels… Literacy does not mean reading and writing…but means consuming and producing media forms of the [...]

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Digital Storytelling & the New Narrative

March 17, 2008 · No Comments · Education, flat class, technology

Part of life in Canada (and Alaska for that matter) is winter. Snow, sleet, ice…the works. Schedules are never set in stone, delays happen. We deal with it. Jason Ohler gets it too. He’s from Alaska. Today he’s here in Fredericton, a guest of the New Brunswick Department of Education. For the next day and [...]

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