Workshop title: 50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story

It was not long ago that producing multimedia digital content required expensive equipment and deep levels of technical expertise. We are at the point now where anyone can create and publish very compelling content with nothing more complex than a web browser. The point is not the there are professional level production tools, but that the barrier of entry to content creation can be drastically low.

This workshop will cover a basic story development process that can be used to create a story  in a web 2.0 tool using images, audio, and/or video. We use the word "story" in a general sense; it may be a deeply personal one of the digital storytelling variety, or it may be a tale of a travel trip, or a simple multimedia presentation. It consists of more than one type of media (images + text, audio + images, etc) that are assembled on the web, and can be linked to or embedded into other web sites. I discovered more than 50 tools for anyone to creatively use. Just to prove it can be done, I told the same story as an example for every tool.

In the workshop, participants will work individually or in pairs to pick a story topic, outline the basic steps in the story, select media, and publish it in one of the tools.

http://50ways.wikispaces.com/

http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/50ways/mcn.html

Instructor:

Alan Levine http://cogdogblog.com
Vice President Community & CTO, The New Media Consortium (http://www.nmc.org/)

 Alan Levine is Vice President, NMC Community and CTO for the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies.. Alan is widely recognized nationally and internationally for expertise in the application of new technologies to educational environments and was a pioneer on the web going back to 1993.