Showing posts with label Narratives—Stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Narratives—Stories. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

SlagsmÄlsklubben

School assignment centered on the story of Little Red Riding Hood including graphic displays of information.Imagine all the lessons that are possible from this visual display of data.


Sunday, October 19, 2008

The Wolves of Yellowstone
Over a ten year period, biologists have been studying the effects of the
gray wolf's return as a predator to
Yellowstone National Park's ecsosystem.
Thus far, the research has shown how some wildlife and plants have actually benefited from the wolf's return
(Lister/McDaniel, Ecology 7: Predation 4.17.2006).

Saturday, October 04, 2008

Narrative Forms in the Digital Classroom

Vanderbilt University instructors discuss a pilot project using Worlds of Wordcraft: Digital Narrative and Virtual Reality to explore how narratives change across media in a writing course (http://worldsofwordcraft.word press.com/about).


Friday, October 03, 2008

Ira Glass on Storytelling #1

The building blocks of a good story are discussed including how to think about the anecdote (sequence of events where one thing leads to another), bait and reflective moments (the point of the story) (Current TV, Ira, Glass, 2008).

Ira Glass on Storytelling #3 (Disappointment)

Ira Glass on Storytelling #4 (The Pitfalls)

How to Write a Script - Story Structure

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Myths About the Developing World: 1of 3

Statistics exemplified through animation and a narrative by Hans Rosling @ Ted.


Saturday, September 20, 2008

We Tell Stories
Google Tech Talks July 14, 2008
ABSTRACT Behind the scenes of digital fiction project We Tell Stories (http://www.wetellstories.co.u k/) that turned Google Maps into a storytelling engine. The designers explain the different ways to tell stories as lived experiences through infographics, Blogs in real time, Twitter, etc.. Learn ...


Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Learning Tool: Story Structure

Story structure is used as a learning tool to construct lessons by asking "What's the story?" (Egan, 2008). Also includes a discussion on ways to teach math (exponential numbers) through stories.

Monday, September 15, 2008

Marketing storytelling & narratives - P3Q

Videogrunt (Narrative)
" Craig Syverson uses motion and film archives to explain the basics of video.
Very entertaining and amazing quality. ...'

Learn Something-Golf (Narrative)
Kathleen "Whip" Plinske's video documentary of her "learn something"
project for Dr. Linda Polin's course at Pepperdine ...


Sunday, September 14, 2008

Fable 2: Welcome to Albion (Games)