An edublog by UNC colleague Doug Edmunds, Assistant Dean for IT at the UNC School of Law and Robert Bradley, Director of Technology Integration at Tennessee State University, and me, Mike. We aim to promote scholarship, civic engagement, and social entrepreneurship through technology integration.
It's a wiki. It's a documentary. It's a wikumentary. It's about me, Mike.
My blog about the art and science of wikumentary. A good place to start if you're not sure what a wikumentary is.
This is Google's free web page creator - it's what our site was built with. Using Google Pages requires Google account registration - if working with youth, you will need parental consent if they are making their own pages. You may want to create a group account that you administer.
A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.
Search for music, photos, or video that are shared under a Creative Commons license.
Photovoice has three main goals:
- to enable people to record and reflect their community's strengths and concerns;
- to promote critical dialog and knowledge about personal and community issues through large and small group discussions of photographs; and
- to reach policy makers.
Fifty Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story
50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story. The author uses all of these tools to tell the same story, allowing you to figure out what tool might work well given your or your group's circumstances.
Use this link if you want to go directly to the VoiceThread page we made. You can share this link with others! If you want to embed this VoiceThread in your own web page, click on the 'embed' link to copy the html code.
You can also point people to this link, if you want. Unfortunately, it looks like the URL automatically becomes whatever your Google account is called. So if you want a spiffy URL for a specific project, just create a new Google account. For instance, if we had created an account called SOWO881, this web page would be at sowo881.googlepages.com. You can comment on the VoiceThread, if you want, from here.
PBwiki lets you quickly set up your own free, hosted, password-protected wiki Use it to make collaborative, participatory community projects! Imagine if Wikipedia was all about your neighborhood...
This is a link to my collection of web bookmarks on the "social bookmarking" site Delicious.com. I am continuously updating these links. They are arranged by "tags" on the right side of the screen. Feel free to look at anything that strikes your fancy, but tags related to my presentation in SOWO 881 include: community informatics, digital storytelling, community media, youth, and e-learning.