Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Final Blog Post
As I reflect on my blog I am amazed of what I actually accomplished. Never did I imagine I would be able to create, publish, and teach using technology and web 2.0 tools. Frankly until this course, I had never heard of a Web 2.0 tool. My absolute favorite assignment was digital storytelling. I am SO proud of my creation. It was one of the more difficult and time consuming assignments for me but the most rewarding. My least favorite assignment was group and personal wiki. I didn't really get anything out of it. I understand it's purpose and function but found it to be of little to no use to me during this course. I did the assignments for the sake of doing them. Throughout the course I thoroughly enjoyed the blogging process. I felt like my blog entries was my class participation. I only visited 7 other classmates blogs and left comments. It would have been nice to alternate from week to week, writing our own blog entry and visiting classmates blogs. I mostly gave feedback or praise and encouragement in response to classmates blogs.
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Barbi,
Should check out heekya as a digital storytelling tool.
It's simple. Storytelling is broken online. We've fixed it.
Here are some of the highlights:
Heekya is the Wikpedia of Stories, a social storytelling platform that is changing the way consumers create, share, and discover stories. Free. Fun. Easy. 60 seconds. See it here: http://heekya.com/preview.php
What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) drag and drop story editor. Import all media (photo, video, text, and audio) from third party services (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc.)
Users grab and embed Heekya story widget across social networks (Facebook, MySpace, et. al) blogs (wordpress, blogger, twitter) personal websites and via e-mail and instant message.
Ability to re-mix and mashup other stories, retelling them from a consumers own vantage point, that will keep user engagement levels high and attract more traffic virally, as people share and re-share stories.
Storytelling is at the core of human existence. We're building Heekya to unlock powerful stories of people all over the world and empower them to share their story with anyone, anywhere, anytime.
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