Digital Storytelling, iMovie and Celebrate Kansas Voices

Welcome to our online learning community for Celebrate Kansas Voices presented by Story Chasers, Inc. (a nonprot) and other partner organizations. CKV is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. Our project is starting in 2010, based on the successful Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project which started in 2006. http://celebratekansas.ning.com/ Celebrate Oklahoma Voices (COV) http://celebrateoklahoma.us/ A statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become Digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. COV is presented as an educational outreach project of the Oklahoma nonprot Story Chasers Inc. and involves multiple partner organizations. What would you like to do? Celebrate Texas Voices (CTV) http://celebratetexas.ning.com/ Welcome to our online learning community for Celebrate Texas Voices presented by Story Chasers, Inc. (a nonprot) and other partner organizations. CTV is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. Learn more oninfo.storychasers.org.

Welcome to our Storychaser wiki! (info.storychasers.org) Here you can learn about ourworkshops,projects,and online learning opportunities. Learn more about Storychasersand get involvedwith us! This website complements our primary site (storychasers.org) which includes FAQs, ourregistration inquiry form, and our contact info. Here you'll nd where you can Register for a Workshop. Kansas 150 Commemoration http://ks150.kansas.gov/Pages/ default.aspx I love Kansas! There truly is no place like home. Last year was our 150th anniversary, an appropriate time to reect on our past and look toward our future. The rst generation of Kansan's pledged their lives and destinies to forge a Kansas of freedom in the midst of the blood and re of war. Generations of men and women had the courage to build a Kansas of humanity and hope. Please join me (Brownback) during this sesquicentennial year to discover our great history and take part in the many activities around the state! http://ks150.kansas.gov/Pages/default.aspx Find resources for your community, promote your events, and discover other activities on the calendar and news pages. Check the calendar for programs and activities that continue through the year in your area! View a new video - "Kansas: Home on the Range." 150 Things I Love About Kansas - This special exhibit continues throughout the year at the Kansas Museum of History. Kansas 150 Festival - This special event will be held October 8 in Wichita.

Notable Kansans - Governor Brownback will announce the top 25 notable Kansan's at ve upcoming events. Add your event to the calendar FAQ Featured News 253 Day(s) in Kansas' 150th year Kansas Trivia Leavenworth founded as rst city in Kansas - June 12, 1854s

The Assignment
(this assignment has numerous parts plus a reection and is not due until Week 12) Find a Kansas story to tell, maybe about a place, a town, a person, a family, an event, just about anything that has a connection to Kansas. Maybe your hometown so someone from your family, like a grandparent, a veteran, a farm......Hopefully, something impacting our Kansas history, maybe even a family member. Kansas is having its 150th BIrthday this year. Choose a story about Kansas, a place or a Kansas person or Kansas event that needs telling. In other words, the history needs to be preserved and the story told for future generations. You are a tour guide and you have to teach your students about this place, person or event. And the catch is, from a historical perspective........Kansas History. Think deeply about this and make sure you explore many of the examples on the Celebrate Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas sites above. Our state needs your help in telling our Kansas story, not just the famous stories, all the stories. You will need photos and maybe even video for your project, ones taken by you and or OLD photos you have collected and/or taken a digital picture of or possibility scanned, found on the internet, wherever. Tell the story in your images and video if possible. Hopefully, you can interview some folks like many of the examples you saw in CKV, COV, CTV. Live interviews are the most powerful. Dont forget to keep track of your resources, you will need to give proper credit.

 Equipment issues. The catalyst has all kinds of equipment for checkout, digital voice recorders, video cameras, ip cameras, microphones, etc. Additionally, there are many ways to record on your computer, both Mac and PC or even better on your iPad. On an iPad, Garageband, Audioboo, BlueFiRe, and even right in iMovie. If on a computer you will nd an extensive list of Audio recording tools on my wiki http://technologykeys.wikispaces.com/Audio+%26+Podcasting. You will also nd an extensive list of places to nd photos http://technologykeys.wikispaces.com/ Photo+Sites+%26+Tools. Make sure you are careful about copyright rules. Do your very best to only use images and such you have the rights to use and make sure you link to the original source or give credit to the photographer, family or whoever. Where id you get the picture? Look for images with Creative Commons Attributes. Learn more about copyright in the classroom at: Learn the Copyright rules: http://www.copyrightfoundation.org/ and Copyright in the Classroom Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=hoGrVmDj1Yo HInt: your will be writing a reection about copyright later in the semester. And check this one out, at the very least it is super entertaining. A Fair(y) Use Tale: Disney Parody explanation of Copyright Law and Fair Use. Synopsis: Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University provides this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms. Video Found at http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ documentary-lm-program/lm/a-fair-y-use-tale Post your video on the celebrate Kansas Voices website. http:// celebratekansas.ning.com/. You will have to upload to Youtube and grab the embed code. There is a video on the Help & tutorials page to show you how to add your video to the Celebrate Kansas Voices site. Points, video on your website: 100 points Video on the Celebrate Kansas Voices site: 50 points