Storychasers is a multi-state (and potentially multi-national) educational collaborative empowering students and teachers to responsibly record and share stories of local, regional and global interest as citizen journalists. Where STN (Student Television Network) participants may focus more narrowly on student broadcast news productions, Storychasers has a broader focus on not only student-created news broadcasts, but also student-created documentary films and live event coverage (webcasting). Storychaser media productions can be shared as live broadcast events or recorded, asynchronously shared audio and video files.
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Ustream Video and Audio from August 6 brainstorm

It worked! We successfully used Ustream and Skype to have an online webinar and brainstorming session for Storychasers last night. Here is the archive on Ustream:

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Brainstorming Session Aug 6th

I'd like to invite everyone to a second Storychasers project brainstorming session this week, again on Wednesday evening. We'll meet online at the same time (8 Eastern / 7 Central / 6 Mountain / 5 Pacific) but this time meet in Elluminate instead of using a Skypecast. We had some mixed experiences last week with our Skypecast, so meeting in Elluminate sounds like a better option.

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Code of Ethics

I would like to start a conversation about whether StoryChaser project participants should have a code of ethics. If we can be certain of anything in our digital world, we can be sure that the mainstream media is going to jump on any opportunity to amplify and showcase bad / inappropriate / destructive uses of digital technologies by kids to further reinforce the commonly held public perception that all technology is evil and kids shouldn't be on the Internet at all.

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Student News Broadcasting Resources

I have two books on Digital Filmmaking that have been helpful. They are:

"The Director in the Classroom" by Nikos Theodosakis

"Digital Filmmaking for Teens" by Pete Shaner and Gerald Everett Jones

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MIB ~ Mustangs in Broadcasting segments (Michigan)

Here are a few of the regular segments my students do during our weekly broadcast. Some of the segments are weekly and some are rotated every other week or so. (Our broadcast mascot is Mibby our school mascot is the Mustang)

Weekly Segments:
>Announcements
>School Happenings
>Birthdays
>This week in History
>Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader
>Local/National News (depends on what's happening in the world such as major weather or news, etc...)

Rotated Segments:
Mibby's Believe It or Not (Think Ripley's ...)
Mibby's Mythbusters (Think Mythbusters)

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Drupal vs Ning - What are the advantages?

I will be implementing a Federal EETT grant this year with some of my 5th grade teachers (science). Part of that grant communication component is going to be the development of a online learning network. Originally, I had planned on using Ning. Now I hear Wesley mention that he feels Drupal has some advantages over Ning. I'm curious as to what people feel some of the advatages are of using Drupal over Ning?

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Project Groups

Great discussions tonight, everyone! Let's add our ideas for projects here on the forum. The ideas we kicked around tonight (if I've got them all):
Careers
Digital Citizenship
Ghost Stories
The Holocaust
Regional History

This is just a partial list, I'm sure. Let's use this forum to talk about the Storychaser projects we'd like to see!

Meg :)

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Text chat transcript from 30 July 2008

This is the text chat transcript from our brainstorming skypecast on July 30, 2008. Apologies for not being able to get everyone into the chat room... We'll work on using Elluminate next week for our meeting-- same time, 7 pm central. Link to be shared here soon!

[7:45:29 PM] Scott says: The Scholastic Television Channel is all grade levels I think with emphasis on high school... At least that is my impression.
[7:45:37 PM] Wesley Fryer says: http://studenttelevision.com/
[7:46:02 PM] Cheryl Lykowski says: Scott I had that impression as well

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Video Formats

video formats, uploading, storage, cross posting, applications, software and websites for finished stories

Welcome to Storychasers!

Welcome to the virtual home of Storychasers! We're currently in the process of dreaming and building this collaborative project and website.

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