StoryChasers

Would you like to win a new iPad3 and iRig microphone for yourself or your classroom? Through April 30, 2012, Storychasers is inviting any adult who has created and shared a digital story on Celebrate Oklahoma Voices, Celebrate Kansas Voices, or Celebrate Texas Voices to submit a “backstory” about that video to enter a drawing for an iPad3 and iRig microphone. Everyone who enters must be 18 or older, so if you’re a student under 18 and have created/shared a video on one of our websites, ask your parent or teacher to submit your entry on your behalf.

Our website submission / contribution form includes a space to provide information about your video which you’d like others to read and know about concerning your video. Things you might consider including in your post are:

1. “Backstory” information about the video other people wouldn’t know or guess by just watching it.
2. Why did you create this video?
3. Who has seen this video since it’s been published and what kinds of good things have happened as a result?
4. Who should see this video?
5. What are some of the things you think other people will or should learn as a result of seeing this video?

To be valid and accepted for our drawing, entries must:

1. Be submitted and received online. NLT (no later than) midnight CST on April 30, 2012.
2. Be submitted by an adult 18 years or older.
3. Include at least THREE COMPLETE SENTENCES providing more information / backstories about the submitted video.
4. Be complete, with all required fields in the submission form filled appropriately.

Individuals MAY submit more than one video to enter this drawing, but may only submit one entry per video. For example, if you have submitted three different videos to one of our online learning communities, you can submit an entry for each video so you’ve entered three times. You may NOT submit more than one entry for the same video.

If you’d like to see an example submission, see the post, “72 Years of Free Barbecue: The XIT Rodeo and Reunion.”

The iPad3 and iRig microphone drawing will be held in early May 2012, and the winner will be announced here on our website.

If you have questions or comments, please share them here on this post. Please spread the word and tell others about this opportunity! We will be sharing submitted entries / posts on storychasers.org (this website) in upcoming weeks and months as a way to further amplify many of the GREAT stories shared on COV, CKV and CTV! If you’re interested in hosting a Storychasers workshop at your school or in your area, please see our frequently asked questions (FAQs) for more information.

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Web link / URL to the video: http://celebratetexas.ning.com/video/72-years-of-free-barbecue-the

This is a video I created in 2010 when my family and I had a chance to attend the XIT Rodeo and Reunion in Dalhart, Texas. This is an annual event which started in the 1930s during the dust bowl, to provide a positive and fun event in Dalhart which celebrates the people and history of the region. I read about this in Timothy Eagan’s book, “The Worst Hard Time.” The XIT Ranch included over 3 million acres of land at its peak, which was sold by the Texas legislature in 1879 in exchange for $3 million used to build the Texas State Capitol. The XIT Rodeo Reunion continues to be the world’s largest free barbecue event.

This post was submitted by Wesley Fryer.

The free iOS app Moveable and its complementary web tool by Moveable Feast (currently invite-only) allow anyone to create and share “multimedia narratives.” These can be walking tours of a historic area in your community, for example, including text, images, and videos all connected to GPS coordinates and a “virtual trail” people can follow using their iPhone. This five minute video provides an overview.

This effort to empower people to create place-based digital stories reminds me of the Murmur Project in Canada. Murmur is (or was, I’m not sure if it’s ongoing) an “archival audio project” which provided people opportunities to dial phone numbers and hear stories about places in a local community which had been recorded to a phone-based recording system. OnCellSystems and Guide By Cell are two companies providing commercial solutions for mobile walking tours. The August 2008 podcast, “A Conversation about the Cell Phone Audio Tour at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum,” provides more information about how an OnCellSystems solution is in use by the U.S. National Park Service in Oklahoma.

I learned about the Murmur project in 2006 when I first heard Joe Lambert share a presentation about digital storytelling at the SITE conference in Orlando. (An audio podcast of a conversation with Joe from that conference is still available.) Joe is the co-founder of The Center of Digital Storytelling based in Berkeley, California. Follow them on Twitter @storycenter. I co-presented with Joe in Hangzhou, China, in 2009, and an audio podcast recording of that session is also available.

Locacious and Tourbuddy are two other iOS applications designed to help people create mobile tours of different locations. Have you tried any of these applications yourself? Are you aware of others?

Asking students to research local spots of interest, gather multimedia artifacts about those locations and then create a free walking tour available to the community is a GREAT project for student Storychaser clubs to take on.

Hat tip to Florida educator Alison Hannon for sharing about Mobile Feast via Twitter.

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