Archive for May 2010

Help Storychasers choose our new logo!

May 26, 2010

For the past two weeks, creative designers from around the world (literally) have submitted 147 different designs for a new Storychasers logo on the website CrowdSpring. (@crowdspring on Twitter) Our board of directors must decide in the next three days which logo design to pick, and we’d like your help. Below you’ll see images of [...]

Kansas Teachers: Register for Celebrate Kansas Voices (CKV) 4-6 August 2010!

May 24, 2010

If you are a PK-20 teacher in Kansas, you’re invited to apply now to participate in a 2.5 day “Celebrate Kansas Voices” digital storytelling workshop to be held at Kansas State University 4-6 August 2010. Enrollment in CKV workshops is limited to 25 participants. A complete agenda for the CKV workshop is available. Participants will [...]

First certified African American Teacher in Mountain View Gotebo Schools, Oklahoma

May 23, 2010

Sean Buchanan‘s autobiographical 4.5 minute video he created last week and shared on our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices learning community is outstanding. (“You’re Going Where?“) The way he told this story really caught me by surprise when he shared it. I’ve given away the surprise with the title of this post, which Sean included in the [...]

Oklahoma City Bombing Videos on Celebrate Oklahoma Voices (supplementary curriculum)

May 21, 2010

As of May 2010, the following five videos are available on the Celebrate Oklahoma Voices learning community which address issues relating to the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City Alfred P. Murrah federal building. The group “OKC Bombing” has been created on the learning community to share videos, links, and other curriculum ideas/resources related to [...]

Digital audio recorder quest: affordable, powerful, compatible (May 2010)

May 18, 2010

In our 2.5 day oral history and digital storytelling workshops, Storychasers typically provides each participant with a “digital backpack” of equipment including a digital audio recorder, a headset with microphone, a digital camera, a USB flash drive, and a media SD card for the camera. Of these five items, the digital audio recorder is my [...]

Storychasers is looking for a new logo via @crowdspring

May 12, 2010

Please help spread the word to any creative designers you know – Storychasers (the lead partner in the Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project) has released a request for proposal for a new logo! We’ve published this on the website CrowdSpring, which is a global community for creative designers and people with creative design needs. Anyone can [...]

We need more constructive and positive Storychasers in The Age of Humiliation

May 5, 2010

We’ve unfortunately always had people in our communities who are bullies and seem to enjoy hurting other people. What’s changed is that gossip which used to remain local has now gone global, and gossip can now be confirmed with images and video. Bullying which used to be limited by time and place can now take [...]