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Storychasers Updates: October 2010

October 5, 2010

Exciting things for Storychasers are in the works! Here are a few updates. We are anticipating scheduling additional Celebrate Oklahoma Voices 2.5 day workshops later in fall 2010, before the Christmas holidays. These workshops will most likely be grant-supported and therefore discounted, as grant funds will be used to offset participation costs. (Which will include [...]

One Day on Earth: Help Storychase the World’s Story on 10.10.10

August 24, 2010

If you’ve heard of projects like the Millennium Photo Project and 24 Hours of Flickr, you’ll readily understand the basic idea behind the “One Day on Earth” video documentary project. In one twenty-four hour period of time, 10.10.10 or October 10, 2010, volunteers from around the world on seven continents will work together to document [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Celebrateoklahoma.us domain update

March 8, 2010

Our registered domain, celebrateoklahoma.us, was up for renewal and due to email changes we missed the deadline. As a result, web addresses using this domain are temporarily not accessible but should be online again within 24-48 hours. We have used this domain (and will continue to use it) to “forward” to our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices [...]

Announcing Celebrate Kansas Voices!

March 5, 2010

On behalf of our non-profit Story Chasers Inc. I’m pleased to announce the start of the Celebrate Kansas Voices project. (CKV) Celebrate Kansas Voices 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 [...]

Register to attend COV Workshops in 2010!

March 2, 2010

Our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling and oral history project continues in 2010! We currently have sixteen workshops scheduled around the state through August of 2010. If hosting schools do not fill their workshop with 25 participants, “extra slots” are available which other PK-20 educators are welcome to fill. The cost to attend a COV [...]

Mobile Learning Grant Meeting 22 Dec 2009

December 22, 2009

Storychasers will be meeting online at 10 am CST on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 to discuss further details of our Mobile Learning Collaborative. This meeting will be held via DimDim. We will be joined by Maine educator and Google Certified Teacher Kern Kelly, who has implemented Google Apps for Education in his school district. Our [...]