“Escape” – a digital storytelling sketch

Sunday, 23 December 2007 Clay Burell Print This Post

Lesson learned: if you start a digital video, finish it quickly.

I started this months ago as part of the “Visionary Student Blogging” project for my AP Literature seniors. Some crazy introductory idea that I hoped would help them see how blogging could be an escape from school-as-usual.

I didn’t finish it the way I wanted to, and life got in the way. I spent a bit of time this morning making the attribution titles at the end so I could post it. A couple of people had seen it on our AP Lit Ning and told me they liked it.

I think it’s kind of vague, myself, and imperfect in more ways than one. But educational fantasies are always a bit vague, aren’t they?

(I used Zamzar to convert YouTube videos for import into iMovie, by the way.)

(If anybody can tell me how to make my YouTube videos show up in RSS readers, by the way, I’d be so appreciative. I know it can be done because I see others do it.)

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4 Responses to ““Escape” – a digital storytelling sketch”

Jane Nicholls writes:
No. 1 — December 23rd, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Hi Clay

I agree, I think this is open enough to provoke thought. I like how you have pinpointed how we use mash ups to tell our own stories. Like a previous post of yours (I think) about artists standing on the shoulders of others. Good job

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Kevin H writes:
No. 2 — December 23rd, 2007 at 8:42 pm
“We love innovation …. as long as it doesn’t change things” — good quote

Thanks for sharing
kevin

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Stephen Spaeth writes:
No. 3 — January 30th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Thanks for presence on the web.
You asked for help with an rss feed for your videos. The page at YouTube describes the process:
http://www.youtube.com/rssls
feed://www.youtube.com/rss/user/insert username here]/videos.rss
which in your case is
feed://www.youtube.com/rss/user/mysterbee06/videos.rss
I hope that it will help more students to take greater control of their learning!

Stephen Spaeth’s last blog post..I’m searching for resources…

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Clay Burell writes:
No. 4 — February 9th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
A belated thanks for the feedback, and for the tip, Stephen. I must have miscommunicated my “cry for help,” which I think was for a plugin that enclosed videos for feed readers like Bloglines and GR.

But your tip at least led me to discover that a WP plugin is what it takes to do the trick, so you nudged me in the right direction – thanks again!

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