Interactive Stories-Handhelds in Action-Special Guest: Tony Vincent

Date: 
Saturday, May 23, 2009

Time:  
9:00am Pacific/10:00am Mountain/
11:00am Central/12:00pm Eastern

Location: Elluminate

Recording (full):
https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/installinfo/playback?psid=2009-05-23.0732.M.ACE02B5F35AA7E7975F015AAC6F794.vcr

Tiny URL for full recording: http://tinyurl.com/ob3ukc

Recording (audio):  http://audio.edtechlive.com/cr20/interactivestories.mp3

Recording (chat): http://wiki.classroom20.com/CR+20+LIVE+23+May+09

Portable Video File *NEW*:  http://audio.edtechlive.com/cr20/interactivestories.mp4

Newbie question of the week: What are interactive stories and how can I use handhelds to support my teaching?

Topic: Interactive/Choose Your Own Adventure story creation/Handhelds

Special guest: Tony Vincent

Sharetabs link: http://www.sharetabs.com/?classroom20live05232009

Follow-up Reading/Viewing Suggestions:

http://www.learninginhand.com/index.html (Tony Vincent: Learning in Hand website)
http://learninginhand.com/blog/ (Tony Vincent's Blog)
http://azk12.org/content/technology (AZ K-12 Center Technology Resources)
http://tonyvincent.net/iweb/index.html (Follow Tony Vincent's latest blog, twitter, AZ K-12 Technology updates)
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1445088(Ustream.TV recording by Tony Vincent- Tony Vincent shares some of his favorite iPod touch and iPhone Apps for Education)
http://sighc.iste.wikispaces.net/ (SIGHC is the ISTE special interest group that is an advocate for mobile learning worldwide, and promotes meaningful integration of mobile devices in teaching and learning in formal and informal learning environments. Members of SIGHC include teachers, administrators, technology coordinators, university faculty and researchers, and representatives from profit and non-profit entities, including government.)
http://www.learninginhand.com/articles/interactivestories/index.html  (Learning in Hand: Interactive Stories)
http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/studentwork/iseverts2005/index.html (Choose-your-path stories by Miss Everts' Fifth Graders)
http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/p5/projects/stories2004.html  (Interactive Stories: Planet 5th - Mr. Vincent's Fifth Grade)
http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/p5/projects/interactivestories/resources.html   (Interactive Story Lesson Plans)
http://www.learninginhand.com/articles/interactivestories/is.swf   about creating interactive stories)
http://friedafoxworth.edublogs.org/2009/05/08/interactive-story/(Freida Foxworth: Interactive story modification of Tony's original approach)
http://www.learninginhand.com/netbooks/index.html (Tony Vincent: Netbooks)
http://www.learninginhand.com/mobileweb/index.html(Tony Vincent: Mobile Web)
http://www.learninginhand.com/pda.html (Tony Vincent: PDSs-Schools have been using Palm handhelds and Pocket PCs for a number of years. Devices running the Palm Operating System or Windows Mobile are called PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants).
http://learninginhand.com/blog/2008/10/flip-video-camera.html (Tony Vincent: Flip Video Camera-fantastic digital storytelling tool)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/teacher_feature/teacher_feature004.shtml (Education World-Teacher Feature: Tony Vincent)
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=128 (Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience)
http://www.infinite-story.com/   (Infinite Story.com - discussion of how to create youtube videos that allow viewers to choose own adventure)
http://www.prleap.com/pr/130080/ (Choose your own adventure iPhone app)
http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/content/cyoa_video.mspx (Reading is Fun: Journey under the Sea choose your own adventure online book)
http://www.plkr.org/    (Plucker software to read offline Web and free eBook reader for handheld devices)
http://www.1000000monkeys.com/snippet.html?branch=13506(One Million Monkeys Typing: Choose Your Own Adventure)
http://www.net2.com/nvu/ (Nvu: free software to create web pages)
http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/ (Liz Kolb: From Toys to Tools-Cell Phones in Learning)
http://cc.mlearnopedia.com/(Mobile Learning/Judy Brown: mLearnopedia content community collects and organizes the best information from around the web that will help you learn and stay current on mobile learning)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/guhlin/guhlin011.shtml (Miguel Guhlin: 5 Lessons for Mobile Device Implementation-Administrative focus)
http://www.tikatok.com/help/teachers (Tikatok online reading/writing student book publishing site)
http://discoverychange.pbworks.com/Writers'-Workshop (Tikatok student books examples created by Jackie Gerstein's students in Writing Workshop)
 http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ (Sea Monkey is a free HTML editor from Mozilla)
http://learninginhand.com/stt/Moravian_-_Wesleyan_Handhelds/Interactive_Stories.html (Interactive Stories written by 6th graders in the Virgin Islands)
http://learninginhand.com/ipod/content.html (Information about using iWriter to create interactive stories to be read on click-wheel iPods)
http://tinyurl.com/istory (iPod touch/iPhone app for reading user-generated interactive stories)
http://istoryweb.appspot.com/(The site where users create their interactive stories for iStory)

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