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Presentation about corporate story telling

TEDxTransmedia 2010 is over. Thank you for being part of this DARING adventure! Below, you can find photos that give a great impression of the event. Moreover, all TEDxTransmedia talks are available here as well.

There are many great websites that provide opportunities for students to develop language skills, tell stories, and share back their knowledge in fun, creative, and meaningful ways each using a computer.  There are also terrific websites and portals which have links to excellent online interactives which can be used in the classroom  with an interactive whiteboard.  Below are links and short descriptions of these sites.

Some truly brilliant work from BuzzFeed readers over this weekend in creating a couple of hundred totally convincing rock albums using the Wikipedia Album Generator. Objectively speaking, this may be one of the best things that has ever happened - I'm still checking back every hour or so to look at the new ones. Here are a few of my favorites so far. You can make your own to add to the collection here.

"Täglich werden rund um die Welt 50 Millionen Tweets ausgesendet. Einige unter ihnen machen Schlagzeilen, viele verbreiten Poesie, sie stiften Verwirrung im Parlament oder erzählen große Dramen. Genau diese Tweets suchen wir. Tweets, die neben ihren 140 Zeichen auch noch eine Geschichte enthalten. "

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"The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda."

Welcome to Pine Point, a multimedia documentary about a small mining town in the Northwest Territories.

Welcome to Pine Point, a multimedia documentary about a small mining town in the Northwest Territories. Pine Point was a single-industry town, and when the mine closed in 1988, the town closed along with it."

Broadcastr is a Social Media platform for location-based stories. It enables the recording, indexing, listening, and sharing of audio content. Just like in human memory, every story is bound to a place.

An alternate realtiy game: "A few years ago, I started thinking about an entirely new way to tell a story, far different from traditional TV. I didn't just want to talk about 'saving the world' in fiction, I wanted to create a narrative that spilled out into the streets. One that you could live inside of for a while. How cool would it be, I thought, to create a story that exists all around you all of the time? On your laptop, your mobile phone, on your sidewalks, as a secret message hidden in your favorite song or while standing at the bus stop on your way to work.