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Digital Storytelling and MedEd

"Digital Storytelling 106--better known as "ds106"--sprouted in 2010 as a computer science class on digital storytelling at University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Founded by Jim Groom, educational technology consultant Alan Levine, and instructional technologists Martha Burtis & Tom Woodward, ds106 has evolved into a model for all instructors and students who aspire to experience, explore, and extend connected learning."

ds106 as gold standard for open...amazing...

Multimedia storytelling from MIT . . .

"How to" tutorials on various aspects of digital storytelling (in journalism).

Interesting guide to picking an interactive storytelling tool that might be an interesting model for some of our stuff in OLE and beyond.

"he clarity does not need to come all at once, however; we also like the idea of providing several and consequent layers of exploration on the multiple dataset we analyze. We call it a "non-linear storytelling" where people can get lost in singular elements, minor tales, and last-mile textual elements within the greater visualization."

""When you can call a line of code a spell, then you are getting somewhere," Fruchter said. After all, isn't computer code basically modern magic?"

Long-form interactive experiences... yes, please.

Interesting to see how journalists are sometimes leading in presenting serious information in original, creative, engaging ways.

Built on shorthand.com . Interesting example of assembling text, images, GIFs, and video in one space--all with a strong narrative element. What if course "modules" were presented this way? Traditional narrative structure, but multimedia elements.

keynotes

How news agencies embrace social media and leverage "eyes and ears on the ground" to find and verify information, to craft the narrative and share news. How might we use such tactics in education?

h/t @cogdog