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The basic principles of digital storytelling Digital storytelling is the practice of combining narrative with digi­tal content, including images, sound, and video, to create a short movie, typically with a strong emotional component. (7 things you should know about storytelling) Nowadays stories can be interactive movies that might include highly produced audio and visual effects. At the same time, a set of slides with related nar­ration or music can compose a simple digital story. The resources available to making a digital story are unlimited, giving the storyteller huge creative latitude. Some learning theorists believe that storytelling can be effectively applied to nearly any subject. Creating a narra­tive and communicating it effectively require the storyteller to think carefully about the topic and consider the audience’s perspective(Franz and Nischelwitzer, 2004). Story idea Idea for this story comes from one of Jalal al-Din Rumi’s stories.  Rumi  was a 13 th  ...

2c. Post study reflection Watch a couple of presentations published in the forum and make a concluding post in your blog and address: Similarities and differences between networks In what way has your view upon social changed? *** Similarities and differences between networks  Base on what I saw at   forum linked to assignment 2 , As yet just 4 of my classmates have done this assignment so I’m going to read their assignments and make a concluding about similarities, differences and changes social networks have experienced since first day. My classmates have worked on three different social networks as facebook.com, goodreads.com and academia.edu. The nature and nomenclature of these websites may vary from site to site but they have the same concept which is Social networking. All of these networks try to provide a good environment to: Construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system. Articulate a list of other users with whom they   share   a ...

1b-How micro-blogs can be used in education and teaching? During last ten years, Web 2.0 has turned into an amazing success story. These days World Wide Web is driven by user generated content, the use of weblogs, wikis, micro blogs and podcasts has increased dramatically. Social media, social networks and social communities all represent a new form of collaboration and communication. In a short space of time, the World Wide Web has been transformed from a static information medium into a worldwide communication platform.(Brown, 2008) Web 2.0 technologies are also of great interest, given that the use of the internet for educational purposes, known as e-learning or Technology Enhanced Learning, is a very important future stakeholder for education. Stephen Downes (2005) introduced a new term, ‘‘e-Learning 2.0”, and thus coined a name for the use of wikis, weblogs and podcasts in educational settings. Since then, much research work has been done and many publications (Augar, Raitman, ...

3e - Online presentations Your task is to make a presentation of the applications you have chosen to work with in parts 3a-d. You could do this by using the Presentation tool in your chosen online office suite. Another way is to create your slides locally and use a slide sharing service for presentation. You can use Slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net), Scribd (http://www.scribd.com) or any other service you have discovered. Your presentation should contain a short tutorial to each application (parts 3a-d). That is, after watching your presentation, the viewer should be able to know how to get started with all four applications. Pick a target audience and adapt your presentation for your particular audience. Introduce each application in picture and text and describe the key concepts and the basic terminology that the user may encounter. You should also address pros and cons of each site. By watching your presentation, the user should understand why and how the sites can be used....

3a - Online office suites The most known online office suite is probably Google Docs, but there are more available. Find a few of these and try to figure out how they stand out in the competition. Think of a context (school use, higher education, corporate use etc) where you think the application suite could be helpful and make up a list of evaluative criteria (requirements for your purpose) and compare two or more online office suites. Based on your evaluation, pick an online office suite to use for the rest of the assignment. Use the chosen application suite to create a brief report in which you describe the evaluation process (context, evaluation results, and conclusions). Make sure to utilize some of the basic functionality. The report should contain text, tables and images (e. g. screenshots of the application). *** Online office suites An online office suite is a type of  office suite  offered by websites in the form of  software as a service . They c...