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[updated 6/1/09]

Introducing PeoplePaper:
Last spring, Holly Willis and the Institute for Multimedia Literacy hosted the 24/7 DIY Video Summit. (See the newly relaunched web-page here, complete with videos and much much more.) here’s a project that invited you to DIY using the participants of that summit! Don’t just cite media critics, make them say what […]

WRT has it on good authority (the authors’) that Chris Crawford, collaborating with Laura J. Mixon, is readying the full launch of an interactive story-authoring system almost 20 years in the making. Introducing “SWAT” (Storyworld Authoring Tool) and Storyteller (the software for playing a SWAT Storyworld). Crawford first took on this epic quest […]

Carolyn Miller who literally wrote the book on “Digital Storytelling” is delivering a talk at USC on the origins of this class of lit.
Here’s the info:

Carolyn Miller: DIGGING FOR THE ROOTS OF INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING
12:30 pm, Wed. Feb 18
Cinematic Arts Building (SCA) 112
University of Southern California
Free and open to the public
A talk by Carolyn Handler Miller
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A few years ago, we blogged about the movie-making tool built into Activision’s Sim-Tycoon video Game The Movies. It had proved an easy-to-use and powerful tool for creating the machinima “22 Short Films about Grammar.” Now it seems an even easier-to-use movie-making film is coming to a web browser near you.
Enter Xtranormal, an […]

For those of you interested in widget-based education, check out the Educause webinar, Tuesday, January 27.
Educause Announcement below, Official site here.
EDUCAUSE Live! January 27, 2009 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour
Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content
Educators have been searching […]