Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling: a new spin on an old tale. Creating their own stories or telling stories using digital means challenges students to move beyond being the consumer and instead become creators by adding multi-media to their narratives. That same story also becomes accessible to a broader audience by adding videos, graphics, and audio, through web-based […]
Multimedia Creation: consider the tool for the task
Creating a multimedia presentation for your coursework at UBC is a great way to learn a new digital technology that you might then bring to your practicum class. Rather than relying on an ‘old standard’, consider this as an opportunity to take a risk and/or select a digital technology that might be of interest to […]
Setting Our Sights on Virtual Reality
Virtual realities (VR) are computer-created environments in which people can interact with what has been programmed or, when linked to some kind of network or on-line access, with each other. Typically, users wear some kind of headset or goggles to facilitate their sensory experience, which is primarily visual (sometimes fully 360°) and perhaps aural and/or […]
Multimodal Learning and Multimedia Technologies
Multimodal and multimedia – are they the same? Multimodalities comprise symbols and our decisions to use them as well as our interpretations of them. For instance, the letters and words of this blog entry represent a visual mode of language that, taken together, present a text to an audience – it’s something we read! As […]
ScribJab
Scribjab is a tool through which you can create and share multilingual digital stories. Stories are written (and/or narrated) in 2 languages. Scribjab was created by two professors from Simon Fraser University (Kellen Toohey and Diane Dagenais) and is offered free of charge to users through a browser-based or mobile-based app (iTunes). Not only do […]
