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Digital Storytelling Opportunities

A digital story is a short (3-5 minute) movie which uses images, voice, and music to tell a story. Digital stories are a way of talking about something that conveys not only information, but emotion and significance as well.  The OSU Digital Storytelling Program, a cross campus collaborative project between the Digital Union (part of …Read more at the full article: Digital Storytelling Opportunities

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How to add links to a PDF

In Adobe Acrobat Pro, you can add links to web pages and to other pages within your document.
To link to a webpage
In your browser:

Open your browser and find the page you want to link to.
Highlight the URL and select Edit > Copy.

In Adobe Acrobat Pro:

Open your PDF and find the page you want to link …Read more at the full article: How to add links to a PDF

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Getting Edgy

When Adobe announced its new animation tool, Edge Animate, for building interactive motion graphics using web standards that are compatible with mobile, tablet and desktop environments, I was anxious to give it a try.
Adobe Edge Animate is a part of Adobe’s collection of tools and services for creating web sites, enabling designers to create flexible …Read more at the full article: Getting Edgy

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Deep in the Trenches of the EEIC Impact Grant

After many revisions and meetings, the Engineering Education Innovation Center, EEIC, Impact Grant project charter is complete. I have to thank Rob Griffiths, Tom Evans and Alan Kalish for their support, creativity and insights in getting the charter written.
The next steps in the project were to get started on the creation of instructional videos for the …Read more at the full article: Deep in the Trenches of the EEIC Impact Grant

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Helping Students (and Teachers) Learn Citation in Digital Media (10/9/2012)

Citation plays a central role in academic discourse: it’s how we acknowledge our intellectual debts, how we track the specialized conversations in which we are engaging, how we hold each other accountable for ideas, and more. Most of the established formats for citation, however, are based in print media, and instructors looking to ask students …Read more at the full article: Helping Students (and Teachers) Learn Citation in Digital Media (10/9/2012)

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Storyboarding

 
A storyboard provides insight to help you think about ways to use images, sound effects and the sound track to help tell your story as you sketch out key story actions over time.
Why storyboard?
Whether you are working on a simple photo story, an animation or a full-blown video, storyboarding helps you focus your message. Your …Read more at the full article: Storyboarding

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When a Door Closes….

…. A window opens.  It’s a common saying and it turned out to be very true for how the Disability Studies Digital Storytelling Workshop (DSDS Workshop) came to be this Summer 2012.
Our original plan had been to recruit and bring to campus Central Ohio deaf and hard-of-hearing high school age students to the OSU campus …Read more at the full article: When a Door Closes….

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Want to be a well-resourced Ohio State instructor? Read on!

To:          All Ohio State instructors
From:    The Digital Union
Re:         Apps! Resources! Workshops! –and so much more!
Are you looking for some new ways to enhance your teaching or boost your productivity during Ohio State’s first autumn semester?  What follows are highlights of some resources we recommend to help you. Below, I’ll also suggest several …Read more at the full article: Want to be a well-resourced Ohio State instructor? Read on!

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Thinking Digitally in the College of Engineering

We think of our Impact Grant project as a Digital Technical Presentations project.

The project’s concept developed out of a realization during our conversion to semester curriculum planning.  We discovered we had more material than we could actually deliver instruction for in the classroom. The problem was mostly due to the shortened class periods that do …Read more at the full article: Thinking Digitally in the College of Engineering

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Open Source Images: Resources and Protocols

Before I started writing posts for the Digital Union blog, I had no idea how much my post-writing process would resemble my approach to doing research. Each—for me, at least—requires that I assiduously attempt to resist temptation, which almost invariably presents itself in the tantalizing form of information I’ve serendipitously unearthed on fascinating topics that …Read more at the full article: Open Source Images: Resources and Protocols

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