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Storyboard That: The World's Best FREE Online Storyboard Creator Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling Everyone from Kurt Vonnegut to Ernest Hemingway has shared his ideas on crafting solid narrative writing. One of the most recent sages to join the canon is Emma Coates, Pixar’s former story artist. Her list of the 22 Rules of Good Storytelling gleaned on the job has been gaining Internet traction since it was published last June. Twenty two? By all means, sample Coates' Pixar 22 (see them all below). As for myself, I am repurposing #4 - the only rule that doesn't contain an implied order or some derivative of "you" - as an extremely jolly parlor game. Here it is in its original form: Once upon a time there was ___. While it's entirely possible to fill in those blanks with the fruits of your own imagination, it's a true joy to subject one's most cherished literary, cinematic, and dramatic works to this retroactive Mad Lib. Warning: there are some major spoilers below. Once upon a time there was a poor family in Oklahoma. How about this? Once upon a time there was a poor young soldier.

New Script that will create Google Forms from questions in a Spreadsheet There was a query posted in the GEG Singapore about automatically creating forms from spreadsheet questions. g(Math) kind of does this, so I threw a script together that will create a form from a highlighted range. It will even create multiple choice questions from option in the sheet (I am especially proud of that aspect). Check it out here and make a copy to play around: How to do it: 1. Create your questions in a Spreadsheet, picking the type of question from the dropdown in the cell in column C. 2. 3. 4.Select the questions that you want to use: 5. 6. 7.

Trees, Shrubs, and Groundcovers Tolerant of Wet Sites The list shown below includes such plants. Plant roots require oxygen in order to function. Plants cannot tolerate extremely wet sites because soil that is completely full of water has no room for air. Sloped sites are not necessarily well drained. Some sites are wet for extended periods only during spring and fall when rainfall is abundant but evaporation is low. Soil amendments are only effective in relieving soil moisture problems if the entire root zone of the mature planting can be changed. Shrub beds may be amended with additions of large amounts of organic matter such as compost, peat, and composted sludge. Trees and their USDA Hardiness Zone Shrubs Ground covers *Indicates Evergreens Prepared by N.

magazinefactory.edu.fi/index.php?str=15 MagazineFactory – a web tool for publishing International Electronic Magazines for School Communities You are now using the web tool called MagazineFactory. This version facilitates genuine international collaboration with a foreign school. MagazineFactory [based on the original product called Tidningsfabriken] is a popular and versatile concept for developing web magazines for various purposes and contexts. Sharing features You can enrich your magazine by embedding YouTube videos, Google Maps and Google search results to the articles. Cooperation with the European SchoolnetThe most recent version of MagazineFactory includes collaborative features suitable for international cooperation. Recognition for MagazineFactory Further information Mia Sandvik, Finnish National Board of Education, +358 (0) 29 533 1195, mia.sandvik[A]oph.fi Questions about the system's functionality: magazinefactory@zentointeractive.com (Read the manual and FAQ sections first) Concept planning: Christian Komonen

Emblematic Group and Mozilla Team Up to Showcase Next Generation of Storytelling on the Web Everything you share on the internet is a story. You read blog posts and watch videos that make you feel connected to people across the world. Virtual Reality has made these experiences even stronger, but it wasn’t available to most people as a storytelling tool, until now. This breakthrough in accessibility comes from VR pioneer and award winning journalist, Nonny de la Peña, who is founder & CEO of the immersive technology company Emblematic Group. VR for Storytelling De la Peña was one of the first to recognize that VR is a powerful way to tell stories. The stories de la Peña tells in virtual reality are beautiful and sometimes, gut-wrenching. The team at Emblematic wanted to do more than create, they wanted to make it easy for people without coding experience to tell their own stories in VR. VR for Creation “What if VR took you somewhere you didn’t necessarily know you wanted to go, but needed to see to fully comprehend? With the REACH platform, you can host and distribute 3D models.

PowToon, free business presentation software animated video maker and PowerPoint alternative Home - Innovation Studio 20 Creative Ways to Use Social Media for Storytelling Storytelling has always played a part in successful marketing. Stories enable us to build personality and create a connection with consumers. But can we actually tell a story on social media? Is it possible to narrate a story with social media posts that are supposed to be short and sweet? It turns out there are many ways to use social media for storytelling! In this post, I’d love to share 20 actionable ways to use social media for storytelling. Ready to dive in? Navigating this article To make it easier to navigate this article, the 20 ideas are grouped according to the various social media platforms. Let’s go! Facebook 1. National Public Radio (NPR) studied over 3,000 of their Facebook link posts and found that shorter posts (those under 120 characters) had higher click-through rates than longer posts (those above 280 characters). Longer posts had more “Other Clicks” such as clicks to “See More”, which appears on long Facebook posts. An idea to try: 2. 3. An idea to try: 4. 5. Instagram 6. 7.

Suggestion Box Insert summary here... www.movellas.com Save Reset Click here to start Toontastic 3D – Android-alkalmazások a Google Playen 3… 2… 1… ACTION! With Toontastic 3D you can draw, animate, and narrate your own cartoons. It’s as easy as play. Just move your characters around onscreen, tell your story, and Toontastic records your voice and animations and stores it on your device as a 3D video. What people are saying:• Parents' Choice Gold Award: "Toontastic 3D is a wonderful creative outlet for all budding storytellers, young scientists, or those who increasingly blur the lines between the two - perhaps this is where the next documentary makers and Pixar artists will get their start Fruit Ninja © 2017 Halfbrick. 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Fruit Ninja © 2017 Halfbrick.

Mindenkinek van egy filmje (Digitális történetmesélés: oktatás – önismeret – önkifejezés) Bán Dávid, kulturális antropológus, digitális történetmesélés tréner. Korábban sokáig dolgozott a médiában, három saját rendezésű dokumentumfilmet is jegyez. Kezdetektől tevékenyen vesz részt a 2002-ben mások mellett általa is alapított Anthropolis Egyesületben, ahol az elmúlt években oktatóként és projektvezetőként főként a digitális történetmesélés módszerének elterjesztésén dolgozik. Mindannyian szeretjük a történeteket. Mindannyian vágyunk arra, hogy valamilyen nyomot hagyjunk a jövő számára. Mindenkiben megbújik egy ki nem mondott, eltemetett történet. A digitális történetmesélés segít önmagunkra, a történetünkre koncentrálni, azt szavakba önteni, dramatizálni és fényképek segítségével mások számára is elmesélni. Az 1970-es, 80-as években, az Egyesült Államokban a történetmeséléséi hagyományokból kiindult eleinte kísérleti művészeti irányzat a technikai lehetőségek bővülésével és egyre könnyebb elérhetőségével folyamatosan népszérűsödött. Oktatás Program: Bán Dávid Linkek » Kommentálom

Digitális történetmesélés - Nemzetkoziesites - Tempus Közalapítvány A digitális történetmesélés (angolul: digital storytelling, rövidítve DST) egy olyan innovatív, tanulástámogató módszer, amely az egyénre, az egyéni történetekre fordítja a figyelmet. A módszer keretében megtanulhatjuk, hogy egyes, számunkra fontos történeteket fényképek, hanganyagok, filmanyagok, linkek, IKT-eszközök felhasználásával mások számára is hozzáférhetővé tegyük, vagyis továbbadjuk (elmeséljük) a számukra. A digitális történetmesélésről általánosságban “A digitális történetmesélés folyamata: Megtalálni – a számunkra fontos történetetElmesélni – saját szavainkkal és fényképeinkkelMegosztani – egymással vagy az interneten keresztül bárkivel” (Forrás) A StoryCenter Berkeleyben a digitális történetmesélés központi alkotóhelye, közösségi műhelye. A hét elem az alábbiakat tartalmazza: Nézőpont - Mi a történet központi gondolata és a szerző nézőpontja, szempontja? A digitális történetmesélés az oktatásban “A pedagógiai céltól függően a digitális történetmesélés felhasználható:

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