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\u00a050 Ways to Tell a Story using Social Media<\/span><\/h4>\n

Web 2.0 Mashup \/ Social Media for Multimedia Story Telling<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The purpose of this presentation is to investigate Web 2.0 Tools, the concept of Mashup and Social Media Story Telling as per Alan Levine’s
\n“50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story”<\/em>, available at: http:\/\/cogdogroo.wikispaces.com\/50+Ways<\/a>
\nand his list of “50+ Web Tools<\/em>“, available at: http:\/\/cogdogroo.wikispaces.com\/StoryTools<\/a><\/p>\n

Given the choice of telling a personal <\/em>story or\u00a0story <\/em>that could be <\/span><\/span>used in class\u00a0in relation to an activity or part of my curriculum – I chose to use <\/span><\/span>SlideRocket\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/a>http:\/\/www.sliderocket.com\/<\/a><\/span>) to experiment with telling a multimedia\u00a0story<\/em> related to\u00a0a module from BIOL151 –\u00a0Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology <\/em>(a fully online course developed for delivery via WebCT by the Online Development Team<\/em> at Vancouver Island University).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Reflection on Development Process\u00a0<\/h4>\n
https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/morrisonsetec565\/2009\/07\/20\/reflection-on-social-media-story-telling\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/address>\n

Well there were various categories of issues for me – the technical issues, the design challenges (to move from thinking in text to trying to think visually and kinesthetically<\/span> and “tell a story”), and the potential for increased engagement, creativity, motivation and collaboration.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Learning How To Author a Multimedia Story with SlideRocket<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Given that I have used a variety of\u00a0 graphic presentation applications, I understood the basic concepts of creating slides in SlideRocket.\u00a0 <\/em>New tasks that were fairly simple to learn included: adding Flash interactive learning objects, recording audio narration for individual slides,\u00a0publishing a “public” presentation and inviting people to view the pre-release.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The documentation was light and at times incomplete, and that caused quite a bit of frustration as well as\u00a0wasted time and effort.\u00a0 A few times the system froze in the process of saving and then the Flash interactivities did not work properly.\u00a0 Still a few bugs and features that don’t work as expected!\u00a0 I had to remove some of the interactivities and some of the audio narration, because they seemed to conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, harder than learning new software and additional Web 2.0 features, was trying to think as a visual, auditory and kinesthetic (haptic) learner.\u00a0 If I took the text-based content away, how would I explain the concepts?\u00a0 I still have not mastered this aspect of designing with SlideRocket<\/em>, but I’ve made a huge first step.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Choosing This\u00a0Particular Tool<\/span><\/p>\n

After reviewing over 60 Web 2.0 Tools, I purposefully selected this\u00a0particular presentation tool\u00a0due to the following functionality:<\/p>\n