Alan Levine's Blog (5)

Thanks to my group of volunteers who placed them selves in the wide panoramic shot we took from the steps of the Middle School Building for my session on Using Big Wide Images. The GigaPan image was 180 photos (10x18) and first was stiched together:

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My good friend and colleague Beth Kanter wanted me to share this opportunity with conference attendees... ======================================================== 2008 DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING COMPETITION 2008 $2 Million Competition Focus: Participatory Learning Participatory learning is defined broadly: using new digital media for sharing ideas or planning, designing, implementing, or just discussing ideas and goals together. Application Deadli… Continue

I see the presentation sessions are just being posted, so some of this will be cross posted there, but I've had fun creating a new web site that you will see in action at my session on Telling Stories with Photos on the Cave Wall - aimed at some experience in communcating solely with images. This prototype site works by creating a pool of photos that people are tagging in the flickr site as 5cardflickr (currently at 438 photos) that… Continue

There are so many ways to find interesting things on the web- searches, blog sites, RSS feeds, stuff that flies in via twitter, but my all time favorite is sweet serendipity discovering things by accident. It's the theme for my opening "TED Talk" like session (and just the idea of condensing a message into 10 minutes is another story). I keep track of my "web serendipity" stories on my blog at http://cogdogblog.com/tag/web-serendipity/ bu… Continue

If there was a job where you got to go around the world taking photos and uploading to flickr, I would apply right away. If I had to be stranded on a desert island (with broadband internet) and I had to have only one Web 2.0 app,,, it would be flickr. Photography is one of my main passions, and two of my presentations will have a lot to do with communication with or using imagery. I've never tried to exactly figure out why it gels with me-- there is just a sense of magic of being in the world an… Continue