College of Education
Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction
Instructional Technology Program

CUIN 7358:
Educational Uses of Digital Photography
& Digital Storytelling

fall 2008

This course is linked with ELED 7325: History & Development
of Early Childhood Literature

 

October 13, 2008: Class Six       Course Blog          Student Blogs          return to main page


Topics for Class Six:

Review Assignments from Class 5

Engines of Our Ingenuity
Royalty-Free Music Options

Assignments for Next Class:
  * Reading Assignments
  * Blog Assignments
  * Hands-On Assignment 6
 

Review Assignments from Class 5

Hands-On Assignment:
For this week's hands-on assignment, you should add narration and either computer-generated music or real music to the digital story you created last week.
 

Blog Assignment:

Go to your personal blog and post a message in which you first include the new URL of the video file you created for this week's hands-on assignment, and then post any questions or comments you have about the process you went through in completing this work.

More Questions about Photo Story
 

Is there a limit to the length of time that the recording for each photo can be?
I haven’t actually tried it myself, but have read that you can record up to five minutes of narration for each picture in the story.

Why does narrated audio fade out too soon at the end of the story?

Photo Story 3 is designed so that the audio (which the developers probably thought would usually be music) fades out on the last slide. This is nice if the audio is music, but not so good if the audio is someone speaking. There are two ways to try to fix this problem. The first method is the simplest and it may work some of the time, but not always. You can try to increase the amount of time that the last slide stays on the screen. You can do this by going to the Customize Motion screen in PS3 and  clicking on the Number of Seconds to display this picture button and set the time to longer than the default setting of 5 seconds.



You will need to check to see how long the narration lasts and then make the last slide a few seconds longer than that. If you have recorded the narration for the last slide within Photo Story, you might try deleting the narration on that slide, increasing the length of time it will stay on the screen, and then re-recording the narration (just for that slide).

Engines of Our Ingenuity Project

The Engines of Our Ingenuity is a radio program written and hosted by Dr. John Lienhard, M.D. Anderson Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and History at the University of Houston. The episodes tell the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity or as Dr. Lienhard says, they are about "the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them." Engines episodes are heard throughout the country on National Public Radio and produced by KUHF-FM Houston. The program began airing nationally in 1988, and is presently heard on many stations nationally, and even abroad As of mid-February, 2008, 2330 episodes have been aired.


More information about the program may be found online at: http://www.uh.edu/engines/ 

The following digital stories are attempts at adding a visual component to the audio-only versions of Engines episodes and are presented here with Dr. Lienhard's permission.


Chartres Cathedral
Medical Oath
Tallest, Longest
 

Fingerprints
A Walk Uptown
Moonfall: 1969
 

Time and Efficiency
Camera Obscura
Honor the Dream
 

Malt Balls or M&Ms
Black and White
The Medieval West

As part of the course, students will select one Engines episode and add visual images to it. You can see a list of all episodes at: http://www.uh.edu/engines/keywords.htm

Royalty-Free Music Options


http://www.jamendo.com/en/

 
You can copy, distribute, advertise, and perform this album as long as you: 1) give credit to the artist, 2) don’t use this album for commercial purposes, and 3) don’t alter, transform, or build upon this album.

 


http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
 
Is this music free to use?
Yes. An optional donation of $5 per piece used is suggested - and highly appreciated.

 


https://magnatune.com/today/ 
 

The Magnatune website explicitly states the requirements for using music downloaded from their website in a non-commercial project, including student projects.

Non-Commercial Use

No paid license is required for people creating new works for non-commercial use.

You must meet the legal requirement for "non-commercial use" as defined by the Creative Commons License which governs all Magnatune MP3 files.

Please note that if you are a "non-profit institution" this does not necessarily imply that your use is "non-commercial". Please consult the license for details.

You must abide by the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike use restrictions placed by the license.

Common examples of uses we consider non-commercial are:

  • anything a student makes while attending school (i.e. homework)

  • demos, resume and other samples by individuals, even if they're being used to get a job or solicit contracts (we assume you'll want to use our music at your job once you get one)

  • films that are being shown in places where no admission fee is charged

  • GNU/Berkeley/OSI licensed games or software that are given away for free (or included incidentally inside a larger distribution, even in a pay-distribution)

  • Remixes that are given away for free (we're active participants in CC mixter)

  • Podcasts and video blogs

If you meet these requirements, you have two options:

  1. To get the best-quality audio: we ask that you buy the album if you want to get a perfect quality audio version. You can then use the album for free in your student project.

  2. Download 128k mp3s with speaking on them: You can also download the MP3s for this album. Each mp3 will end with spoken text that says "you just heard..." If you'd rather not have the speaking at the end of the mp3s (and we assume you would) please see option number one above.

 


http://www.podsafeaudio.com/
 

By submitting material to the Service, you represent and warrant that: We, our customers and licensees shall not be required to make any payments with respect to material that you submit to our sites, including, but not limited to, payments to you, third parties, music publishers, mechanical rights agents, performance rights societies, persons who contributed to or appear in your materials, your licensors, unions or guilds;

By submitting sound recordings or musical compositions or other audio and/or audio-visual content to us, you grant us, our affiliates, and our business partners a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive license to:

  • publicly perform, publicly display, broadcast, encode, edit, alter, modify, reproduce, transmit, manufacture, distribute and synchronize with visual images your material, in whole or in part, alone or in compilation with content provided by third parties, through any medium now known or hereafter devised for the purpose of demonstrating, promoting or distributing your material, to users seeking to download or otherwise acquire it and/or (ii) storing the work in a remote database accessible by users;

  • Make your material accessible as audio and/or video streams;


 


http://www.freesoothingmusic.com/
 

All content on this website is free for all.

 


 

 

Assignments for Next Class:

Reading Assignments:

'Fair Use' Confusion Threatens Media Literacy
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=7430

Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use
http://centerforsocialmedia.org/rock/backgrounddocs/bestpractices.pdf

The Good, the Bad, and the Confusing: User-Generated Video Creators on Copyright
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/files/pdf/good_bad_confusing.pdf



Hands-On Assignment 6:

For this week's hands-on assignment, you should select an episode from the Engines of Our Ingenuity website (http://uh.edu/engines/) that you will use for the Engines assignment that is due on Monday, November 3, 2008. For this midterm project assignment, you will create a digital story using images that you find to illustrate the narration of the episode you selected. You may also add music if you think it will enhance the presentation. Refer to the example episodes shown above to see how these audio episodes look with images and music added.

The Engines episode you select may be on any topic (either topics related to ELED 7325, such as books, printing, literature, or not).

Click here for instructions on how to download the audio file of the Engines episode that you want to use.

For this week, you should begin looking for and saving images that can be used to illustrate the episode you selected. Also, make sure that you can download the audio file of the episode as we did in this week's class.

Personal Engines Blog Assignment 6a -Selecting an Episode:

Also, please post a comment on your personal blog in which you describe the particular Engines episode you plan to use for the midterm project, why you like this topic and selected it, and please include the episode number. Remember, that some episodes have been redone (and improved) by Dr. Lienhard, so make sure that if you find two episodes on the same topic, select the most recent one (the one with the higher number).


Course Discussion Blog Assignment 6b:

Go to the Course Discussion Blog (http://cuin7358-lit.blogspot.com/) and post a comment in which you discuss one or more topics you are considering for your final semester project. Beginning next week, you will be asked to begin writing a first draft of a script on the topic you plan to use for the final project. So for this week's blog posting, you should include a brief outline of at least some of the major themes you think may be included in your project.
 

 

 

Instructor: Bernard Robin