Friday, June 25, 2010

Google search story creator

Have you seen Professor Michael Wesch's video The machine is us/ing us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
If not, check it out - a brilliant 4 1/2 minute segue from paper to web 2.0 with provocative questions at the end about needing to rethink our ideas of copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves... in the web environment.

A light-hearted version of telling a story through Google searches is this 50 second story - Parisian Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU

which I came across through this post on Kelly Geigner's Teacher Tracks blog in which she shares some ways to use Google's Search Stories in the classroom...
http://www.teachertracks.com/2010/04/5-awesome-ideas-for-using-google-search.html

Here is the link to Google SearchStory creator http://www.youtube.com/searchstories and if any of you are a fan of the movies Toy Story as I am, you'll enjoy the story playing there now...

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