Making+The+Movie

=Behind the Scenes!= In April 2011, I made the following video to promote the 50+ Ways project - it was my idea to use the different tools to create it. media type="youtube" key="kDYJAZiskRw?rel=0" height="510" width="640" align="center"

A script was written, and tools were assigned, as outlined in a Google Doc Each of the segments used is listed below, with the tool name linked ti the segment created.:

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 * 1) Hi, I am Alan Levine. Welcome to this overview of 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story. (xtranormal)
 * 2) This video has been created about, and with, the tools that are part of this web site and workshop. (xtimeline)
 * 3) How it came to be is itself a story. (ImageLoop)
 * 4) A lot of people say nice things about the web site, but they usually focus on the list of tools. (Pixton)
 * 5) Let me be clear, that while the tools are shiny and cool, this is more about the craft of telling stories, not the tools. (Blabberize)
 * 6) And with these kinds of creative ways to express ourselves on the web, we can do things not possible in other forms. (Glogster)
 * 7) We can be non-linear. ([|Comic Sketch])
 * 8) We can be silly. ( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">gnomz <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">SPresent, shwup)
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We can be soaked in media. (Six Word Flickr Story)
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We can connect to social media sites. (PhotoPeach)
 * 11) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We can make it a shared. collaborative experience. (bubblr -- note cant locate clip any more, forgot what I name dit)
 * 12) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But what exactly is storytelling? (Google Presenter)
 * 13) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It is not just entertainment, it is the foundation for all effective and persuasive communications. (Vuvox Collage)
 * 14) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If you need to relay information, you can write reports and emails. (Slideroll)
 * 15) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But if you want to motivate, inspire, persuade, grab attention, stand out, movie people- tell a story, do not spray them with bullet points. (VoiceThread)
 * 16) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As humans, we are all wired to react to listen to, and to tell stories. (Slideoo - created on the fly, does not exist now)
 * 17) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A story might be a recap of a trip. (Google My Maps- used an existing map of a trip to London, did temporary edit to add bit for movie, then deleted)
 * 18) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A story might be a guide on how to do something. (Flickr Linked Notes)
 * 19) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">A story might be a poetic or inspirational message. (not used but created at Pixton)
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A story might be a humorous entree to a challenging topic. (Empressr)
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A story might be a presentation of a project. (One True Media)
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A story might honor an influential person in our lives. (OurStory)
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This workshop has a simple 3 part process. (Picassa)
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">First we start with some prompts or suggestions for planning a story. We want to come up with an outline of its major parts. (Slideboom)
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Second, we locate media we can use in the story (or make it ourselves) (gnomz)
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And third, and only third, we pick up a tool. (gnomz)
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This workshop was first developed for a group of educators I visited in Australia in 2007. (yodio)
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I had been noticing a number of websites, free to use, where one could combine images, text, video to create something that could be shared on the web. (Zentation)
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And I wondered- how many of these might there be? (RockYou)
 * 11) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At the same time, I was watching TV when the Library of Congress honored Paul Simon for his lifetime of musical achievement. (Toondoo)
 * 12) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And Simon performed a live concert. When he played that song, “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” a thought hit me, I wonder if there are 50 such web-based tools that on could use to create a multimedia story? (MIxbook)
 * 13) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I never thought I would find 50. But I did. And more. (Tikatok)
 * 14) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When I started planning a workshop on how to introduce these tools to teachers, I realized I would have to know how to use them all. (280Slides)
 * 15) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And the best way to do that would be to create something in each one. (Tabblo)
 * 16) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But what to do? Then I had the idea to tell the story of my dog Dominoe, and how she was found, lost, and found again (or found me). (prezi)
 * 17) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And then I had the crazy idea to tell the SAME story in all the tools. I had all the pieces- the images, the audio. (Vcasmo)
 * 18) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So each tool has a description, the Dominoe story I created, examples of stories other people have made. (Tabbl)
 * 19) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The newest version of the site is organized to help you pick a tool by the kind of published form it produces (slideshow, or video or presentation, etc) or by the kind of media it can use. (Jaycut)
 * 20) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The point is not to find the best miracle tool that can do anything, but to practice your craft of making a story and generating it in new ways. Maybe 50 ways. (Slideshare)
 * 21) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">These tools will not do everything you need. And they may behave in unexpected ways. But in trying to make your story come through in these different forms canot but help you become a better communicator. (Zooburst)
 * 22) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So what story will you tell? (Kerpoof)