Storytelling with...

There are many great tools and apps out there for digital storytelling - here is a selection that you may find useful:

1. Storytelling with Maps - for example Boston Snow 2015, The Garden of Earthly Delights, or The Connecticut River Higher Education Greenway.
2. Storytelling with Videos and movies - for example you can create your own animated video with Plotagon, annotate a movie (or book) with SocialBook, or annotate a video with VidBolt.
3. Storytelling with Apps - for example Connection - Hollywood Storytelling meets Critical Thinking.
4. Storytelling with Infographics - for example using Easel.ly, Canva, or Infogr.am.
5. Storytelling with Comic Strips, Church Signs, Memes, or Cartoons.

http://www.khoslaventures.com/the-unbreakable-laws-of-storytelling

Bloomin' Apps

Kathy Schrock's Guide To Everything has a nice section called Bloomin' Apps where she compiles and reviews apps for iPad, Android, Google, Windows, and Web 2.0 that support the different levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy, including:

1. Understanding Bloom
2. Remembering Bloom
3. Applying Bloom

If that's not enough for you...have a look at the Teaching Professor Tips app (available for iOS and Android) that delivers a useful teaching tip daily to your smart phone or tablet.

Even more ridiculous: let's turn college life and academic success into a game - consider the Ball State Achievements app (reviewed here by Wired Campus).

Better Online Pedagogy

Here are two options to become a better online educator:

1. You could yourself take an online class, perhaps on The Flipped Classroom, Teaching with Twitter, or Learning Online - all you need is a few hundred spare $$$, perhaps using an IPI or SoTL Grant?
2. Or, you could just read a book, for example the new Teaching Online A Guide to Theory, Research, and Practice by Erin Dolan. Before you buy, consider this review or swing-by and take a look at my copy.

For a more critical view of online education and education technology in-general consider the essays The Golden Lasso of Education Technology or Is It Time to Give Up on Computers in Schools? by Audrey Watters. Or, read her book The Monsters of Education Technology.

http://paleofuture.com/blog/2011/8/24/the-push-button-school-of-tomorrow-1958.html

Mapping Bonobos

The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism among the Primates by Frans de Waal is a great read as-is, but you can also 'read' the book in space as an interactive story map. So, click around and explore the places, links, connections, websites, videos, and more!

Want more? How about Atlas Obscura's Guide to Literary Road Trips.

Story Maps are ways to present information in a geographic context, or, more simply: to tell your story using interactive maps, for example The Connecticut River Higher Education Greenway.

Making story maps is actually quite easy and we will be offering a series of story mapping workshops later this semester. Or, swing-by and we can chat about how this spatial technology could be useful for your teaching, research, or other activities.