Stories+by+Photos

Telling Stories with Photos on the Cave Wall
//Vice President Community & CTO [|New Media Consortium]// http://cogdogblog.com Communication evolved from Lascaux drawings to text and back to images again (but much better resolution! and with Creative Commons!). Come explore concepts of Web 2.0 Storytelling (http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways) and engage in some creative activities to get you thinking visually by telling a story in images only. We will see what we can create as stories from a collection of photos that conference participants submitted ahead of time and examine the processes that go into the decision making... and perhaps play a round of 5 Card Nancy.
 * ...... a presentation for Learning 2.008, Shanghai, China, September 2008**

50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (the quick version)

 * Three Steps:**
 * 1) Story loosely defined as any message told with more than one media type. Develop story idea... (should be something that lends itself to finding media)
 * 2) Find media- must be free/licensed to use (no Google Image searching).
 * 3) Choose a tool... (all must be completely web-based and free to use)

To learn how they worked, I managed to create the same story on all 50 tools

Not about a "best" tool, but learning how to create/communicate.

What Does a Single Picture Say to You?
What is the story?
 * [|Pictures of people]
 * [|Pictures of emotion]
 * [|Pictures representing travel]

Stories by Comics: Five Card Nancy
[|5 Card Nancy] is a card game invented by cartoonist Scott McCloud where cards made up form cutting the panels of the [|old comic by Ernie Bushmiller] are dealt and players must construct the "best" story from random bits that come from different stories. See the web version at [|741.5 Comics Five-Card Nancy]

Ever since seeing the Five Card Nancy web site used as a group activity in creativity by [|Ruben Puentadora], I've thought it would be interesting to create the same activity using photos drawn from a pool of ones shared on a web site, and built the **Five Card Story** site in preparation for this conference http://web.nmc.org/5cardstory/

There are two versions:
 * [|Five Card Flickr stories] draw from [|photos people have tagged 5cardflickr] in the flickr web site (432 at the time of this workshop).
 * Recognizing flickr might not be an open site in some places, I made a [|Five Card Learning 2.008 Stories site] using photos conference participants have shared in [|a group tool on the conference ning site] (note that these photos must be added manually to a database by me)

IN either case, the tool works the same- in five rounds, you are dealt 5 random photos, and you must choose one of the images to add to a series that, in the end, should tell a story only in photos. When you are done selecting the final set, you have the option to save your story, that will ultimately be part of the site's [|gallery of stories].