hummingcrow: one squall voice » class http://hummingcrow.com cheryl colan's mixed media podcast - vlogging and sharing audio for fun and non-profit. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:36:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2006-2009 cheryl.colan@gmail.com (hummingcrow: one squall voice) cheryl.colan@gmail.com (hummingcrow: one squall voice) 1440 http://www.hummingcrow.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/hummingcrow_img-sm.jpg hummingcrow: one squall voice http://hummingcrow.com 144 144 cheryl colan's mixed media podcast - vlogging and sharing audio for fun and non-profit. hummingcrow: one squall voice hummingcrow: one squall voice cheryl.colan@gmail.com no no Baby, I’ve got a million of ‘em http://hummingcrow.com/2011/06/19/baby-ive-got-a-million-of-em/ http://hummingcrow.com/2011/06/19/baby-ive-got-a-million-of-em/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:51:53 +0000 cherylcolan http://www.hummingcrow.com/?p=653 Continue reading →]]>

5.5 x 4.25 inches - storyboard page from digital storytelling field notebook

So I’m just about ready to panic, because I’m having trouble moving from the brainstorming phase of my study abroad course materials for my digital storytelling class to the phase where I make it all coherent. I’m at that familiar point in the creative process where I begin thinking I am totally incompetent and unable to actually do my job. What did they hire me for? I’m an impostor!

Fortunately I have learned to recognize this as a symptom of being right where I should be just before I do something brilliant.

It doesn’t make it any easier to get to the brilliant bit though.

I’m having trouble adapting a class I normally teach with an eye toward lots of reflection in the development and expression of a personal narrative into a class more focused on vignettes, snippets, culture/shock and travel stories without as much time for reflection and refinement. If I could explain my thoughts to someone who “gets it,” it would be much quicker for me to find the holes in what is basically the narrative of my course timeline, and clean it up into something coherent. My problem seems to lie in needing to talk things out and having no one to talk them out with. And since I’m enrolled in the online version of #ds106 Summer of Oblivion it occurs to me how utterly ridiculous that is. No one to talk to? Hel-LO!

So this is an invitation. If you’ve got an organizational mind and want to help me make sense out of the swirling chaos drifting around in my head, then I want to get on the phone or Skype and talk to you. I need a bounce board to speed up my creative process with a little illumination. Anyone want to help me distill a million wild ideas into something that shines?

[OK. I'm hitting the publish button before I talk myself out of it, dammit.]

]]> http://hummingcrow.com/2011/06/19/baby-ive-got-a-million-of-em/feed/ 1 33.5119209 -112.0615997 Meteor Crater http://hummingcrow.com/2007/11/26/meteor-crater/ http://hummingcrow.com/2007/11/26/meteor-crater/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:26:00 +0000 cherylcolan http://www.hummingcrow.com/2007/11/26/meteor-crater/ Continue reading →]]> Meteor Crater, known to scientists as Barringer Meteorite Crater, is a meteorite impact crater site in northern Arizona, between Flagstaff and Winslow along Route 66 / I-40. I made this video as a research project for my astronomy class. Academically oriented and over six minutes in length, it may only be watchable for hardcore science nerds. There are plosive problems in the audio, too. If I had more time I’d try to solve that, but the reality is I just don’t have a proper microphone for voice over. You have been warned.

The video script with a bibliography is available in PDF and Word Document formats. I also posted a Barringer Meteorite Crater photo set on Flickr from my visit to the crater. The video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.o License and can be embedded elsewhere by using the Share tool at Blip.tv.

]]> http://hummingcrow.com/2007/11/26/meteor-crater/feed/ 4 0:06:37 Meteor Crater, known to scientists as Barringer Meteorite Crater, is a meteorite impact crater site in northern Arizona, between Flagstaff and Winslow along Route 66 / I-40. I made this video as a research project for my astronomy class. Academicall[...] Meteor Crater, known to scientists as Barringer Meteorite Crater, is a meteorite impact crater site in northern Arizona, between Flagstaff and Winslow along Route 66 / I-40. I made this video as a research project for my astronomy class. Academically oriented and over six minutes in length, it may only be watchable for hardcore science nerds. There are plosive problems in the audio, too. If I had more time I’d try to solve that, but the reality is I just don’t have a proper microphone for voice over. You have been warned. The video script with a bibliography is available in PDF and Word Document formats. I also posted a Barringer Meteorite Crater photo set on Flickr from my visit to the crater. The video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.o License and can be embedded elsewhere by using the Share tool at Blip.tv. Arizona, class, Flickr, NaVloPoMo07, travel, vlog cheryl.colan@gmail.com no no Videoblogging Class http://hummingcrow.com/2007/04/04/videoblogging-class/ http://hummingcrow.com/2007/04/04/videoblogging-class/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:36:32 +0000 cherylcolan http://www.hummingcrow.com/2007/04/04/videoblogging-class/ Continue reading →]]> For my fourth entry for Videoblogging Week 2007, I’m showing you my videoblogging class. We meet Monday nights from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. I didn’t have a full class this past Monday, but those who showed were on a roll.

I’ll have to invent some kind of parable about the vlogging class that sings together…

]]> http://hummingcrow.com/2007/04/04/videoblogging-class/feed/ 3 33.4559898 -112.0755005 0:02:56 For my fourth entry for Videoblogging Week 2007, I’m showing you my videoblogging class. We meet Monday nights from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. I didn’t have a full class this past Monday, but those who showed were on a roll. I’ll have to in[...] For my fourth entry for Videoblogging Week 2007, I’m showing you my videoblogging class. We meet Monday nights from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. I didn’t have a full class this past Monday, but those who showed were on a roll. I’ll have to invent some kind of parable about the vlogging class that sings together… Arizona, class, life, Phoenix, videobloggingweek2007, vlog, vlogging cheryl.colan@gmail.com no no