Since I'm not entirely sure how to setup website forwarding for this domain (talkwithmedia.com) using the DNS Manager on my GoDaddy account, I'm leaving this Posterous site connected to the domain talkwithmedia.com.

I have renamed this digital writing project, "Playing with Media" and it's now linked on playingwithmedia.com. I've moved my entire OLD site which WAS linked here (on talkwithmedia.com) to playingwithmedia.com. So you'll find all old posts linked there. I regret losing whatever Google indexing and link credibility I had with this older domain, but the benefits of the name change and it's more apt metaphor to the goals of my writing project make it worth it.

Please update your bookmarks and blog subscriptions!

For the past few months I've been cross-posting blog entries to TalkWithMedia.com. I'm getting a book together in advance of ISTE 2011 and my BYOL session, "Simple Ideas for Powerful Sharing." In the past couple weeks I've been inspired by reading Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown's new book, "A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Change." Thomas and Brown discuss the vital role of play in helping us as humans make sense of our world and understand it. Because I believe a rich array of skills can be developed through our use and sharing of different kinds of media products, the word "play" rather than "talk" summarizes much of my encouragement and advocacy to teachers specifically in my own developing book. The following is a Word cloud I created back in March to summarize many of the skills which can be developed by Storychasers and participants in our statewide oral history / digital storytelling projects in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas.

In the weeks ahead I'll be migrating content from TalkWithMedia.com here to PlayingWithMedia.com, including the "pages" I've started about tools for communicating with text, audio and video. I'll also be drawing on links and content I've shared previously in conference breakout sessions titled, "Share Your Ideas: Platforms for Publishing."