As part of the project I’m working on for the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives, I have been researching free apps for the iPad 2 that might help innovate the current recording process of the DALN.
Let me explain in more detail:
Representatives from the DALN go to conferences, usually rhetoric and composition, or other English studies related conferences, and collect live literacy narratives. I have volunteered for DALN more than once, and usually have a fun time doing it. the task involves roping people in to come and sit in front of a computer (always a mac) and record a short narrative about literacy. It can be anything – reading, writing, digital – whatever. They talk into the recording device, which takes video and audio, and then when they are finished, we save and upload the recordings, along with a release form participants fill out.
As part of the project, I am looking at streamlining this project – innovating it, if you will. So instead of using MacBooks, I am looking at using iPads. So far, I’m sort of stumbling around in the dark, but I have found one fun, if not confusing tool:
Stage: An Interactive Whiteboard and Document Camera – And while this program will not likely work for innovating the DALN recording process, it may be useful for something similar.
The biggest difficulty I find myself having at the moment is the “free apps” part of the task. On iPad, movie maker is $4.99. This is problematic, and may lead to some interesting access-oriented innovations.
In the meantime, if anyone finds some use for this whiteboard app, please share.
This is a nice idea for DALN. I’ve been following it for a while because…well…I a class with one of the people behind it. Anyways, the idea of the Ipads are really awesome. Nice way to do that. It could be like a “Vine” thing where people can just go and say what they want to say in a little bit of time or something.
I’ve been trying to visualize an efficient way for people using a whiteboard at CURVE actually. However, it’s supposed to be a little bit more streamlined aka not really an app. I hate apps.
Anyways, I hope you find everything for DALN, it’s an exciting project and I hope it gets incorporated into big archives of the Internet like Wayback Machine. I’ll see if I can get a request, shouldn’t be that hard.
Thanks! That’s so cool that you know about the project already.
There MUST be some crazy whiteboard software we could invent – like one of those pens where you write on paper and it appears on your screen – what if it appeared on a whiteboard?? Does that already exist?
There are some whiteboards online I found. Just google search “whiteboard online”. Most of them have collaboration where you can give an access code to invite people. Some even have the ability to create a personal whiteboard that you can look at anytime later.
https://awwapp.com/draw.html
http://webwhiteboard.com/#/
There are some whiteboards online I found. Just google search “whiteboard online”. Most of them have collaboration where you can give an access code to invite people. Some even have the ability to create a personal whiteboard that you can look at anytime later.
https://awwapp.com/draw.html
http://webwhiteboard.com/#/