Inspiration: Mobile Photo Storytelling

Mobile post sent by elikeren using Utterz. Replies. mp3

I have been a bit obsessed with CNN's iReporters. While browsing the site, I noticed that they are creating photo "themes" and asking for story submissions. Here is an example called Flower Power, where they ask citizens to take a photo of a "flower" and tell a story from the photo. This caused me to think about students, mobiles, and storytelling. Students could use their photo enabled cell phones (hard to find a cell phone without the ability to capture photographs) in order to take an image, and text message (or narrate via audio) a story about their image. All the images could be collected into a particular site, such as a blog, so they can be displayed, comments could be added, or stories could be extended. For example, a math teacher studying geometry, could ask students to take images of geometric shapes they find in the real world and text message or audio message a short story about the shape, how they stumbled upon the shape, or any other relevant fact. I made an example above using Utterz to post from my cell phone. Although Flickr would also be a great option, since there are lots of slide shows that couple with a Flickr images.