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Over the last few years as a juror on the Peabody Awards, I have seen a lot of innovative uses of scroll-based storytelling. As just one example of many, the New York Times’ Maui Wildfire Timeline takes you through the history of what happened minute by minute during the destruction of Lahaina in 2023. It…
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Easily create 360 tours & HTML pages with immersive elements, and more Big news! The code for the 360 Hotspot Creator I released in June just went through some major upgrades. It’s now a lot more than just a 360 tour builder. I have upgraded it to incorporate the best features of WebXRIDE, which is…
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Making WebVR storytelling easy and accessible for classroom use For the past year, I’ve been working on an NSF-funded project focused on helping 5th grade students and educators create immersive, place-based stories about their countries’ food and culture in virtual reality. As part of that work, I developed a tool called the 360 Hotspot Creator with the…
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I set up this blog about a year and change ago. My thinking about it was the same as when I set up my first blog back in around 2005. Back then, I had started doing some things that got media attention, and I wanted to have more agency about my own story from my…
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The 86th Peabody Awards ceremony is happening tonight at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. As a member of the Interactive and Immersive jury, I had a role in selecting this year’s nominees and winners, as each one is decided by a unanimous vote of the jury. It’s not always easy to track down…
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For the last year, I’ve been privileged to be a part of the Online News Association’s AI Innovator Collaborative. It’s a group of people working in journalism, including journalism education, who are actively experimenting with the responsible and ethical use of AI in the context of news. While AI + Journalism may sound like something…
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It’s December 2, 2024, and on this day I’ve decided to get back into blogging. This is the first post I’ve made to a personal blog since around 2013. It will take me some time to get back into the habit of this, but there’s no time to start like the present. My first blog…