These exercises are intended for small groups, carved out of the UPS Web 2.0 storytelling workshop participants.

Some of the references made during the class are tagged at delicious with tag "upsdst2008" here.

Blogs

Rhodes College - Student / Administrative Office Blogs http://connect.rhodes.edu/blog

 Dolen's previous class blog:  http://english383.blogspot.com/

Leah - PostSecret Blog: http://postsecret.blogspot.com (secrets gone digital)

Microblogs

Go to this Twitter account (pw = narrate). Pick first-person or third-, then start writing the character.

Go to this Twitter account (pw = Athena). Pick first-person or third-, then start writing the character.

Flickr

Go to this Flickr image. Consider the setting as a story prompt. What is happening? What is going to emerge from it? Write comments there.

Wikis

UPS storytelling exercise one

Slideshows

Read "Into the Storm". How is this different from a classic Powerpoint stack?

VoiceThread

Go to one page (group one and two, group three and four and follow instructions, if any. You may also return here to comment.

Web video

Check out Connect With I. How does it manage to present just enough information to keep the audience going?

Multi-platform

lonelygirl15. Where to begin? Start with the YouTube channel and try to figure out the outlines of the whole project. To be helpful, here's a link to the first video.

Finding Web 2.0

Blogs: Google blogsearch, Technorati

Tagging and Social Bookmarking

UPS Info page on this

List of groups: Group One

Group Two

Group Three

Group Four

Group Five

Group Six

Group Seven

Navigation help:

Web2point 0 Storytelling At University Of Puget Sound August 2008