Digital Story Telling

What is MemoryMiner?
MemoryMiner is a application that can be used to create Digital Stories. It's not free, but inexpensive, $45 to own. MemoryMiner won Macworld's Best of Show in 2006. "The core idea behind MemoryMiner is to treat your most interesting and rare photos as frames in a storyboard that are linked by People, Place and Time. As such, it's designed to be a complement to photo management tools such as iPhoto, Aperture, iView, Lightroom, etc. however, you can perfectly well use MemoryMiner as a standalone application."

Why are you interested in Digital Stories?
Digital Stories allow us to experience events, research events, express momentous events and learn. It is also an application that can be ran on a Mac, so for my fellow Mac user's, MemoryMiner might also pique your interests.

What is MemoryMiner used for?
"MemoryMiner is the award-winning Digital Storytelling application for Mac and Windows used to discover the threads connecting peoples’ lives across time and place. It lets you zero in on the stories depicted in your photos by linking them to each other based on people, places and time. Using simple drag and drop actions, you specify who is in the picture, where the picture was taken and when."

Explain how to use Memory Miner.
There are already some great videos for MemoryMiners. Here's nifty link to one such video.

Has MemoryMiner been used in educational applications? How?
Absolutely. Here's a link in MemoryMiner's website describing how to implement MemoryMiner into schools.

Is is MemoryMiner effective?
I believe so, they have solid Help Center containing how to videos, printed instruction, FAQs and email for tech support. One can also download the program for free for 15 day trail.

How does MemoryMiner help learning?
I view MemoryMiner allowing us to take ideas and put those ideas into action. Photos are concrete items and they can be manipulated out of our ideas to create more concrete items, such as slideshows. I can see how MemoryMiner projects can start as an idea about how US Presidents are similar and different. Using the MemoryMiner, one can add dates, locations, websites to see how each US President is unique and similar to other US Presidents. I think this paradigm follows James Zull's notion of the learning cycle, concert>reflection>idea>action.