Storychasers

Storychasers is a multi-state (and potentially multi-national) educational collaborative empowering students and teachers to responsibly record and share stories of local, regional and global interest as citizen journalists. Where the STN (Student Television Network) focuses exclusively on student broadcast news productions, Storychasers has a broader focus on not only student-created news broadcasts, student-created documentary films, and live event coverage (webcasting). Storychaser media productions can be shared as live broadcast events or recorded, asynchronously shared audio and video files.

It has been proposed that one specific focus of our collaborative be on supporting educators and learners involved in one-to-one laptop initiatives, where every student and every teacher is equipped with a laptop computer. It has also been suggested that we focus on primarily supporting learners in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and north Texas, but we are not an exclusively regional group and welcome involvement and participation from educators, students, parents, and other community members around the world. It remains unresolved whether we will have a regional focus at all. It may be that Storychaser groups will sponsor local events and meet-ups, and be open for membership and participation from learners around the globe. (We are currently an open community where any one can register.)

We encourage teachers currently involved in or wanting to be involved in the production of "school news" broadcast programs to register as a "Storychasers Affiliate Station." This designation can be done after you register by clicking "My Account" in the left sidebar and clicking the tab for "Affiliate Info" at the top.

In addition to facilitating collaborative projects and partnerships among members, we aspire to offer holiday institutes focusing on digital storytelling, citizen journalism, remote webcasting and videoconferencing, and other constructive uses of new media technologies for communication, collaboration, and content creation.

Storychasers was founded by Wesley Fryer and Kevin Honeycutt, educators in Oklahoma and Kansas. Learn more about Wesley and Kevin on their websites:

www.speedofcreativity.org

http://kevinhoneycutt.org