2011 Storytubes contest

Last year several of our kids entered the national Storytubes contest. Though we failed to impress the judges, we still won a couple of the online voting audience awards. We're back this year with more of our animated book reviews. My wife also had her kids participate this year with a live action/animation mix. Here is one of the videos I made with a fifth grader. I am very please with the way it turned out. She came up with the concept and wrote it herself. * WARNING* Justin Bieber content :)

Amazon Commercial

Last summer Amazon has a "contest" for Amazon users to come up with a commercial for their company. Although they advertised it as a amateur competition, of course it wasn't. The winners (you've seen the stop motion Kindle commercials)were professional producers. Oh well...Amazon got some great talent for a bargain and it doesn't stop me from buying there. Here is the commercial I entered. It's a homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Amazon .com entry. The Dawn of Shopping from Doug Valentine on Vimeo.

Dallas Morning News Article

The Dallas Morning news recently interviewed me for an article they were doing on Teachertube. I thought it was really good and got the word out about using online videos. You can read it here:

Doctor Loopy in DMN

More on the Glog

This glog thing has been a lot of fun! My wife has found good use for it as an online portfolio for her students. I have set mine up much like a web page with links and embedded videos. The quality is great and it has been very stable for me. I am going to expand the use past the online book reviews and use it as a cool resource page for research. Try it!

Librareo Finals Information

Voting goes on all this week in the Librareo video contest finals. You can vote once per day per computer. Just go to: http://www.gale.cengage.com/librareo/
and find Lily's Purple Plastic Purse. Vote to the right and then hit the vote button at the bottom. Spread the word and come back the next day!
Thanks.