Low-tech, high-impact storytelling with Flip cameras; experiences from the world of plant taxonomy
I rarely will pull over a post in its entirety from a work blog, but I love these videos and the nice collaborative spirit that went in to making them. These are from the Global Plants Initiative, a collection of over 220 botanical organizations worldwide dedicated to digitizing and making available plant type specimens (to […]
Plant videos and >500,000 views: personal>ephemeral
Why do I consider this to be one of my greatest professional achievements? This page of videos from various botanical organizations throughout the world taken on inexpensive (and now obsolete) Flip cameras? Taken of seemingly staid subjects (plant taxonomy) by and of people rarely filmed. Is it the fact that they are relatively tangible, almost […]
Plant videos and 500,000 views: personal>ephemeral
Why do I consider this to be one of my greatest professional achievements? This page of videos from various botanical organizations throughout the world taken on inexpensive (and now obsolete) Flip cameras? Taken of seemingly staid subjects (plant taxonomy) by and of people rarely filmed. Is it the fact that they are relatively tangible, almost […]
Doha, Qatar
I am heading off to JFK Airport this weekend in a rather inconvenient section of Queens (ie all of Queens), New York to travel to Doha, Qatar, for the 2010 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) where I am representing this site and community that I have invested quite a bit of my professional and emotional energy […]