That was a truly enjoyable storybook and one that is certainly worthy of being printed someday. Great photos of what looks like a great learning experience for you.
As you know, I share your frustrations with Panraven--particularly the slowness of uploading media and the unresponsiveness of the site when you perform certain operations such as adding a picture to your story from the media well. I think some of that slowness may be due to network saturation, but then again we don't notice the same behavior with Flickr or VoiceThread. I hope this gets worked out over time. I also agree that these problems severely limit the potential functionality of Panraven as a classroom tool. One possible workaround would be to have the teacher upload everyone's images to a single location before the students begin telling their stories. Students could use these media resources in their own stories without having to upload their own photos. It's an extra step, but it avoids the potential bottleneck of having 25 students uploading dozens of photos at the same time.
I do think that the end product--the storybooks themselves--are compelling enough to continue to explore the possibilities of Panraven as a classroom tool.
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That was a truly enjoyable storybook and one that is certainly worthy of being printed someday. Great photos of what looks like a great learning experience for you.
As you know, I share your frustrations with Panraven--particularly the slowness of uploading media and the unresponsiveness of the site when you perform certain operations such as adding a picture to your story from the media well. I think some of that slowness may be due to network saturation, but then again we don't notice the same behavior with Flickr or VoiceThread. I hope this gets worked out over time. I also agree that these problems severely limit the potential functionality of Panraven as a classroom tool. One possible workaround would be to have the teacher upload everyone's images to a single location before the students begin telling their stories. Students could use these media resources in their own stories without having to upload their own photos. It's an extra step, but it avoids the potential bottleneck of having 25 students uploading dozens of photos at the same time.
I do think that the end product--the storybooks themselves--are compelling enough to continue to explore the possibilities of Panraven as a classroom tool.
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