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Celebrate Oklahoma Voices presented by Story Chasers, Inc. (an Oklahoma nonprofit) and many other partner organizations. COV is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. More information is available on our main project website celebrateoklahoma.us.
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What was the ODCP project in 2007?

posted ‎‎Jan 13, 2009 8:51 AM‎‎ by Wesley Fryer   [ updated ‎‎Jul 28, 2009 3:33 PM‎‎ ]
The Oklahoma Digital Centennial project started in 2007 to enable educators across the great State of Oklahoma to develop digital stories. Educators learn how to use a digital story guide for submitting individual or classroom projects about Oklahoma history that is unique to their county. The project explores and tests a wide range of technology that is available for teaching and integrating technology in the classroom. Facilitators of ODCP are working to train over forty teachers a year who will learn the necessary skills of integrating technology into the classroom, facilitate regional events and hold videoconferencing seminars with other schools within the state of Oklahoma. In December 2007, a team of ODCP educators traveled to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in cooperation with OETA to facilitate videoconferences with USS Oklahoma survivors and Oklahoma students. In 2008, following the Oklahoma Centennial Year, ODCP became “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices.” 

More background about the history of ODCP and COV is available in the article "Empowering Oklahoma Educators to to Preserve and Share Oral History." This provides a summary of our story through July 2008.