Discovery Education Speakers Bureau
Supporting the most effective use of technology in classrooms and schools
Supporting the most effective use of technology in classrooms and schools
When it comes to integrating digital media into your classroom, the possibilities are endless. In this session, you will learn powerful ways to integrate all of the resources available in DiscoveryEducationstreaming into your instruction. Embed video into PowerPoint or Inspiration. Build an online assignment. Use the Calendar to highlight a student’s birthday. You will see great examples of how teachers across the country are being creative with DiscoveryEducationstreaming.
An in-depth overview of the digital media available in Discovery Education Streaming and 50 different ways to tell digital stories using it. DE Streaming provides your classroom access to thousands of videos, images and audio clips. Learn how to integrate them into cutting edge Web 2.0 sites to make your students' digital stories come alive!
Whether you teach in one of the states where every school has Discovery Education streaming or if your school has a license of its own, there are instructional strategies that will surprise you! Finding and playing video segments are just one of many ways you can use the media library. Did you know you have an Interactive Atlas, dynamic Calendar, thousand of quiz question and tens of thousands of images, speeches, and sound effects? Come and learn how to integrate the DES tools in new and exciting ways that are perfect for reaching the 21st century student.
In a time where there has never been a greater discord about instructional methods, student learning processes, and the needs of the business world, it is imperative for administrators to provide an educational environment that is conducive to change and adaptation while addressing the concerns of standardized testing and parents perception of what education should be. Administrators are responsible for providing effective staff development and must provide leadership that is directive, facilitative, and nurturing. Learn how administrators can provide systems of communication that are clear, consistent, easily maintained, and limit the impact on classroom instructional time.
More than 50% of US schools have a digital media library. If you are part of this majority, you may not be maximizing your resources. Come learn how to build online quizzes with media clips for students on the net. Learning about media for writing prompts and Web 2.0 applications SlideShare, VoiceThread, and TeacherTube and how they can be incorporated into media library tools. Media is for much more than watching! Arm yourself with knowledge and return to your classroom with new cyber tools for the 21st century.
Yesterday's media libraries were great for watching in a classroom. Today's media libraries use media as a gateway experience for evaluation, online learning, and 24/7 teachable moments ! Learn about the new way to use media for instruction. Audience participation required, prizes included!
If you use technology with students, and you have Discovery Educationstreaming, there is a level you haven’t explored. Matt Monjan, the acknowledged Master of the Builders (Assignment, Quiz, and Writing Prompt Builder), will show you ways to use the Web, video, the computer, and your own imagination to take curriculum assessments to the next technology level.Master the tools your school provides with the master builder! If you don’t have DE streaming, leave with a passcode that will let you explore a new realm of instruction.
If students could be taught using the skills and tools they have today, and teachers provided instruction that worked to meet the needs of the world tomorrow, what would it look like? This session will give a glimpse of what is taking place in far too few classrooms across the world today. Pulling examples from lessons using digital stories, Google Earth, podcasts, blogs, wikis, and many Web 2.0 resources, educators will get a glimpse of what education can look like. Integrating current technologies with instruction will provide increased student motivation, development and use of higher-order thinking skills, and better connectivity with the needs of the world today.
Audience participation is key in this interactive session which examines the growing diversity in America’s classrooms and ways in which media, online and otherwise, can assist teachers in supporting their students. Utilizing statistics, practical examples and student samples, attendees will visit a typical classroom and explore ways to support each student through the integration of technology.
Nothing is more frustrating to an educator than professional development that is not relevant to the classroom or does not enhance their teaching experience. To teach students in the 21st Century, teachers need quality professional development addresses the critical, yet frequently unemployed skills that teachers and administrators can use to enhance daily teaching, decrease time spent on activities other than teaching, make a measurable difference on standardized tests, and construct a culture of student focused activity. This session will help you separate the “fluff from the stuff” and mine the untapped resources within your own school resources. The session also speaks to the need to make staff development more than a one day session that has little long-term impact and turn it into a sustainable model that will directly affect teaching for years to come.
Learn to incorporate digital storytelling as an important instructional tool. Teachers can capitalize on all the digital assets available to them through unitedstreaming to create simple, yet powerful stories using free programs like Photostory 3.
The engaging tools of videomaking now expand exponentially! From the web, download video resources, pull them into editing programs where students rewrite the narration for real learning before exporting for projects! Leave with a passcode unlocking hundreds of web-based videos. Finally, something really neat from the Windows world! Adobe Premiere Elements allows great titling, greenscreen effects, and other cool stuff for a decent price. Get turned by the dark side!
Allow your students to make real-life connections to their learning...literally. Have them become part of the show. This session will focus on ways to use digital storytelling as an important instructional tool in any content area. Teachers can capitalize on all the digital assets available to them through the web to create powerful stories in accessible programs like Google Earth, PhotoStory, MovieMaker and iMovie.
Learn how to create your own podcast in less that 5 minutes with the FREE program "Audacity" (PC and MAC). Learn new and creative ways to increase reading fluency and integrate your curriculum. See how easy it is to jump on the Podcasting train that is sweeping through classrooms.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is the backbone of many of the most popular new web technologies, such as blogs and podcasts. However, that's just the very tip of the iceberg. Learn what RSS is and then learn how RSS can be used to create individualized professional development and learning communities. Explore built in browser tools and aggregators and gain an understanding of how you can take control of your blog's RSS feed as well as how to use other feeds to drive dynamic content throughout your site. You'll be amazed by the diverse ways RSS can be used.
Podcasting has made a gigantic splash in the education community, but there are still many misperceptions about it. In this workshop, you will explore the world of podcasting, from listening to creating, and everything in between. You will learn about the different hardware and software available for podcasting for those with a large budget, or no budget at all. Find out how other educators are using podcasting to make learning come alive and discover how to do the same in your own classroom!
In this session, we'll explore how we can use video, imagery, sound, and closed-captioning to reach different learning styles and deliver a teachable moment for every student. Examine tools that build interactive lessons with video, sound, and web-based tools and assignments. Build resources that are accessible from school, labs, learning centers, and home! Build for individual students or entire districts. That's power to teach!
Take a magical video tour of the video editing tools that come free with the Mac. Plug-ins for digital movie making enable laser beams, pointers, word balloons, and more! Download educational video clips from web into iMovie (etc.), then have students add their own narration, add visual highlights, and more. Talk about authentic assessment! Bonus: A passcode for hundreds of quality online videos!
The art of digital storytelling involves narrative, images, and sound. Learn how simple this can be with free softare like Audactiy and PhotoStory. Any teacher can bring digital storytelling to their class--K-12!--with these great tools . Come learn how to do it, why it is important to every kind of kid, and how to leverage storytelling for learning.
The KitZu Project teachers built multimedia resource kits by scouring the web's vast archives (so you wouldn't have to)-but what resources did they use? Gather lists of links to copyright friendly images, music, sounds, and videos. Learn to find and download a hard drive's worth of material from museums, government sites, and teacher-created archives.
Tap the Web, your own software, and some surprising free applications to create graphics (and sounds) for your presentations, movies and websites. Make the most of software you own but don't think you are limited to the programs on your computer. See what’s available on the Internet to edit video and photos, and to find and create graphics and sounds. Maximize the media impact in everything your students do with tools you didn’t know you had!
Ever-Expanding Resources Using Media for Assessment, Building Assignments, Diagnostics, and Remediation
Yesterday’s media libraries were great for watching in a classroom. Today’s media libraries use media as a gateway experience for evaluation, online learning, and 24/7 teachable moments ! Learn about the new way to use media for instruction. Audience participation required, prizes included!
Become a film maker for a day and add that skill to your teaching toolkit. Learn how to make standards based videos using the American Film Institute's "Lights! Camera! Education!" curriculum based on years of experience with their K-12 Screen Ed program. Learn to brainstorm, write, film, and edit a polished video that can be applied to any subject at any grade level. Leave with access to media that builds on what you have learned. The path to mastery is just a workshop away.
Learn how you and your students can make movies without even having a digital camera or leaving your classroom. Come and explore all the possibilities of Microsoft's free MovieMaker software on the PC and free iMovie software on the Mac.. Learn how easy it is to import media, to edit projects, and to create your own movies!
The world of Web2.0 isn't just transforming middle and secondary schools, it's also having a profound impact on early childhood and early elementary classrooms! Instead of showcasing your students work on a bulletin board, use it to connect and collaborate with a global audience. See how innovative classroom teachers are are using free technologies to improve communication, impact student learning, and above all... make learning exciting!
The American Film Institute has released its K-12 Screen Ed curriculum as the video program "Lights! Camera! Education!" available through unitedstreaming. Learn from a twelve-year audiovideo K-12 veteran how to use the AFI’s years of experience working with students to integrate movie making into creative collaboration for all grade levels in any subject.
We’ll explore Web 2.0 applications like animoto, voicethread and more and find out how they can be used to create movies as well as deliver information in a way that our digital natives are accustomed. Come see and learn media creation in a whole new way.
How do you assign, manage and share projects in a world gone digital? Get a hands-on experience with software, video and photography, storage, and sharing it all via fixed media and the Internet. All platforms and all skill levels can build meaningful media using desktop technology. From free material to great for-fee sites, learn how the student passion for media can be put to work in a classroom.
Technology serves supremely the needs of gifted students. Bottomless depth and complexity, great for identifying themes, and skills in context. Learn strategies using Google Earth and digital media curriculum content creation. Basic tools can make the gifted thrive. They need not be pulled out if they're pulled in with technology
Nothing moves from simple to complex better than video. Learn a classroom asset management process that allows students to build video (or multimedia) subject-area projects using "kits" ---web-based and preassembled with graphics, music, and video. Begin with sheltered, curriculum-based resources, both free and fee. Use free, dead-simple software to engage students through content creation. Not only does this build necessary skills like collaboration, mastery, and innovation, it taps deeper learning. This is a great strategy for technology reluctant teachers. No camcorders required! From this "scaffold", depth will follow.
Closed captioning is a powerful, underused tool for improving reading skills from pre-school students through high school. Tying words and letters to the full context of images and sound provides a critical link for comprehension. It is especially effective for second language learners. With impact far beyond the original target of the hearing impaired, English language captions improve comprehension and fluency. During the session will explore the many ways in which you can use Close Captioning in the classroom. Captions can be simply turned on--or manipulated with technology for imaginative uses that will surprise you. We’ll even create our own CC template so that we can make any video close captioned!
Bring music and podcasting to a new level in your class by utlizing GARAGEBAND (MAC). Learn how to create your own Podcast with music, images, and more. Most importantly, observe different ways to help your student achieve more by integrating these activities into your curriculum.
Create a podcast the easy way, with iLife '06. Two programs, GarageBand and iWeb, allow anyone to create podcasts, enhanced podcasts, and videocasts. Students and teachers can now express their ideas in a simple and easy process within iLife '06 (For Mac users only!).
We all know that the computer, projector and PowerPoint have replaced the old slide projector, hundreds of tiny static photos, and the phrase “next slide please.” But did you know that PowerPoint can also be combined with videos, sounds, effects and interactive boards to create an engaging multimedia presentation? During this session will explore the necessary (and not-so-scary) steps for building an engaging multimedia presentation.
How do we design our instructional practices to support more integrated, inquiry-based approaches that foster meaningful and authentic connections between science and literacy? This session will explore how we can utilize technology to bridge science and language arts instruction in ways that will ultimately change the experience of today's science students. We will look at methods to blend media-rich, interactive, inquiry-based content with creative instructional strategies to engage students in science content while reinforcing literacy skills.
Part I - Tools to use tomorrow! Make the real terrain of the earth an interactive tool. Curriculum examples wait for you on the web. Unlock near-magical layers with the click of a mouse. Find content and media created in their own geography! From the Internet or your own hard drive, use media resources to create fantastic trips through neighborhoods, history, science or literature. Insert student images into the landscape. Download placemarks and projects from other schools or agencies. Use the Ruler Tool to measure and compare. Create shareable projects. Use layers to track trends, patterns, in unsuspected ways. Cost of Google Earth: Free!
Part II - Beyond the basics. Go to the next level with Google Earth: building projects with image overlays and placemarks. Embed the landscape with videos, images, sounds, podcasts, and live webcams from around the world. Students can create description boxes with pictures, sound links, and embedded video. Have graphics float about the earth! Let students build flying tours along historical routes with markers and media. Projects go deep by putting books, history, or imaginative journeys onto their actual environment Learn how cut and pasting takes the mystery out of HTML and opens a new world to engage students. Cost of Google Earth: Free!
Whether you teach in a one-to-one setting or a one-computer classroom, explore the many ways to engage your students through digital content. Construct learning centers and online assignments. Facilitate team digital storytelling projects. The possibilities are endless. Come discover for yourself. Director's Cut: Digital Storytelling in the Classroom Allow your students to make real-life connections to their learning...literally. Have them become part of the show. This session will focus on ways to use digital storytelling as an important instructional tool in any content area. Teachers can capitalize on all the digital assets available to them through the web to create powerful stories in accessible programs like Google Earth, PhotoStory, MovieMaker and iMovie.
Web 2.0 has brought online versions of most of the programs you use on a daily basis. Alternatives to Word, PowerPoint, Photoshop and others are available for free! Discover the 10 best Web 2.0 sites and how your school can save thousands by using them.
Move megadoses of media into the video iPod. Free and fee curriculum media downloads work seamlessly in iPods. Store and display student media projects, PowerPoints, video podcasts, animations, and PhotoStories! Create scavenger hunts, curriculum contact lists, . A media library in your pocket, including photos, audiobooks, tours and field trips, and your own imagination. Play iPods through mounted TVs or projectors for easy media access! The basics of how and wow!
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More resources are available to support curricula than at any time in history. Putting them together into meaningful form is an exciting challenge. This overview demonstration for educators explores the hardware, software, and processes for content integration. Explore classroom friendly and economical educational applications that integrate digital video, graphics, writing, and music. A sampling of great student works blended with a nuts-and-bolts how-to session.
It's definitely a race to remember! Learn how to use the free PC program PhotoStory 3 to bring stories to life. This fun and creative process is a simple way to create movies or enhanced Podcasts. Take images, music, and narration and blend into a dynamic story which is enhanced by the built-in movie effects of PhotoStory. From the primary grades to staff development, this free movie builder is the perfect introduction to both digital storytelling and moviemaking. (For Mac users, use iPhoto slideshows!)
Ruler tools, embedded videos, image overlays of images that make the actual terrain of the earth a part of the learning experience. Create flyovers of battlefields, explorations, or animal migrations. Follow tours across the face of a continent or the streets of a neighborhood . Enrich the planet with media, music, and photographs. Learn how to gain from the community of learners using this great tool. A great take on a great free program.
Ruler tools, embedded videos, image overlays of images that make the actual terrain of the earth a part of the learning experience. Create flyovers of battlefields, explorations, or animal migrations. Follow tours across the face of a continent or the streets of a neighborhood . Enrich the planet with media, music, and photographs. Learn how to gain from the community of learners using this great tool. A great take on a great free program.
Widgets, Gizmos and Gadgets! OSX has them, Vista has them, blogs have them, and now you can bring them into Discovery Educationstreaming! Learn how to bring incredible Web 2.0 resources into Quiz Builder and Assignment Builder. Concept maps, chat boxes, Google Maps, YouTube videos, charts, graphs and PowerPoints can all be integrated into the largest source of educational digital media on the internet!
The word "blog" is on everybody's lips, come find out why! This session will provide you with your passport to the world of Educational Blogging. You will learn what a blog is, see some great examples of how blogging is being used in schools around the world, and learn how to get your very own blog. Come get a glimpse of what's going on in the EduBlogoSphere and what it means for you and your students.