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
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.
Going digital means significant upcoming changes in education. Explore what this means to supplemental curriculum materials, individualized teaching and learning, and communication. Assessment and evaluation can be more effective and efficient. An overview of the near future that puts you ahead of the game and an exploration of tools you could be using today. Learn how create, publish, and effectively use media on the web. Tap the power of Web 2.0 social networking tools for professional strength. Also, learn to effectively monitor assets like instructional media in your school or district, and ways to use your cellphone and discover its secret power to make your job easier.
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.
Media moves up in engagement when kids and their content move, literally, onto the screen. An in-depth look at chromakey (green screen) and captioning. Chromakey allows students into curriculum videos. Captioning allows them to describe, transcribe, or transform media while emphasizing literacy skills. Both Mac and PCs solutions demonstrated.
You buy technology and resources. But does your school use them effectively? What about monitoring and mentoring? Learn how to use the amazing data digital resources generate for these administrative tasks—and more. Digital media takes informative snapshots every, day, month, and year. Match it with data from state tests. Use data to increase achievement, steer in-house professional development, and increase differentiated instruction. Learn how to maximize classroom resources and craft strategies for elevating the instructional plan using powerful tools at your fingertips. Many products have admin features. For this session, DiscoveryEducationStreaming data will be the model for district, school, and teacher data.
Technology serves the needs of GATE students extraordinarily well. It offers near-bottomless depth and complexity, materializes themes and skillbuilding in context. Learn strategies with Google Earth and media content creation. Build projects in literature, geography, mathematics and more. From simple code, grow wizards. By linking instructional media to location, instruction hit many targets with a single arrow.
Storytelling and media making come together with tools for planning, executing, and evaluating your project. Free and simple tools build projects and magical effects combine with traditional planning to engage students as never before. Adapt to any curriculum or grade level. Let them build it and they will come.
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!
Web 2.0 sites, webcams, easy editors and media libraries mean you can make and remix meaningful media for the classroom. Avatars wink, Mt. Rushmore speaks, markers circle, long videos shrink. Add captioning, chromakey, and more to help curriculum stick for the media-minded students you teach. A fast-paced tour of tools and techniques. Most are free, the rest reasonable. Examples from primary through high school.
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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