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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Students are bringing their cell phone, iPods, PDAs and PSPs to school and we respond by forbidding their use or treat confiscation. However, these are the tools of the new generation and educators must change and consider how to utilize and embrace these new online learning tools. Learn how to create websites designed for portable devices as well as some innovative ways mobile devices are being used in education. It's time we start taking advantage of the technology that students are hiding in their backpacks right now and using them to support good teaching and learning!
More and more, our students are influenced, stimulated, and informed by a myriad of multimedia formats. As educators, how do we engage those student's who, in the matter of minutes, can watch a video, text a friend, and have a conversation with another - all at the same time? See examples of how today's technologies -- from calculators to the web, from music files to video-on-demand -- can (and should) engage and teach a new generation of students.
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.
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.
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.
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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There is no doubt that media plays an influential role in our student’s lives. In fact, most children spend an average of 6 ½ hours per day exposed to media. However, students today are no longer satisfied simply passively consuming information; instead they want to be active participants. From participating to producing, this session will explore the role media plays in today’s classroom and examine the research that supports its inclusion.
The nation's oldest student festival collects media projects that tap deeply into student passions. Matching curriculum goals with technology tools taps this passion and their inner attitudes and enthusiasms motivate mastery. Watch examples from student work kindergarten through high school exhibiting humor, imagination, and expertise. Learn strategies to replicate these projects in your classroom.
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.
For only a sliver of time in human culture has learning meant decoding the written word. Learning means assimilating information in a way that matches our wiring: responding to the terabits of information in motion and sound. Technology brings education access to the transformative visual tools of an image-based society--- a move closer to the way we truly learn. Follow with a veteran the 30-year path of projects from film to Internet2. Learn what this technology means for your school and what a commitment to simple truths can mean to education.
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!