Discovery Education Speakers Bureau

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!

Every classroom can go digital!  New (and often free) software has flattened the learning curve--and even older hardware can make magic.  Scaffold teachers and students with successful digital project building.  Make a digital video in under five minutes with a simple program that uses still images and creates music.  Progress next to a free video editor that encourages student content creation in the curriculum.  Finally, a program that lets students insert themselves into videos!  Media creation leverages engagement and takes learning to a new level.
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Use writing and the tools and skills of 21st century learners to share compelling narratives and information in a variety of formats. Integrate images, narration, and sound to build authentic stories from students. Using a variety of formats that students already understand, learn to blend curriculum objectives with first person experience. From personal stories to commercials and movie trailers, let your students' voices be heard.

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!

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!

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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!).

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! 

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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.