Discovery Education Speakers Bureau

The media tools of our century: Web 2.0 and webcams, mobile phones and real time media, social networks and engaging avatars. These, plus easy editors and media libraries, mean you can do more with the power of video than every before.  Add captioning, chromakey, and more to help curriculum stick for the media-minded students you teach.  A fast-paced tour of tools and techniques. Many are free, the rest reasonable. Applications for 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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There are some mysteries worth demystifying. HTML code is the backbone behind more than just the Internet. Yet few teachers spent time on it. Basic knowledge can create new awareness and power for students.  Media players like iPods can be changed. Projects can dazzle inside Google Earth.  Videos can be inserted onto the websites, and much more.  Learn simple cut-and-pastes for beginners or experts that will pullback the curtain and create wizards in your classroom.

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.

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

Communication and evaluation are critical tasks for administrators.  The job requires time and demands effectiveness.  The tools of Web 2.0  can make an administrator’s job easier, faster, and more fun. Exploit dedicated Web tools for communication, vision, and interchange. Twitter, VoiceThread, wikis, blogs, and cellphones offer unexpected benefits.  Using new tools effectively can change the way you work.    Find the tools that will better and more engagingly connect you with your staff and community.  Great classroom applications, too.  Content creation, texting, and social sites-- they’re not just for students!

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.

The presentations, handouts, and resources from concurrent sessions and keynote have been moved here.  Let me know if there are things you need.  hall_davidson@discovery.com