Classroom Tools

Digital Videomaking in Windows XP

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!

Breaking the Linear Mold in PowerPoint!

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

Do You Have the "Audacity" to Podcast?

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.

Two Roundtrip Tickets to Anywhere

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.

Getting Creative with RSS

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.

The 10 Best FREE Web 2.0 Sites

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.

Media Mania

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.

Creating Multiple Pathways to Learning

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.

Guerrilla Graphics

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!

Teaching with Media in Any Setting

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

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