Discovery Education Speakers Bureau

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.

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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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.

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!).

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!)

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!

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.

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 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.

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.