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
What veteran teachers suspected the research has proved: 21st Century students are different. With different attention spans, higher IQ test scores, and social networks, their sophistication comes earlier—with a different skill set. There is a silver lining: We can teach this “New Brain” more effectively, more efficiently, more engagingly. We have the technology! Media has evolved and education must evolve to match.
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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Presentations and handouts:
NECC 2008, MacWorld, FETC, Howard County, TCEA.
Presentations: Downloaded PowerPoints may have trouble opening on some machines because the videos are not attached. The pdf's are safer.
NECC 2008
Cellphones in Education (pdf)
Man Behind the Curtain: Simple Copy and Paste Codes (pdf)
Codes for Google Earth (doc)
Codes Document for iPod (doc)
Preference.txt (place in Notes folder)
Sample Notes document (doc)
Sample Notes document2 (doc)
Sample Notes document3 (doc)
Sample Notes document4 (doc)
Revenge of the Digital Immigrants pdf of PowerPoint
Thinking Bigger as the World Gets Smaller - AIMS
BOCES Presentation, May, 2008, pdf of PowerPoint
Man Behind the Curtain pdf of PowerPoint
TCEA TECSIG Luncheon presentation pdf of PowerPoint
iPod as MegaVCR (MACUL)pdf
GoogleEarth Codes(MACUL)Word document
GoogleEarth pdf (MACUL) broken link fixed!
Building Media Projects on the Dark Side (CUE) pdf
Google Earth pdf of PowerPoint is here (from the Gifted Conference) Scroll through the blog for all the files.
Building Projects: Digital Video for Every Classroom ppt
Master Code List (iPod&Media) - Word doc (Fixed broken link)
Museum Mode handout pdf (Fixed broken link)
iPod Powerpoint presentation as pdf (from Georgia state conference)
Codes to Copy and Paste for Blogs, Google Earth, etc.
Example Floating Head Code to Copy and Paste (open in Word, then paste)
Download the handout (iPod as MegaVCR) pdf
Notes files- Watch for download (modify and drag into Notes folder on iPod)
Codes to Copy and Paste for iPod - Watch for download (the Notes folder)
How to convert unitedstreaming videos to iPod format
Man Behind the Curtain PowerPoint
Revenge of the Digital Immigrants PowerPoint
If there are problems with the downloads, email hall_davidson@discovery.com or leave a comment at the blog.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Part I - Make the real terrain of the earth an interactive tool. Embed it with videos, images, sounds, podcasts, and more! From Internet or hard drive files use fantastic trips through neighborhoods, history, science or literature that are waiting on the web for your class. Insert student images into the landscape. Attach media clips or use placemark from other schools. Learn to measure distances and tap longitude and latitude. Create shareable projects with GoogleEarth user communities. Unlock special layers that simply need to be turned on.. Make and save small files or videos of your projects, too! Cost of Google Earth: Free!
Part II - Beyond the basics. Go to the level past simple overlays and placemarks. Create floating graphics, embed live webcams from their locations around the world. Freshen up description boxes with pictures and paragraph breaks and other syntax support. Learn to create flying tours and historical routes with markers and media along the way. "Broadcast" rotating clips that change everyday on every school desktop! And learn why HTML really is your friend.
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.