Notes

11/30/2009 Christa McCaulliffe Technology Conference Joyce Valenca

Using Web 2.0 tools for 3 years, blogging later Hope that the room will grow bigger than the wall that is around it. Store, things on a “cloud” versus flash drive Portaportal, links for kids. Adobe buzz-word Google teacher Academy- Kids/people are getting semanticly mapped/tracked Good read, great website to use with the kids. The blizzard bag- Have the schoolday, even though we have no school online- tools for snow days Spacecast Academy, Lee Baber More classes should use skype in the classrooms E-mail the Authors, ask if they want to skype with the students. Have the students skype with the author, very powerfull!
 * Joyce Valenca Workshop November 30, 2009 **

Use glogster for websites?

Google forms, as a polling tools. Instead of clickers, set up a survey using google forms Can embedd, develop a parking lot to embedd things in

All the tools we are using can be called puzzel pieces

Joycedemo.wikispaces.com to show kids how to embedd RSS feeds

Manage wikispaces Use look and feel Shange the theme If you change the logo, it will be that logo for the rest of the Wiki Att the bottom choose a logo 150x150 pxels You can invite people in, add e-mail address separate by comma’s

Springfieldlibrary.wikispaces.com Springfieldpathfinders.wikispaces.com

You can lock pages if you don’t want any changes, you can always go back into the history and find old content.

In order to add pages, you need to add code, anything in between square brackets will become a page home news

Joyce archives all her student work on a wiki Springfieldlessons.wikispaces.com Grammarvideos.wikispaces.com Worldhistory1scrapbook.wikispaces.com

Text book is a link on the wikis, the pathfinder is a link on a wiki Add widgets for databases Kids create their own wikis where they post all their work. Have students answer essewntial questions on middle ages, upload pictures, facts as well as a bibliography.

Udtechtoolkit.wikispaces.com free technology toolkit for udl in all classrooms

Polldaddy.com

Doodle.com, a great polling or professional scheduling software!

When you want to embedd something, look for button/text that says do you want to embedd this on your wiki. Copy the code and paste it into the page edit.

Pathfinder, a list of all the recources you can use

Chatzy is a back channel place where you can create a room and have people to ask questions

Hachtag, CMTC09

Coveritlive.com, a cool room, you can embedd it and also use a camera for chats

Poll everywhere [] a great pollingplace for kids that have cellphones and can use it in schools.

Beyond google by richard. Free techtools for kids

Google your self, not enough, search your name on for example Pipl.com It is a semantic search engine and organize things according to meta tags

Googles wonderwheel, great for elamentary kids to do searches. Go to google.com, do your search, the results pop up, go under web options, under standard view, pick wonderwheel and it will give you a mindmap of your subject.

Check out google square, [] []

wolfram alpha, great for doing comparison

tootlsforsearch.wikispaces.com

Joyce builds gizzillions wiki, she then links all the wikis’s on to the main page to be able to create a great hirearchi, she will also have individual

[|www.Boolify.org] a great way to do search with kids, it works over google great for smart boards

Classtools.net Cool flash for teachers to use. Cool ways to pick kids name, random name picker

Digital Storytelling Cueprompter.com Works like a teleprompter for kids, adjust speed, go page up page down etc..

Ed.voicethread.com (a storytelling tools, more like Ken Burns)

6th grade Color Poem, use voicethread to import pictures and voice Last slide will be their work cited slide

In language arts, have the kids speak their story on voice thread. Invite a class from for example El Salvador and have them comment on the kids fluency.

In powerpoint, you can save your slide as a jpg, you can then upload it into voicethread.

Voice thread offers the option to type in text, if you want more text, type it into a powerpoint slide and save it as a jpg

Have the kids actually write a script before the record on to voice thread

It automatically saves!

For grandparents day, assemble pictures from the time the grandparents where born, then invite the grandparents to comment on the pictures.

ANIMOTO.com (will create your own music videos) Also has an educational spot, free so far. Free music library to use. The medieaval museum, and rennaisance museum

Read.gov/exquisite-corpse

Copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com please use it and teach with it.

When you search for images, search fro ADJECTIVES!

Flickr-storm, it lets you “can” a search in advance

Flickrcc.bluemountains.net will generate and embedd the link directly into the image

Dr. Loopy, uses glogster to embedd tools…?? He created a bunch of video frames on one page and embedded the kids reports on that

Dr lupy

Bookleads.wikispaces.com

To embedd the glogster as a wiki, check the code change the height and width until it fills the whole page

One way to get embedd codes is to create a private NING - use that to get embedd codes that the kids can post on their wikis

Coldwar movietrailer, kids had one minute to explain blacklisting, mcArtur etc

The digitalwish cameras


 * Cartoon Generators **

Goanimate.com Create character, has it own music library, animation studio, has “icky Stuff” You can change the music with each frame

Pixton-think of how the manga version would be on this novel

Photopeach.com

xtranormal.com Get to choose camera angels, learn how to shoot, close up, far away

Slideshare.com Generates embedable codes, on your powerpoint, that way you can run them direct from the wiki

Imagechef.com Creates images that are your own You can change names, animate them, embedd

Grafiti maker

Use it to create movie posters, motivational posters, movie trailers. Magazine Covers Buy a poster printer and you can print it out Trading cards on mythological
 * Bighugelabs.com **

On the wiki you can create your own Avatar

Personal Information Portals Pageflakes Netwibes Igoogle pages, based on widgets, you cant broadcast them

Pageflakes, a place that you can gather widgets and other information, broadcast it and share it with the world. You can aggregate a whole bunch of widgets. For example create widgets not just for CNN, go to the ecomist, washingtonpost etc..

Set one up for french class Set one up for each class you have Full workshop on widgets tomorrow You can create your own widgets under anything flake, you can also add bookmark flakes, you can link to various text books, add database widgets

Hola This is so cool Netbook introduction meeting, get your own net book

MYOATS.com Makes spyro grams… so coool!!!

Thursday December 3 Keynote speaker Anette Lamb

http://Eduscapes.com/sessions/multiplatform

Alamb@eduscapes.com

Convergence In cloud computing, kids can collaborate any time Get good on Google Wave!!!

Next step is that synergy from cloud computing coming together

Divergent Convergent Thinking, Teaching, Technology

Voice Thread.com Make cool slideshows, edit, make comments. Traditional papers becomes multimedia projects

Convergence Cultures where media collide, by hnery Jenkins What happens when we have collective intelligence Participatory culture, like flickr etc Encycliopedia of life blog.

Transmedia Storyteeling Multiple medias to tell a story Book, Media, Video, Website “Skeleton Creek“, Ryans Journal fron scholastic You read a chapter on the book then you get a password to the web to keep reading, watch the video We are expanding our thinking about the book. Fahrenheit 451 came out as a graphic novel for the Ipod. Twitter had a writing contest, write a story in 140 words. The book 1776 comes with a document package and an illustrated version. The cathy series, each book has a pocket with lots of materials. Cathy has a face book account, flickr account, makes everything interactive.

Adults books as well Personla effects, dark arts by JC.

Illustration and book connections, The selected works of TS Spivet. Brian Hambric, book with Music and Sound Tracks. Link Creative Writing and Music Pick a Novel, create sound and music that illustrates a chapte in the book. JC Hutchins, Thriller Novelist.

Create Voki book reviews, create an avatar Video Book Connection Lady and her granddaughter, does videos about cooking for the depression

Can download you tube videos Use Samzar, or check the you tube help section The greatest engineering achievement

Read-Write-Think Profile Publisher, teaches kids on what ot what not to put on a profile

Brian Clearly, nice interactive websites.

The unusual mind of Vincent Shadow, cool websit\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Timetoast Timeglider Dipity

Social Website Goodreads.com

We need to infuse website materials Free resource for books Wowio.com fun brain.com Webcomics and places where you can build your owns

We need to create multimedia pathfinders Instead of making a list, create a pathfinder with all the resources that the kids need! Immerse the students into virtual environments Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG)- when there are links between the show and online, you vote on things for the show.

Qests Atlantis.

Into the book, great way to increase reading fluency

Lure of the Labyrynth, for kids in Middle school Reading Math and Games

Look at websites in a new ways. How do we get away from our print.

Animationish, from Fable Vision Student group on top of Children Museum, educational group is in Dedham. Bill Norris. How to become an Ambassador, get discounted products, helps out with presentation.

Take you thru the philosophy - plus Fable visions view of 21st century skills.

Smart Move, a tool to help reduce stress in classroom, help them focus. Use in classroom, between transitions, before tests, 2 times a day 3-5 minutes. Peter Reynolds - illustrator for Judy Moody and synch. Product developed from research of Autism. Different kind of publishing company, sells on philosophy. The story of the dot. By Peter h Reynolds. Ish- ramones journey of becoming an artist!

Great book to read at the beginning of the year, to set the standard that a painting does not need to be perfect it can be “ish” Great, books for Max

21st century Skills, allows students to take risks.. Kids Need to have time for creativity, let kids explore what they want to do!! Want kids to explore, what happens when kids llok at the empty page.. Stationary studio, great to have the kids start writing.. Helps students to inspire them to learn Also have add on packs How does literacy and writing become integrated into your everyday activities. Peggy Healy Sterns, uthor of graph club etc Want to create activities for the classroom. In school keep a box where you have ideas fro writing.

Animationish, easy to use animation program. How do I fit it into the curriculum, how do you integrate it. Let kids show what they know, can they understand the curriculum. Things don’t have to be perfect, it can be “ish” Image Sequence, takes each pictures you draw and turn them into an individual picture to practice sequencing, or make a physical flip book.

Bonnie Birdsall Chittenden South Supervisory Union Birdsallb@vsdvt.org

Erin Riley Henry Jenkins, the better half Director of New Media Literacy Vanessa, community Manager

Teaching through Participatory Culture Zoes room. Souljaboytellem, 15 year old boy rapper - the kids made the song with friends, made a movie, posted it onto you tube, also made instructional videos for the dance steps..

Appropiation - sampling, mixing and making it their own. - Jessica video taped it, posted it back on you tube, with tags, after a couple a weeks 10000 people has seen it!!

Confronting the challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education in the 21st Century.

We are circulating our media on a global level Need low barrier for participation Strong support to share with others Digital Media and ethics case book. The Tatoo movement, getting tattooed on the web. There is always a community out there for you on the web.

Informal Mentorships, for Zoes room First you need to create the norm for the space - first questions girl asked a mentor - Do you have a dog? Girls wanted to have a social connection before they started to talk to them, needed a connection.

Characteristic of a Participatory Culture. We care about others opinion of self and work. Social skills and cultural compentencies: Tools to think with Play Simmulation Performance Appropriation

Starting a webinar series in February, digging into how things are distributed in History class, Social Studies. Need to educate our self what these skills are, they don’t work in isolation, they work in collaboration. Vanessa will run - Early adopter network, provide case studies how it works in the classroom..

Appropriation - the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content Collective Intelligence - the ability to pool knowledge, compare notes. Tag your information Networking the ability to search for synthesize and disseminate information.

Kids have their Public 9internet) and privat persona

Kids have their digital footprint before they are born. Discuss with kids, what do you want to keep private what to you want to keep public..

Learning Library Houses Multimedia Challenges Teacher and students can create their own, multi media challenge and share it.

Multimedia Maker Challenger.

Standing on the shoulders of giants

Remix is like cooking and not have one ingredients and make it up! 7th grade, how can we remix “Moby Dick:

Prelinger archive, a place where you can find old video clips.. Our space…Our Norms - Teacher, Kids and students gets together to see what works in our space. Cyberbullying, people did not know the norms of their community.

6 word memoir - Dig into the Media Maker Challenge learn about the skills Appropriated Hemingway My Life in 6 words write about your life, what is meaningfull right now With 6 words 6 immages? use photo editing software, movie maker etc to illustrate them.

NML community an environment wher Teachers and students play together!! The students created their own challenges, see one, do one teach one! By leeting students creating content they learn the content so much better.

Nerdcore, bitstrip - check these websites out.

Newmedialiteracies.org/library Projectnml.ning.com

Early adopters, NH is a pilot state How does social media and social network popping up everywhere, How does teacher own and create the community NH teacher, what do we need to practice new mediua and to incorporate it Early adopters will meet every week. Webinar that are usefull for educator. Have a panel with different case studies that happens.

NML is development a new whitepaper in Digital Citizen ship. Looking at case studies Futures of entertainement for - Air Bender, new movie that is coming out

Heros. Net

Paula Churchill Green Screen Copy code into a notepad file Save it as blue screen.xml and SAVE It in your c:\programFiles\moviemaker\shared\addonTFX Uopen movie maker and it will act as a transition

Place the background file first in the time line, stretch it to be a few seconds longer than the blue screen clip.

Drop the blue screen video into the timeline next to the background

Great website, has a lot of shared effects to use in movie maker Rehanfx.org For vista you can buy

Red X, Before you make a movie, all pictures, images and videos needs to be in the same folder on your computer.

Import the movies to movie maker, take the blue screen movie clip, next to the movie or pictur you want to be the background, slide your blue screen movie over so it overlaps the background, add the video transition and choose blue screen transition

The Fabric, needs to absorb color, like felt, choose a non shiny fabric.

Always distinguish between project and Movie, projects you can edit, the movie is the final project!

When you use a flip camera, make sure you install the software.

There is also a video converter called kates video convertor. Need to use an AVI file for movie maker.

Always go and save as a movie file

First make file that have blue screen Save that file as a movie. Start a new project, import your blue movie file Start editing it down Can make stop animation Set default to be 0.1 per picture Make a flip animation Use the document camera, put a blue back ground down, this will be your scene!

How to do green screen transition Google movie maker green screen effect

Aikido, Pick the chroma one

Go save as, all files Name it xml

Go under c

Bla bla bla

Addon TFX

Windowsmoviemaker.net, great

Animation on a ble piece of paper Create a newscast from a remote city

Windows movie maker comes with 2 audio track, one that comes with the movie, then a second one for music.

Youtube downloader, enables you to download you tube videos

http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/

Katie’s video convertor