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Session: W275
Create, Communicate, Collaborate--Projects for the Global Classroom
Audience: Teachers, Media Specialists, Technology Teachers, and Technology Specialists
Educational leaders, Superintendents, Curriculum Directors, C.I.O., Technology Specialists
Resources are tighter than ever, but luckily with the multitude of free resources now available online that should no longer prevent you from preparing your students for the 21st century. Howie DiBlasi will show you where to find free, accessible software and Web sites, and will demonstrate how to use these free resources to support teaching and learning while improving digital literacy. Strengthen your digital media skills, learn how to make global connections for your classroom and prepare for the future of digital classrooms.
Learn about FREE software applications you can use in your classroom for students to explore the cornerstones of media--research, technology, and literature--through minds-on, hands-on learning that prepares them for living and working in the 21st Century. Learn how to integrate digital programs into the classrooms with new knowledge, skills, and strategies that are critical to individual use of digital information resources. Join us and learn how to improve learning through Digital Media and Multimedia Magic.
Learn how emerging technologies can be used to support comprehension and 21st Century information literacy skills in the classroom. Attendees will observe the use of FREE software, and how to create Global Projects and applications for the 21st Century classroom.
Some of what you'll take away:
Web links, hints, publishing techniques, and more
Handout and links to free software and Web sites
Improve photography skills through easy-to-follow tips & image-editing skills with free software
Using e-mail to make a global connection
Global communication software for the classroom
Digital Storytelling,
Podcasts
Blogs
21st Century Literacy skills
Digital communication
Authoring tools.
Collaboration tools in creating Web 2.0 projects
Digital Media projects
Project: This I Believe
Project My Hero
Project The Best Part of Me
Project Our Town
Project Five Frames
Project This Is My Country
Project My Town
Session: A102
10 Rules For Revolutionaries In The 21st Century Classroom
Dr. DiBlasi will gladly tailor any presentation to your specific needs.
Discover 10 ways to revolutionize your district and classrooms.
Our students deal with an enormous number of sensory inputs on any given day. Helping them focus attention is a critical first step when engaging students. Getting their attention is only the first step. Learn how to keep your learners' interests piqued so you can keep them engaged. Find out
what it will take to compel students to do things differently and how to engage with ideas, information, and each other, on terms they define for themselves.
Our Digital Kids learn from watching, showing, and sharing with others who care as much as they do. Discover what Social learning is all about and how to allow students and give learners a sense of feeling personally engaged.
To provide a 21st Century learning Environment we need to engage learners in the active negotiation of new knowledge so that new learning will be relevant to each and every contributor and will provide a memorable a learning experience. If we learn how to change the learning environment the greater likelihood students will remember what they've learned.
Learning is unique to each individual and we need to discover how to give the learners the skills to decide where to engage. In today's socially networked world, it's important to help students feel connected to the community.
Topics will include how to:
Capture student's attention using uStream
Keep the students interests using PB Wiki
Motivate them to change using VoiceThread
Give student's choices using Classroom 2
Connect students with community using e-Pals
Induce students to participate using BlogLines
Enable opportunities to contribute using PhotoStory
Make learning an experience to remember using Zoho
Make learning personal using Embree
Make learning unique to each individual using Scratch
Provide the learners the skills to decide where to engage using Flat Classroom
Help students feel connected to the community Skype
Session G225
Telling Your Story…Traveling The World With Digital Story Telling
Dr. DiBlasi will gladly tailor any presentation to your specific needs.
This session allows participants to understand teaching, learning, and assessment strategies for working with the digital generation by creating Visual Literacy Projects. Our goal is to help you interpret, use, appreciate, and create images and video using both conventional and 21st century media in ways that promote, advance thinking, decision-making, communication, and learning
We all know the future will be greatly impacted by the development of new digital tools. But have we considered what the digital world is already doing to the students that enter our classrooms? What strategies can we use to appeal to the learning preferences and communication needs of digital learners?
Attendees will learn about multimedia communication with action and motion, and how to reinforce a variety of other skills, including critical thinking, literacy, interpersonal communication, collaboration, public speaking, composition, storytelling and group decision-making.
Software demonstrated will include: Flickr , Flickr Toys Creative Commons images, Picnik, Photobucket, Kodak Easyshare, Jumpcut, iMovie, Movie Maker, Stikkit , Adobe's "Remix". Jing Project. Memories on the Web, PhotoStory, i-Google, e-Pals, Audacity, Audio Grabber, Best Part of ME, BLOGSPOT,
Book Publishing - Lintor Create A Book, Wiki, WikiSpaces, Picasa, Video Convert Software, Web Quest,
Participants will come away from the presentation with a clear understanding of various strategies that can be used to optimize learning by the digital generation in the new digital landscape. They will learn how to address learning standards, while at the same time, meeting both curricular goals and preparing students with the skills, knowledge and understandings above and beyond content recall necessary to meet the new realities of the 21st Century.
Session G235
Free Software Tools for the 21st Century Classroom
Dr. DiBlasi will gladly tailor any presentation to your specific needs.
Learn about 17 FREE software applications you can use in your classroom for students to explore the cornerstones of media--research, technology, and literature--through minds-on, hands-on learning that prepares them for living and working in the 21st Century. The session will provide demonstration activities using FREE programs that include: Blogs, PodCasts, Wiki, Vlogs, Streaming, Photo Story, Digital Story Telling, Photo Express Editor, Visual Literacy, Skype, PodSafe Music, WikiSpaces, Itunes, Juice, PodCast Alley, Ipodder, Audacity, YackPack and Interactive Video Conferencing.
Who are the Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants? Learn how emerging technologies can be used to support comprehension and 21st Century information literacy skills in the classroom. What will the Digital Classroom look like in the next 5 years? Find out in this workshop.
Attendees will observe the use of FREE software, and how to create applications for the 21st Century classroom. Activities will include Visual Literacy, the use of digital communication and authoring tools and global communication projects. All of the activities allow teachers to teach 21st Century Literacy skills while gaining expertise in using projects that will allow students to learn 21st Century skills and prepare them to meet the demands of the global community and engage them in mastering core curriculum.
The workshop can provide hands-on activities using FREE programs that include:
PhotoStory Memories On The Web Blogger
PB Wiki Voice Thread UStream
Podcasting with Audacity PodSafe Music Picnik
PhotoFlexer Jing-Screencasting KeepVID
Twango Bubbleshare TeacherTube
Primary Access Social Networking for students Skype
YackPak Zoho-Media Suite Google Docs
§ Examples of quick and easy digital photography activities and projects
§ Web links, hints, cheap publishing techniques, and more
§ Create a story about your town and its history
§ Handout and FREE software and Web sites provided
§ How to share knowledge, thoughts, and feelings with the global community about the MY TOWN PROJECT
§ Using books, calendars, slideshows, digital videos, PodCasts, and Video Conferencing
§ Using e-mail to make a global connection
§ Global communication software for the classroom
Session G245
Lost in Cyberspace: Teaching Brock To Search
The perfect page is out there somewhere. It's the page that has exactly the information you're looking for and you cannot find it.
An important 21st century skill is information literacy, the ability to find, evaluate, and use information effectively and ethically. Learn how teachers can help students search, read for information, how to guide students through the research process, and how to help students develop essential critical evaluation and thinking
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