Digital+Stories+with+web2


 * Engaging Education with student-created media projects: ISTE2011 presentation by Nancye Blair **
 * see outline of presentation at [|ISTE2011 conference website]
 * elementary school teacher at K-5 charter school in Florida (McKeel Schools); maintains __ [|www.EngagingEducation.net] __
 * kids want to express themselves
 * Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers; 3 qualities for meaningful, satisfying work; autonomy, complexity, connection between effort and reward; hard work is a prison sentence only if it has no meaning
 * authentic audience: eg. share in class, website, wiki, podcast, submitting work to festivals, printing books, Twitter #comments4kids, ThinkQuest competition
 * what can a Kindy student do? write and draw (KidPix), make movies (MovieMaker, iMovie)
 * start collaboratively, using smartboard; then individually by end of year
 * by 2nd grade, add digital photography; don't need a lot of cameras
 * 2/3 grade: stop-motion photography and video (takes lot of patience and teamwork)
 * 4/5 grade: researched movies; recommend each group has different topic; payof is worth it; use titles, Google Maps, web images, music, narration, webcams, clip art, video
 * anaglyph 3D movies: __ fCIT.usf.edu __ (contains links to free clip art, images, audio)
 * check out __ wildcatwebsafety.wikispaces.com __ for guidelines (US) about online use and publishing
 * animated PowerPoint digital storybooks; can be done individually (4th grade) or 1 slide each (3rd grade); writing starts to improve as they have to record their narrative; try hyperlinked choose-your-own-adventure stories
 * Excel data collection and custom charts; kids love changing bars to images; get kids to analyse this data, how could it be used to create a commercial (using PowerPoint)
 * animation, games, programming and computer science: kerproof.com, Scratch, Alice
 * web 2.0 tools: weebly (web design), flockdraw(painting/drawing), storybird, storyjumper (very dynamic, can print whole book for free), aviary (edit images and compose music), animoto (use for interviews, free all-access pass for educators and students; good for special needs or gifted), Xtranormal (let them know you are an educator, for extra points), PictureBookMaker, E2BN (animated myths and legends), screencast-o-matic(free screen capture)