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5/29/2008

Digital Storytelling
This is a great, personal way to tell a story. Not just a way to regurgitate information.
Bill likes the brevity of this media, taking a lot of information and turning it into 3-5 minutes of rich, personal storytelling that shows understanding.
 
This could work in groups as well as individually.
 
This is empowering for students, as it is fairly simple, they have control over the end product, and it is easy to publish so that a lot of people can see it.
 
It also transfers them from being a passive learner to an active learner.
 
Digital storytelling is also a great way to teach and reinforce critical thinking skills. They have to decide what information is the most important to include in their presentation. Also, what media would best support their message.
 
If working in groups, it provides the opportunity to work collaberatively. Storyboards written before the pictures are taken help make sure the message gets through.
Posted at 9:24 AM by Dean Deters | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)
Mabry Film Festival
Sometimes even with cool movies, kids can miss the point of actual communication and education - sometimes the flash and power of the video overshadows the content. Really powerful videos can happen in a short amount of time - pictures and music can set a mood and get a message across in a very short amount of time. Collaboration is shown in all the videos we watched, and all the videos were focused on real-world problems. We had questions about the legality of using some of the photos and music that were in the production - are the kids being taught copyright rules?
Posted at 9:12 AM by Terry Woodall | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)
Digital Storytelling
We visited Apple's Digital Storytelling site to see how schools are blurring the lines between subjects taught at school and technology. The use of iLife on Apple computers - iTunes, iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto and Garage Band make a seamless movie production very easy. Students go from stories or reports written at school to movie productions that foster higher level thinking skills, collaboration, language development all while their technological skills are coincidentally being developed. Students gain so much more than literacy skills. Love of learning, positive social skills, speaking and listening skills are all part of what occurs when they have the opportunity to develop digital storytelling skills.
Posted at 9:11 AM by Kaiser, Alison | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)
Collaborative Websites - Standards 2 & 4
Thinkquest has wonderful examples to inspire students and teachers to collaborate using technology. Some entries are relatively simple and some quite elaborate, but all have the impact of being globally accessible, sharing their projects with the world. They encourage children to use the internet and cite their sources. They enabled children to have a global impact, their voices are being heard. Most, if not all, of these projects included interviews with experts around the world, not just a prewritten blurb about their field or project, but actual interaction with the experts. This required collaboration and prewriting to be able to ask good questions. The projects we observed were original works that very often presented possible solutions to the problems they exposed.
Every bit of Standard 4 is addressed in these imaginative and informative projects.
Stacy particularly liked the Business projects, including entrepreneurship.
Specific sites that impressed us:
Internet Safety:
http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01158/
Living on the Brink:
http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02242/
Posted at 9:09 AM by Barbara Currier | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

3/12/2008

Blogs for NETS Standards #1 and #6
RE Voices of Success, a class blog from Lebanon High School at http://lhsvoicesofthesixties.blogspot.com.
 
This class blog addressed Standards #1 and #6 in the following ways:
 
Students demonstrated creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology (Standard 1) by
- conducting original research
- reporting their findings with MP3, video, photos, and narratives
- reflecting on their information
- developing informed opinions.
 
Students demonstrated a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems and operations (Standard 6) by
- using the blog format
- designing and editing videos for the blog
- posting photos on the blog.
 
Students acted on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the domain in which the innovation occurred (Framework for 21st Century Learning Student Outcomes) by
- posting previously unknown stories about servicemen from Lebanon who died in Vietnam
- adding to the body of virtual knowledge about American history
- highlighting the personal impact on the members of a community in a shared experience. 
 
Posted at 9:27 AM by Juanita Lamley | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)
Authentic Assessments
Podcast to build our own math dictionary. Students would act out definitions of different math terms, such as division where the students would divide themselves into groups, sometimes with a remainder. This would assess students ability to apply existing knowledge to generate knew ideas, products, or processes.
Posted at 9:25 AM by Mann, Denise | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

1/22/2008

Terry Woodall
Hi!  I teach 5th-6th Language Arts at Butte Creek School, part of the Silver Falls District.  I like playing with technology, and try to integrate technology into student tasks.  I enjoy digital photography in my spare time.
Posted at 1:01 PM by Terry Woodall | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)
I'd love to blog with my class!
My name's Beth McGuire and I teach 6th grade at Jefferson Middle School. I have really enjoyed networking with the other teachers in this class. You all inspire me! Thanks to Corin we're learning new ways to make technology more user-friendly in our daily lives.
Let the blogging begin!
Posted at 12:57 PM by Beth McGuire | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)
Airin Hazelwood
Well, my story begins in a small town in Southern California called Los Angeles. A lovely place filled with cement trees and tons of nutrients in the air... the place where I grew up.
 
Needless to say, like all small town girls with big dreams, I left home to seek bigger and better things. It was at the ripe old age of 15 that I moved up to Washington, ready to start my new life, independant and free.
 
Once I made it to Washington I tried to get into school, but with only a sixth grade education I realized very quickly that I had a tough road ahead of me. If I wanted a high school diploma I would have to enter the 7th grade, so I opted for the less popular GED and graduated in '94.
 
Soon after, I entered college. It was there I gained confidence and realized that I was smart and capable. A lesson I will never forget. Now, I am a teacher in a wonderful little school, go figure. There isn't another job I could see myself doing better.
 
In life, I couldn't ask for more... I am happy, I have a beautiful daughter and a job I look forward to every day. Anything extra is a blessing.
Posted at 12:55 PM by Airin Hazelwood | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)
This is not really Corin!
It's me, Dean Deters, trolling this blog as Corin. I teach 4th grade at Perrydale Elementary. This is my 11th year teaching at Perrydale. I also manage the school web site, and try to use technology in my classroom as much as I can. I have also taught 2 of my own kids. My hobbies include basketball, reading, and taking long walks on the beach.
Posted at 12:54 PM by Richards, Corin | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)
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