Tech for Teachers EDU 299 - PowerPoint Presentation

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Tech for TeachersEDU 299

Lesson 8-MUltiMediaSlide2

Multimedia Tools

Digital Photography

Videos

Screencasting

PodcastingSlide3

Digital Photography

Digital Photography is one of the basic ways teachers use technology in the classroom.

There are multiple ways to use digital photography in the classroom. Slide4

Ideas for Using Digital Photography in the Classroom

Photograph students dressed up as what they want to be when they grow up and use the pictures to illustrate career reports.

Take lots of pictures while on a class field trip. Have students write a caption for each picture, post the photos and captions to a Web site to create a virtual field trip.

Photograph a day in the life of your classroom" for parent Open House. Create a slide show to run as parents tour your classroom.

Store a photograph with each student's electronic portfolio.

Assign pairs of students to walk through the school to find such examples of geometric shapes as circles, triangles, parallel lines, obtuse angles, and so on. Label each photo and create a geometry book.

Photograph community landmarks and have students create a brochure about your community.

For younger students, take pictures of easily recognizable signs in your community and assemble the photos into an "I Can Read" book.

Use photographs to illustrate the process for complicated projects or for science experiments

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Ideas for Using Digital Photography in the Classroom

Write a class novel and illustrate it with live-action photos of your students.

Take pictures of class procedures and display them in the classroom as a reminder.

Create a seating chart with photographs for substitutes.

Take pictures of each

child's

eyes, nose, feet, or mouth only. Have children try to match each student to his or her body part.

Make picture frames for a Mothers Day or Fathers Day gift. Glue each photo into a decorated jar lid and glue a magnet to the back.

Document the growth of classroom plants or animals with daily or weekly photos.

Take photos of school staff performing their duties. Write a caption for each photo and create a Community Workers book.

Snap a black-and-white headshot of each student, size it to page, and place a box frame around it. Place a blank box the same size as the framed picture beside it. Have students draw -inch to 1-inch gridlines in pencil in both boxes and label the gridlines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and so on in each direction. Then have students try to duplicate their pictures by drawing only what they see in each grid.Slide6

Ideas for Using Digital Photography in the Classroom

Take

a photograph of each student at the beginning and end of the school year. Have students complete Venn diagrams of themselves, showing how they have -- and

havent

-- changed during the year.

Compile a set of file cards naming such abstract concepts or emotions as freedom, love, hate, honor, joy, sorrow, patriotism, responsibility, and respect. Have students select a card at random and take a photograph illustrating that concept.

Have each student choose a letter and find an object that begins with that letter. Take a picture of the child with the object and use the pictures to create a class alphabet chart.

Arrange students into groups and assign each group one of the five senses. Have each group photograph the appropriate sensory organ and then have them take pictures of objects that organ might best perceive.

Take pictures to illustrate such science concepts as food chain, biodiversity, biome, and so on.

Have students go on a photographic scavenger hunt, taking pictures of the objects they find rather than retrieving the objects themselves.

Take pictures of plants or animals in your community and use them to create a field guide of local wildlife

Name Recognition- This is a great activity for young learners to start recognizing their own name as well as their classmates. Take your students pictures. Print them onto cardstock with the child's name next to their photo. Laminate the sheets and then cut each student/name combo into puzzle pieces. Place in basket and allow your students many opportunities to match pictures with names.Slide7

Ideas for Using Digital Photography in the Classroom

Take pictures of your students during the first month of school, again in January and another in June to see how they have grown. Your students can write stories about their growing!

Take a class photo to add to a calendar for gifts for families.

Take pictures of students doing different things (walking, eating, coloring...) and create an "-

ing

Book" The students can type or write a sentence that tells what they are doing in the picture. Create a class book.

Take your students pictures and import them into a drawing program such as KID PIX STUDIO DELUXE. Have your students erase their bodies and then using the many tools available in the program, draw themselves in a particular place of study. For example a fifth grade class was studying Alaska. The students create an Alaskan background and clothing appropriate for the cold temperatures.

Students can be assigned to go on expeditions throughout the school to look for examples of geometric shapes (circles, triangles, parallel lines, obtuse angles,

etc

). An older student could serve as a "Tech Buddy" to assist younger children with the picture taking.

If you pen-pal with another class or school, take a picture of each student. Print on heavy paper and laminate. Cut each picture into puzzle pieces and send to their pen-pal to assemble.

Take a class picture and print on special iron-on paper. Use these transfers to create class t-shirts. These classy t's can be worn on special days such as on field trips, field day, or during Spirit Week

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Ideas for Using Digital Photography in the Classroom

Take pictures of special classroom events. Print each picture and distribute to students. Each student is asked to write a story about the event in the picture. Assemble the pages in to a class book.

Take pictures of your students. Print them in 1x1" squares on to heavy paper and then laminate. Cut the squares out and use for class graphing.

Take a headshot of each student. Crop to remove any excess background (saves on ink when printing). Print each headshot as large as you can. Have the students create a body to accompany their picture. Have them make the arms long so they can be folded in as if they are holding onto something. Hot glue clothespins to each hand. Find a large area to hang and display each student.

Students can attach work they are proud of throughout the year.

During Parent Nights or Conferences, parents can attach notes to "their" child to find the next morning.

Attach "SPECIAL MESSAGES" as they happen. IE-Congratulations Tommy on making the soccer team! or Happy Birthday Katelyn!. Kids love these special acknowledgements.

Have your students help you take pictures of classroom objects. Involve them in the process of typing up the words to go along with each picture. Print, laminate and use as your classroom labels.Slide9

Ideas for Using Digital Photography in the Classroom

Use pictures to enhance any unit! A unit of color? Have your students take a walk around the school and create a color book. We have made "The Colors of (a season)". Numbers? Take pictures of a pair of socks and create a skip counting book. How about taking a picture of a part of your room and ask the kids to find 4 pencils in the picture or 2 books. Laminate the pages and provide dry erase markers. The students can locate the objects and circle them. I provide small squares of baby wipes in a Ziploc bag so they can erase their work before they leave the center.

ABC's- Take pictures of items for each letter of the alphabet.

Time Lapse Pictures-take a series of pictures of an event such as caterpillars emerging from their chrysalises.

Create a "

claymation

" type show using your camera and PowerPoint. Using

playdough

, create a figure such as an animal. Snap a picture. Mold the clay to show slight movement (move a leg). Snap the picture. Repeat until your animal has been given the illusion of movement. Insert one picture per slide in PowerPoint. Enlarge the picture to fill the slide. Set your transitions to 1 second and the timings to run automatically. Run your show. The images will appear to be moving.

Take pictures of just about anything to add to PowerPoint presentations to really liven them up. Print your presentations, laminate the pages and create classroom books. Children love to see their own pictures in a book! For some ideas, 

click here

. My students' favorite- Fieldtrip Shows. You always have that "down-time" after returning from a fieldtrip. Gather your students around the computer and put together a slideshow of their trip. I like to print out mini books and send them home with the students as

souvenirs

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Photo Sharing Sites

Here are a few good photo sharing sites to share your digital photos with students and parents. Just check them out.

Photobucket

Shutterfly

Flickr

Google+ Photos

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Photo Editing Sites

Here are a few Photo Editing Sites that make it easy to edit photos. Just check them out.

Picmonkey

Quick

Picture

Tools

Clipping Magic

Pixlr

Picfull

Cropp.me

ImageOid

AviarySlide12

Assignment

There are many photo editing sights but one I like the best is

Picmonkey

.

I would like you to try it.

Pick a picture you have taken and try some of the photo editing options from

Picmonkey

.

Insert your original picture and your edited picture in a Word Document and send it via an Assignment form on the website. (but wait until the next assignment. You can add it to this Word Document)

Have

fun with it. Slide13

Photo Fun

Check out these sites and apps that can make digital photography lots of fun.

Fotobabble

Blabberize

Big

Huge

Labs

Baseball Card

Maker

Trading CardsSlide14

Photo Fun (cont.)

Fotor

Photo

Collage

Cartoonize

Phrase.it

PixiClip

Graphic

Springs

 (Free Logo Maker

)

Aging

Booth

 (App

)

Stache

Booth

 (App

)

iFun

Face

 (App)Slide15

Assignment

Pick one of the Photo Fun sites or apps

Then take a photo of a friend or yourself and have a little fun.

Place your finished product on the previous Word document and send via the assignment form on the website. Slide16

Video, Screencasting, and Podcasting

Teachers,

who use instructional

videos,

report that their students retain more information, understand concepts more rapidly and are more enthusiastic about what they are learning. With video as one component in a thoughtful lesson plan, students often make new connections between curriculum topics, and discover links between these topics and the world outside the classroom.Slide17

Ways to Use Video in the Classroom

Formative/Authentic Assessment

Paper and pencil assessments have their place in the classroom, but students explaining their learning can also be critical in getting a larger picture of their progress. Streamline group projects by having students create videos and then have a movie screening day rather than stand-and-deliver presentations.

Student Video Projects

Video doesn’t have to be limited to group assignments or assessments. Sometimes, students want to use video to start a school news channel. Or, let’s think bigger: student film festival. The possibilities are endless.

Record Experiments

Labs are both a blessing and a curse in the science classroom. They’re great for demoing concepts and helping students make connections, but they take a lot of time and resources. If a student misses a lab day, they’re hard to make up. Instead, have a lab group record their entire process for absent students to work along with later

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Parent and Community Communication

Relationships with the community are just as important as relationships with students in the classroom. Video can be a great way to keep parents and the community-at-large up to date on the great things happening in the school. Video reduces the amount of paper needed for mass mailings and allows for longer explanations behind school policy or announcements.Slide18

Ways to Use Video in the Classroom

5. Personalize

Feedback

Time in class is at a premium and it can be difficult to find five or ten minutes to sit down with one student. Using video, you can give verbal feedback on student work and then send it privately for viewing. It doesn’t take any longer, and they don’t have to decipher margin notes. Students also have the added benefit of revisiting your feedback during the editing process.

6. Teach

When You’re Absent

Let’s be honest, writing sub plans takes way more time than writing normal lesson plans. The level of detail needed is difficult to achieve in writing. So, why not record a video? Rather than leaving wall-of-text notes, have the guest teacher play a video of you leaving the day’s instructions. Class is now in session.

7. Flip

a Lesson

It’s catching on as a way to begin working more effectively with students and it can be a great goal to have in place as you begin exploring using video. With lecture out of the way, you are freed up to work on the context and application of lessons with students.Slide19

Student Project Ideas

Book

Trailers

A

book trailer essentially is the same idea as a movie trailer – it provides a dynamic way to introduce the plot, characters, setting, and conflict to entice a viewer or reader to seek out the full version. Students could use this concept to demonstrate their knowledge of a historical event, document, or person.

Scene Reenactments

Students can use video to re-create their interpretation of significant scenes in the books. By using video, rather than just performing a skit, students can also integrate music, images, and even other video clips.

Public Service Announcements and Advertisements

Students can use the format of a public service announcement or advertisement to teach a concept, explain a theme, promote an author, or market the book itself. These formats can be applied to practically any topic. Resources and rubrics are available through

Thinkfinity

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Student Project Ideas

Common Craft Style

Projects

Common

Craft is an organization that creates videos to explain complex concepts with a simple approach, paper cut-outs. This style of video is perfect for classroom video projects, as students do not have to appear on camera because they are only filming paper cut-outs with narration. 

Tripods are needed to keep the camera steady and pointed down towards the floor

RSA

Animate Style

Projects

RSA Animate videos are slightly different than Common Craft videos, as someone is filmed with a dry erase marker writing words, pictures and ideas that is then speed up and has narration edited over the original footage. This style of video requires two additional steps after the filming, as the footage needs to be sped up in the editing process and students need to provide a voice over audio track.

YouTube

Choose Your Own Adventure

Projects

Within

YouTube there is a feature called the '

Spotlight Tool

' that allows a video to have a hyper link embedded within the video. The link appears on the video it itself and when a viewer clicks on the link they are automatically brought to another video. By using this YouTube feature, students can create multiple video segments that can be linked together and allow the viewer a unique experience based on the path they choose to follow. There is no video editing required for this style video project, however there is extensive planning necessary as students need to determine how their videos will be linked in order for the viewer to transition through the project. Slide21

Screencasting

A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration.Slide22

Why would I create a Screencast?

Tutorials

Trainings

Demonstrations

Assessments

Clarifying Complex Concepts

Capture Critical Procedures

Convey Expert Knowledge

ComparisonsSlide23

Equipment Needed:

Computer

Microphone

Internet Access

Webcam (optional)Slide24

Screencasting Sources

Jing

Screencast-o-

matic

Educreations

(app for iPad)

Snagit

$

CamStudio

More Info

-

Screencasting

Tools for Creating Video TutorialSlide25

Podcasting

Podcasts are digital media files (most often audio, but they can be video as well), which are produced in a series. You can subscribe to a series of files, or podcast, by using a piece of software called a

pod catcher

. Once you subscribe, your

pod catcher

periodically checks to see if any new files have been published, and if so, automatically downloads them onto your computer or portable music player for you to listen to or watch, whenever you wish.Slide26

Educational Uses of Podcasts

Podcast are great alternatives for delivering research content or lessons to students who need remedial or extended support

Students can create their own podcast to share their learning experiences with each other and also with other students from other schools

Teachers can record audio podcast to provide additional and revision material to students to download and review at a time that fits them the best.

Podcast can hugely benefit auditory learners and help them in their learning

Creating podcast allows students to develop several important skills such as researching, writing, speaking effectively, solving problems, managing time, grabbing attention and improving their vocabulary

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How to Create a Podcast

1- Recording

for this you will need a microphone and an audio recording software like the ones mentioned below. Every software has instructions to guide you through your recording process. Make sure you practice speaking till you get confident enough then start recording.

2- Test your Podcast

Always make sure you listen to your podcasts and redo the parts that you

dont

like until you finally get the

vesrion

you want then move on to the next step

3- Publish your podcast

You can use online platforms for publishing your podcasts. If you have a blog for your class you can publish it there , you can also submit it to the public podcast directory services such as iTunes Music Store, Podcast.net, OurMedia.org, Podcast Alley, or Podcast Pickle.

4- Promote/ publicize your podcast

Now that you have recorded and uploaded your podcast, you will have to start promoting it so that others know about it. This can be done through providing the podcast link ( URL of the page where it is hosted ) or  through creating an RSS Feed document which will let users subscribe to your podcast

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Tools to Create Podcasts

1- Audacity

Audacity

is a free, open source, cross platform software for recording and editing sounds. It is

available

for

bo

2- Garage Band

This

is an Apple software that provides users with a great platform where they can record their audio files and share them with others

.

3-Podomatic

This is another great web tool that lets you create, find and share podcasts with others

4-

Odiogo

This

one here transforms news sites and blog posts into audio files ready to download anywhere, anytime, on any device.Slide29

Assignment

Homework

:

Pick one of three options.

Option

1

: Create

a video

1. Create a commercial to sell your favorite book.

2. Plan your commercial.

3. Record your commercial using your cell phone or iPad.

4. Upload the video to

YouTube.

You can do this from your phone or iPad

. Send me a link to your video via

email or the Assignment form on

the website. Slide30

Assignment

Option

2: Create

a Screencast

1. Create a screencast to show someone how to solve this math problem.

Makayla bought 3 books about plants and 5 books about fish. She also bought 10 science magazines. Each book cost $18 and each magazine cost $6. How much did Makayla spend in all?

2

. You can use

Screencast-o-

matic

. You can also download Jing. If you have an iPhone or iPad,

Educreations

would

also work very well.

3

. Upload the video to

YouTube.

Then send me the link via email or the Assignment form on our website.Slide31

Assignment

Option

3: Create

a Podcast

1. Create a podcast retelling your favorite story.

2. Record the podcast with the audio on your phone or iPad.

3. Make sure you have all the important parts of a retelling-character, setting, problem, solution

.

4. Save the audio file and send it via the assignment form on the website.