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At-Risk Students Make Multimedia | Edutopia on 2009-12-03
- But an emerging, national trend has the potential to change the picture for Crenshaw and schools like it. Increasingly, institutes of higher education are collaborating with K-12 teachers to help them use digital tools to get at-risk students excited about learning
- But an emerging, national trend has the potential to change the picture for Crenshaw and schools like it. Increasingly, institutes of higher education are collaborating with K-12 teachers to help them use digital tools to get at-risk students excited about learning
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- - "We want our undergraduates to create projects, not just write papers," says Holly Willis, director of academic programs at USC's Institute for Multimedia Literacy (IML). "This is key to our mission of conducting research on the changing nature of literacy in the 21st century. It's crucial to our own goal that our undergraduates make teaching and learning happen at the same time; that they become peer mentors within the broader community."
  - According to Lacour, creating a video game confers pride of authorship on students. It is qualitatively different from simply playing them but just as rewarding. Working individually and then in teams, "they always have sight of a tangible reward,
  - "The issue of digital literacy lies in knowing what to do once you're connected,"
  - Game making, he adds, is not the same as game playing. "This is a nonlinear authoring process that emphasizes problem solving and critical thinking. It challenges students to sit down and create a complex system."
Educators can find good deals on Black Friday on 2009-11-25
- Educators will be able to find good deals for their classrooms on Black Friday. Several national chains have "leaked" their Black Friday ads. A brief scan of the ads revealed several deals that technology-minded educators might find interesting. A listing of the highlights follows. Many of these retailers also honor Black Friday prices online and have indicated the special pricing may extend past Friday. There are also some deals which are exclusively available online
- Target had the best deal on camcorders that educators might want to stock up on for those digital storytelling projects. At just $39 each, a classroom set of Polaroid LCD camcorders doesn't seem out-of-reach.
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- - TomTom GPS $59-$89
Why Teach With Google Earth? on 2009-11-11
- Google Earth is easy to use and presents, in a visual geospatial context, a great deal of information that applies to topics that are addressed in geoscience courses and many other educational settings.
- With Google Earth, students can browse casually on their own or engage in structured inquiry-based explorations individually or in teams.
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- - educators can employ Google Earth directly as a presentation tool for classes or as a means of saving graphics for use in lectures.
VoiceThread Extends the Classroom with Interactive Multimedia Albums | Edutopia on 2009-11-01
- Ed.VoiceThread.com, a secure site just for educators and their students, says VoiceThreads cofounder Ben Papell.
- "I mean if we went to Darfur to try and stop the genocide wouldn't the Janjaweed think we want to go to war. then our troops would have to leave Iraq and go to Darfur," responded another, "but more importantly haven't enough people died in the genocide we really don't need anymore people to die."
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- - more students participate more actively in digital discussions than in the classroom
  - VoiceThread has multiple conversations going on at once. "In a classroom conversation, there's generally one strand of conversation going at any one time, and if you're bored by that particular strand, you're completely disengaged,"
  - The technology is particularly accessible because viewers can comment using just about any technology -- including a good old landline. "We've tried to make it fairly universal in access," says Ben Papell. "If you don't have a microphone on your computer, you can use a telephone to comment. If you're in the classroom and don't have either, you can use text if you need to, or webcam commenting."
  - "Take it slow -- don't upload 600 images and try to get fifty people to comment on each and every one," he says. "One of the great things is that it will take off on its own."
PBS Teachers | learning.now . Should Schools Teach SMS Text Messaging? | PBS on 2009-10-12
- practice writing in the short message format that’s common in text messaging, putting to
  gether their own glossaries of texting abbreviations.
  They also compare the language and syntax of text messaging with that of formal, written English
- - todd olsen on 2009-10-12
    
    This is not only beneficial in the English classroom but this style of text-shorthand can also be used for note taking in other classes
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- - “But if we’re teaching them about the range of different languages that exist in English, and about translating from one language across to another, if we’re teaching them both that kind of skill, but also to think critically about these processes of moving between languages, then that seems to me entirely appropriate.”
    todd olsen on 2009-10-12
    
    Educators who do this must implicitly state that there is a difference between academic language and text languages. Many times when grading assignments i see words or abbreviations in my students essays that use texting style shorthand.
  - I doubt that most students when faced with a piece of paper or keyboarding in the fullest screen, would work with SMS which is very much a reduced code to fit into a tiny mobile phone screen, and people who use it know that’s why you have those very cut-down words. Once you’ve got a whole sheet of paper, a whole screen in which to craft your prose, there isn’t this incentive to reduce it to the minimal. And so I don’t think it’s a real fear that students will ever mistake SMS communication on a very limited range of subjects for the real thing.
    todd olsen on 2009-10-12
    
    Students in my world do make these mistakes.
  - Having said that, I do wonder if there’s a place for studying SMS ethics, if you will. The news media has been filled with stories in recent months about students usng SMS for cheating on tests or bullying other students.
    todd olsen on 2009-10-12
    
    This can become a problem because if we teach texting in the classroom students may begin to think it is an accepted practice to text in class leading to cases such as this.
Funding News - Training is key to schools' digital media use on 2009-10-05
- hey should be given adequate professional development to ensure they learn the proper ways to engage their students through digital media
- Keith Krueger, chief executive officer of CoSN, discussed findings from a recent survey about the learning potential of Web 2.0 technologies in schools. He said 75 percent of district administrators believe Web 2.0 holds great potential for teaching and learning. Yet a majority of the school districts surveyed still ban social networking and chat rooms, Krueger added.
California Kids Use -- and Teach -- Digital Storytelling | Edutopia on 2009-08-25
- - todd olsen on 2009-08-25
    
    Seems like the creation of this program at this school came about much like the development of this program here at the Frederick.

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