PETE&C Monday Session
The PETE&C Monday morning session began with Keynote speak Jason Ohler from the University of Alaska. He is a dynamic speaker with real-world experience working with children. He spoke about digital storytelling and new media narratives. I attempted to keep up with him in my notes and they are listed below:
http://www.jasonohler.com/index.cfm
9 Dig lit action guidelines;
Shift from text-centrism to new media collage
Value writing more than ever
Visually different text
Adopt art as 4th, next literacy
Assistive technology/ real work for real pay/ We live in a visual culture. Innovation and creativity/ copyright is real
Follow DAOW of literacy
Merge literacy and digital literacy: Digital Art Oral Written
Attitude is aptitude
Do not see one as smart in context; intelligence is now the ability and attitude to learning new stuff.
Story first, technology second
Leave the clicks and tricks to the kids with time.
Give them something they are inspired to do.
What does your character “realize”?
Use Blooms to determine how good a student can create a story
Show kids a video- give them a question to think about while showing the video
What makes an excellent story? There is a problem.
Ruffolo: No storyboard- uses story mapping- shows the emotional flow of the story
Storyboarding only shows the flow of motion to make sure the story flows- it does not guarantee a good story.
Peer Pitch: share to peers and pitch their story: looking for clear and compelling
Director in the Classroom
*learn how to record with the green screen
New Media Narratives: Jason Ohler- 1 hour session
Check out his site- The Power of Music- 3 sequences.
Story Storm: get kinesthetic with their story first and then it becomes easier to write for kids.
Give all kids on the shoot a job.
Teachers can start at presenting problems- have students come up with the solution (any discipline)
Good stories take you toward the goal and away from it.
Have students deconstruct mass media.
Binary opposites- Kieran Egan
Story Spine by Kenn Adams
The key of making a media list prior to developing the story- so students will not change their story to fit a picture. Gather the pictures ahead of time.
Limit the story to two minutes- it forces the focus on the student part.
The really good transitions are the ones you don’t notice.
Story storming
My room as a museum
Documentary is much more engaging when you include the 1st person immersive and tell the story from that perspective.
Poster Session:
- During the afternoon, I presented my Keystone Poster session on Mrs. Schmidt’s “Virtual Forbidden City” and Mrs. Stewart’s “Second Life Dresden Museum.” This was a very successful presentation and was a positive opportunity to show the successful practices of McGuffey School District.
- I spoke with may professionals that ranged from educators to PA Department of Ed representatives. A representative from Thiel College was highly interested in the project. Three representatives from Carnegie Mellon University want to collaborate with us and they view our projects as “huge” i
n their words. We spoke for about an hour and the fortunate aspect is that the CMU representatives understand gaming technologies and building virtual worlds. We benefit them because we are using these technologies in a pratical manner and we are putting theory to practice. The CMU representatives would like to continue the conversation and collaborate together. This is an excellent opportunity and I look forward to learning with them.
Promethean Private Party
- I was invited to attend a private party at Chocolate World, hosted by Promethean. They opened the Chocolate World attraction for 100 select members and provided food, drinks and mini-lessons. It was an excellent professional development session because they coordinate 15 minute lessons in a pod type arrangement. We were able to view how technology corrdinators and teachers are using the Promethean software in innovative ways and I look forward to coming back to my school district to share those ideas.
Birds of a Feather: Ning
- Lastly for the night, around 8:pm, I attended a Birds of a Feather session on Nings in education. I was aware of Nings previously, but I wanted to advance my understanding because Mr. Wilson is putting it to practice for teh district. In order to learn best, I also created a Ning for our CFF community. You may access it at: http://cffmcguffey.ning.com/
It was a busy and chaotic day, but I learned a great deal and I look forward to coming home to share with my district. I also was able to show over 3,000 participants that McGuffey School District is on the front line of innovative teaching practices.
BubbleShare: Share photos – Play some Online Games.
Laura, I am so proud of you and the work you have done. It also makes me proud to have been just a small part of the Second World experience that we set up in the classroom. I will be reading and watching, and hopefully, we can do something cooperatively again! Keep up the wonderful work…the world is watching!
Pam Stewart — February 17, 2009 @ 1:13 pm