Digital Storytelling Educational Technology Video in the Classroom Workshops Upcoming

K12 Online Conference Trailer: It’s Not About the Apps

The K12Online Conference is on now (and forever).  The conference is free and asynchronous…this means you will never “miss” it,  you can watch the presentations whenever. I’ve presented twice for the conference before, my favorite being Film School for Video Podcasters in which I play a detective and  explain how to make better classroom movies. …

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Digital Storytelling Educational Policy Educational Technology Video in the Classroom

New Book: What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies

I’m honored to have a chapter I authored on integrating digital video production in the classroom published in the just-released hardcover book, What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media edited by Scott McLeod and Chris Lehman. The other chapters are written by  several of the educational technologists whom I’ve come to …

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Digital Storytelling Video in the Classroom

Video in the Classroom Carnival #6

It’s time once again to highlight some of the best posts and resources I’ve seen in and around the blogosphere that feature video production and digital storytelling in the classroom. Classroom Production Examples Karen Thompson shared these movies by Cindy Huson which are a simple yet ingenious and amusing way of teaching vocabulary words. Steve Katz …

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Common Core Digital Storytelling Educational Policy Educational Technology Video in the Classroom Workshops Upcoming

Higher Level Technology Use

For my upcoming presentation, “Digital CPR:  Bring Your Reading Series to Life with Technology” for LAUSD’s Best Practices Conference on March 19th, I created this illustration which I will use to talk about higher level technology use. I will talk about incorporating multimedia in the classroom as something all teachers should be doing but I …

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