On Using Music in Video Podcasts It’s important that the music you choose to use in your video productions matches the mood of your project. Some of the K12 Online sessions had funeral dirge music during moments of inspiration and it kind of killed the mood for me. If you want good music you have …
Category: Educational Technology
Reminder CUELA Tech Fair
Computer Using Educators: Los Angeles presents its annual tech fair, Integrate, Innovate, and Inspire on next Saturday, November 15th at Virgil Middle School. I’m not presenting this year. (Since I’m now on the board I have other responsibilities). However, it’s still an excellent an opportunity to take a few workshops locally from some of the …
Five Reasons Why We Aren’t We Integrating Technology in School
I spent a couple of hours this weekend hopping in and out of the K12Online Chat Room and listening to all the reasons why we should integrate technology in the classroom. Someone in the room proposed that if only every teacher in the world would watch just one session from the K12Online Conference, we could …
K12 Online 08 Week Two Review
I watched all of the presentations from Week Two that were available as movie files. I skipped any wiki presentations and audio podcasts. I’ve heard from other teachers who prefer the latter kind of presentation but I feel like I can see wikis and download podcasts any time. What’s unique about the conference in my …
Digital Storytelling Educational Technology Media Literacy Video in the Classroom Workshops Upcoming
Film School for Video Podcasters
My session for the K12Online Conference, Film School for Video Podcasters, is now online. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to download for your iPod or to watch on your computer. The sixteen minute presentation is a series of short vignettes framed by a film noir detective story in which I play the detective …
K12 Online: Week One Review
The first week of the free K12 Online Conference is over and it has been great fun to download four presentations each morning and have the chance to watch them later in the day. I also participated in the live chat at the conclusion of week one. I am in awe of the thinking, planning, …
CUELA Tech Fair
Computer Using Educators: Los Angeles presents its annual tech fair, Integrate, Innovate, and Inspire on Saturday, November 15th at Virgil Middle School. I’m not presenting this year. (Since I’m now on the board I have other responsibilities). However, it’s still an excellent an opportunity to take a few workshops locally from some of the great …
Create Your Own Campaign Ad
Now your students have a chance to create their own campaign ad for their presidential bid thanks to the National Constitution Center. Due to the tongue in cheek nature of the campaign commercial that results this is probably most appropriate for older students like fifth grade to middle school. Visit Ad-o-Matic here. Students take a …
Film School For Video Podcasters Trailer
For the K12 Online Conference I will be presenting Film School for Video Podcasters. The inspiration behind my presentation is seeing a rise in the amount of student and teacher video making over the past couple of years while seeing very little increase in artistic quality. I hope to show in my twenty minute presentation …
K12 Online Conference
Now in its second year, the free K12 Online Conference 2008 will be held the last two weeks of October. There will be forty presentations which will be released two per day. However, once the presentations are available you can view them at any time. Indeed, the presentations from previous years are still online and …