Welcome to the first edition of the Digital Storytelling Carnival and for visiting the newly relaunched Video in the Classroom.com Thank you for visiting and a special thank you to everyone who submitted an article. There’s a lot here to enjoy and learn from. As long as interest keeps up I’d like to make this …
Category: Digital Storytelling
Digital Video in the classroom
Video in the Classroom Interview
My friend, Nick Pernisco of Understand Media.com, who has been a tireless advocate for teaching media literacy in schools interviewed me for the Understand Media podcast. We talked about how using video production in the classroom assists in the teaching of media literacy and about how I got started. Listen here.
Design and Storytelling in Film
An interesting conversation began in Students 2.0, where Anthony, a high school student, wrote, “…like home movies, most…student videos are lacking a thesis and a design to support them. As technology allows us to integrate creative projects…we need to give students the tools to funnel their creative efforts into an effective and cohesive whole.” I …
Digital Storytelling Blog Carnival
Go here to post your entry. The digital storytelling blog carnival is hosted monthly in the middle of the month. Entries are accepted on an ongoing basis on the subject of the film and videomaking in the classroom including techniques, classroom management, the art of digital storytelling, and any other topic relevant to the subject. …
Digital Storytelling Blog Carnival
Go here to post your entry. To celebrate the relaunch of Video in the Classroom.com which is nearly completed, I will be hosting a digital storytelling blog carnival. Entries are due January 15th and will be posted January 16th. I am hoping to showcase a broad range of abilities in posts from those just starting …
Finding Inspiration Where You Can
I wrote previously about how Mad Money’s Jim Cramer has inspired my teaching in the way he uses explicit language objectives, realia, and a showman’s flair. Turns out other educators have found inspiration in unlikely places. Speaker Sue writes about how a performance of the Blue Man Crew is an example of powerful presentation that …
Children Can
Thanks to Greg Moul of Catalyst for Change for bringing my attention to this clip of a thirteen year old child speaking to delegates from around the world making decisions about our environmental future. She speaks so eloquently that it makes you wish she could be a candidate for president but she’s Canadian and only …
The Fastest Windows Laptop…
Is a Mac A machine that runs both the Mac OS and the Windows OS (faster than a Windows machine) sounds like a good deal.
OELA Conference in Washington
Last week I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the The Rising Stars Summit from the Office of English Language Learners in Washington D.C. where I presented on teaching writing in the context of the Open Court Reading Program as part of a larger presentation by my colleagues on a four year grant …
CUELA Tech Fair
Chris Walsh’s keynote was terrific. He spoke about how television has been evolving. From the one story episodes of Dragnet to the multiple threads of the Sopranos, TV audiences are getting smarter. And yet teachers are still teaching like the one thread of Dragnet. See Chris’s blog entry about this or read the book, Everything …