The Blue Skunk blog presents 7 Stupid Mistakes Teachers Make With Technology. I’d like to address poor technology planning that I’ve written about in the past. I think poor planning pervades education and isn’t a problem specific to technology use but one that many classrooms suffer from. There’s nothing new or different about my method …
Category: Video in the Classroom
Video in the Classroom Blog Carnival #1
I have renamed the Digital Storytelling Carnival to the Video in the Classroom Blog Carnival with this which would be edition #7. As before, the carnival spotlights blog articles on using video production in the classroom which includes digital storytelling and general video production. I’ve come to understand that digital storytelling refers to a specific …
Royalty Free Music and Images
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 …
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 …
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 …
Photo Contest: Portraits of Learning
What: Technology & Learning invites K-12 students to participate in the sixth annual digital photography contest. The competition, open to all K-12 students, challenges you to capture—and share—your unique vision of the world. If you have an artistic side, you also have the option to digitally enhance your photos with your favorite imaging software. The …
Fair Use Resources
Thanks to Kevin for sharing this comic book which aims to teach about Fair Use from Duke University. I want to share my favorite Fair Use resource…I absolutely love the Barely Legal Radio program here in Los Angeles though I always listen online since I’m in school at the times when it’s on the radio. …
Media Literacy Film
My friend, Nick Pernisco of Understand Media presents this film which makes the case for teaching students how to responsibly view media rather than banning their access to that media. It’s similar to my case for teaching student to safely use Google rather than banning Google.