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This session is designed for K–12 teachers, technology coordinators, higher education educators, and pre-service teachers. Based on her book, Digital Age Literacy for Teachers: Applying Technology Standards to Everyday Practice, Susan Brooks-Young will provide attendees with an overview of some of these new tools and the possibilities for classroom use.

Registration fee: $50 for ISTE members / $125 non-members and it includes a copy of the book. Time: 1 PM Pacific /2 PM Mountain /3 PM Central /4 PM Eastern. See the ISTE site for further details and registration.

Here’s an idea that integrates digital learning skills and Hebrew language.

Students and educators can develop digital slideshows with narration using Photo Story 3 for Windows, a free application from Microsoft that is popular with educators and relatively easy to use.

Students can create a multimedia presentation on specific topics or compose fictional stories and import photos or other graphics to illustrate them. Students can also record the report or story narrative in English or Hebrew (or any other language). Another idea is to have older students create and publish digital story books for younger students to read with audio assistance. Narration can be recorded directly into Photo Story 3 or imported as an audio file. For more textured narration, audio files can be mixed on audio editors such as Audacity or GarageBand to include multiple tracks. The slide show can reside on a computer, the school’s intranet, or on a website like YouTube or Next Vista for Learning, a video sharing site designed specifically for educators and students.

Also take a look at PrimaryAccess, an interesting tool for educators and students to create digital movies that emphasize historical narrative.

Jeff Utecht is an educator who publishes two blogs: U Tech Tips and The Thinking Stick. Jeff created general tutorials on the use of flickr and del.icio.us for the educational community. These tutorials are available from his blogs under “screencasts.” He also posted the tutorials on YouTube:

Using flickr
Using del.icio.us

The segments were created in March 2006 and each runs approximately 8 minutes. Although new features have been added to these tools, the clips remain good introductions.

In addition to providing content, these tutorials are examples of how tools like YouTube can be used for professional development.

A version of the Web 2.0 video cited below is also available at Mojiti. Mojiti is an online video sharing service that allows users to add interactive content such as comments, captions, and animations to videos hosted on sites like YouTube, GoogleVideo, and MySpace. In this case, the developers of the video are using Web2.0 tools to solicit comments and feedback from viewers for their next draft of the video.

A very interesting example of how to use the medium to encourage social engagement with the medium. Which is what Web2.0 is about.

The mojiti version is posted at: http://mojiti.com/kan/2024/3313

This 5 minute video presents a thought provoking application of Web2.0 tools to highlight Web2.0 culture.

The video was produced by Digital Ethnography, a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography. Also take a look at the producer’s notes posted under the Digital Ethnography logo. The video is posted on YouTube at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE