I will be presenting at FCIS, Florida Council of Independent Schools in Orlando on Friday. In case you are attending, please come and introduce yourself.
Digital Storytelling
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

Resource Links

VoiceThread
Wordle
Google Maps
Microsoft PhotoStory
Microsoft MovieMaker
Mixbook
Audacity

I am attending the Florida Council of independent School conference in Orlando. This is obviously not a dedicated Technology Conference, but there is a strand for “Technology Directors”.
Finally sitting in a room where I am able to hook onto the hotel’s wifi and able to live blog. I was not even getting signal to use [...]

This past week we enjoyed our 2nd K12 Online Conference LAN Part here in Jacksonville, Florida.
Our first LAN party had been a great success, that word spread around the school and colleagues asked if we could hold another one. We asked the participants of this first one what were some of the ingredients that they [...]

How Can I Become Part of this ReadWriteWeb Revolution?
Alice Barr, Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes
Questions to ponder?

What is school?
Make our classrooms as exciting as homecoming?
How does teacher engage students as learners?

We have digital students, a whole new kind of literacies to teach (compared to the 3 Rs):

media literacy
collaboration
communication
innovation
information literacy
digital citizenship
ethics

We need to teach students how to [...]

This year the teachers at my school are taking off with video productions. This is mostly due to the 5 Flip Cameras we have available for checkout, every teacher having a classroom digital camera with video clip capabilities and the rise in their comfort level of using programs such as Microsoft MovieMaker and PhotoStory.
Film School [...]

Connecting Classrooms Across Continents: Planning and Implementing Globally Collaborative Projects
Kim Cofino and Jen Wagner
Here is the teaser of the presentation

While listening to the Kim and Jen’s presentation, I took the following notes

Getting started

You need a technology toolbox- become familiar with different types of tools
Get connected yourself- then your class- use existing network

Implementation

Create your [...]

Last night, my colleague and friend Paige McGee and I organized a K12 Online Conference LAN party to be held at our elementary school. We made it a pot luck style dinner. The idea was to allow teachers time to choose a presentation or two to watch and then, over dinner, share what we have [...]

“Video-Conferencing It’s Easy, Free and Powerful”
By Brian Crosby
This school year has started off with some great collaboration with Argentina and our 6th grade students. It was the first time that we incorporated video conferencing for and WITH our students as part of the project. We are bout to start another collaboration with a Pre-K class [...]

This video came to my attention through Dean Shareski’s blog.
It is an extremely fast presentation by Chris Lehman. He had to get his points across in 5 minutes.
I will need some time to go back and pause and play to be able to digest and REALLY hear what he had to say.

Here are some of [...]

I Like Delicious Things: An Introduction to Tagging and Folksonomies
by Chris Betcher
Here is his presentation’s teaser clip

Directly off the batch, I was impressed with Chris’ video technique. Since I presented with a video at last year’s K12 Online Conference, I KNOW how much time and effort went into those 20 minutes of video footage. I [...]