Why streaming media

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Why streaming media?
Differentiation Engagement Writing Publishing
Possibilities
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Differentiation

• Research regarding EL strategies and learning
• Building students background knowledge for texts
  to be read (Garcia Pearson, 1995)
• Building students English vocabulary (Garcia,
  1991, 1996 Saville-Troika, 1984)
• Increase interest, motivation, fluency,
  comprehension, and engagement (Scarola, 2005)

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Engagement

• Appeal to their 21st century senses
• Images and video are a way of life for them
• Dont ask students to power down when they
  enter your classroom
• Power up student projects
• Allow students to have some control over learning
• Assign challenging but achievable tasks
• Design projects that allow students to share new
  knowledge with others
• (Brewster Fager, 2000, NWREL)

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Visual Literacy

• is the ability to interpret, use, appreciate, a
  create images and video using both conventional
  and 21st century media in ways that advance
  thinking, decision-making, communication, and
  learning.
• http//www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/vislit.htm

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Writing

• Adding digital media to students writing
• Persuasive
• Expository (instructions, demonstration,
  research, etc.)
• Narrative
• Autobiography
• Biography
• Descriptive
• Reporting a scene
• Readers Theater

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Teacher Advantages

• Replayable The exact presentation (with
  students narration) can be viewed again
• Tutorial A students demonstration can be
  viewed by others at various times
• Presentation Portfolio, School Board, PTA, Open
  House
• Absent students dont miss out
• You can sit and enjoy the presentation The
  rubric/grading can be completed later

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How to

• Digital video camera
• Digital still camera
• Streaming video from Web resources
• unitedstreaming
• Creating digital video from images
• iMovie
• Movie Maker
• Pinnacle Studio
• Photo Story

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Talk about it

• What are some of your favorite projects ?
• How can we power them up to engage our students
  and make learning meaningful?
• Class project
• Team projects
• Individual projects

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Know your resources

• What technology is available to you?
• Student access at home
• Lab setting
• Classroom computers
• Internet necessary
• Software

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Use your resources

• Choose editable video
• Mute the soundtrack
• Record new narration with existing video
• Assemble a kit (Folder of resources)
• Assist students with software basics
• Get out of the way!

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Keeping it real

• Considerations
• Time (Planning Implementing)
• Challenging and achievable
• Meaningful
• Collaborative effort
• Work with a partner (Science teacher a LA
  teacher) to share expertise and workload
• One project to meet two requirements

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Contacts

• Susan Staat
• Susan_Staat_at_discovery.com
• http//discoveryeducation.typepad.com/northcalifor
  nia/
• Mark Jeffery
• mjeffery_at_ceres.k12.ca.us
• http//eett.ceres.k12.ca.us/