No Teacher Left Behind

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No Teacher Left Behind

• Using Multimedia in the Classroom
• Featuring iLife from Apple Software
• Focusing on Language Arts
• Presented by Bill Sarazen

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Multimedia and Language Arts

• Allows students to combine digital images with
  accompanying oral narration to tell their own
  stories.
• Provides entry points for beginning writers to
  create their own narrative, persuasive, and
  exploratory text.
• Pictures can come first followed by the text, or
  reverse

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Multimedia and Language Arts

• Still and moving images have constituted a read
  only medium. Multimedia tools allow us to read
  AND write in this format.
• Digital editing technologies has made it possible
  to incorporate new and powerful communication
  tools into our Language Arts classes.
• English class is not really about printed
  characters on a sheet of paper, but about
  communication.

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Language Arts Multimedia Software and Projects

• PowerPoint- Mac and Windows
• HyperStudio-Mac and Windows
• Keynote - Mac Only
• Movies and Sounds in a Word Processing Document-
  Mac and Windows
• iMovie for Mac or Movie Maker for Windows
• iPhoto for Mac or Adobe Photoshop Album for
  Windows
• iTunes - Mac and Windows (FREE)
• iDVD - Mac or ______- Windows

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What is iLife
iLife is the missing puzzle piece for teachers
and students wishing to create Multimedia
presentations. iLife combines the capabilities
of iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD in a seamless
working environment.
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What is iLife
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Best Practices UsingMultimedia in Education

• Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
• Convey a personal narrative through the use of
  images, video, and sound.
• Students are not only writers and readers, but
  also screenwriters, artists, designers, and
  directors.

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Best Practices UsingMultimedia in Education

• Nuts and Bolds of Building a Digital Story
• The writing should be something that is real and
  matters to the students.
• Challenges comprehension skills by not only
  making students concentrate on what they are
  reading, but also what they are learning.

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Best Practices UsingMultimedia in Education

• Choosing what to say
• Students understand that the personal narrative
  needs to be a window into a moment, a
  self-contained story set in one particular place
  and time. (I hear FCAT)
• Keep the draft limited to a specified amount of
  paper. Students have to learn to keep it short,
  yet packed with precise language.
• Sequence the images and build the story in what
  you see.

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Best Practices UsingMultimedia in Education

• Acquiring Images
• Digital Camera
• Scanned
• Internet

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Best Practices UsingMultimedia in Education

• Analyzing and Storyboarding
• Map each image, technique, and element of the
  story on paper.
• Focus on Chronology what happens and when
• Focus on Interaction how audio information
  interacts with the images.
• Put images on sticky notes and move them around.
• Consider how effects, transitions, and sound
  would be sequenced

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Best Practices UsingMultimedia in Education

• Revision
• Examine the scripts closely
• Revise as needed

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Best Practices UsingMultimedia in Education

• Emphasize content over presentation
• 80 content 20 effect
• Communicate through Screening
• Its show timepopcorn
• Write theater reviews

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Best Practices UsingMultimedia in Education
Effective teaching practices paired with powerful
technologies provide student readers and writers
with unique experiences to transform their
understanding of events, printed texts, words,
and images.
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Best Practices UsingMultimedia in Education
Literacy demands that students communicate and
make meaning from a variety of texts.
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Best Practices UsingMultimedia in Education
Images allow students to see what they think they
know, connect the new to the known, and express
their understanding in ways that are visual,
auditory, scholarly, and powerful.
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Best Practices UsingMultimedia in Education
Lets spend the rest of our time creating some
simple projects using some of the environments
available in iLife iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie.