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Meeting The Needs of the 21st Century Learners in
Todays ClassroomWhat Comes After-What Comes
Next..?8 Free Software Programs To Make Show
and Tell COOLHowie DiBlasi Director of
Information TechnologyDurango School
DistrictF.E.T.C.. Presentation - January ,
2007

• Thanks to Phil, Elizabeth and Karl for
  statistical data
• Phil GoernerTeacher Librarian-Silver Creek High
  School
• Elizabeth HannaAlternative High School Center
• -Corpus Christi ISD
• Karl Fisch Arapahoe High School

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Durango, Colorado Sunday
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http//web9r.durango.k12.co.us/teched2007
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Power to be your bestThink Different
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Power to be your best.Think Different
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Agenda - Meeting the needs of todays students

• 21st Century Learning
• Understanding todays students
• Are you a Digital Immigrant or Digital Native?
• What is a Wiki ?
• What is IVC and Video Conferencing
• What is Visual Literacy
• What is Digital Story Telling ?
• What is PhotoStory ?
• What is a Blog ?
• What is a PodCast ?
• How does all of this impact the 21st century
  learner ?

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38-Cool Technologies You Never Heard Of

• WikiPedia
• Wiki
• WikiSpaces
• Blogs
• Blogger
• PodCasts
• JumpCut
• CD-Ripper
• AudioGrabber
• MP3-Converter
• Audacity
• ChaCha
• YackPak
• Pandora

• Photo Story
• Ulead-Photo Express
• XP Photo Slides
• Picasa
• Picture IT
• Flip Album
• Writely
• CrazyTalk
• Skype
• Juice
• Digital Story telling
• Visual Literacy
• BubbleShare

• iPodder
• Itunes
• PodCast Alley
• YouTube
• Viral Videos
• MySpace ???
• Vlogs
• JuiceCaster
• Streaming
• PrimaryAccess
• PodSafe Music
• FreePlay Music
• Gaggle

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12 more.

• Gliffy
• Chat Creator
• JotSpot
• Page Flakes
• Furl
• NetVibes
• Voo2Do
• BlogLines
• PowerGrammo
• Street Cred
• Social Bookmarking
• 42Things.com

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Articles-Programs-HotLinks on the CD

• Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
• Becoming an Accomplished Teacher in the 21st
  Century
• 21st Century Basic Skills
• 21st Century Skills as Transformation in K-12
  Education
• Preparing the Next Generation of Citizens and
  Workers
• Twenty-first century skills
• Results That Matter 21st Century Skills and
  High School reform
• Software for Digital Story telling
• Software for Podcasts-Wiki-Blogs
• Sample PhotoStorys
• Hot Links to 21 Reference Sites
• Sample software

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NOT Included.Fast 20mhz 2 megabytes of
RAM-WOW
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Are you are Digital Native or a Digital
Immigrant ?

• Our students have changed radically. Todays
  students are no longer the people our educational
  system was designed to teach.  Quote by Marc
  Prensky
• Those of us who were not born into the digital
  world but have, at some later point in our lives,
  become fascinated by and adopted many or most
  aspects of the new technology are Digital
  Immigrants.
• Quote by Marc Prensky
• Digital Natives.  Our students today are all
  "native speakers" of the digital language of
  computers, video games and the Internet.
• Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants-- A New Way
  To Look At Ourselves and Our Kids by Marc Prensky
  

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This is Daniel Cook-web site

• www.thisisdanielcook.com/grown-ups/index.html
• Video of
• Daniel Cook

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We need to teach our students to deal with
massive amounts of information
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Where is this?????

• http//descy.50megs.com/mankato/mankato.html

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What Are 21st Century Learning Skills

• Digital-Age Literacy
• Inventive Thinking
• Effective Communication
• High Productivity

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Who are these students?

• Tech-savvy
• 90 of children ages 5-17 use a computer1
• Over 75 of children ages 9-12 use the internet1
• 81 of kids in grades 6-12 have an e-mail
  address 2
• 43 of children ages 4-18 own at least one
  wireless device (cell phone, pda) 3
• 24 have created their own websites1

this generation of students is more likely to be
armed with cell phones, laptops, and iPods than
with spiral notebooks and 2 pencils. -
Edutopia, October 2005
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• 11 Questions to ask yourself on new technologies
• Is it focused on student learning?
• Are there observable results?
• Does it meet the standards?
• Can it show results?
• Does it increase research skills?
• Does it improve communication skills?
• What about accountability?
• Does it improve student collaboration
• Does it help students communicate globally?
• Does it help students deal with massive amounts
  of information?
• Does it teach our students to be self-directed
  and understand how to organize more of their own
  learning?
• Is it sustainable?

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1. Whats a Wiki? Why

•   Online database
• Built for collaboration
• Access to free information
• Kids can synthesize and produce content
• Global collaboration
• Writing across the curriculum
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•     Example http//www.wikipedia.org

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STRENGTHS OF WIKIs IN EDUCATION

• Students could use WIKI's to keep an online lab
  book or research notebook
• WIKIs could be an ideal platform for
  collaborative authorship example Social Studies
  WWII
• WIKIs are easy to search, so could provide good
  navigation and file management abilities
• Wiki's keep track of changes that you have made,
  so great records are kept

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Test Drive.

• Wikipedia
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Create Your own Wiki

• www.speedwiki.com
• http//www.wikidot.com/?gclidCP3Nn_uXzIkCFSgDYgod
  qkMBDw
• http//www.wetpaint.com/
• http//www.hivewiki.com/Signup.aspx
• Wiki Space do a Google search
• http//www.wikispaces.com/

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2. www.gaggle.net

• How it Works for Teachers
• Each teacher receives a master account on the
  Gaggle server. Teachers can send and receive
  email from this account just like the students or
  they can have the mail forward to a secondary
  email address.
• What are Gaggle Blogs?
• Gaggle Blogs are a way that students and
  educators can interface with the rest of the
  world. Gaggle Blogs are filtered for
  inappropriate words and phrases. All images are
  scanned for pornographic content and all URL
  links are checked for pornographic content. If
  any rules are violated, the offending blog entry
  for will be blocked and sent to the authors
  administrator email address pending approval.

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• 11 Questions to ask yourself on new technologies
• Is it focused on student learning?
• Are there observable results?
• Does it meet the standards?
• Can it show results?
• Does it increase research skills?
• Does it improve communication skills?
• What about accountability?
• Does it improve student collaboration
• Does it help students communicate globally?
• Does it help students deal with massive amounts
  of information?
• Does it teach our students to be self-directed
  and understand how to organize more of their own
  learning?

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3. SKYPE

• 49.99 camera SkypeIVC-WebCast

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3. SKYPE
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4. PowerGramo is a powerful realtime recording
solution for Skype

• PowerGramo is a powerful realtime recording
  solution for Skype. You can record and replay any
  Skype call easily and simply.  
• Record incoming calls, outgoing calls or both
• Save your recorded calls securely
• Share your calls with friends
• Get started in less than 3 minutes!
• Totally free for download

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5. I.V.C. Interactive Video Conferencing

• Use the Internet to communicate with audio and
  Video
• Take a field trip around the block or around the
  U.S.
• Visit and communicate globally
• Share and communicate student projects
• Get started for 198
• Camera 49.00PolyCom IVX 149.00 H323
  Standard IVC

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1st Graders-Seahorse
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1st Graders-Seahorse-Video
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California State Parks-Elephant Seals
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California State Parks-Video
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Span-o-ramics-Durango High School
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Span-o-ramics - Video
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• 11 Questions to ask yourself on new technologies
• Is it focused on student learning?
• Are there observable results?
• Does it meet the standards?
• Can it show results?
• Does it increase research skills?
• Does it improve communication skills?
• What about accountability?
• Does it improve students collaboration
• Does is help students communicate globally?
• Does it help student deal with massive amounts of
  information?
• Does it teach our students to be self-directed
  and understand how to organize more of their own
  learning?
• Is it sustainable?

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6. Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit
the Podcasts
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Podcasting-What is it?

• Tivo for radio-an audio broadcast similar to a
  news or entertainment radio show.
• Audio (and some image/video) distributed online
  and uses the Internet
• Works on any Internet-enabled computer
• Can be downloaded to MP3 player (iPod)
• You can configure the latest episodes of your
  favorite Podcasts to automatically download to
  your computer and/or audio player whenever it is
  updated.
• You can subscribe to a Podcast through services
  like iTunes, Podcast Alley and Yahoo Podcast,
• Anyone with a computer and a microphone can
  record a show about any subject

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Lets listen to a sample PodcastDoes Betsy
visually create a picture for you?Can you
identify with the situation?What year did you
first go to school?
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Listen to a sample PodcastDoes she visually
create a picture for you?Can you smell the
bacon?Can you see the pink lemonade?Can you
identify with the situation?What year did you
first go to school? End Point )22
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Podcasting Projections
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Radio vs. PodCast

• Set time and date
• Set Topics
• No replay
• No rewind
• No Fast Fwd
• No Editing
• Clear Channel
• They decide what you listen to

• Anytime anywhere
• Any topic
• Replay
• Rewind
• Fast Fwd
• Can edit to shorten
• You decide on the topic
• Download it and take it with you

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Why Podcast ?

• Students and teachers can publish audio to the
  Web,
• Allows students to publish to a global community
  ..with global content
• Distribute information
• Share performances
• Improve verbal skills
• Oral presentation
• Skill development
• Address Multiple intelligence
• Adjust to various learner skills
• All learners can be successful

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Ideas -Podcasting

• Travel Guide
• My Town
• Science Experiments
• Writers workshop
• Lectures
• Student dramatizations
• News Broadcasts
• Meetings
• Beginners guide
• School Concerts

• Writing
• Poetry
• Scientific experiments
• Social Studies reports
• Interviews
• Foreign Language
• Public Speaking
• Lecture and Notes
• Tell me about your first.
• Day at school
• Love

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Podcasting - How

• Getting Started need a computer and a mike
• Define what you want
• Write
• Record
• Publish/upload
• Broadcast

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Audacity
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Demo of ROOM 208
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Where do I find Podcasts ??

•         iTunes Mac or PC
•         Internet
•         Education Podcast Network
  http//epnweb.org/
•         iPodder.org http//www.ipodder.org/direct
  ory/4/podcasts
•         Podcast alley http//www.podcastalley.com
  /
•         LearnOut Loud http//www.learnoutloud.com
  /Podcast-Directory

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Where do I find Podcasts?
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7. Lets look at iTunes
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http//feeds.feedburner.com/sciq
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How and where do I post it ?

• Slapcast
• Slapcast.com Podcasting By Phone and Upload
• What you get with a paid account
• Only 4.95 a month
• No bandwidth charges! We don't care if your
  podcast has just 1 subscriber or 100,000 !

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• 11 Questions to ask yourself on new technologies
• Is it focused on student learning?
• Are there observable results?
• Does it meet the standards?
• Can it show results?
• Does it increase research skills?
• Does it improve communication skills?
• What about accountability?
• Does it improve students collaboration
• Does is help students communicate globally?
• Does it help student deal with massive amounts of
  information?
• Does it teach our students to be self-directed
  and understand how to organize more of their own
  learning?

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To Blog or not to Blog. That is the Question!
6. BLOGS
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What is a blog?

• The term blog is a shortened computer-lingo
  word for web log.
• Online discussion thread
• Weblog database of writing and links
• Organized by date
• Sorted by topic/category
• Updated regularly current
• Allows users to read the comments of others and
  to respond with their own comments.

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There is a buzz about blogging

• Web publication gives students a real audience
  to write to and, when optimized, a collaborative
  environment where they can give and receive
  feedback, mirroring the way professional writers
  use a workshop environment to hone their craft.
• techLEARNING.com Technology Learning - The
  Resource for Education Technology Leaders

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Why would I use a blog in my classroom?

• Encourages students to engage in discussion.
• Gives all students an equal opportunity to
  participate.
• Increases opportunities for reading and writing
• Students see their work published
• Students are able to share their ideas and
  opinions with other and contribute their own
  ideas to the discussion.

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My First Blog Experience

• I created a blog and in the first 24 hours this
  was posted
• Hey Howie-hows it goin..Im Kristy and I just
  moved to Durango.I would like to meet a nice guy
  like you. I came here 2 weeks ago and I have
  nothin to doI read your profile and youre cute
  and I liked what you had to sayI am 21-f-/single
  and I like a guy who is easy to be comfortable
  around. I really like guys who are a little bit
  older than me and 64 is just about right. I have
  posted my profile and have lots of photos of
  me.come check it out ..OK

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Possible drawback (and solution)

• Students may be rude or otherwise post
  inappropriate comments
• Solution The teacher must monitor the blog
• NOTE This is non-negotiable! If you are not
  willing to monitor your students, please do not
  engage them in this activity!
• Others outside of the classroom and even the
  school can post comments
• As the author of the blog, the teacher can
  immediately delete unwanted comments.

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Navigating a blog

• Posts
• Archives
• Categories
• Comments
• Pages
• Lets look at a Blog.

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WebLogs In EducationWill RichardsonBlogs,
Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for
Classrooms
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8. http//edublogs.org/
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Gaggle Features Include

• Web based email access for all students and
  educators
• Automatic content monitoring of student email
• Automatic filtering of incoming and outgoing mail
  
• The Anti-Pornography Scanner to block offensive
  images and links to pornographic web sites.
• Built in SPAM Guard System
• Web based administration of email accounts at the
  district, school and classroom level
• Fourteen different user access levels
• Gaggle's Safe Student Blogging System with
  multiple safety features
• Secure, school chat rooms that are filtered for
  offensive language
• Ability to mass import users into the system
  using Gaggle's software tools

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Gaggle.net
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Education Blogs- Tim Peters Blog

• Goggle it search
• http//tieconference2006.blogspot.com
• http//awd/cl.uh.edu/blog

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Ideas for using blogs

•    Topic discussions
•     Share information
•     Online Portfolios
•     Student Journaling
•     Personal Portfolios
•     Collaborative Knowledge Base
•     Research Coordination and Collaboration
•     Curricular and Cross-Disciplinary
  Coordination  

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How do I create a blog?

• There are several free blog sites available
• http//www.blogger.com/
• http//www.blogdrive.com/
• http//www.ebloggy.com/
• http//www.blog-city.com/bc/
• http//www.blogstream.com

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• 11 Questions to ask yourself on new technologies
• Is it focused on student learning?
• Are there observable results?
• Does it meet the standards?
• Can it show results?
• Does it increase research skills?
• Does it improve communication skills?
• What about accountability?
• Does it improve students collaboration
• Does is help students communicate globally?
• Does it help student deal with massive amounts of
  information?
• Does it teach our students to be self-directed
  and understand how to organize more of their own
  learning?
• Is it sustainable?

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9. What is Visual Literacy

• Ability to understand and produce visual images
• Reading and writing of images

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Visualize a hotdog
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Describe the Mona Lisa to your neighbor
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United Streaming is a digital video-on-demand and
online teaching service to help improve students'
retention and test scores it is aligned to U.S.
state and provincial standards. Over 30,000,000
teachers and students are using it
today.UnitedStreaming provides teachers with
the tools to incorporate fresh, vibrant digital
media into student learning environments -
quickly and easily. UnitedStreaming, Teachers
gain access to a collection of more than 50,000
video segments from among 5,000 full-length
educational videos-- with more than 1,000 new
titles added every year.
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Demo of United Streaminghttp//www.unitedstream
ing.com/home/video/united.wmv
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Digital Story Telling-what is it?

• Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of
  the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories
  derive their power by weaving images, music,
  narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep
  dimension and vivid color to characters,
  situations, experiences, and insights.
• - Leslie Rule, Digital Storytelling Association

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Another description

• "Digital storytelling begins with the notion that
  in the not too distant future, sharing one's
  story through multiple medium of imagery, text,
  voice, sound, music, video and animation will be
  the principal hobby of the world's people."
• - Joe Lambert, co-founder of the Center for
  Digital Story Telling

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8. BubbleShare - www.bubbleshare.com

• BubbleShare provides a service that provides
  easy photo sharing service, that is hassle-free,
  fast, fun..
• Tell your Story!
• Telling your Story is what great photo sharing is
  all about. You can tell your story the fast, easy
  way (and now, with added pizzazz!). You can you
  share photos by email privately, and if you're
  more adventurous, you use our authoring tools,
  and play it back like a movie.
• Record your VoiceAdd a short 30-second audio
  caption to any photo in your BubbleShare Album
  using computer microphone. No software is
  required.  
• Add Bubble Captions
• A few well-placed words can add context to
  your photos. Add a BubbleCaption or two, and the
  people you share your album with will know the
  real story.

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Primary Access-www.primaryaccess.org/

• PrimaryAccess is a web-based tool that offers
  teachers and students frictionless access to
  digital images and materials that enable them to
  construct compelling personal narratives.

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www.twango.com
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Why do it?

• Introduction of Self
• Voice Personality
• Legacy - Digital stories can provide us with
  an opportunity to leave a legacy of our family
  stories
• Biography- A biography provides the facts about a
  life, whether of the storyteller or another
  person
• Memoir- Memoirs are autobiographical in
  nature, but are much more personal and
  reflective.
• Reflection- witnessing ones own experience in
  order to take a closer look.

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Why do it?

• Transition
• learners reflect on the major changes or
  transitions in their lives
• Decision Direction
• Stories can help us shape our direction or our
  preferred future
• Change over time
• learner can recognize when growth and change has
  occurred
• Collaboration
• document the results of team efforts
• Documentary
• stories take on the characteristics of a
  documentary
• Oral Language
• recordings of speaking and reading aloud

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Witty Whirl Pool by Ruthie 4th grade student
Ft. Lewis Mesa
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Witty Whirl Pool by Ruthie 5th grade
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10. Lets make a PhotoStory-8 EZ Steps

• 1. Write the story-edit it
• 2. Decide on music
• 3. Get lyrics
• 4. Get permission
• 5. Take or gather photos
• 6. Insert the photos-arrange
• 7. Add the music
• 8. Play it

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FreePlay Music -

• welcome to freeplay music FREEPLAY MUSIC REACHES
  OVER 8,000,000 PAGE VIEWS TO OUR WEBSITE!! We're
  adding new music constantly, so check out our new
  releases.

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Lets look at a sample of a Completed PhotoStory

• Let Them Be Little

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Lets look at a sample PhotoStory
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Sonic DVD Maker for Photo Story

• http//www.estore.sonic.com/enu/photostory/default
  .asp
• Sonic makes a Software application that allows
  you to convert the Photo Story to a DVD
• Lets look at an example.. Italia

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YouTube would you use it in your classroom?

• 1. The First Numa-Numa
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v60og9gwKh1o
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• 2. Urban Ninja
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vD2kJZOfq7zk
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• 3. ok go
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vNINJQ5LRh-0

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YouTube would you use it in your classroom?

• 4. This is part of YouTube's Greatest Hits with
  10 users CANON - Guitar
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vQjA5faZF1A8
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• 5. Are You Ready
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vSmLhyPjHVesNR
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YouTube would you use it in your classroom?

• 6. In Memory Of Anna Svidersky
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vEYppbbbSxjc
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• 7. FREE HUGS True Story
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vvr3x_RRJdd4
•  

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Dick Rick Hoyt

• Together, Dick Rick Hoyt have run in marathons,
  competed in triathlons and once even trekked
  3,700 miles across America. What they have
  accomplished together is simply amazing when you
  consider that Rick cannot walk or talk.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vD52rJd9GX10modere
  latedsearch

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Strongest Dad in the World

• Strongest Dad in the World
• From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly
• Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son,
  Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he's
  not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair
  but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while
  swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on
  the handlebars--all in the same day.
• 8. Worlds Strongest Dad
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vf4B-r8KJhlE

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• 11 Questions to ask yourself on new technologies
• Is it focused on student learning?
• Are there observable results?
• Does it meet the standards?
• Can it show results?
• Does it increase research skills?
• Does it improve communication skills?
• What about accountability?
• Does it improve students collaboration
• Does is help students communicate globally?
• Does it help student deal with massive amounts of
  information?
• Does it teach our students to be self-directed
  and understand how to organize more of their own
  learning?

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And finally... Are you ready to change ?

• We can change things..
• People who are crazy enough to think they can
  change the world
• .. are the ones who do.THINK DIFFERENT.

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Contact Information

• Howie DiBlasi
• Director of Information Technology
• Durango School District 9-R
• hdiblasi_at_durango.k12.co.us
• www.durangoschools.org
• 970-247-5411 ex 1451