Nothing moves from simple to complex better than video. Learn a classroom asset management process that allows students to build video (or multimedia) subject-area projects using "kits" ---web-based and preassembled with graphics, music, and video. Begin with sheltered, curriculum-based resources, both free and fee. Use free, dead-simple software to engage students through content creation. Not only does this build necessary skills like collaboration, mastery, and innovation, it taps deeper learning.  This is a great strategy for technology reluctant teachers.  No camcorders required! From this "scaffold", depth will follow.

Meet the needs of 21st Century learners. Begin with curriculum-based resources then tailor them for your class. Find videos, shorten/edit them easily. Add narrations, stills, music other videos. Make and take from Web 2.0 videos. Move into presentations. Insert students inside with Chromakey. The hidden power of QuickTime Pro (Mac or PC), screen captures, websites Xtranormal, Gizmoz. Most free, some fee, all fun. Step by step walks through great tools. Target engagement with mind-grabbing resources.
 

Going digital means significant upcoming changes in education.  Explore what this means to supplemental curriculum materials, individualized teaching and learning, and communication. Assessment and evaluation can be more effective and efficient. An overview of the near future that puts you ahead of the game and an exploration of tools you could be using today. Learn how create, publish, and effectively use media on the web.  Tap the power of Web 2.0 social networking tools for professional strength. Also, learn to effectively monitor assets like instructional media in your school or district, and ways to use your cellphone and discover its secret power to make your job easier.
 

Students engage when they tell stories and the digital transition has given STEM students and teachers story-telling tools undreamed of ten years ago. Molecules, landforms, architecture, and mathematics can finally tell their story with animations, game-based videos, and the wild web. There are apps that make it simple. New tools allow students to synthesize and demonstrate knowledge in ways that teachers can assess for understanding with great efficiency. Yes, an old cog can learn new tricks.
 

Media moves up the engagement scale when kids and their content move, literally, onto the screen. An in-depth look at chromakey (green screen) on both Mac's and PC's.   Chromakey allows students (and teachers) to edit themselves into curriculum videos. With technology that used to be reserved for TV studios, teachers and students go where they couldn't go before.  With either stills or videos, enter a cell, a battlefield, a geometric figure or the world of battling dinosaurs.  Captioning allows them to describe, transcribe, or transform media while emphasizing literacy skills (Note: captioning is friendlier on a PC).
 

You buy technology and resources.  But does your school use them effectively?  What about monitoring and mentoring? Learn how to use the amazing data digital resources generate for these administrative tasks—and more.  Digital media takes informative snapshots every, day, month, and year.  Match it with data from state tests.  Use data to increase achievement, steer in-house professional development, and increase differentiated instruction.  Learn how to maximize classroom resources and craft strategies for elevating the instructional plan using powerful tools at your fingertips. Many products have admin features. For this session, DiscoveryEducationStreaming data will be the model for district, school, and teacher data.
 

For fantastic, connection-free classroom assets, capture or download Web 2.0 creations, mix with both subject-area resources and your original creations: video, voice, and images. Explore how content on the web can be captured for editing on your desktop with both free and low cost tools.  Incorporate curriculum-based media in wildly engaging ways. Explore the legality, the benefits, and lots of engaging examples from Web 2.0 sites. Create on the web, capture locally, and build curriculum-rich projects and lessons.
 

Media tools of our century from a master: Microscopes from iPads, instant mobile uploads from remote learners, engaging avatars, inexpensive interactive tables, using Google searches or PowerPoints for assessment by making media, video games captured for backgrounds, mobile chromakey quizzes, free video capture software, a festival you can steal, and recycling camcorders as fantastic webcams.�A fast-paced tour of tools and techniques with applications for students from primary through high school.

Storytelling and media making come together with tools for planning, executing, and evaluating your project. Free and simple tools build projects and magical effects combine with traditional planning to engage students as never before. Adapt to any curriculum or grade level.  Let them build it and they will come.
 

As curriculum resources move from print to digital, the hardware and platform choices become important. Must all machines be the same for distance learning? How would the same resource play across Chromebooks, iPads, Galaxies, Android phones, the Kindle Fire, and new Windows 8 tablets? How big a differentiator are features and apps that support learning and content creation? Watch learning objects and resources play across systems and decide, This session will run cloud-based curriculum products through the most available hardware platforms. This includes iPads, Chromebooks, Kindle Fire, the new Windows 8 platform, Android, and the basic desktop OS's. A system analyst who must develop education programs for all platforms is a co-presenter. No endorsements will be made or implied, and participants will be more able to make informed decisions for their educational community.
 

Digital textbooks will hold much more than pdf's: media, social links, avatars, community rooms, and more.  They will be part fixed, part live, part static, part wired.  We have the power to tap the fundamental engagement hotspots for students, Techbooks will do that for teaching and learning.  Participants in the room will be part of this dynamic, real time, curriculum resource. Become a co-author as we turn the page on the old way of thinking about digital resources.
 

One of the dazzling differentiators of the iPad is content creation. Making meaningful use of the image and video capture in the curriculum means a ride through free and fee apps that edit, capture, manipulate, engage and inform.� From pulling educational videos into apps like chromakey to animating key instructional elements in a photograph, the power of the iPad grows every generation.� Bring your iPad or share with your friend and leave with a list of apps that will change the way you teach.
 

Tablets, mobile phones, and iPads can create and share media (video and audio) in the extended learning anywhere/anytime world. Learn how to send images/videos/audio to common, free "channels" to support classrooms, projects, or entire schools. Use QR codes in surprising ways. Learn about video applications and audio for "dead" phones. Teachers can receive videos, edit and comment, and send them back---all via mobile. Finally, explore the way to pull DE videos into apps do chromakey ("green screen") editing, sharing, stop-motion, effects, build previews, and much, much more. Revisit the old favorite: Turning mobiles and iPads into video microscopes for less than $5. Mobiles are digital project kit bags with and media making inside!
 

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The nation's oldest student festival collects media projects that tap deeply into student passions. Matching curriculum goals with technology tools taps this passion and their inner attitudes and enthusiasms motivate mastery. Watch examples from student work kindergarten through high school exhibiting humor, imagination, and expertise. Learn strategies to replicate these projects in your classroom.
 

We know effective assessment can be more powerful than class size reduction for raising achievement.  Take a deeper look at how technology tools (mostly free) can check for understanding.  Projects previously requiring a semester can be accomplished in a period. Mobile phones, MovieMaker, iMovie, and a host of Web 2.0 sites can do the job.  Even PowerPoint and Google can be tapped.  The digital age produced spectacular tools that match the learning style of students native to the touch screen, who create videos for the web, texts on a mobile, and stream media everywhere. These skills and tools, often free, should be adapted for assessment. Bring your laptops and cellphones for examples in an interactive session from a leader in the field.
 

A session with simple whimsy! As mobiles like the iPad developed great apps for cameras, microphones, sensors, images, and imaginations, there grew a lurking potential for playfulness. Can iPads really see through the human body, X-ray inanimate objects, see through metal, detect emotions, augment reality, and print out rocks? It seems that they can -- or you can certainly make it appear that way. Bring your devices (and your tricks to share), and relax and roll with (nearly) totally fake ways to blow your kids minds with iPads. And a total reveal of all the dark secrets by a media master.
 

Communication and evaluation are critical tasks for administrators.  The job requires time and demands effectiveness.  The tools of Web 2.0  can make an administrator’s job easier, faster, and more fun. Exploit dedicated Web tools for communication, vision, and interchange. Twitter, VoiceThread, wikis, blogs, and cellphones offer unexpected benefits.  Using new tools effectively can change the way you work.    Find the tools that will better and more engagingly connect you with your staff and community.  Great classroom applications, too.  Content creation, texting, and social sites-- they’re not just for students!
 

The presentations, handouts, and resources from concurrent sessions and keynote have been moved here.  Let me know if there are things you need.  hall_davidson@discovery.com