No Teacher Left Behind

• Using Multimedia in the Classroom

• Featuring iLife from Apple Software

• Focusing on Language Arts

Presented by Bill Sarazen

Putting It All Together

How to use iMovie

How to use iPhoto

How to use iTunes

Best Practices using

Multimedia in Education

What the Research

Suggests about Multimedia in

Education

Multimedia in Education

UsingMultimediain Education

featuring iLife

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

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.

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

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.

iMovie

iTunes

iPhoto

iDVD

What is iLife

Organizes Audio

Audio/Music

Speeches

Create Play Lists

Creates CD

Internet Radio

Song Shuffle

Organizes Photos

Photo Editing

Creates Albums

Creates Books

Slide Shows

Print Pictures

Order Prints

Create Web Pages*

Creates Movies

Still Photos

Digital Video

Sound Effects

Transitions

Dialog

Music

Creates DVDs

Chapters

Motion Menus

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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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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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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Acquiring Images

•Digital Camera

•Scanned

•Internet

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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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Revision

•Examine the scripts closely

•Revise as needed

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Emphasize content over presentation

•80% content – 20% effect

Communicate through Screening

•It’s show time…popcorn

Write theater reviews

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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Literacy demands that students communicate and make meaning from a variety of texts.

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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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Let’s spend the rest of our time creating some simple projects using some of the environments available in iLife: iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie.