2009 NECC Pre-Conference Event at Discovery

Period 1:
Director's Cut: Animoto, PhotoStory & MovieMaker with Mike Bryant


****remember the rule of thirds when taking video

For Animoto education example (especially Kim), check out: http://animoto.com/education/casestudies

-after exploring...

Pros- it is very simple to use and produces high quality transitions and such to make a stellar video

Cons- no ability to decide when pics change in relation to voice, etc.

see others
-http://pixton.com/
-http://www.xtranormal.com/



Period 2:
50 Ways to Integrate DE streaming with Jannita Demian (saw at PETE&C)



****Diamond: disregard the grade-level for the videos...she taught 1st grade with a 9th grade video...just muted the volume and narrated with the images that are there herself


-we can now share the Discovery videos with embeddable code on all of our sites, etc. They will see the video, but when press play they'll have to log-in. Therefore, check out the new student center for student usernames/passcodes.

-check out editing html code with notepad for changing the closed captioning text that appears below the videos on Discovery Ed. (have to dl the vid. from website first in order to see the text file)





Period 3:
Power Up Your Professional Learning Network with Jen Dorman http://denblogs.com/jendorman




-check out blog for ALL resources she mentions and more!

-ning, twitter, slideshare, igoogle, skype, dingo,

Functions of a PLN: connect, collaborate, contribute

***important to model how you learn to students and where you go: lifelong learners

check out: Google Certified Teacher Community (July 1st for app. deadline for Denver)


PLN examples: Google Certified Teachers, PBS Teachers Connect, LinkedIn Groups (ISTE, DEN, EduBloggers, Tapped In), Facebook Groups (DEN, ISTE, Second Life, Classroom 2.0, Educational TEchnologists, Using Wiki in Ed, School 2.0), Ning (create your own PLN),

Aggregator PLN info: Google Reader. Grazr, RssBirthday (use in other ways for PLN), Jen feels Google Reader is the best Aggregator out there....I agree
-b/c of organization, customization, sharing articles with "Friends" in your network (look into!),


Podcasting PLN info: Itunes (of course), Gcast (will publish your podcast through your own RSS feed), , GabCast (use phone), Podbean, PodOmatic

Microblogs: Twitter (see PowerPoint for 5 Stages of Twitter Acceptance: Denial, Presence, Dumping, Conversing, Microblogging), use Diigo to crosslinks to Twitter (install Diigo toolbar), use Ask Mr. Tweet service to get in touch with great PLN (make sure that you reference beign an Educator in your profile),

Plurk (opposed to Twitter): advantage is organization with responses (look onPBWiki for: plurk and twitter for teachers)

Manage Multiple Accounts:
Ping.fm & Hellotxt (both to post statuses to multiple places) Jen likes Hellotext b/c of the mobile version for her Blackberry
AtomKeep: change profiles for all of your various social networking sites

Social Bookmarking: Delicious and Diigo (Jen likes Diigo much more b/c of annotation and grouping)

Google Docs vs Zoho


***follow Jen and the crew on Twitter


Final notes:
For audio editing try Vocarro or Window Voice Recorder instead of Audacity
Met Tom McGee and Erik Wittmer