Graveraet Intermediate, Marquette Area Public Schools – 2007

 All ISTE and State Technology Standards are met: Standard 1 Basic Operations and Concepts; Standard 2 Social Ethical, and Human Issues; Standard 3 Technology Productivity Tools; Standard 4 Technology Communication Tools; Standard 5 Technology Research Tools; Standard 6 Technology Problem- Solving and Decision-Making Tools  These activities meet the general K-12 ELA standards of Meaning and Communication (Standards 1 – 4), Voice (Content Standard 6), Skills and Processes (Content Standard 7), Depth of Understanding (Content Standard 9), and Critical Standards (Content Standard 12)  Other content area standards, too.

 Provide Options for What of Learning – Recognition brain center (Understanding, Language, Perception)  Provide Options for How of Learning – Strategic brain centers (Organization, Skills, Action)  Provide Options for Why of Learning – Affective brain centers (Self-Motivation, Maintain effort and interest

 Small video/still cameras – DXG (under $100)  1 G Memory Card – under $20  Laptop or computer – XP  Audacity audio editor & LAME encoder & Audio Recorder - Free  Head sets with microphone ($12 – $30)  Movie Maker - Free  Web storage to post files – can be free  Digital Voice Recorders - $100 - $150

 Teachers plan projects  Coordination with tech, students & parents  Student helpers  Continued planning for Fall ◦ More communication & collaboration

 Marble Maze -Work in small teams with tech person ◦ Students write a script and demo their project ◦ Another student reads the script ◦ Another student films ◦ Tech person supervises and helps post  Five Themes of Geography ◦ Students prepare tribes dioramas ◦ Read the descriptions of each theme ◦ Parent films student individually ◦ Tech helps post

 Marble Maze –Video teams ◦ Teacher writes/students modify a script and demo their project ◦ 1 student reader; 1 on camera demo student; 1 student films ◦ Tech person supervises and helps post  Marble Maze – podcasting ◦ All students record their scripts  Five Themes of Geography ◦ Teams of students prepare Sioux Diorama ◦ Read the descriptions of each theme  Posting variable

 All students who want to can participate 

 FREE Microsoft downloads with XP and Vista Windows Movie Maker & Windows Media Encoder – Screen casting  Ideas and downloads – education & topic keywords: ◦ You Tube & Teacher Tube (win a laptop contest!) ◦ Google Video ◦ Next Vista for Learning ◦ Digital History  Convert with

 History of Caseville in You Tube zepo zepo ◦ Go to Google movie or You Tube ◦ Type “Michigan History” keywords in search ◦ List of videos ◦ May have to upgrade the Flash

 Mother’s Day poems & messages ◦ Download Audacity & LAME ◦ Import a background mp3 (you can’t post podcasts with commercial music) creative commons licensing (Something Else by James Curran) Import ◦ Modify music track to decrease volume for student recording voice-over ◦ Save the template

 Classroom as recording studio  Post recording schedule & group topics  Train student aides  Students work with a script ◦ Post Spelling or Vocabulary words/sentences

 Open Audacity Template  Students Record Sample – use Microphone  Export as MP3  Close Template -- DON’T save student Audacity recording

◦ Students open the template and record onto it – Student Aide helped here Students open the template ◦ Save file by Exporting as MP3 ◦ Finished Sample Finished Sample ◦ Teacher & student aide burned finished files to CD – couldn’t post to web with commercial music  Can also be loaded on an MP3 player  Saved on computer to play

 GIS podcasting study of Motion and Forces  Marble Maze Caleb Marble Maze Caleb  Marble Maze Courtney Marble Maze Courtney Recorder for Free Recorder for Free – simple mp3 voice recorder  BMS podcasting – Work in Progress  School Newsletter Audacity template

Radio Willow Web – script templates & online podcasts Willow Web Script Science Room 3 – Elementary School & Penn State Made in Imovie, PC – Still pictures in Movie Maker with recording Music and more – public media with Creative Commons

 Conference Handouts & Links on  Bloglines on Log in:   mapscast  Radio Willow Web  Room 3  War News Radio  Princeton Vocab Review Minute Princeton Vocab Review Minute