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 Using Multimedia in 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 Using Multimedia 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.

Best Practices Using Multimedia in Education 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.

Best Practices Using Multimedia in Education 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.

Best Practices Using Multimedia in Education Acquiring Images Digital Camera Scanned Internet

Best Practices Using Multimedia in Education 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

Best Practices Using Multimedia in Education Revision Examine the scripts closely Revise as needed

Best Practices Using Multimedia in Education Emphasize content over presentation 80% content – 20% effect Communicate through Screening It’s show time…popcorn Write theater reviews

Best Practices Using Multimedia 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.

Best Practices Using Multimedia in Education Literacy demands that students communicate and make meaning from a variety of texts.

Best Practices Using Multimedia in Education 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.

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