October 2020 Agenda—Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Begin at 9:00am
Getting Connected
Digitally…Socially…Spiritually
Devotion
Digital Citizenship / Identity
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Why is knowing your “identity” important for ministry?
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What link do you see between your learning and your identity?
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You hear the phrase “identity politics” when it comes to politicians working to seduce your vote. How is teaching in a Lutheran, Christian School a matter of “identity learning?”
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Where else do you see the idea of your identity play itself out in in Lutheran, Christian theology/doctrine?
“God said to Moses, ‘Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.’” -Exodus 3:14
Announcements
1. The next workshop date is scheduled for Thursday, November 12.
Review
Let’s take some time to reflect on last month’s TEC21 Challenges and share experiences. Share a success, a challenge you experienced or a lesson learned.
Digital: What tools did you try with or without students?
Social: Did you follow ay thing on social media? Do you need help find them?
Spiritual: Were you a resource to anyone at your school?
Goals
- Discover the value of engaging your students in a digital storytelling project.
- Explore digital storytelling tools and resources to use with your students.
- Identify a tool or resource to share with a colleague.
Digital Storytelling
Everyone has a story to tell! What’s yours?
Literary Basis
“Digital storytelling has emerged as a fundamental, cross-curricular technique that provides structure for both sharing and understanding new information. It has become an essential way of providing information and enhancing education…by making abstract or conceptual content more understandable. In all disciplines, it offers more ways to engage students and enrich learning through the inclusion of digital media that represents, illustrates, and demonstrates. Digital storytelling brings together text, graphics, audio, and video around a chosen theme, often with a specific point of view. Bernard Robin observes that a digital story may be a personal tale, a depiction of a historical event, or simply a way to creatively impart information or provide instruction. In the classroom, they can also foster collaboration when students are able to work in groups, and enhance the student experience through a personal sense of accomplishment (Robin, 2006). The National Council of Teachers of English in 2003, challenged teachers to develop instructional strategies for students to master composing in nonprint media that could include any combination of visual art, motion (video and film), graphics, text, and sound—all of which are frequently written and read in nonlinear fashion (Porter, 2008, p. 11). Included was the process of digital storytelling, where information is conveyed in a way that is more engaging than plain text.”
Common Core writing standards require writing and publishing using digital tools beginning already in Kindergarten and continuing through Grade 12.
With guidance and support from adults, explore and use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
Screen Casting
Skip ahead to 1:04 for the start of the tutorials.
Here’s a link to the full playlist of Kevin’s channel for the 10 tutorials.
Screencastify – Free screen recorder extension for Chrome. Capture, edit and share screencasts. No software download required. Works on Mac, Windows and Chromebooks.
Screencastify has their own classroom resource link which is a collection of everything you’ll need to get the most out of Screencastify. Check out the various pieces at this link.
Screencastify Education Resources
See some examples of how to use in the classroom.
I personally have been using Zoom to record videos and screen cast and can sit with you teach you how to use it.
Green Screen
Poster Board Tutorial – you can do it with paper too!
Pilgrim Student Press – Green Screen Examples
Top 5 best green screen apps everyone can use in 2020.
1. App for PC: Movavi Video Editor
3. Apps for iPhone/iPad: Do Ink
Low-tech option: Paper Slide Storytelling
Paper Slide videos are one of the quickest (and easiest, in my opinion) for getting started with digital storytelling! Check out how to make one below.
Here is a link to a sample rubric if you want to get an idea of how to make one for a paper slide video.
Stop Motion
Stop Motion
Stop Motion videos use a series of pictures and narration to tell the story. Here are some links to resources to get you started:
5 Excellent Apps for Creating Educational Stop Motion Videos
How to Make a Simple Stop Motion Video with Windows Movie Maker – from Instructables
Stop Motion Animator (Chrome App)
Using Google Slides for Stop Motion Animation
StopMotion App – Apple or Android
LEGO Movie Maker App – Apple
10 Handiest Apps for Stop Motion Animation
Create your own looping slideshow for animation Sample
Traditional Books
The Friendly Planet – created with StoryJumper
Image Resources
- YOUR own photo library (Always your first choice when possible.)
- www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress
- www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery
- www.ars.usda.gov/oc/images/image-gallery/
- pixabay.com
- pics4learning.com
Audio Resources
- iMovie/iLife Sound effects and jingles
- incompetech.com (Royalty Free Music)
- soundbible.com (Royalty Free Sounds and Music)
- Freesound.org
- Findsounds.com
- “Hire a Kid” – You all have that kid in your class who’s the soundFX machine, right? Give him an outlet for that talent!
- Create your own music using Garageband or UJAM.
Collaborative Activity with Cohort @ 10:30.
Digital Citizenship Integration
Whether students are learning in-person, remotely or in hybrid scenarios, online learning activities are a part of the education process. As educational leaders, we have the extraordinary opportunity to be a positive influence in their lives when it comes to modeling and teaching them about digital citizenship. Common Sense is a nonprofit organization dedicated to provide parents and teachers lessons and resources to teach children in grades K-12 skills and responsible behaviors to thrive in the 21st century. Below are their six core curriculum topics. Check out their website HERE.
- Media Balance & Well-being
- Privacy & Security
- Digital Footprint & Identity
- Relationships & Communication
- Cyberbullying, Digital Drama & Hate Speech
- News & Media Literacy
Digital Tools & Resources
Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, With over 30 million ebooks created so far, Book Creator is ideal for making all kinds of books, including children’s picturebooks, comic books, photo books, journals, textbooks and more.
web, iOS
Free for up to 40 books
ChatterPix is a user-friendly app that takes a simple photo and makes it talk. Students can upload pictures or take them straight from the app, draw a mouth on the object, and record their voice to have the image tell a story!
iOS
Free
Draw and Tell is an award-winning creative tool for children of all ages that encourages imagination, story telling and open-ended play. Use the tool to draw, color, decorate with stickers, create animations and record stories. AGES: 3-9.
iOS
Free
Blabberize allows you to upload a picture, choose a mouth, and record what you want it to say!
Example
Web
Free
Have you ever heard of Genius Hour? Listed below are several resources to help understand what it is all about and why some teachers have been integrating this project-based learning strategy into their classrooms. Jerrita Staehr, one of our workshop facilitators, created all of the necessary assets for TEC21 Teachers to use either for themselves during their TEC21 experience or to make copies and adapt them to use with their students. She’s broken it down into steps and provided wonderful examples and templates. Excellent work, Jerrita, and thank you for sharing this with everyone! Here’s a link to the shared Google folder with all of her resources if you are are interested: Jerrita’s Genius Hour TEC21 Style Resources.
- “What is Genius Hour?” (Genius Hour)
- How to Build Community Leaders of Today – And Tomorrow – Through Genius Hour (EdSurge, 2017)
- Genius Hour in Elementary School (Edutopia, 2017)
- Tips and Tricks to Keep Kids on Track During Genius Hour (MindShift, 2017)
- Inspire Drive, Creativity in the Classroom with 20-Time (20-Time in Education)
- 20-Time Projects in Education: 41 Projects in 4 Minutes (YouTube, 2014)
WeVideo is the online video editor that makes it easy to capture, create, view and share your movies at up to 4K resolution for stunning playback anywhere.
Flipgrid allows teachers to set up a site (“grid”) and pose a question via video for students or others to answer, also via video. Users respond to the initial question, with their responses becoming part of a threaded video conversation. You can create one free, then need to delete it before creating a new one.
Screencastify is the easiest way to capture your entire desktop, browser tab or webcam. Forget complicated screencasting software – now you can tell your story in just a couple of clicks.
Clipchamp is a video tool collection for G Suite & G Suite for Education. It lets you and your G Suite users record, compress, convert, edit, upload, collect, save and share video files. Clipchamp works with your existing Google Apps infrastructure and integrates with Google Drive, YouTube, Facebook and Vimeo.
Storybird lets anyone make visual stories in seconds. We curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories.
PicLits is a creative writing site that allows you to drag and drop words onto a background.
Web
Free
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.
Adobe Spark Turn your ideas into impactful social graphics, web stories and animated videos—in minutes. Example
Storyboard That provides a variety of engaging backgrounds, characters, and items help students build a story. The storyboard itself can tell the story, or use it to create another digital story format. Check out the historical settings and consider using for Thanksgiving! You can create several for free.
Lunch Hour at 11:30am/Back to Work at 12:30pm
Project Development
TEC21 Challenges
- Digital: Engage your students in a digital storytelling activity or project. Share your experience by posting for others to see!
- Social: Post a question, an answer, a resource, a picture of your students working on digital storytelling, or an example of a student project to the TEC21 Educators Group on Facebook.
- Spiritual: Be a resource to at least one new person on your faculty before we meet again.
Reflection
To open the reflection in its own tab, select HERE.
Dismiss at 2:00pm