Build on your basic Digital Storytelling skills by learning virtually from Hollywood filmmakers. The American Film Institute sought to make the ‘language of film’ accessible for educators to empower them to harness the appeal of Digital Storytelling in their classrooms. The multimedia educational resource Lights, Camera, Education! is the result. Hosted by actor Sean Astin, [...]
But before I spill those beans, I should you remind you about Digital Storytelling Week kicking off our back to school webinars. 8/3/09 Thinking Outside the Slide: Creating non-linear PowerPoint presentations and learning centers with Discovery Education Media 8/4/09 Digital Storytelling Made Easy: Using Discovery Education Content with Animoto and PhotoStory 8/5/09 Director’s Cut: Discovery [...]
Just got a press release from the American Film Institute announcing a major upgrade for the ScreenNation site. There doesn’t seem to be a hard date yet, so I’m guessing by the end of summer at the latest. Join me in posting some of your favorite moivemaking how-to’s and/or encourage your students to share their [...]
Just got a press release from the American Film Institute announcing a major upgrade for the ScreenNation site. There doesn’t seem to be a hard date yet, so I’m guessing by the end of summer at the latest. Join me in posting some of your favorite moivemaking how-to’s and/or encourage your students to share their [...]
Even occasional readers of this blog know that I hold the resources that Frank Guttler and Mitch Aiken have assembled for the American Film Institute’s K-12 Screen Ed program in very high regard. So, you too will probably share my sorrow on learning that the grant funded outreach has lost its funding and Frank and [...]
In what has become an annual summer event for me, I spent the last few days right outside of our nation’s capital at Discovery headquarters in Silver Spring, MD. As usual, it was a great opportunity to reconnect with my colleagues from both coasts, my neighbor Steve Dembo (who I almost only see when we’re [...]
Just in case you weren’t able to meet the door scene guy (AFI’s Frank Guttler) in person at the DEN reception in San Antonio, you can see him in action on a NECC webcast. Look for “AFI Screen Education Center: Digital Filmmaking in the Core Curriculum,” Wednesday at 1:30. Due to copyright concerns for this [...]
Just in case you weren’t able to meet the door scene guy (AFI’s Frank Guttler) in person at the DEN reception in San Antonio, you can see him in action on a NECC webcast. Look for “AFI Screen Education Center: Digital Filmmaking in the Core Curriculum,” Wednesday at 1:30. Due to copyright concerns for this [...]
So, if you were the associate director of the American Film Institute’s Screen Education Center and had to make a ~90 second video in order to apply to attend the Google Teacher Academy, wouldn’t you bring all of the resources and talent you have access to at AFI into your entry clip? Of course not, [...]
Just a reminder as you are packing (or have packed) up for the summer, there’s still another month left to enter the American Film Institute’s Hometown Claim to Fame challenge. Right now it’s looking pretty good for a town just a couple of suburbs away from mine. They have three entries in! Though my sentimental [...]
…not to transition? That’s not much of a question unless you’re going for a cheesey, 1950’s kind of B movie trailer look. Keep yourself safe from PPTS (that’s “PowerPoint Transition Syndrome” according to my old buddy Ken Wiseman). And my new buddies Xander and Calvin make just that point in their latest ScreenNation learning video [...]
…not to transition? That’s not much of a question unless you’re going for a cheesey, 1950’s kind of B movie trailer look. Keep yourself safe from PPTS (that’s “PowerPoint Transition Syndrome” according to my old buddy Ken Wiseman). And my new buddies Xander and Calvin make just that point in their latest ScreenNation learning video [...]
The American Film Institute’s ScreenNation first challenge is on and it should be right up your alley, or your main street at least. It’s called Home Town Claim to Fame. I wouldn’t know where to start with the city I grew up in – Chicago and I’d have to learn a lot (maybe the point?) [...]
I spent two days working with students and teachers in my hometown last week. A great way to cheer up cold, gray, rainy days for me. Come on spring! I’m really not in the rhythm of the school year anymore, so it was a pleasant surprise when I was contacted by a school to come [...]
We all know a picture is worth a thousand words and so, moving pictures must be worth… Well, a lot more words, right? Realizing that, I concede that my words could not describe this clip from AFI inviting 13-18 year old students to upload their work to the new ScreenNation site.
Not wishing to steal the IRS’s limelight next week, the American Film Institute has opened the public beta of its ScreenNation™ website a full week early. So head right over to the ScreenNation™ site and check it out, no password needed. Junior and Senior high school students can upload videos and participate BUT any age [...]
…And their teachers too. Three announcements here. Two for older students and one for you power Discovery Education streaming users. First, it looks like ScreenNation is just about ready for its public beta debut on the always auspicious April 15th. Though only middle school and high school students can upload, ANY grade level can learn [...]
It’s been a year exactly since I did my first workshop using the American Film Institute’s “Lights! Camera! Education!” program and I marked that milestone by facilitating 4 full day sessions and 2 breakouts over the last week. From Kankakee to Bucks County, PA and back to Illinois for our own IL-TCE, educators were doing [...]
Help! Mostly on PC’s. I was down in Kankakee, IL this Saturday for a Day of Discovery and the team of teachers I was working with had all recently been equipped with new Sony hard drive camcorders along with some still cameras. Everything was going along just fine. I was even enjoying just popping one [...]
The secret’s out, though it really hasn’t been much of a secret lately. The American Film Institute will be debuting its ScreenNation™ website sometime in the first quarter of ’08. AFI Associate Screen Ed director Frank Guttler tells me that AFI will soon be providing a free forum for young filmmakers (7th-12th grades). There will [...]
Let’s all welcome the American Film Institute’s Screen Education program to the blogosphere! While I was prepping my granddaughter for her first Halloween, they were treating themselves to their first posts. Bob Jennings wrote up an overview of AFI’s ScreenEd mission and Frank Guttler talks a little about their “Lights, Camera, Education!” program in the [...]
Sixteen years ago my wife and I were scolded by both a hotel clerk and an airport shuttle driver when they found out that our five days in Phoenix did not include a trip to Sedona or the Grand Canyon. We made partial amends this past weekend when we spent two days in Sedona. The [...]
It appears the recent, sudden onset of chilly fall weather here in the Chicago area is all my fault. Last weekend when we were flirting with the 90’s and the air conditioners were running, I foolishly told family and friends that this weekend’s trip to Florida was going to be wasted weather-wise. Within hours we [...]
When I’d give a test on the 13th of any month, I would usually tell my students that Friday the 13th falls on a Monday (or Tuesday or Wednesday, etc.) Not that the kids needed any more angst, I thought it lightened the mood a little. Anyhow, you’re in luck! The 13th falls on Saturday [...]
Drop and give me a close-up, a reverse angle, and don’t forget the rule of thirds, maggot! Well, I wasn’t quite that demanding yesterday out in Harrisburg, PA, but it really was the second annual boot camp for technology coaches in the Keystone state’s Classrooms for the Future program. I got to spend the day [...]
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