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 Education Media and MovieMaker (PC)
8/6/09 Director’s Cut: Discovery Education Media and iMovie (Mac)
The students and staff at Full Sail University shared an inexpensive, “secret” formula for chroma key green paint just in case you’d like to paint a wall (and maybe the floor) some place. Thanks to several Apple Distinguished Educators for sharing the recipe that I either forgot to write down or lost. I believe these tint codes are for Loews:
103-4Y
113-1Y
1145Y32 BASE 4
And yet another ADE recommended Behr S-G-430 (“Sparkling Apple”) from Home Depot.
The American Film Institute is hard at work integrating ScreenNation into its newly revamped website. Your students can view the work of others their age and add their own. Interested? If you’re 11-19 years old, send a link to your YouTube film or video to screennation@afi.com.
Paint chip picture by Ben Syverson at DVinfo.net.
Or maybe this should have been entitled “Full Sail ‘09.2/DENNI ‘09.1.” I thought I had posted a few thoughts while trying to switch gears a week ago after taking three planes from the Apple Institute in Orlando to the DEN National Institute near San Francisco (literally in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge). Except for switching oceans and time zones, I felt like I was in the same place: the themes of the institutes and the commitment of the attending educators were very similar. There were project teams and time set aside for individuals to share with the whole group. I am still digesting the Apple stay at Full Sail University and the DEN National Institute experiences (as well as NECC) and eventually will have lots of sites to share. To get you started, watch this video explaining Challenge Based Learning by the SFETT alums who have grown up to be Alas Media.
Into my second day of learning and sharing here with other Apple Distinguished Educators at Full Sail University in Orlando. So far I have been inspired by two amazing keynote speakers, FSU alum Jayson Whitmore (3 masters degrees and valedictorian each time) and Ray Zahab of Impossible to Possible (for starters he ran across the Sahara!), “branded” by the Improv Lady (Rebecca Stockley), and challenged with a Challenge Based Learning project about using student made videos to personalize learning.
Picture by Digimom13 on Flickr.
Well, I must have gotten a little distracted reading everyone else’s musings on the very last NECC (it will be the ISTE Conference from now on). I can’t believe it’s taken me a week to put together a few thoughts on Hall Davidson’s “8 Things You didn’t know you could do with Video (and 2 You did).” Of course, Hall had a lot more than ten tips to share and you can get the whole list from his Discovery Education Speakers’ Bureau handouts page (the PDF is a quicker download). On the list (for both Mac and PC): a PPT trick to keep a video going over a number of slides, green screen/chromakey fun, QuickTime Pro, screen capture programs, Google Earth, cell phones, Film on the Fly, fun with reversing clips… You get the idea.
Not a NECC reflection, but a reminder - “Science of the Movies” visits the Jim Henson workshop on Thursday night.
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