I spent a few hours attending different session in the DEN Stream-a-thon. It was a fantastic day. I began in the morning by emailing all of the instructional technology coordinators in our district to remind them about the day.
I made it into The Builders session with Matt Monjan. Even though I have done numerous workshops on all parts of DE streaming, I still learn something new from the experts. I peeked at the attendees list and kept seeing all these people I work with. There were about 5 of us in there together. We started a backchannel chat for those of us on Skype. That way if any of us missed something another person would fill them in.
Our district is way behind in implementing Google Earth but all of us have been chomping at the bit. I sent an email about 30 minutes before the start of the session. I also twittered it. Hall Davidson had a packed house of over 100 people. Scanning the attendee list I was blown away that there were 10 of us on. Then there was a round of hellos from my fellow Leadership Council members. There was even a teacher from my building that was on during her lunch. Breakthrough! Her first webinar was the stream-a-thon.
Learned loads of stuff from Hall. The time seemed to go so quickly. Elaine Plybon shared file of lessons that was great. I was able to get it but I think it got so many hits that the link got overloaded. I ended up having to leave right at the very end of the session to actually implement that session. I was scheduled to work with a 4th grade class on creating a presentation about the rain forests of the world. Their presentation tool of choice - Google Earth.
I wasn’t able to attend one of the sessions that I wanted to do to travel time home. That was leading a workshop.
Later on though I went in for the Stealing from the STARs session with Lance. Most Excellent! I got loads of ideas so I really will end up stealing (borrowing) from them.
Here are just a few of many. Watch for the posting of presentation for more. Hall Davidson came back in and added to tips about using DE streaming and closed-captioning and also using iPods with DE streaming. He has everything on his Media Matters blog.
Moonk where you can create slideshows and flash movies easily.
Plotbot for script writing.
Much, much more…
Finally things began to settle down with DEN Town Hall meeting. Lots of info and exciting things planned for the DEN. I ended up heading into Second Life and did a little bit of decorating and playing. We have college philosophy class discussing utopias using our courtyard. They liked our decorations even with the screaming witch. BTW, we are giving away L$1000 every 30 minutes for our Halloween party this Sunday. Hope to see everyone there.
