Youth Voices What is the AYV Community? The AYV Community is a network of thousands of educators around the globe fostering young people’s creativity. Members enjoy free access to a comprehensive collection of media making curriculum, video tutorials, and professional development tools. Learn and collaborate with educators, upload youth media for feedback, request support with technical issues, and participate in a movement of educators unleashing young people’s creative potential. Testimonials “It doesn’t matter if you only have one old camera and a laptop, or a whole lab with new equipment. Jeff Larson, AYV Lead Educator Balboa High School/CAST Academy, San Francisco, California, USA “My reaction when I first looked at AYV Community curriculum – Where has this been all my life?” Oneisha Freeman, AYV Lead Educator Clubhouse Coordinator, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Become an AYV Community Member Today!
Web 2.0 for the Classroom - home Digital Storytelling in the Classroom Storytelling has always been a significant part of history, but the means through which the stories have been told has evolved with each civilization. From the oral histories presented by bards in ancient courts, to the works of scribes during the Renaissance, to newspapers, CNN, and now the Internet, personal narrative has been used to communicate the events of the past. Digital storytelling now combines tradition with technology and allows students to tell stories through voice, text, images, audio, and video. Digital stories allow students to take a linear series of events and turn them into a multidimensional experience. Visit our digital storytelling apps page for recommendations for any device. "Telling Their Stories" - Oral History Archive Project of the Urban School Visit "Telling Their Stories" and read, watch, and listen to perhaps the best student-created oral history project in the country. Youth Producing Change - Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
On assessing for creativity: yes you can, and yes you should I tweeted yesterday an interesting news item in Erik Robelen’s blog in Education Week that a few states (Oklahoma, California, Massachusetts) are seriously looking into some sort of assessment of creative thinking as part of the whole 21st century skills/entrepreneurship movement. I think it is a great idea, with a lot of potential for leveraging change. Now, of course, the naysayers are quick to say that you cannot measure creative thinking. This is silly: here is a rubric for doing so: Creative. In Bloom’s Taxonomy – designed to categorize and guide the design of measures – Synthesis was the level of thinking for such creativity, as Bloom makes clear in defining it: Synthesis is here defined as the putting together of elements and parts so as to form a whole. One may view the product or performance as essentially a unique communication…Usually too he tries to communicate for one or more of the following purposes – to inform, to describe, to persuade, to impress, to entertain. Like this:
The Best 10 Free Word Cloud Tools for Teachers 1- Worlde This is a great tool for generating word clouds from text that you provide. Words that appear more frequently in your text tend to have more prominence. Worlde also allows it users to customize their clouds with various fonts, layouts and colours. Once done you can print out your clouds or save them to Worlde gallery to share with others. 2- Tagul This is a web service that enables users to create awesome word clouds. 3- Word It Out This is another awesome word cloud tool. 4- Yippy Cloud Yippy Cloud is a tool that is ideal for those teachers who have classroom blogs or websites. 5- Wordshift This tool allows anyone to sift through text and create word clouds of important words in a text. 6- ABCYa This is a word cloud tool for kids. 7- Tagxedo Tagxedo is an awesome word cloud tool that turns words from any source into a visually appealing cloud that highlights the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
Heart and Voice: A Digital Storytelling Journey By: Kerry Ballast Date: September 2007 Summary: With no knowledge of the genre or the technology, high school teacher Kerry Ballast took the risk of having her students create digital stories from their personal memoirs. It's like playing a movie of what goes on in your mind when you write. Adrianne – 9th grade It was one of those teaching experiences I never wanted to end. They described their greatest joys, their darkest thoughts, and their most embarrassing secrets. The memoir assignment was open ended and left room for a wide range of interpretations. The results were dramatic. "I'm the keeper of everyone else's backpacks and water bottles. Michael, also a sophomore, reluctantly shared a piece in which he admitted that he has a morbid fascination with car accidents and other unnatural disasters. Too Good to Let Go Of When we finished several rounds of informal writing, I filed our work away. But what did I mean by "reintroduce the memoirs?" Taking a Chance To be honest, that's all I had.
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How I'm Using My iPad in a Classroom of 30 Students - Mr. Guymon's Classroom The versatility of an iPad for education is endless. I am no expert, nor even a veteran in curating apps for the classroom, but I am off to a great start for this next school year. Here is how I have discovered using an iPad in the classroom. No, I'm not referring to a 1:1 iPad scenario. I am talking about a 1:30 situation. Skype for the iPad is invaluable for connecting with classrooms around the world. Green Screen Movie FX is an iPhone app that I use on my iPad to create movies in front of a green screen in my classroom. I intend to use Green Screen Movie FX a lot for social studies. Cinch is also an iPhone app that I use on my iPad 2 to create classroom podcasts. Finally, Weebly ! I looked into other websites that many educators use to host thier classroom blogs and webpages, but Weebly had more to offer me. Also, Weebly allows you to create multiple pages. Here are a few iPad accessories that I have for my classroom. Also, found this VGA adapter .
Tech2Learn - Digital Storytelling Digital Storytelling has many definitions, but usually involves the telling of our personal stories combining digital technology to integrate text, sound, graphics and sometimes film. It is a great way for students to begin working with multimedia projects because they tell their own story, learning the techniques and technical tools of this kind of creative expression, but within a familiar context. Technology and Digital Stories Digital stories involve some or all of these components:an engaging and well written storyslides or clipsbackgroundsgraphics or imagestextsounds, narration and/or musica transition to move from slide to slide or clip to clipa title slide and an ending slide that lists credits 7 Elements of Digital Stories Audience - Stories have a particular audience in mind.Purpose - Stories are trying to accomplish a task (inform, educate, entertain, scare, etc.)Content - Content must be meaningful. Adapted from the Center for Digital Storytelling Other Sites... Helpful Handouts
Education Exchange About the Train the Trainer Course Overview The Train the Trainer course is a ten-week online course designed to equip education trainers worldwide with the knowledge, skills, and tools to successfully design and deliver effective and engaging Adobe professional development workshops. Upon course completion, participants will be able to design professional development sessions that empower and inspire students, teachers, and faculty to foster creativity and design innovative digital media. Throughout the course, participants will examine the importance of creativity in education and hear from fellow educators who are successfully using technology to foster creativity with their students.explore Adobe Education’s free online resources, Adobe's industry-leading products, and engaging Adobe product training activities.review best practices in professional development design. Weekly Self-Paced Lessons Sample Weekly Schedule (4-5 hours/week)* *This schedule serves as a model and a guide. Webinars
5 technology skills every student needs before they leave high school | Web 2 May 24, 2011 by mrkaiser208 The title says high school, but the more I think about it, maybe I should say, 5 technology skills every student needs before they enter middle school. As wrote yesterday, the earlier students learn these skills, the more they can actually use them. These are the skills that allows students great freedom in expressing themselves in the 21st Century. Not only that, these are the skills that are increasingly valuable in the workforce. photo © 2008 Susan Hersh | more info (via: Wylio)Looking at the list, one might be tempted to say that students already know how to do all of this. Yes, many students know how to post a video to Youtube, but they have no idea how to actually put a video together using rendering software. Here are the 5 skills that every student (and let’s include teachers) needs to have: Manipulate Pictures There are so many ways to work with pictures. Write a Blog I don’t think that every person alive should have a blog. Record Audio Tracks Like this:
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling Digital storytelling allows computer users to become creative storytellers by first beginning with the traditional processes of selecting a topic, conducting research, writing a script, and developing an interesting story. This material is then combined with various types of multimedia, including still images, recorded audio, computer-generated text, video clips, and music so that it can be played on a computer, added to a web site, posted on a blog, or burned on a DVD. The script for an educational digital story is one of the most important components that students will create. We stress to our students and workshop participants that a good digital story must first be a good story and that no matter how much expertise a student has with technology, a poorly written story will not be improved by fancy transitions and other digital effects. The First Version of the Script Story Circles Lambert uses writing prompts to get the script writing process started. Story Circle Etiquette