Clif's Notes

The International Student Media Festival

The International Student Media Festival celebrates outstanding classroom media projects. Students and teachers from kindergarten through college are honored in a three-day event that includes workshops, screenings of winning entries, and an awards ceremony. It has now grown to be one of the oldest and largest events of its kind. ISMF has been sponsored since 1974 by the Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT).

There is also an awards ceremony during the festival where students are recognized for their achievements. Outstanding projects will receive an Excellence in Media Production award. From these, we cull out Judges’ Favorites and the highly-acclaimed Best of Festival designation. (Content and Image Source: ISMF.net)

Learn more about the ISMF and submit your entries.

• Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media (TAISTI)
• Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media (NCTIES)
• More Favorite Children’s Books
• Elementary Teachers, I Need Your Advice

TribeCamp Memphis Is This Saturday

“TribeCamp is an unconference dedicated to tribes in the tech community from social media to development to programming to design, and how we can build relationships to build knowledge, skills and success.” (Source)

Saturday, April 24, 2010
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering
Registration

• Great Opportunity to Learn More: BarCamp Memphis
• Highlights from BarCamp Memphis
• Knowledge-able
• Day of Discovery in Memphis

Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media (TAISTI)

I’m back in Nashville today for the TAIS Technology Institute. I’m excited about having opportunities to work with and learn from classroom teachers, media specialists, administrators, and more. I’ll be sharing a workshop on Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media. The PowerPoint presentation is below and the full workshop notes are available on my wiki. Note that the links and logos in the PowerPoint presentation are clickable.

• Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media (NCTIES)
• Multiple Representations of Understanding with Technology
• Day 2: MECA 2010
• Web 2.0 Technologies for Elementary and Middle School Classrooms

Upcoming Opportunities for Professional Development

TeachMeet Nashville
April 1-2, 2010
An event organized by teachers, for teachers, at no cost.
Event Website

DEN Summer Institute Applications Due
April 12, 2010
“Attendees will have the opportunity to connect with fellow STAR Discovery Educators from all over during an exclusive, intensive, week-long networking and professional development event.”
Learn More

EdCamp Philly
May 22, 2010
“An unconference devoted to K-12 issues and ideas!”
Event Website

EduBloggerCon
June 26, 2010
“EduBloggerCons are about conversations that teach. Questions are asked, problems posed, experiences shared, and everyone learns.”
Event Website

ISTE Conference (Formerly NECC)
June 27-30, 2010
The premiere event for educational technology professionals.
Conference Website

Podstock
July 16-17
“It’s a conference. It’s a conversation. It’s family.”
Conference Website

Laptop Institute
July 18-20, 2010
“An international think tank for schools using or considering laptops or tablets as tools for learning.”
Institute Website

• NECC Buzz Has Begun
• Deadline for NECC Proposals Approaches
• Great Opportunity to Learn More: BarCamp Memphis
• Not Going to NECC?

Web 2.0 Technologies for Elementary and Middle School Classrooms

These are the slides for today’s presentation at the NCTIES Conference. Examples of how both teachers and students have used these tools are included. The full set of notes and resources from this session are available on the wiki. Thanks to everyone that attended, participated, tweeted, shared resources and ideas, etc.

• Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media (NCTIES)
• Multiple Representations of Understanding with Technology
• Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media (TAISTI)
• Planning District-Wide Technology Professional Development

Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media (NCTIES)

I’m enjoying the North Carolina Technology in Education Society’s 2010 Conference in Raleigh, NC. I’m excited about being one of the featured speakers and having opportunities to work with and learn from classroom teachers, media specialists, administrators, and more.

Today I’ll be sharing a pre-conference workshop on Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media. This energetic session will demonstrate that with freely available digital technologies students can demonstrate their understanding of course content in multiple ways (images, audio, video, presentations, artwork, and more). Each student’s end product (learning artifact) allows them to personally self-express their understanding/mastery of the content/skills. Although teachers may not be comfortable using all of today’s technology it is important to consider allowing students to use it to communicate their understanding as they are often more naturally able to more fully express themselves with digital media. The PowerPoint presentation is below and the full workshop notes are available on my wiki. Note that the links and logos in the PowerPoint presentation are clickable.

• Multiple Representations of Understanding with Technology
• Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media (TAISTI)
• NCTIES Conference
• Day 2: MECA 2010

NCTIES Conference

I’m looking forward to being part of the North Carolina Technology in Education Society’s 2010 Conference in Raleigh, NC on March 3-5, 2010. I’m excited about being one of the featured speakers and having opportunities to work with and learn from classroom teachers, media specialists, administrators, and more. On Wednesday (03/03/2010) I’ll be sharing a pre-conference workshop on Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media. Thursday and Friday mornings I’ll be leading interactive demonstrations and discussions about Web 2.0 tools and personal learning networks (PLNs) in the classroom.

I’m looking forward to meeting many of my friends from my blog, Twitter, Plurk, etc. in Raleigh!

• Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media (NCTIES)
• Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media (TAISTI)
• Connecting the Classroom and Outside World
• Connecting the Classroom and Outside World (Feedback Requested)

Day 2: MECA 2010

Today is the first full day of the 2010 Mississippi Educational Computing Association (MECA) Conference. The temperature dropped below 40 degrees overnight, so it is cold outside today (The conference site is 2 blocks from the hotel). I know this isn’t all that cold to many of you, but the temperature combined with the biting cold is extreme for this region.

Here are my notes from Day 2.

• Sights from Day 2 at the MECA Conference – Photo essay
• Multiple Representations of Mastery through Digital Media – My 8:00 AM hands-on workshop
• My notes from Tim Tyson’s keynote
• Breaking through the Walls of the Classroom – My 2:20 Presentation
• Using Gmail in Your Classes – My notes from Shuyan Wang’s presentation
• Accessibility Technology: How Universal Design Can Help Us All – My notes from Jon Beedle’s presentation

Event tag: #msmeca10

• Day 1: MECA 2010
• Breaking through the Walls of the Classroom (iCiL Keynote)
• Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media (TAISTI)
• Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media (NCTIES)

Day 1: MECA 2010

I’m excited to be working with educators in Mississippi this week. I grew up in Mississippi and still consider it “home.” I also taught middle school here and most recently taught at the University of Mississippi before making the move to Memphis. I’ve also been a consultant with the MS DOE at different times in recent years. I’m teaching/ sharing 5 workshops and presentations here at the 2010 Mississippi Educational Computing Association (MECA) Conference. Day 1 of the conference included afternoon sessions and activities in the hall of exhibitors.

Here are a few notes from my Day 1 experience.

• Headed to MECA – A photo essay of my trip to the MECA Conference.
• Using Digital Technologies and Personal Learning Networks to Enhance Learning – My 4:15 PM presentation

Event tag: #msmeca10

• Day 2: MECA 2010
• Great Opportunity to Learn More: BarCamp Memphis
• Web 2.0 Technologies for Elementary and Middle School Classrooms
• Multiple Representations of Understanding with Technology

Make Your Preparations to be at Podstock 2010

Having been part of Podstock 2009 I can confidently say that Podstock 2010 is going to be an excellent weekend of professional development and fun.

The Podstock conference held July 16 & 17 in downtown Wichita, Kansas is for educators…who want to share technology integration strategies, acquire new instructional techniques and strengthen established learning networks. (Source)

• Podstock Ning
• Facebook Event Page
• Registration

The following video was recorded by Wesley Fryer and provides a preview of some of the things you can expect at Podstock 2010.

• Podstock Starts Today
• Memories from Podstock 2009
• Using Digital Technologies and PLNs to Enhance Learning
• Resources from Podstock, Day 1