TCEA Area 7 Technology Conference

Tell your story about your life in the next 30 years- What would you say? Create a Media-Visual Literacy project that includes: Family:School;Love:Joy;College; Education; Military; Marriage;Sadness;Brother/Sister:Religion;Pets; Peaks & Valleys:Death. Explore 5 WEB Presentation Media Tools.

Topics to be covered include:
1. Storytelling
2. What is a story?
3. Components -Visual-Audio-Music
4. Digital Stories • Definitions • Examples
5. Process • Script • Storyboard • Planning
6. Production • Tools • Tips
7. Presentation
8. Post Production • Digitize/Organize •
9. Editing- Distribution • Reflection

Five WEB 2.0 software tools will be demonstrated and utilized. Participants will come away from the presentation with a clear understanding of various strategies that can be used to optimize learning by the digital generation in the new digital landscape. They will learn how to address learning standards, while at the same time, meeting both curricular goals and preparing students with the skills, knowledge and understandings above and beyond content recall necessary to meet the new realities of the 21st Century.