DigitalNationIntroductionVideo

=**Electronic Handout for Presentation:**=

**Peggy George and Kim Flack-Introduction to AZ Digital Nation and Flip Video Cameras**
=**Variations of this presentation have been shared at:**=

Westside AzTEA Elluminate Webinar: Monday, March 1, 2010
=**T&T 2010 AzTEA Conference** Saturday, January 23, 2010=

**21st Century Classroom at Mega Conference:** Thursday, November 19, 2009
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**Elluminate Recording Link from the Westside AzTEA Workshop:** (3-1-10) Links will open in Elluminate @https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2010-03-01.1514.D.AC392E6A5156797E29CE85683F65F4.vcr


 * Tiny URL for the recording link:** @http://tinyurl.com/Flipvideo-DigitalNationwebinar

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 * Recording of webinar in Blip.TV**


 * Ning site created for AZ Digital Nation**: @http://azdigitalnation.ning.com/

Contest information available for everyone at: @http://www.asset.asu.edu/new/digital_nation_contest_details.html


 * Our new YouTube account for AZ Digital Nati on: ** @http://www.youtube.com/group/azdigitalnation

Your Stories: Share your story about life in the digital age
 * PBS Frontline Digital Nation** @http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/participate/

New footage and updates from our documentary team of examples for how technology is being used (not just in education)
 * Digital Nation Blog:** @http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/blog/

@http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/blog/2009/10/new-video-cooking-shows-and-war-fighting.html The story of Feed Me Bubbe and Technology Is there a gap between those who grew up with technology and those who didn't? (Submitted for Digital Nation stories) @http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/participate/?p=349 @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ewxRWr-1o&feature=player_embedded Join Avrom and Bubbe from http://www.feedmebubbe.com as they answer the question: Is there a gap between those of us who grew up with technology and those of us who didn't? Where do you notice it?
 * Really fun video submitted to Digital Nation to motivate educators about use of technology** (Feed Me Bubbe)
 * Going Digital at 83**

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It's a FRONTLINE documentary and interactive website exploring how technology is affecting every aspect of our lives -- from parenting to dating, the classroom to the military, free time to free speech.
 * What's "Digital Nation?"**

The website launched eight months before the film airs. Digital Nation is a new, open source PBS project that explores what it means to be human in an entirely new world -- a digital world. It consists of this Web site as well as a major FRONTLINE documentary to be broadcast in winter 2010. Our production team is posting rough cuts and raw footage on the web, and gathering input, feedback and stories from users as we go. Introductory video from Frontline Digital Nation: Rachel Dretzin - Producer/Director media type="custom" key="4854149" align="center"

**PBS Teacher Webinars: December 8 Education in the Digital Age: FRONTLINE's "Digital Nation"** 6:00-7:00pm MST
@http://www.pbs.org/teachers/webinar/ //archived//: @https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2009-12-07.1605.M.C7019E4E4FF762E6585A112B534140.vcr

Information, Resources and Elluminate recording link: http://live.classroom20.com/1/post/2010/02/pbsfrontline-digital-nation-special-guests-sandy-st-louis-ramona-pringle-kim-flack.html =Exciting News: New Digital Nation Interactive Resources for Teachers and Parents=
 * Classroom 2.0 LIVE Elluminate webinar on Digital Nation**, Saturday, February 20, 2010: Special Guests-Sandy St. Louis, Ramona Pringle and Kim Flack

**Digital Workshops: Online Resources for Parents and Teachers** This series of interactive resources will help parents and teachers to deepen their knowledge of how digital technology is transforming our society and to gain insights into understanding, analyzing and participating in our technology-infused world. The Digital Workshops include activities for adults to learn how to manage their family’s media usage, to become a better caregiver to the “digital natives” in their lives, to assess the impact of technology in education, and to explore the effects of multitasking on our brains and much more. Learn More: __[]__

Let's face it: Parenting the digital generation can be tough. Explore resources for parents on how to balance concerns about safety with a teen’s healthy need for independence. Learn more: __[]__
 * Digital Parenting: Protecting and Empowering Kids**

Teachers are tapping into technology and digital media for learning. Discuss the hype and the hopes for improving education through technology. Learn more: __[]__
 * 21st Century Schools: Learning in the Digital Age**

It's becoming harder to imagine our lives without digital technology. But do we use it too much? Learn how to keep a balanced relationship with the technology in your life. Learn more: __[]__
 * The Digital You: Attention, Multitasking and Addiction**

Video games and virtual realities have allowed us access to entirely new virtual worlds. Explore the remarkable power of alternate realities to do much more than just entertain. Learn more: __[]__
 * Learning in Virtual Worlds**

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 * (YouTube: How to Use a Flip Video Camera)** []

Buy one Flip Ultra™ 120-minte camcorder*, get another free (2 flip video cameras for $150.00) Guidelines and Limitations: • This promotion is only available to non-profit K-12 schools in the U.S. • Purchase is limited to four Flip Video© Camcorders per educator – for larger visit www.flipvideospotlight.com @http://www.digitalwish.com/dw/digitalwish/grant_awards Login at [|Digital Wish] and [|enter a technology-based lesson plan]. Every lesson plan you enter will be automatically added to your class profile. Start by visiting the free //Digital Wish// [|Lesson Plan Library] and get some great ideas for integrating digital technology in your classroom. Grants will be awarded on the 28th of every calendar month.
 * Digital Wish One way to get a flip video camera:** @http://www.digitalwish.com/dw/digitalwish/product?id=4310

= CUE & CCCOE: Flip Into Spring! = = Flip, Shoot, Share! =

Excellent wiki created for a flip video workshop that could be used to guide you if you would like to offer your own workshop for other teachers. @http://ebcueflip.pbworks.com/

43 Interesting Ways to Use Pocket Video Cameras in the Classroom
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**If you like that presentation, you will love the rest of his "Interesting Ways" presentations:**
@http://edte.ch/blog/interesting-ways/ **Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar with Tom Barrett: 40 Interesting Ways to Use Pocket Video Cameras** @http://live.classroom20.com/1/post/2009/10/40-interesting-ways-to-use-pocket-video-cameras-special-guest-tom-barrett.html
 * Full Elluminate Recording:**


 * Follow-up Reading/Viewing Suggestions **

** Gl.am link (all of the links from the show): http://gl.am/Jnov **

[] (Tom Barrett's Blog: ICT in my Classroom)

[] (Primary Bits and Bytes-Top tips for using a pocket video camera in the classroom (and more). Blog of Fiona Denham and Dughall McCormick, educational ICT for primary schools in Kirklees LA.

[] (Tom Barrett: Google slides for 43 Interesting Ways to Use your Pocket Video Camera in the Classroom)

[] (Tom Barrett: staff ideas for ways they are using Flip Mino in the classroom-Nursery through Year 6)

[] (A day with fractions. An example of video created by students to explain fractions.)

[] (Apple learning exchange featuring use of videos in the classroom. Lesson plans and resources for different curriculum subjects.)

[] / (A post describing the use of the Flip camera in a Grade 5 class.)

[] (Mathew Needlemans' site: Digital Storytelling the the elementary grades...and beyond)

[] (Larry Ferlazzo: The Best Sources for Advice on Using Flip Video Cameras)

[] (YouTube: How to Use a Flip Video Camera)

[] (PDF document from Educause: 7 Things You Should Know about Flip Camcorders

[] (Nadine Norris: The Flip...Worth the Hassle-screenshots for use on a Mac computer and suggested uses in classroom)

[] (TechChickTips: Flip video Day Two)

[] (Martha Thornburgh-Digital Literacy Workshops: Flip Cameras)

[] (Maryna Badenhorst/Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age: fantastic compilation of links and resources for flip cameras)

[] (Tony Vincent/Learning in Hand: Flip Video Camera)

[] (Digmo: Ten Educational Uses for Flip Video)

[] (My New Flip Video)

[] (Shamblesguru/Chris Smith: multiple resources for flip video and digital video cameras)

http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_6tv55j7g9 (Slideshare version of Tom Barrett's presentation of 43 Interesting Ways to Use your Pocket Video Camera)

[] (Video editing online tools)

**Video suggestions shared in the chat log during the Westside webinar (3-1-10):** **//Kathy Siler//** An absent student's study partner can video and post the missed work in class. The absent student can view it at home on the web. **//susan 1//** a reading specialist at my school taped her kids reading fluency passages and then played them back on an LCD player so that the kids could see how they did. She asked the rest of the group what strategies that student used. It was very engaging and motivating. **//Claire Wendt//** We'll be writing and videotaping book reviews to put on our website. **//Kathy Siler//** Reconciliation projects for severe bullying problems. **//Cindy//** We could record mini plays or readers theatre and post it with out always inviting parents in. They could revisit often online. **//Tracey Dodrill//** video lab reports for science would be awesome **//Joan Hughes//** We're going to do a bully prevention project **//Vicki Schmitt//** try the new site wordsift.com for some more options **//Kristin Valenzuela//** The language idea would work great for a Hands Across the Border exchange. **//Tracey Dodrill//** this would be great to put on our websites for kids who are out sick or absent **//Tracey Dodrill//** If you have a TA they could record the lesson while you teach **//Val Quarto//** Preparation for your students when you are absent for the substitute to show. **//mmcbride//** Students could show their advertisements regarding the Growth of Population in the Old West and imbed their script into the movie clip, think I'll do that for our upcoming presentations this Thurs & Friday. **//Tracey Dodrill//** We took flip cameras when we went Zero Gravity to get footage while we were floating in space **//Mabel//** I really like the idea of strapping the camera and seeing the world through someone else's "eyes"! **//Diana Boyle//** I work with kids with communication disorders and use it to have them listen to what they have said to see if they think it makes sense **//Renee Howell//** ted.com has a short video with a guy telling a story entirely with emoticons **//Peggy George//** great point!!! videos help to capture celebrations of learning!! **//Kathy Siler//** My first project will be theatre etiquette. After that, web etiquette. I want to do cell phone etiquette, but my teen students say it will not be popular with their peers. **//Kathy Siler//** My advanced theatre students and I are writing a play on addition to cell phone. **//ted cruz//** I have used the camera on the smart board to record a short lesson **//B-Ann//** I use my computer to take photos and film kids for social stories that help kids with autism learn social skills **//ted cruz//** I have used picture on movie maker for the students **//Tracey Dodrill//** Use camera to document students volunteering in the community on environmental projects and do a slide show to encourage others to show up **//NESSIA 1//** I used the digital camera for the year book to give each student **//Tracey Dodrill//** over 30 kids came out on a Saturday to help clean up the Herp. Habitat and we documented this and others signed up for next outing .... taking science into the community on Science Saturdays **//Mabel//** I use PowerPoint, but have not used a flip camera. We use a digital camera to use pictures in PowerPoint. **//Laura Gibson//** My kindergarteners performed puppet shows - I embedded in my classroom website so parents could see. **//B-Ann//** Kids with autism use flips for telling what they need through pictures **//ted cruz//** I will use the flip video for coaching **//Patty Ann//** I work with B-Ann but with pre-K autistic, we use our flip for p/t conference, observational records, and student review **//jovita emery//** I have filmed my students demonstrating what to do in the class when they are finished working...I play it to the new student to help with the adjustment into our class...also helps me from having kids sy "I'm done" and just sit in their seat.... **//Val Quarto//** An ELL teacher used it here to get the kids who were shy 'talking' **//Debbie Collins//** I'm a reading specialist and it will be easier to show, rather than explain to parents that "sounding out" is not the only reading strategy available. I intend to use my flip camera to record good readers demonstrating good reading strategies and posting in my class website. Mary E Odom: 8th grade students are taking their research information gathered via web/book and putting into a "short" play instead of standing up giving the dull "book report" **//Kathy Siler//** Excellent idea from Mary Odom! This could be applicable to any "in front of the classroom report"! **//Val Quarto//** For assistance from your County Technology Integration Specialist go to http://www.ade.state.az.us/technology/sit/MapSITContacts08.pdf for contact information


 * AzTEA: Collecting Stories about Life in the Digital Age for Your Digital Nation**

Video Length: One minute (maximum 2 minutes)

Content: Personal experiences, anecdotes & stories about how technology is affecting the way we live, learn, work and love.

Subjects:

We are interested in hearing from a diverse population; people from different cultures and financial brackets and with different levels of access to digital tools.

Because of the nature of the conference, it will be important to encourage these educators to think critically about their experiences with technology and how digital tools are impacting their lives, so that we are able to get the full spectrum of accounts. I was told a story this week by a community college teacher in North Carolina about a man losing his job in a factory when the manufacturing process was computerized and outsourced; He needed to go back to community college to get retrained and having never touched a keyboard before and the new digital landscape of education was like an entire new world for him. This is less about how teachers are using technology in the classroom (we got lots of that at NECC) and more about how technology is impacting people's lives.

Questions to consider as you select the topic/story you would like to share. Your topic does not have to be limited to these questions!

Is access to technology an issue in classrooms? How have you experienced this?

Where do you see the differences between students with access to digital tools and students without access?

Is there a gap between those who grew up with technology (digital natives) and those who didn't? (*It would be really interesting to hear this answered by someone on a reserve, or from a large Hispanic family where the generations live in close proximity to each other)

How is digital life changing your community?

Have you, or someone you know, ever been completely "off the grid"?

Does all this technology make you feel overwhelmed or empowered?

Do you feel that your children/students have a different concept of privacy than you do? Of relationships?

Are there skills or values that you fear are getting lost as we move into a digital world? Like letter-writing, reading books, asking people out face to face?

Do you know what people know about you?

Has anything you've said or done online come back to haunt you? Have you discovered anything about you didn't know about your children/spouse/colleague online?

Do you have trouble unplugging?

What's the most amazing thing that's happened to you online?

What's the most disturbing way that technology has impacted your life?