Workshops

Workshops can either be a whole day or a half-day. If the workshop location or participants provide appropriate equipment these workshops can be fully hands-on. Otherwise they are demonstration workshops with active participation by those attending. These workshops cover many topics and reflect the training experiences of 20 years and work with thousands of educators.

Nuts and Bolts of Digital Video

The convergence of digital video and computers opens an exciting new world of curriculum-based projects for students. This overview demonstration for teachers highlights the hardware and software that integrate video into the digital world. Explore tools including digital cameras, video capture cards, nonlinear editors and other classroom friendly and educationally economical applications that integrate camcorders, VCRs, and television programs into computers. Explore how easily images from books, student faces, and video clips can be captured. See how captured images can be bent, built into clip art, and edited on a standard computer. Morphs, VR panoramas, quicktime movies, and audio tracks empower teachers to tap more learning modalities than ever before. Even basic wordprocessing and database programs can be enhanced with digital integration. "Printing" to a VCR solves RAM and hard drive problems and lets students build large multimedia projects without bringing down the school server. A sampling of great studentsworks blended with a nuts-and-bolts demonstration session.

Integrating Music into Multimedia "Do-Re-Multimedia"

Music makes nearly everything better. Student writing and other work produced with music in a media or multimedia format adds the power of an affective, evocative element. Learn the nuts and bolts of incorporating music into video and multimedia projects including the aesthetics of selection of music, copyright considerations, and building original music (even with young students). Also explore software that allows cut and paste music editing, and programs that allow the instant creation of royaltry-free music in custom lengths (down to the second!). Learn how to pull music down from the web. Master the fun of sound effects and musical transitions and accents. Discover how basic music inclusion can dynamically effect student products. View student projects in language arts, social studies, and more and then learn to replicate these effective techniques with your own class. Find the hardware and software solutions to add music to your bag of group-project tricks. If you want to add music to your classroom but can't carry a tune let technology do it! And if you're musically gifted, find ways to share.

Buttons You've Never Pushed--Video Cameras and Student Video Productions

Technology and project-based learning can begin meaningfully with a tool as common as a $399 camcorder. Modern camcorders are mini-studios with features most teachers overlook. In-camera editing, macrolenses, music tracks, claymation, animation, and "cheap" special effects are possible with any off-the-shelf camcorders, including the older models still found in many schools. Explore how valuable video projects can be for students and how these projects can serve as a model for coming technologies by requiring teamwork, communication, and planning. This is also an unbeatably engaging medium for students.

topics covered:

• team assignments for videomaking
• laying down new soundtracks/narrations on new and old videotapes
• storyboarding (planning) as a tool
• copyright and fair use for broadcast, cable, and instructional television programs
• making videos directly from digital still camera or computers
• the nuts and bolts of going from CRs and camcorder into the computer
• digital editing of videos on classroom computers (cheap and easy)
• multimedia applications of live video and Quicktime movies
• samples of exemplary student video work
• cheap special effects
• closed captioning applications

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Everything You Know is Wrong: Copyright in the Cyberspace Age

When mixed together, copyright and education seem to produce misunderstandings, mistaken practices, and fear and trembling at every level. This is not surprising since misinformation, misunderstanding, and downright falsehoods come from lawyers, institutions, and the popular press. Copyright and intellectual property have firm roots in the US Constitution and in British law before that. Educators, and knowledge-based segments of society have clear and deep safeguards. But in a time when the Fifth Estate (the press), entangled in large conglomerates and no longer free, has become part of the problem, where can you get the straight stuff? Where can you sort through the shades of grey? This session! Come, feel free, and take home the famous Copyright Quiz! Get the No FAT (Fear and Trembling) low down on copyright.

Also:

The Best of theWinners of the California Media and Multimedia Festival and How They Were Made.

Description on request.

Wired to the Web--Now What? Meaning and Method for the Wired Classroom.

Based on the television series of the same name. Description on request.

Description on request.

The full-day seminar entitled: "Integrating Multimedia, Video, and the Internet in Your Classroom" offered through the California Elementary Education Association and Staff Development Resources are now available by calling Gina at 323-466-2236.

The California Elementary Education Association
P.O. Box 3168
Torrance, CA 90510-3168
E-Mail: information@ceea.org

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