CEP810 SIG Project Video Technology

In a brief handout form, the concept, as well as pros and cons of digital storytelling are defined. This handout could be a fantastic resource when explaining the concept to parents of students or in a college course.

For a novice to digital storytelling, it takes time to weed out the good resources from the poor ones. This blog follows a virtual classroom teacher who teaches this specific technology. He lists his favorite storytelling technologies, even including resources that anyone could use while writing.

In this article, the author follows three fourth grade students who struggle with writing. She documents the growth shown with these students, as well as other struggling writers. The author breaks the elements of story telling down. In addition, she also provides a paper story board, for which children can use to get the content of their story down. There are links provided to different tutorials, as well as sound, graphic, and music copyrights.

This video explains digital storytelling in a short, concise way. It defines the elements of a digital story and would be a fantastic tool to use when introducing the concept to students or teachers.

In this Youtube video, a teacher from Texas describes her journey through the digital storytelling process. She begins as a novice, who has to not only learn the skill herself, but teach it to her middle school students. She describes all of the benefits she sees with using it in her classroom.

This webinar is the bible for Digital Story Telling. The webinar explains everything that you will need to create and publish your digital story. This includes how to upload content, what tools to use for editing, how to upload, and which media channels for which you may want to upload your video.

Rather than explaining how to create digital stories, this article gives tips to the classroom teacher, highlighting things to remember. These tips include the importance of trial and error, student accountability, and allowing students to push and lead you.

This digital storytelling website is filled with every resource you can imagine. The website documents the research and success stories behind digital storytelling. It breaks the digital storytelling process into four steps, providing websites and program ideas to help you along. It helps you with grant writing, if you feel like you need additional resources to start digital storytelling in your classroom. What I especially appreciate, is the assortment of rubrics provided, so that you have a idea how to grade stories created by your students.

Catlin Tucker gives 5 strategies to help engage students in a flipped classroom.

Hans Mundahl has 6 points to make about how to make sure that students are getting the most out of videos in a flipped classroom.

Lydia Leimbach offers 4 points that teachers trying to create their own videos for a flipped classroom should remember.

Kari M Arfstrom discusses different ways that videos can be used in a flipped classroom setting instead of just using them as an introduction to the next day's lesson.

Salman Khan gives a presentation on TED about the benefits of Khan Academy being used in flipped classrooms.

There are over 30 videos available that are designed to assist online tutors.

Catlin Tucker discusses how too often teachers that attempt to implement a flipped classroom feel that they need to make the videos themselves and fail to make use of the resources that are already available. She then discusses that watching a video after school is still passive learning like sitting in class listening to a lecture and that instead, teachers need to focus on what they make the students do with that knowledge.

Teachem is a way to create a lesson for students based on a set of videos. Teachers can add bookmarks for the video so that when students want to review on a certain topic in the video, they just need to click on the bookmark and it will jump right to the point in the video that discusses it. Teachers can also add questions that the students need to answer which may be useful in a flipped classroom as a way to ensure that students are watching the video.

Richard Bryne asks three questions that teachers should consider before flipping their classroom.

Knowmia is a collection of lessons and videos on a large variety of subjects. Students can use these videos when they need help at home or teachers can have students watch these videos as an introduction to a lesson or as example problems in a flipped classroom setting.

(Actually 6 now because it looks like Sketchcast is no longer available.) A annotated list of different screen capture tools that teachers can use to create screen captures. These can be used to create videos of your computer screen to create your own lessons or even instructional videos to give students directions on what to do or how to use a certain application even in a flipped classroom setting. Some of these resources also have other uses including editing capabilities and the ability to upload other types of videos.

This a quick explanation on how to embed a YouTube video.