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For those DEN LC members who are excited to try using chromakey effects with the green screen video they captured at the DEN LC Institute, here are some terrific resources for using chromakey with Windowns Movie Maker.
Resource page by Matt Monjan also add the GeekyBird blog to your reader. http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/matt.monjan/ The Mid-Atlantic region ROCKS - well, er I mean SQUAWKS!
Kevin Honeycutt watched as a group of students at the Turning Point Learning Center, a K-8 charter school in Emporia, KS, took turns with an iPad, rocking out on a virtual guitar as they rehearsed for an upcoming spring concert.
Steve Dembo, online community manager for Discovery Education, has postulated about the device on his blog. "While being able to store a thousand books on the device is wonderful, that in itself doesn't increase student learning," he wrote in an email. "But when you begin combining the written knowledge with images, videos, and interactive activities in a personal, intuitive interface, that's when we begin truly experiencing the future of learning."
Presenter: Matt Monjan from Discovery Education (http://www.Discoveryedspeakersbureau.com/node/121) – same gentleman who did yesterday’s presentation at lunch for the ITRTs
This is the general session opening keynote