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Bonnie Blagojevic

LTP | Getting Started: "I Wanna Take Me a Picture" - 2 views

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techeducators digital_photographychildren

shared by Bonnie Blagojevic on 16 Sep 09 - Cached
  • we’re living in a visual culture
  • benefits of positive visual stimulation
  • Even very young children, when encouraged, have the ability to express their complex emotional lives visually.
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  • until the second or third grade a child’s predominant means of self-expression is drawing.
  • But when they’re just beginning to write, they often rely on their drawings rather than their writing to convey the meaning of the story.
  • the need to attend to our neglected physical and visual surroundings
  • and the need we all feel to articulate and communicate something relevant about our personal and communal lives.
  • thirty years of thinking about how we learn, and how we express ourselves with images.
  • when I demonstrated how the camera worked to the people I wanted to photograph, everyone, myself included, felt more at ease.
  • Their desire to be photographed was as strong as their desire to photograph.
  • The children’s pictures were more complicated and disturbing than mine — and, I began to realize, much closer to what it felt like to be there.
  • Merton’s photograph reflects that fear.
  • Their pictures and writings made for an uncompromising look at the problems they faced.
  • It’s unlikely that the young people would ever have written what they did without the pictures to prompt them (Kathy’s writing came from the beautiful landscape photographs she’d made), and the pictures would have been difficult to decipher without the stories to accompany them.
  • their photo-essays were a starting point for acknowledging and discussing, in their own voices, a very tough predicament. (
  • how photography and writing stimulated one another. Many of the students I worked with had trouble writing; they would labor painfully over a sentence or two. But when they worked from a photograph that had something to do with their own lives, especially a picture they had taken themselves, they were able to write more — and what they wrote about was their own experiences.
  • Asking them to write about the subject they were going to photograph, then asking them to make a list of images suggested by their writing — this was a way to help them organize their picture-taking before they went out to shoot.
  • These children had never seen each other’s neighborhoods, certainly not each other’s homes or families. They were essentially strangers to each other.
  • When the students brought back pictures of their families and communities, each child tried to explain what was going on in the pictures, and the others eagerly asked questions.
  • teachers rarely come from the same community as their students. Photographs can give them a glimpse into their students’ lives.
  • Photography is perhaps the most democratic visual art of our time. For most of us, picture taking is a part of our family lives. We don’t need a particular talent, like the hand-eye coordination necessary for drawing, to render what we look at. Even children and adults unfamiliar with photography can make photographs of what they see and imagine. For those of us who have used cameras, photography offers a language that can draw on the imagination in a way we may never have thought possible before.
  • Bonnie Blagojevic on 16 Sep 09
     
    Wendy Ewald shares from lessons learned working with children, using photography to express themselves. Lots of interesting ideas.
Diane Bales

DoodleBuzz: Typographic News Explorer - 3 views

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techtools news web2.0 techeducators

shared by Diane Bales on 07 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Diane Bales on 07 Jun 10
     
    Tool that provides a visual depiction of news stories.
The0d0re Shatagin

Livescribe, the Pen That Never Forgets - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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special education livescribe pen

shared by The0d0re Shatagin on 20 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • The0d0re Shatagin on 20 Sep 10
     
    Livescribe Pen copies class notes etc audio & visual
Joseph Alvarado

VocabGrabber : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - 0 views

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shared by Joseph Alvarado on 08 May 09 - Cached
  • Joseph Alvarado on 08 May 09
     
    cut and paste to determine what the vocabulary words are.
Anna Berrier

Floorplanner - 5 views

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shared by Anna Berrier on 04 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Anna Berrier on 04 Nov 09
     
    Floorplanner is a resource that I discovered in my EDIT 2000 class and have used numerous times since then. It is an interior design software that helps create layouts and floorplans, as the name might suggest. What does this have to do with education, right? My original use for it was to create my ideal classroom in the land of unlimited resources. If I wanted to, I could go back in and create a more realistic classroom so I could visually lay out how I wanted to conserve my space. This tool would be useful for anyone trying to visually plan out how to lay out a space, whether it be a classroom, bedroom, hospital room, cafeteria, etc. This resource taught me a lot about classroom layout and the way to make a classroom more efficient and user-friendly, which is huge in any educational setting.
Diane Bales

Webspiration: Online Visual Thinking Tool | mywebspiration.com - 4 views

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shared by Diane Bales on 20 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Diane Bales on 20 Nov 09
     
    Free visual mapping program
Emily Kmetz

Using Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom - 12 views

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shared by Emily Kmetz on 24 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Modern technologies are very powerful because they rely on one of the most powerful genetic biases we do have — the preference for visually presented information.
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  • The developing child requires the right combination of these experiences at the right times during development in order to develop
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  • On the other hand there are many positive qualities to modern technologies. The technologies that benefit young children the greatest are those that are interactive and allow the child to develop their curiosity, problem solving and independent thinking skills.
  • Computers allow interaction. Children can control the pace and activity and make things happen on computers. They can also repeat an activity again and again if they choose.
  • Yet external symbolic representation such as the written word, visual images on television, and complex three-dimensional videography are all sensed, processed, stored, and acted on by the human brain. Because the brain literally changes in response to experiences, these "new" (from a historical perspective) experiences (the written word or television) cause changes in brain development, brain organization, and brain function that were never expressed hundreds of generations ago.
  • So to tape a conversation and replay it for an adult means something entirely different than when a three-year-old hears their voice on a tape. These experiences can be very positive and mind-expanding for a child — as long as they are done at the right time.
  • Children need real-life experiences with real people to truly benefit from available technologies.
  • As parents think about the future they need to realize two things: technology is not going to go away and we are in the midst of a major sociocultural quantum shift. These technologies are revolutionizing the world our children will live in. So our task is to balance appropriate skill-development with technologies with the core principles and experiences necessary to raise healthy children.
  • I think the key to making technologies healthy is to make sure that we use them to enhance or even expand our social interactions and our view of the world as opposed to using them to isolate and create an artificial world.
  • In the end, as with all other tools, adults must protect children from misuse or inappropriate access.
  • Technologies should be used to enhance curriculum and experiences for childre
  • I believe parents and teachers can take advantage of the interactive qualities of a computer to enhance the experiences available to children.
  • Unfortunately, technology is often used to replace social situations and I would rather see it used to enhance human interaction
  • n addition, there are a number of specialized programs that allow children with certain information-processing problems to get a multimedia presentation of content so that they can better understand and process the materia
Michelle Appelman

Dabbleboard and Photo Story 3 - 20 views

Both of these websites seem really great and appropriate for early childhood. I really enjoyed learning about Photo Story. It seems like a great project for students. I loved the fact that they can...

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started by Alicia Caldwell on 26 Oct 09 1 follow-up, last by Michelle Appelman on 31 Oct 09
Bonnie Blagojevic

Google Video - 0 views

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video sharing techeducators

shared by Bonnie Blagojevic on 10 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Bonnie Blagojevic on 10 Feb 09
     
    Search and watch millions of videos indexed from all over the web. Upload and share videos with the world.
  • Michelle Appelman on 30 Oct 09
     
    This website is a very good resource for teachers. They can find almost any video to use as a visual component for their lessons. It is nice because it shows videos from sites such as youtube, as well as other video websites. Teachers would also be able to upload videos of their class to share with parents or other educators.
Alicia Caldwell

Dabbleboard: The Whiteboard Reinvented - 3 views

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shared by Alicia Caldwell on 10 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Alicia Caldwell on 24 Oct 09
     
    Dabbleboard is an online whiteboard that allows users to visualize, explore, communicate, create, and share their work. Users can chose from two ways of drawing: freehand or computer-recognized shapes. Either way, users can create a multitude of pieces. Dabbleboard can be especially helpful for students. They can create flow charts, organizational charts, or mind maps to process school topics. As well, they can create comic strips, mark on uploaded pictures, or freehand drawings to accompany an original story. There is also a collaborative feature, that allows users to voice and video chate, share with or browse the public library, or send the link of their creation via the web. There are endless possibilities for students to express their creativity using Dabbleboard.
  • Cecile Robinson on 24 Oct 09
     
    This can be a great graphic organizer to help students study for tests and communicate while doing projects.
Miranda Hakimi

TeacherTube - 3 views

This technology enables teacher to search and upload videos for various topics. The best use for this technology in the early childhood setting is for sharing information through videos. This helps...

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started by Miranda Hakimi on 01 Mar 09 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Blagojevic

Prezi - The zooming presentation editor - 4 views

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techeducators web2.0 presentation

shared by Bonnie Blagojevic on 17 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Madelyn Hosch on 26 Oct 09
     
    I found this website to be very confusing to use. It doesn't seem like it would be very appropriate for young children. There is a chance that a teacher could use it in a early childhood classroom, but overall, most children that young would have a hard time listening to a presentation, even if it was a cool one. Also, Prezi costs money to use so that is definitely a draw back. However, if you were a college professor or even high school teacher, Prezi may be worth the money.
  • Bonnie Blagojevic on 29 Oct 09
     
    Madelyn, you are right- this is not for use by young children. It is a new type of presentation tool which shifts from the typical slideshow type presentation to one that organizes all of the information components on a single document, and allows the presenter to zoom in on sections of the content, and particulars, to help share ideas. There is a free download version available, which is the one I have started to explore. For example, I have documented the development of our use of Diigo in early childhood settings, and created an image map. That is not visually interesting/accessible when shared as a whole, but might be transferable into a Prezi document which would be. We will see...
Brittany Milner

ArtisanCam - Activity Zone - 3 views

www.artisancam.org.uk/home.php

diigo artisancam tools interactive activity artactivities techchildren

shared by Brittany Milner on 03 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Brittany Milner on 03 Nov 09
     
    Through the use of a mixture of video and interactive activities, Artiscan introduces children to the world of contemporary visual art. ArtisanCam has been designed to help teachers deliver a creative curriculum and inspire young artists of the future.
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