Malhuer Summer Institute - Photostory and Digital Storytelling

Resources for PhotoStory:

• Photostory Tutorial online version from Furman University
  
• Photostory Tutorial as a PDF from David Jakes
• Digital Story Telling Resources from Murray County Schools in Georgia
  
• Educational Resources for Digital Story Telling
• Ideas for Digital Story Telling in the Classroom
• Digital Story Telling Examples
  
• Todays Digital Storytellers
  
• Resources for Primary Classrooms
  

More with PowerPoint

Use PowerPoint as a "desktop learning space" incorporating everything from assignment to assessment. Toss the traditional approach, not the software. Create dynamic digital workspaces where students organize thoughts and share their understandings through written, graphic, and sound communications.

1. Glyph Activity
1. Save as JPG and upload to blog
2. Callouts Activity - Pick one and complete
3. Talking Books instructions and samples
4. Book Blasts
1. Go to International Children's Digital Library - find a book and read it
2. Are you a reader? Download and show activities
3. Download Mini-book template and complete using one of the prompts from Book Blasts.
4. Online Stapleless Books at Read-Write-Think
5. Vickie Blackwell's Poof Book Instructions
5. E-Stories
1. Download Background starters and use clip art and call outs to tell the story
2. Let’s tell a tall tale – download slide show, follow instructions to write a tall tale
6. E-Scrapbooks
1. Jobs Then and Now takes you to Colonial Williamsburg
2. Spend time looking at additional resources and lesson ideas
7. Problem Solvers
1. Create a math problem or writing prompt
2. Upload it to Voice Thread
8. Quests
1. Think! Create! Share!
2. Embedding movies – use Google Docs to embed a You-Tube video into slide
9. Info. Formats
1. Download and explore one of the starters
2. Tutorial on editing a slide master
3. Use Children's Phoenetic Dictionary to create a Worksheet
4. Animal Sounds
5. Use Kidspiration to get ideas
10. Info. Sequencing
1. Download and explore one of the starters
11. Audio Adventure Starters
12. PowerPoint Photo Album

Many of these activities and ideas are from Annette Lamb's fabulous Eduscapes workshop: Technology-Enhanced Learning Spaces & Powerpoint Sidekicks

United States of Presidents

monet trading card

Presidents of the United States

Kennedy Trading Card

Big Huge Labs - Gershwin

Estelle Getty trading card

Presidents of the United States

Jan Snavely

connie

Heninger

Christina

tgartung

anna

Online Tools to Reinforce Subject Content

Websites we will explore today:

• Quizlet
• Sketchcast
• Voice Thread

Handouts or Tutorials:

• Quizlet Handout
• Quizlet Demo Movie
• VoiceThread Movie Tutorial

Other websites as time permits:

• Newspaper Clipping Generator
• Big Huge Labs

summer plants

Percussion instruments

Plausen-Plants

100's day race

Beach Summer of 2008

Hunt-Roberts/Flower Power

Nyssa Cross Country

6th Grade EOY Field Trip '08

Farm Field trip

ALASKA

Malhuer Summer Institute - Sharing Student Success

This blog is meant for those attending workshops hosted by UMESD as a place to share their experiences. We hope you enjoy this collection of our journey as teachers being students.

Examples of teachers sharing student work:

• Rocky Heights Elementary School 3rd grade
• Rocky Heights Elementary School Happenings
• AP Language Arts Webpages at McLoughlin High School
• Echo Elementary School 1st grade (browse through the blog for an assortment)
• Desert View Elementary 3rd grade announcement
• Athena Weston Middle School students post audio interviews
• Mrs Schimel from Pendleton Elementary School uses a blog to share success

Web2.0 Tools for this workshop:

Photo Sharing	Enhanced with Audio/Video	Mapping Your World
Slide PhotoShow Animoto Big Huge Labs Picassa	Glogster GCast VoiceThread Voki YouTube or TeacherTube	Google Maps Community Walk EveryTrail Mapwing