Beyond PowerPoint: The New Multimedia Classroom

Sponsored by

The Salem State Collaborative

Location: North Reading Middle School

Presenter: Joanne Coughlin

Dates: Feb. 5, 12, 26, March: 4, 11, and 18

Audience: K – 12 Teachers All Subject Areas

Time: 3:15 PM to 5:45 PM

Fee: $65 for Member Districts $245 for non-Member Districts

PDP’s: 15 Hours

Non-degree Graduate Credit Cost $100

Workshop Description:

Essential Question:

Does the use of multimedia and technology enhance student learning?

Goals:

1. The learners will be able to decide if they want to use the multimedia and technology tools they learned about in their own classrooms.
2. The learners will understand that technology is an interactive tool for learning not just for research.

Objectives:

1. Participants will understand how to locate and download podcasts.
2. Participants will have working knowledge of how to create podcasts.
3. Participants will have working knowledge on how to create a movie using Windows MovieMaker.

Day One

Introduction to course

Introduction to podcasts

Software needed to listen to podcasts

Where and how to look for podcasts

Day Two

Discuss:

1. What was the experience like?

2. The pros and cons of using podcasts in the classroom

3. How would you evaluate the content quality of a podcast?

Software needed to record podcasts

Discuss the difference between MS Sound Recorder and Audacity.

Practice using the software

Day Three

Share the podcasts from the homework assignment.

Discuss:

1. How and why you would use this product/process in your classroom.
2. Discuss how you would evaluate a student created podcast.

Show how to cite a podcast.

Show how to insert a podcast into PowerPoint.

Day Four

Software needed to create digital movies

1. Microsoft MovieMaker

2. Where to get it

3. What it can do

4. How to use it

Discuss image and video resources

Introduce unitedstreaming

Explain how to burn files to CD

Day Five

Create a storyboard for your movie

Work on the movie

Day Six

Share the movies from the homework assignment.

Discuss:

1. The pros and cons of using teacher/student created movies in the

classroom.

2. Discuss how and why you would use this product/process in your

classroom.

3. Discuss how you would evaluate a student created movie.

4. Show how to insert a movie into PowerPoint.

Checklist of Assignments:

1. Written paragraph regarding how and why you would use podcasts in your classroom.
2. Written paragraph regarding how and why you would use movie making in your classroom.
3. An original podcast (min. 3 minutes long)
4. An original movie (min. 5 minutes long)

Registration Information:

Please register at our website www.salemcollaborative.org, or email the following information to Jim Kearns at registration@salemcollaborative.org.

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