Using Media Arts to Enhance Any Classroom- session notes

Make Your Classroom Come Alive Through Media Arts

Allow Your Classroom to Come Alive

Todd Norton- Elkhorn Crossing School in Georgetown

todd.norton@scott.kyschools.us

@toddnorton on twitter

toddnorton.me

Place a tool in a student’s hand, cast a vision, remove the fear of failure, and watch the magic happen.

Here is a short list of resources to explore.  

Animoto-simple video maker/photo slide show.  Add pictures, video, text and choose a song to make a cool video.  Create a teacher account for your classroom, and let your students create short videos.

Powtoon- free animation site

GoogleDocs-create, share, collaborate (see all things Google at @Mr.Piercy’s presentation)

Magisto- simple video maker

WeVideo -simple video editor  app review-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS-zmIwSXnM

iPiccy- online photo editing

Adobe Creative Suite

Unity and Sploder (this one is very, very easy)- for game design

-Some of my students make some amazing lands in Minecraft.  Wy not allow them to recreate a historical place.

iBooks Author- ipad book creation

Nearpod- iPad mirroring

Aurasma- here’s a video showing how it works in schools.

stopmotionstudio- awesome free app for stop animation

garageband- free on app store

imovie-4.99 for the ipad app

iphoto-4.99 for the ipad app

youtube- create an interactive youtube video, or use their online editor and copyright free music

Smore-Create cool online flyers easily

cel.ly- Group texting (I like this better than remind101 because students can send you a text.  I use this every day.)

Instagram- My students love this and we use it all the time.  

Connected leaders:

Diigo- Social bookmarking  https://groups.diigo.com/group/ky-media-arts

Twitter- #kyedchat Thursday @ 8:00  (moderated, basically 10 questions, follow the hashtag #kyedchat using Twitter, Tagboard, Tweetdeck, etc

As educators, what is Twitter?  Check out this quick and easy video just posted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQv1PR2BKk8&feature=youtu.be

Dropbox

Asana

Evernote

If you’re a project based classroom, you must have a good learning management system(lms)

I recommend schoology or canvas.  Edmodo is great for younger grades.

3 Ways to foster creativity and bring your classroom to life:

Collaboration Across Content Areas

Community Involvement

Projects/Presentations