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"Have I Got a Project for You!!!” Barbara Lohse, Allamuchy Township Public School District, NJ CAS 251 This workshop will be from the perspective of staff development--How to get teachers interested in trying a digital story project with their students, planning and setting up the project, the mechanics of project facilitation, and publishing the project to take home. Taking it on the Road: Digital Stories from Maricopa Community Colleges—Study Abroad in Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand Dale Doubleday, Maricopa Community Colleges, Arizona CAS 252 For the past two years, Maricopa Community Colleges has offered Digital Storytelling classes as part of Study Abroad Programs in Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Despite technology challenges and time constraints, all participating students completed stories of personal journeys that bridge cultural gaps and broaden horizons. During this presentation, Dale Doubleday, Art Faculty and Media Arts Program Director, Phoenix College, will share these digital stories and answer questions about the experience of teaching Digital Storytelling while "taking it on the road." Be a Good Ancestor—Making a Family History for Generations to Come David Beardsley, Trinity Television & New Media, Syracuse, NY CAS 341 This workshop covers practical ways of combining video interviews, home movies, audio recording, photos, written records and text into one interactive document. Topics include hardware and software selection, the production process, interviewing techniques, and distribution. Examples will be shown from actual completed projects. Digital Stories as Tools for Literacy Development Diane H. Tracey, Kean University, Department of Communication Sciences CAS 355 Digital storytelling will be examined through the lens of literacy education. What literacy skills are strengthened through the creation of digital stories? Are digital stories a feasible way to build students’ literacy skills? From the Lap to the Laptop: Montessori Reading Lessons Bob Korngold, Montessori Home, Inc. NY CAS 357 This workshop will present a demonstration of instructional, Montessori-based software that children can use at home, to enhance their classroom experiences of learning to read. It will also address how Montessori teachers can support parents in the process of combining class work with at-home work, to enhance their children’s learning. The Division of Student Affairs and Storytelling Judy April, Kean University, New Jersey Center for Science and Technology Education CAS 358 In the GOLD program, self-reflection allows students to find an appreciation for, and an understanding of, effective leadership practices. The Student Affairs division incorporates digital storytelling into student leadership development initiatives such as the Cougar Campaign. Digital Storytelling enhances student leadership development through reflection and digital memoirs. This method of reflection encourages our student leaders to document their experiences on and off campus. Cougar Care Program Katrina Boseman, Kean University, Office of Student Affairs CAS 358 Kean University has adopted two cougars - Scout and Sage, that are housed at Essex County's Turtle Back Zoo. Kean was the first New Jersey College or University to formally adopt an animal at the zoo as its mascot and provide funding for the upkeep of the animals. The Kean Cougar Care Program was created to increase awareness of our Mascots, promote student volunteerism, and foster the Kean Cougar Spirit. 3:10-3:20 Break 3:20-4:05 Small Group Discussions: Integrating Digital Stories Downs Hall 4:05-4:30 Closing/Door Prizes Downs Hall
Background Information on Panelists Helen Barrett just retired from the faculty of the College of Education at the University of Alaska Anchorage and is living in the Seattle area. She has been researching strategies and technologies for electronic portfolios since 1991, publishing a website (http://electronicportfolios.org), an Apple Learning Interchange exhibit (http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000156/), chapters in several books on Electronic Portfolios, and numerous articles. She was on loan to the International Society for Technology in Education between 2001 and early 2005, working on assessing ISTE’s National Educational Technology Standards and providing training and technical assistance on electronic portfolios for teacher education programs throughout the U.S.under a federal PT3 grant. In 2005, Dr. Barrett became the Research Project Director for The REFLECT Initiative, an international research project, underwritten by TaskStream, to assess the impact of electronic portfolios on student learning, motivation and engagement in secondary schools. She is currently working on several book projects on electronic portfolios. She is also an Apple Distinguished Educator and a George Lucas Educational Foundation Faculty Associate. Peggy Benton is Professor of Instructional Technologies (ITEC) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) teaching graduate courses in digital graphics, visual communication, multimedia, and technology leadership for educators. She directs the development of ITEC masters culminating work as well as designs and coordinates the courses in technology integration for pre-service teachers. Dr. Benton directed two federal grants for Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to use Technology, (PT3, 1999-2004). Funded by the US Department of Education, her program focusing on infusing technology in teaching and learning as well as professional development of faculty and pre-credential teachers. She was featured on the national PT3 website (PT3.org success stories) for educational and creative use of digital video. Her PT3 project web site was also chosen by the US Department of Education as a model of best practices in user centered design (http://www.sfsu.edu/~teachers/pt3.html). In addition to the PT3 grants, she has had four innovative educational grants funded by state and federal sources in such areas as distance learning, digital video, multimedia, classroom-integrated professional development and project based learning. She is enthusiastic about the use of technology in solving problems we face in twenty-first century education. She has integrated project based learning across the curriculum and developed technology integration demonstration projects with components such as multimedia, distance learning, digital storytelling, video conferencing, games and immersive 360° imaging, virtual field trips, panoramas, object movies and online learning communities. She was selected as an Apple Distinguished Educator for 2004 and a George Lucas Education Foundation Faculty Associate for 2003 and 2004. Dr. Benton has presented at numerous national and international conferences and has delivered keynote speeches on technology leadership. Her research area focuses on applications of visual imagery to improve learning. Dr. Benton works with such collaborative partners as Apple Computer, Oracle Corporation, Buck Institute for Education, Center for Enhancement of Teaching, the George Lucas Educational Foundation, CTAP and local school districts. It is in this network of collaborating, innovating, and sharing that she believes we can create an educational culture promoting active, engaged and meaningful learning that develops real-world solutions. Joe Lambert is the Founding Director of the Center for Digital Storytelling. Mr. Lambert founded the CDS (formerly the San Francisco Digital Media Center) in 1994 with Nina Mullen and Dana Atchley as a community arts center for new media and the Internet. Along with Mr. Atchley and Ms. Mullen, he has developed a unique computer training and arts program, Digital Storytelling. The process grew out of Mr. Lambert's long running collaboration on Dana Atchley's solo theatrical multimedia work, Next Exit. Digital Storytelling has also been offered in 26 U.S. states and ten countries, assisting in the completion of more than 5000 video works. During the period, Lambert has led a number of the projects involving media production, publication and curriculum development. The media projects include management and design of the CDS Website and CD Sampler (1995-2002), production design for Jon Sanborn's Paul Is Dead and Blue Funk web narratives (1995), Foundry- an experimental website on social issues (1996), the International Digital Mural Project (1997), On Lok Health Services Training Website (1997), and the California Arts Council's 1998 Conference on Arts and Technology website, the Managing Information for Rural America CD ROM, and the recent CD ROM for the Kansas City Symphony. His has authored and produced curriculum in many contexts including the Digital Storytelling Cookbook, the principal manual for the digital storytelling process, and a new text entitled Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community.__Mr. Lambert has been active in the Bay Area arts community for the last seventeen years as an arts activist, producer, administrator, teacher, writer, and director. He was the Executive Director of the People's Theater Coalition from 1984- 86. In 1986, he co-founded Life On The Water, a successful non-profit production company that offered a broad array of programs serving San Francisco's diverse communities. Mr. Lambert has produced over 500 shows, in the context of theatrical runs, single performances, special events, citywide festivals, subscription series and conferences. Prior to his career in the arts, Mr. Lambert was trained as a community organizer, assisting in numerous local, statewide and national public policy campaigns on issues of social justice and economic equity. Rob Schadt is the Educational Technology Manager at the Boston University School of Public Health and Director of the Office of Teaching, Learning and Technology. He is also an instructor in the College of Communications in the Department of Mass Communication, Public Relations and Advertising. He received his Doctorate in Education from Boston University. He has a M.Ed. in Instructional technology and a M.A. in Sociology from Boston College and a B.A. in Political Science from the SUNY at Cortland. He lives with his wife and two children in Ashland, Massachusetts. He brings twenty-five years of experience working with faculty in higher education to this newly created position at School of Public Health at Boston University. Previously, he worked for Tufts University School of Medicine and New England Medical Center where Schadt was Production Manager for the Educational Media Center. In addition to his skills as a media producer, he has experience as a faculty consultant regarding distance learning and presentation design. He received his Doctorate in Education from Boston University, and has an M.Ed. and a M.A. in Sociology from Boston College and a B.A. in Political Science from the SUNY at Cortland. Lalitha Vasudevan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching. Her research is focused on the interrelationships across media/technologies, literacies, youth culture, and urban education. This year she is involved in a new research project that explores the lives and experiences of youth straddling the justice and education systems in New York City through youth-produced multimedia stories. She is currently co-editing a volume titled Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility that critically examines the integration of media/technologies in teaching/learning spaces with youth. In the fall she will join the faculty of Teachers College as an Assistant Professor of Communication and Education. Kimiko Ryokai is a new PhD candidate in the Tangible Media Group at Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT). She is currently investigating the role of tangible interfaces in supporting collaborative storytelling and learning. Ryokai is from Tokyo, and moved to the US to study after graduating from Komatsugawa high school in Tokyo. She earned her undergraduate degree from SUNY Stony Brook with a double major in Linguistics and Psychology, and her MS with the Gesture and Narrative Language group at the Media Lab. Outside the Media Lab, Ryokai is in search of good food, cute little things, and time to practice her violin.
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