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Workshops - Friday, November 7, 2008
Here is a list of just some of the workshops that will be offered at ISMF 2008
Moviemaking with Adobe® Premiere® Elements
Sara Martin, Adobe Education Leader, Modesto, CA – Grades 4-12. Shooting and editing video like a professional is now possible for anyone with an up-to-date computer, an inexpensive digital video camera, and editing software like a Adobe® Premiere® Elements. With today's digital video tools, you too can say, "Standby camera, standby talent, roll tape, ACTION!" Students in this class will learn the preproduction, production, postproduction, and distribution steps involved in turning your ideas into reality. Take only the best clips and leave out the rest. Add music, voice-overs, special effects, titles, and credits to make your production something everyone will enjoy.Adobe® Photoshop® Elements
Ann Ayers, Adobe Education Leader, Coconut Creek, FL - Grades 1-8. Your imagination will flow as you learn how to create multi layered one-of-a-kind images using Adobe® Photoshop® Elements. Attendees will experiment with the skills of lassoing images, changing opacity, layering and transferring images, adding text and symbols, and using filters. Student examples will spark ideas for connections with literature, creative writing, research, social studies, and visual art.Liven Up School News Broadcasts with Adobe® Visual Communicator® 3
Rob Zdrojewski, Adobe Education Leader, Amherst, NY - Grades 3-12. Bring the excitement of an action-packed TV newsroom to your class — or even your entire school! Adobe® Visual Communicator® 3 provides K-12 educators and students with a comprehensive, easy-to-use toolset for producing TV-quality broadcasts. Using advanced green/blue screen technology used in Hollywood movies and weather newscasts, students can appear to be recording from any location. Students will add special effects, video clips, music, and more to create professional quality video projects. Visual Communicator provides the ideal means of producing and delivering morning news shows that really wake up your audience.Create Your Own Digital Story
Deborah Hargroves, Adobe Education Leader, Savannah, GA – Grades 1-8. Everyone has a story to tell and anyone can be a digital storyteller with the right motivation and the right tools. In this class, learn the process by creating your own digital story using the powerful, yet easy-to-use Adobe Photoshop Elements. Discover how you can utilize this robust program to make your own digital storytelling fun and productive. Included in this workshop will be step-by-step instructions, outlines of lesson plans, online resources, rubrics and dozens of other tools for students and teachers. (This will be a great tie-in to those students participating in the pre-festival NASA tour.)
Stop Motion Animation
Jeremy Jackson from Tech4Learning - Learn how to engage students in the curriculum with stop-motion animation as you explore the techniques of stop-motion animation using clay, construction paper, toys, time-lapse, and more. Participants will leave with skill, ideas, lesson plans, and tutorials for designing projects and implementing stop-motion animation in the classroom.Creating Online Storybooks
Jeremy Jackson from Tech4Learning - Come learn how to use storytelling to improve student's reading and writing skills and apply the telling of stories to improve math, social studies, science learning. You will explore multimedia projects, videos, slideshows, and Web pages that demonstrate how storytelling can enhance early literacy goals and engage students in curriculum content.Clay Animation
Jeremy Jackson from Tech4Learning - Clay animation is a highly motivating and incredibly effective way to engage students in curriculum objectives. Clay animation bridges the gap between the tangible and the technical, making it a perfect hands-on approach to learning. Learn how to simplify this process to improve student understanding of important classroom concepts.Enhancing Curriculum with Multimedia - Teacher Workshop
Jeremy Jackson from Tech4Learning - Visual communication is powerful and compelling. Learn how your students can utilize movies, sounds, and animations to share ideas and communicate understanding as they create and share multimedia projects. Come see cross-curricular, standards-based multimedia projects on topics such as rainforest conservation, historical events, fairy tales, as well as original writing in a second language. Explore lesson ideas and strategies for integration and leave ready to implement this powerful learning tool in your classroom.Non-Digital Game Design Class
Aram Cookson from Savannah College of Art and Design - Perfect for aspiring game designers, this 2-hour, hands-on workshop walks students through the basics of game design, prototyping, play testing, iterating and creating a final design.Create High Quality Interactive Multimedia Presentations in Minutes
Bill LaCommare of MediaWorks - Grades 6-12. MediaWorks® is a suite of applications combining simple-to-use video, sound, animation and paint/photo editors with apowerful multimedia authoring program. Easily create amazing "movie-type" productions that are difficult or not possible in other consumer-level movie and slide show editors, and precisely-timed linear and interactive presentations without the learning curve and expense of high-end media editing and authoring tools. MediaWorks' intuitive interface and comprehensive feature set allows users of all ages to create portfolios, training, family memories, travel adventures, lessons, reports, yearbooks, clay animations, presentations and more!
Making Music with GarageBand
Dr. James Frankel of SoundTree - Grades 4-12.
This session will give students an in-depth view of all of the features of one of the most popular music applications around today, GarageBand ’08 from Apple. Students will learn how to build loop-based compositions, record their own music, create podcasts, and even how to create film scores. Perfect for any technology skill level, this session is sure to be very popular with all ages!