Grab a planning calendar from MS Office templates or Google Docs Templates (or heck, just use plain old text) and

-decide which readings to keep or chop- are there any that should be added?
-spread the readings in a logical flow throughout the 4 week session
-decide which assignments/quickfires/activities to keep or chop
-what would a typical day look like

In ONE HOUR have a very rough sketch of what the 4 weeks would look like. (You don’t have to have full citations for the readings, just quick “shortcut” names so we know which readings you’re talking about.)

The “final product” should be shared (with gravesle[at]gmail.com if you’re using GoogleDocs) or emailed (gravesle[at]msu.edu)

You may work on your own, or in groups of two.

summarize all the readings in the archive (posted yesterday) and how they connect to your (collective) discipline(s)/classroom(s)/personal interests

5 minutes – divide yourself into five teams and figure out how you’re going to divide and conquer the reading workload

30 minutes – summarize using an online social and collaborative tool

Return and share

About Google Teacher Academy:

The Google Teacher Academy is a FREE professional development experience designed to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe get the most from innovative technologies. Each Academy is an intensive, one-day event where participants get hands-on experience with Google’s free products and other technologies, learn about innovative instructional strategies, receive resources to share with colleagues, and immerse themselves in an innovative corporate environment. Upon completion, Academy participants become Google Certified Teachers who share what they learn with other primary and secondary educators in their local region.

To submit an application to the Google Teacher Academy  you are required to create a short 1 minute video to go along with your online application.  This quickfire is intended to give you the practice needed to create such videos to further your professional development and to showcase your technological skills with education and technology.

Specific Assignment:

On Wednesday July 14th we will be going on a class field trip to Giverny.  While on the field trip take note of what you see and experience.  When touring around Giverny take note of the things that move you, think about why, and how it moves you, does it generate any feelings? (specifically related to motivation, inspiration and innovation.)  In the spirit of the Google Teacher Academy, when you return from the field trip on Wednesday, you are to create a 1 minute video on motivation and learning or classroom innovation (using the artifacts you collected at Giverny.)  Feel free to be as creative as you like with the video. You may use any video/screen capture tool to create the video.

Constraints:

Your video is not to exceed 1 minute (60 seconds) in length

You do not need to appear in your video but all video or images MUST have been shot by you

Any audio used must be under creative commons license.

We will pass the hard drive around first thing Thursday morning and collect the videos.

Sean will give you a brief tutorial on how to make a basic stop motion video using the tools you have been exploring for your iVideo.  You may choose to do it with one of the tools you are (getting) familiar with OR you can take things to the next level and choose to use one of these three tools:

http://www.kudlian.net/products/icananimate/
http://boinx.com/istopmotion/overview/
http://www.stopmotionpro.com/

This is one of those “trick” scenarios…you have to decide if adding a new technology to the mix is worth the stress – do you want to focus on the tech or the content?

After the tutorial you will have the rest of the morning up until lunch to work solely on the Quickfire.  After the unclass (when we return at 2:30) we’ll pass around the hard drive and collect the videos and have a viewing party.

Constraints

The video must be :30 seconds long (+/- 1 second)

You must have 2 title screens, one with the names of your group members and one with the text of the haiku. (These do not count towards the length of your video.)

See below for a few examples:

GROUP A

Parlant avec l’océan
coquillage contre l’oreille
- la petite fille.
-Jean-Louis Bouzou

GROUP B

La pluie a volé
le parfum des lias
lune rousse
-Clod’Aria

GROUP C

à la cloche du matin
combien de feuilles as-tu encore perdues
cerisier dans la brume
-Pierre Courtaud

GROUP D

Juste un sac
et la lune…
Et de folles branches à l’arbre
-Jean Marc Demabr

GROUP E

Fonte des neiges
Le vieil épouvantail
a les pieds dans l’eau
-Bruno Hulin

Here’s the challenge – as a group we’re going to create 10 screencasts, in 10 minutes! We did it last year (http://edublog.techsmith.com/2009/07/michigan-state-university-maet—its-a-jing-off.html) and now it’s time to raise the bar.

We will put you into teams of 2 and you will have 1 hour to decide what the topic of your screencast will be and lay out the plan.  The constraints are quite loose, it has to be educational technology related and it should be something you think is cool and that the world at large should know!

When the buzzer goes off after the hour planning session, we’ll put you into position and you will have 10 minutes to record your screencast!

The screencast should be no longer than 2 minutes in length.

Publish to screencast.com and post a link to the screencast in the comment box below!

Remix culture is a term employed by Lawrence Lessig to describe a society which allows and encourages derivative works. Such a culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. (via wikipedia)

A remix may also refer to a non-linear re-interpretation of a given work or media. Such as a hybridizing process combining fragments of various works. The process of combining and re-contextualizing will often produce unique results independent of the intentions and vision of the original designer/artist. Thus the concept of a remix can be applied to visual or video arts, and even things farther afield.  (via wikipedia)

Quickfire Main Activity:

In this activity, you will each be given a common set of Creative Commons video clips and music and will be asked to remix these clips.

In the spirit of creativity and learning on the fly – you will randomly be assigned a Learning Theory from the TIP database (http://tip.psychology.org/concepts.html) Do your best to keep your theme secret!!

Constraints:

Completed video may not exceed 30 seconds.

You may include your own text into the mix, but no additional video clips.

Video Clips – (taken from  http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger)

the Librarian – http://www.archive.org/details/Libraria1947

film research and learning – http://www.archive.org/details/FilmRese1956

choosing and educational film – http://www.archive.org/details/Choosing1963

basic typing – http://www.archive.org/details/basic_typing_1

facts about projection – http://www.archive.org/details/FactsAbo1975

education for excellence – http://www.archive.org/details/education_for_excellence_2

sharp calculator – http://www.archive.org/details/sharp_calculator_2

it happens every noon – http://www.archive.org/details/it_happens_every_noon

Audio Clips

http://www.electrobel.be/

http://opsound.org/index.php

you may use any other CREATIVE COMMONS music (but you must show proof that is is a creative commons clip!)

-Example-

- Associated Helpful Readings –
free culture – lessig  – http://free-culture.cc
Exploring the Right to Share, Mix and Burn – new york times – http://tinyurl.com/2hpff2
remix planet – wired – http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/gorillaz.html

ADDITIONAL CONSTRAINTS/TIPS -

iMovie/MovieMaker -The videos should be STANDARD (4:3)
Premiere – sequence preset DV-NTSC, Standard 48kHz

For exporting

iMovie – Share > Large
Premiere – File > Export > Media
Format = H.264
Preset Youtube SD

STEP 1: 30 MINUTES OF PLANNING AND THINKING (TIMED)
STEP 2: WRITE OUT YOUR EDITING WORKFLOW (TIMED)
STEP 3: STOP

STEP 4: BEGIN THE EDITING PROCESS

HAVE A COMPLETED VIDEO READY TO SHOW IN THE MORNING

Activities:

1 – Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random”or click
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random
Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 – Go to Quotations Page and select “random quotations”or click
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the
title of your first album.
3 – Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”or click
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 – Use Photoshop or similar (Photoshop online, sumo paint, etc) to
put it all together. PAY ATTENTION TO DESIGN & FORM – Image size should be 600 x 600 pixels with a resolution of 72 pixels per inch (ppi)
5 – email the photo to:     gravesle.quickfire@picasaweb.com

Now that the iImage project has been unveiled and you have begun to think of ideas to work with, this post should serve as a resources for several editing tools and examples.

Images worth talking about…

http://www.pdngallery.com/contests/photoannual/2010/

http://moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/henricartierbresson/#/

You Suck at Photoshop! – You’ve been warned…

Getting started with Photoshop -

http://www.planetphotoshop.com/

http://www.photoshopuser.com/cs5

http://tv.adobe.com/product/photoshop/

http://www.brusheezy.com/ – Free Brushes

Online Tutorials:

http://atomiclearning.com/k12/en/home

While Adobe Photoshop may be the industry standard for image editing, it is not easily afforded and may be unattainable for many due to the financial implications.  Listed below are some free online image editors.  These may not all have the same functionality as Photoshop, but they should do an adequate job of basic photo-editing allowing you the tools needed to create an iImage.

Free Online Photo-editors

http://aviary.com/

http://aviary.com/tutorials?tool=Phoenix

http://www.sumopaint.com/home/

http://www.photoshop.com/

http://splashup.com/

Past Examples of iImages

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9691730@N03/3713626085/in/pool-1131647@N20

http://www.flickr.com/groups/maety3_2008/pool/

Image sourcing options:

http://www.sxc.hu/

http://www.istockphoto.com/

http://www.gettyimages.com/

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/

How can you spot expertise in movies and film?

What does quality video or film look like? What makes it quality?

iMovie users:

Apple has provided a variety of short video tutorials on the features and common practices of creating videos in iMove.  Be sure to explore the following page as it contains many videos throughout.

Topic Areas Covered:

+Getting to know iMovie

+Importing and organizing video

+Fine tune editing (tips and tricks on making smooth edits)

+Using the full screen browsing option

+Adding titles, transitions and effects

+Enhancing your movie (themes, image stabilization, etc)

+Sharing your movie

http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/

Adobe Premier CS5 (4) Users-

Adobe TV is a website specifically devoted to the instruction and demonstration of using Adobe’s product suites.  If you are going to be using Adobe’s Premier Pro there are a wide range of videos that cover everything from getting started to advanced techniques. http://tv.adobe.com/product/premiere-pro/

A specific series on getting to know Premier – http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-premiere-pro-cs5/

Premier Elements 8

http://tv.adobe.com/product/premiere-express/

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-k12-education-solutions/premiere-elements-8-video

Windows MovieMaker Users:

Microsoft has put together a resource page similar to those of other applications where you can view tutorials and related videos on how to use Windows Movie Maker.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx

Capturing web video:

http://keepvid.com/

http://zamzar.com/