Check out my session at the Keystone Technology Integrator’s Summit on Comic Life.
Session Description:
Come and learn how to tell your story through comics! Using the program Comic Life ( available for Windows and Mac), participants will learn how to use the software and have the opportunity to create their own comic using all the features of this fantastic application.
Session Link: http://kti2009.wikispaces.com/Comic_Life
Follow along on the live blog!
The culminating project in my graduate class – Ethical Leadership and the Future – is to portray my vision of the future as it relates to technology. I was challenged to be creative and to use multimedia in both the project and the presentation. For my project I chose to examine children and education today, as well as express my prediction for the future of education. I designed, wrote, and created the movie below as my vision of what schools could be like in the year 2025.
As part of my presentation will include feedback on the movie, I need your help! Please take a few minutes to view the video and leave a comment on the VoiceThread. Thanks!
Here is my prediction:
What do you think? Please leave me your comments on the Voice Thread below…
If you are interested in exploring the complete project, including results from the Kids & Technology survey, click HERE.
So, I have yet to really decompress and analyze all I learned at NECC, but I was asked to bring back some highlights to my graduate course tonight – Ethical Leadership and the Future. My task was to bring back some things that I gathered that relates to the course content. I thought it best to be short and sweet, so I created this short Google presentation to sum up, in a nutshell, what I got from NECC. Of course I have tons of resources, tools, links, and ideas to go through and organize, but this really is a “bigger picture” of what I took away from NECC. What do you think? Did you take away similar types of things?
Will Richardson & Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach at NECC
Tuesday’s NECC Keynote
For my graduate class this semester, “Ethical Leadership and the Future”, I will be creating a multi-media presentation/movie focusing on my 5 year old son and his use of technology. A part of this project will focus on youth in general and the technologies they use. As school is out and all the students have gone home for the summer, I have no one to interview except my immediate family and neighbors. I need your help! In an effort to get as many responses as possible, I have created the Google Form below. Please consider taking a moment or two to reflect on the technologies your children use and complete the questions below.
I will be posting my completed project in a few weeks… results from this survey will surely be a part of it.
Thanks in advance!!
YES, Absolutely!
I have been using Twitter; for professional and personal reasons since the summer of 2007. I currently follow 579 people, 750 people follow me and I’ve had almost 4,000 updates (3,946 right now to be exact!). I use Twitter, mostly, to tap the collective brains of the people in my network and to also provide them resources and glimpses into my life as an Instructional Technology Specialist. When I have a question, I ask it on Twitter and get a response (or 10 or more!) within SECONDS. When I’m doing something cool with students and teachers, I post it on Twitter and often solicit questions. When I’ve found a really cool resource, I share it on Twitter for my network to benefit from.
So, what is Twitter exactly? Well, at the very basic level, Twitter users answer the question, “What are you doing?” But, as explained above, it can be much much more than that. In my opinion, Twitter IS the people you follow and the people who follow you – your Personal Learning Network. Someone who joins Twitter and only has 5 followers and only follows 5 people will NOT, in my opinion, get the most out of Twitter. You need to build your network to allow for the magic to happen. Start by following a few people (you can follow me:diannekrause 
, then see who they follow, and start following a few of them. Eventually people will start following you and you can then decide whether you want to follow them back or not. The glory is that you have total control who is in your network, at all times.
Of course, Twitter can also be a huge time suck if you allow it to be. No, I do not read ALL the Tweets (that’s what individual messages are called) that come through my account, but I do read the Tweets from the people in my most immediate Personal Learning Network – mostly educators and people like me from Pennsylvania. To help out in the organization of all this information and status updates, I use a 3rd party application called TweetDeck; to separate all the Tweets out into groups of my choosing. There are many such applications out there so you do not have to always navigate to Twitter.com to read your Tweets.
So, is there a place for Twitter in education? YES! Check out these resources to see how, and how you can get started with Twitter yourself. Any questions? Please don’t hesitate to ask!
Check out this cool presentation…
See you on Twitter, hopefully!!
