Welcome to: Multimedia May Day

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Welcome to Multimedia May Day

• presented by
• Leslie Taylor and Carolyn Thomson
• for resources, visitwww.dentonisd.org/cthomson/tc
  ea2008

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Multimedia Mayday Overview

• Why we offered this
• Announcement flyer
• Steps to Implement
• Days outline
• What participants said

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Steps to Implement

• Got Principals on Board
• Got Technology Department on Board
• Got Our School Adopters on Board
• Days outline

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Why We Offered This

• Teachers say, Ive seen that, but not sure what
  to do with it!
• Teachers dont know how to use it.
• Offer teachers and students some fun tools and
  21st Century Learning Skills.

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Rhonda said... What an awesome day! Carolyn and
Leslie were so well prepared. The food was great.
I loved working with MS Producer and Photo Story.
Movie Maker is something I will love to learn
more about in the fall. I will be teaching my
little niece how to do MS Producer this summer.
Keep up the great work! Sandy said... I really
appreciate the time you and Leslie spent putting
together Multimedia Mayday. I have so many ideas
after attending. Photostory 3 is something I
really want to try next year. I loved the island
theme! It was so clever how you kept the theme
running to the very end of the day. You both went
beyond expectations with the food and prizes.
Thanks again for such a great workshop! Nicole
said... I am looking forward to using these
tools in my classroom next year!!! THIS WAS
AWESOME! Excellent work, ladies! I can't wait to
share these ideas with my colleagues! Connie
said... This was the best workshop I have ever
attended. Don't worry about the snags in the day
itself. I will use these skills and materials in
my classroom because I am really convinced they
will motivate even the most unwilling students
and give LD students a way to show their full
range of talents and abilities. I also have many
uses for them in my personal life---thank you so
much! Abiodun said... Great resources! The
workshop came just in time--I had been thinking
of ways to get my students interested in
compiling digital portfolios of their artworks.
Plain PowerPoint slides were just not enough.
PhotoStory definitely would feature in our class
webpage. Thanks for the creative presentations.

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Welcome to Multimedia Mayday

• Please sign-in
• Visit a little and register for todays
  giveaways
• Find a seat and login to your computer
• We plan to start at 830am theres a lot to
  do!
• Feel free to keep your cell phone on
• just be sure to lower the volume!

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Is Your Classroom Diverse with Many
Personalities and Learning Styles?

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Do you just get by on auto pilot
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aboard the same ole Computer Cruise?
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Do you feel like you are tossed about
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not knowing which direction to turn?
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Are your lessons outdated and broken?
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Do you feel stranded with the same ole projects

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wondering how youll survive?
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Multimedia to theRescue
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Meet Your Multimedia Cruise Captains

• Carolyn, CTS _at_ MMS

• Leslie , CTS _at_ CMS

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What is Multimedia?

• Multimedia Multi (lat. numerous) Media (lat.
  plural for medium, which means intermediary)
• Multimedia is media that uses multiple forms of
  information content and information processing
  (e.g. text, audio, graphics, animation, video,
  interactivity) to inform or entertain the (user)
  audience. Multimedia also refers to the use of
  (but not limited to) electronic media to store
  and experience multimedia content.
• -Wikipedia

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Multimedia can be

• Linear

• Non-Linear

• Content progresses without any navigation control
  for the viewer

• Content offers interactivity for the user

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Multimedia Projects

• Motivate students to participate
• Integrate all the language arts -- reading,
  writing, listening, and speaking across
  curricular areas
• Build collaboration skills for students
• Create real reasons for reading, writing, and
  revising communication
• Give students a larger audience than the teacher
  and the classroom
• Require students to analyze sources and think
  about evidence in new ways

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Multimedia Projects Continued

• Lead teachers to think about their students,
  classes, and lessons in new ways. Reflection and
  revision of teaching strategies naturally evolve
  with the projects
• Require higher order thinking and problem-solving
  skills. These projects promote non-linear
  thinking and give divergent learners a chance to
  shine in the classroom.

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Multimedia Projects Continued

• Move teachers from the role of lecturer and
  classroom authority and into the role of learning
  coach or facilitator. They create
  student-centered classrooms.
• Increase students' literacy and prepares them for
  the technology-based communication skills
  required in the workplace today and tomorrow.
• Let teachers address multiple intelligences and
  learning styles in the classroom.
• Naturally employ the range of resources and
  approaches by which most students learn best.
• - Dr. Suzanne Cherry
• Assistant Professor, School of EducationFrancis
  Marion University

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Todays Ports of Call Include
Fireworks Interactive PowerPoint Photo
Story3Luau Time Movie Maker2 MS
Producer Putting it All Together
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Fireworks
Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 is the complete
solution for creating, optimizing, and
integrating great-looking Web graphics. Fireworks
MX 2004 gives Web developers professional control
to quickly create original Web graphics and
interactivity, from simple graphical buttons to
sophisticated rollover effects and pop-up menus.
Fireworks MX 2004 increases flexibility, allowing
easy import, integration, and editing of vector
and bitmap images in all the major graphics
formats, including exporting to other Macromedia
products, such as Flash and Dreamweaver, and
third-party Web development tools. Streamline any
design or development work flow with the
program's significant performance and usability
enhancements. - Macromedia
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Take a 5 minute Break
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Interactive PowerPoint
PowerPoint is a Microsoft Office suite program
that allows users to create presentations, and/or
handouts. Through the creation of PowerPoint
"slides," the user can add color, images, sounds,
animation, and movies to a text presentations.
This program is commonly used for the presenting
of concepts and lecture material. PowerPoint can
also be Interactive allowing the user to
participate in a variety of non-linear formats
such as games, exams, and training modules for
classroom use.
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Take a 5 minute Break
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Photo Story3
Microsoft Photo Story 3 is a free tool you can
use to create media presentations from your
digital photos, complete with transitions, music,
narration, and special effects. Its available
free from Microsoft for Windows XP users.
American Revolution
PSA
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Luau Time
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Movie Maker2
Windows Movie Maker 2 lets you create, edit, and
share your movies right on your PC. It's easy to
use, yet it provides powerful capabilities that
rival those of expensive computer editing
packages.
Kids that usually dont participate were
actively involved in the project! - Gina Lea
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Producer
Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office
PowerPoint 2003 makes it easy to capture and
synchronize audio, video, slides and
imagescreating engaging rich media
presentations. Capture, synchronize, and publish
audio, video, slides, and images to create rich
media presentations viewable in a browser. -
Microsoft
What makes Producer such a fantastic tool for
integrating different concepts and subjects is
that it provides in one neat package several
avenues of communication - written text with
effects, moving pictures, color and animation,
voice and sounds, and music. Numerous ways
of expression allow the expression of numerous
ideas! - Kurt SmithScience Instructor, MMS  
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Take a 5 minute Break
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Putting it All Together
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Before You Set Sail

• Burn a Resource CD to take with you
• Delete todays files and folders from your
  desktop
• Take the survey in Eduphoria
• Post to our Blog
• Stay for the last door prize

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Todays Door prize goes to..
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Thank you for attending Multimedia Mayday!
Please join us again soon for more exciting
workshops
We hope you had fun and learned some new things!
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We Wish You Smooth Sailing