Office of Curriculum, Technology, & Assessment

Program Title: Turn Your Students into Digital VJs (Video Jockeys)

Presenters: Fred D'Ignazio

Program Length: 2 Hours

Delivery Method: Stream-Video

Program Provider: USDLC

Overview: Digital video is the future of the Web. But until recently making a digital video has been too complex and time-consuming to try in the classroom. Fred will show you how to turn your teachers and students into new-millennium writers, thinkers, and speakers with help from digital video cameras and the ColdCut instant-movie program. Discover how these tools can be used to create video short stories, reports, poems and other projects. In the 21st century, words and language aren't dead; they will just enter a new dimension.

Mr. D'Ignazio is an internationally renowned author, educator, columnist, editor, and television commentator. A multimedia pioneer since the 70s, he has written 25 books on science and technology and has contributed to more than 400 articles on instructional technology for journals such as T.H.E, and Technology and Learning. He has conducted multimedia training workshops in over 100 school districts in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Italy, Australia, and the U.K. He has appeared in USA Today, on ABC-TV's Good Morning America, and NPR's All Things Considered. Fred has been the President of Multi-Media Classrooms, Inc. in Apex, North Carolina since 1987. He is the Executive Producer of "Classrooms without Walls TV."

NSDC Standards for Staff Development

Context Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:

• Organizes adults into learning communities whose goals are aligned with those of the school and district. (Learning Communities)
• Requires skillful school and district leaders who guide continuous instructional improvement. (Leadership)
• Requires resources to support adult learning and collaboration. (Resources)

Process Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:

• Uses multiple sources of information to guide improvement and demonstrate its impact. (Evaluation)
• Prepares educators to apply research to decision making. (Research-Based)
• Uses learning strategies appropriate to the intended goal. (Design)
• Applies knowledge about human learning and change. (Learning)
• Provides educators with the knowledge and skills to collaborate. (Collaboration)

Content Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:

• Prepares educators to understand and appreciate all students, create safe, orderly and supportive learning environments, and hold high expectations for their academic achievement. (Equity)
• Deepens educators' content knowledge, provides them with research-based instructional strategies to assist students in meeting rigorous academic standards, and prepares them to use various types of classroom assessments appropriately. (Quality Teaching)

NOTE: Each site must audio mute upon connecting to the session to prevent voice activated moving of the cameras from site to site.

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