Digital media tools In the Classroom SFT Summer Symposium Santa Fe Trail High School Presenter: Travisray Salyers, Business Teacher (SFTHS)
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ABout the Presenter
Name: Travisray Salyers
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Title: Business Teacher School: Santa Fe Trail HS
@TravisrayS
Classes: Accounting, Yearbook, Graphic Design, Photo Imaging, Web Design, Business Essentials, Economics, Everything Google and More! Years Teaching: Starting year #2 3
What is the workshop about? We live in a world that is saturated with technology! Sometimes technology can be a distraction, but if used the correct way, it can be a great way for student to share their knowledge, understanding, and opinion of what they are learning!
In this workshop, we will explore various Digital Media Tool options and some examples to help you get started. This isn’t meant to be a technology workshop for teachers usage, but to explore possibilities of what students can use and create! 4
What is Digital Media Tools (DMT)? You are probably wondering what the heck Digital Media Tools are! Digital Media is pictures, video, sound, websites, animation, digital books, and graphic design. It is much more than a simple slide presentation or a poster made on Word/Google Docs. It’s about creating something to showcase it. I teach Digital Media type classes. And what I can see my students create, show, and explain is AMAZING! Puts the students in the driver seat of what they are learning. Allows for choice and differentiation.
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How can Digital Media tools help students defeat insecurity? Have you had students that don’t like/want to participate in small or whole group discussions? I know that I have! Some even told me on their student information sheet at the beginning of the year. So that’s where some of the ideas in the presentation sprouted from. Digital Media Tools helps take down the barrier between insecure students and the physical eyes and ears of other students. DMT can help you understand students on a much larger scale! It gives them a VOICE they may normally not have. When picking a DMT I think of my students and what advantage it will bring. 6
You can’t eat a watermelon whole!
Sometimes picking a DMT can be a long, exhausting process. Many times spending more time with it than actually planning out your lesson. Been there done that! Allow the students learn how to use the program. Many times they will figure it out lot faster than we can. But allow them to eat it one piece at a time. 7
E-Books!
E-Books have multiple purposes and avenues for use in your classroom. Possibilities: ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Step by step instruction Interactive notebooks Diagrams Showcasing multiple projects/products into one package Writing stories Alternative form to a research paper Portfolio Journals What other ideas?? 8
How to create an E-Book The two tools that I use are Google Slides & ISSUU
Both are FREE and easy to use! And since you are using Slides, it can be collaborative with other students (in the classroom or across classes)
Follow the steps on the next few pages to create a simple E-Book template. Feel free to share these with your students as they create their own
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E-Book Instructions 1. Click on the “waffle” in the upper right hand corner of the screen
2. Click on the slides icon
3.. Click on the Blank option
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4.. Click on File on the menu bar
5. From the file menu, click on Page Setup
6. You will get a pop-up menu to change the page size. Since we are creating an e-book, we want it to be paper size. Click on the drop down menu..
7.. Click on Custom
8.. Change the dimensions to 8.5 x 11 11
Things to consider when making the e-book ● ● ● ●
You will need a cover Each “slide” will be a page in the book Page #2 will be BLANK Other pages may need to be BLANK depending on the layout of the book ● Think of pages as a spread (two pages that face each other) ○ Page 2 & 3 ○ Page 4 & 5 ○ Page 6 & 7
● Give credit to information and images used ● Add page numbers (demo on next page) ● Look in presenter view to make sure everything is readable
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Adding Page Numbers to your E-Book 1. Click on Insert on the menu bar
2. Click on Slide numbers
3. Match your pop-up window with the image 13
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NOw I have my book created, what do I do with it?? When you think you have everything on your e-book, follow these steps to finalizing your e-book and publish it! 1. Click on File on the menu bar 2. Click on Download as 3. Then select PDF Document
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4. Go to www.issuu.com → This will be the website that we upload our E-Book to
5. Click on Sign up
6. Enter an email and password - Would recommend using school email or having one account for the class that documents are uploaded to.
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7. Set up your profile - If creating for a classroom, make sure you name it accordingly
8. Click on Learn how to get started on publishing your first e-book
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9. Select the Basic level. This the free version and will be able to accomplish what we are wanting to do with the projects you have planned.
10. Complete your portfolio
11. Click the skip this step on the connect your social accounts
12. Now we are ready to upload your e-book. Click on the upload button 18
13. Then find the PDF file that we downloaded from Google Slides. You might have to check your download files on your computer
14. ONce the file uploads, you will then add information to help others who find your document know what it is about. 15. Then click on red publish now button
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16. Select BOOK as the type of publication 17. NOw it is time to share the e-book There are different options, the best is Share it on social. THat will give you a link that can be shared.
18. Copy and paste the link to any format you would like.
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NOw you are able to view the e-book as a final creation. It flips just like a regular book will.
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E-book examples These two examples are from my classes. People of SFT Photo Essay Student Photo Essay Example
The People of SFT Photo Essay was a collaborative e-book with my photo imaging class. Each student was assigned to a page (slide). They worked on it individually, but in the end I compiled it to an e-book to showcase everyone’s work.
The Student Photo Essay was one created by one student. This one was more pictured based, but still shows off the creation of the book. 22
podcasts
Not sure if you listen to podcasts or not, but there are a multitude of them out there. Probably for every topic thinkable. One podcast I started listening to is Ditch that Textbook Podcast created by Matt Miller. They are about 5-7 minutes long. So nothing crazy, but a lot of great information.
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What can my students do with podcasts? ● ● ● ● ●
Create weekly newscasts Long term projects Weekly reflections on a book Weekly reflections Genius Hour
Imagine a class podcast … ● Students synthesize what they’re learning into short, bite-sized audio segments. ● They record it in their own voices (maybe with a little rehearsing). ● They organize the content, add an intro/outro and some transitional sound effects. ● They publish the podcast for anyone to hear. (Miller - ditchthattextbook.com) 24
What can I use to create them?
Anchor is a fantastic tool to create and listen to podcasts. And it is completely FREE!! It can be accessed either via the app or through your web browser. Students can create intro and endings with music that can be used for every episode. Then they record the actual content of that episode. Then it can published on the website or even through Apple. To find it online, type in anchor.fm 25
Websites “About 3.2 Billion people have access to the internet, according to the United Nations agency that oversees international communication.� (Davidson; Money) Another great way for students to showcase their learning, understanding, and work is through creating a website. Your students do not have to know HTML, there are plenty of websites that are drag and drop (WYSIWYG). Allow students to play and figure out these programs! What a great alternative to students creating a poster or writing a research paper. It allows students to be visual and organize their information. 26
Website platforms
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Student Examples The following are examples of websites that were created in my classes to demonstrate their learning and understanding. Vetenarian’s Technology Today How Has Technology Changed the Way Athletes Train Online Dating Safety Student Portfolio Example
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Another great DMT tool is videos. Videos can be used and look different based on the students and how they are wanting to use it. Here are some example ideas on how you can use videos in class: ● Presentations ○ Screen Recording ○ Recording themself presenting
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Demonstrations PSA over the topic Skits Speeches Interviews
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I use videos in two-folds: 1. Allow students that are not the most comfortable presenting in front of their peers to still get that verbal communication, but with the safety net of a video. Then I can watch it on my own time.
2. It’s another way that students can express their understanding, knowledge or opinion on something. If you have that student that isn’t be the best writer, but likes to talk. Use this to their advantage.
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Video Examples Screen Recording The following video is a student who screen recorded (using Screencastify) their presentation of a game concept they came up with. Screen Recorded Presentation Public Service Announcements These videos were created by students to make their peers aware of a topic. Both just happen to deal with bullying. Bullying PSA #1 Bullying PSA #2 The next two videos are PSA created on why high school students should file their taxes. Accounting students created them after we learned about taxes. Tax PSA #1 31
Tax PSA #2
How can my students create these videos? Equipment Needed Smartphone or Tablet
DSLR, Shoot & Point, or a Camcorder
Web Camera
All these are good equipment to use. Remember the purpose is not have a Hollywood quality film, it can be low quality, but it’s what they are demonstrating in the video that matters.
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How can my students create these videos? Software Needed
You can use ScreenCastify to do the screen recordings for FREE. Integrates with Google. Check with your IT department to see if there any restrictions on adding this app to their Chrome Web browser.
WeVideo is FREE online video editor. You would use this if students did live recordings and needed to piece together the shots.
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How can my students create these videos? Software Needed
If you have iPads or a students filmed on their iPhone, you should (depending on what generation) have iMovie or have the ability to download it. That way students can film and edit right on their own device.
Expertise Needed NONE! Students are not going to film editing experts, but they can figure out how to use the program. This allows student to have ownership of their project
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Graphic design
This may be something you are already doing in your classroom. I just want to show you some tools that are free online. Graphic Design Ideas: ● ● ● ● ●
Posters Graphics/Illustrations of concepts Photos Infographics etc.
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Graphic design Tools Google Drawings Versatile Google App that allows you to arrange text, shapes, and images on a blank canvas. Sort of like a single slide.
Canva Has both a web, app, and chrome app version. Uses a drag-and-drop format and provide access to over a million photographs, graphics, and fonts. Can be used for both digital and print media. 36
Graphic design Tools Pixlr Free online alternative to Photoshop. Has many of the same features and capabilities.
Adobe Spark An integrated suite of storytelling applications. Both mobile and web based.
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Animations Animations might be a tool that your more techy students use. This option is gonna take more time and critical thinking skills. But that doesn’t mean that everyone can’t do it. Remember we aren’t really looking at industry professional product. We are giving the students another avenue to showcase their learning, understanding, and opinion on the subject matter. I had my students in Photo Imaging create an animation to describe the 3 components of the exposure triangle. It had them take their level of understanding up as they had to describe it as if the person watching has no clue what it even it. 38
Animations Tools
Some of these tools may have features that will require a pro membership.
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Final tips in using Digital Media Tools in the Classroom ● Allow students to use their creativity ● Everyone’s project does not have to look the same. ● YOU DO NOT have to be the expert in these softwares. The students will be able to figure them out. ● Be flexible in your planning. Students may go slower or faster in creation than what you think. ● Scaffold the projects. Allow time for planning/preparation, working on them, reviewing (even peer editing), and reflection on the project. ● Adapt the projects to fit the age of your students.
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Connect with me! Follow Me!
@TravisrayS
tsalyers@usd434.us
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Works Cited Davidson, Jacob. “3.2 Billion People Now Using Internet Worldwide.” Time-Money, Time, 26 May 2015, time.com/money/3896219/internet-users-worldwide/ ?_=1528914949528. Miller, Matt. Ditch That Textbook: Free Your Teaching and Revolutionize Your Classroom. Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc., 2015. Miller, Matt. “Why Your Students Need a Podcast: How to Do It Fast and Free.” Ditch That Textbook, 28 Feb. 2018, ditchthattextbook.com/2018/02/28/why-your-student s-need-a-podcast-how-to-do-it-fast-and-free/. 42
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