Animation Mentoring

The Orange County Animation Project: Mentoring From The Real World with Michael Guerena, Program Specialist, Orange County Department of Education (CA, UNITED STATES), Dave Master, Director, ACME Animation, and Don Isbell, Animation Teacher, Century High School. Dave started by explaining the need for students well trained in animation. When professionals review students’ portfolios, they only [...]

Strolling Around the Earth Garden with Mike Griffith

Another global session with Mike Griffith. He started off with an email quote with his colleague Atsuku in Japan (not sure I’m spelling her name correctly). She said something to this effect regarding Mike – The world earth is a garden to him. He’s always strolling around the garden freely. Mike has been doing the [...]

VC Standards

A reference everyone should know about is NYIT EEZ & CILC’s Videoconferencing Standards document. This link is to the document on the Keystone Conference handout page. If you’re involved in VC, you should definitely check out these standards & apply them to your program….

What Tree Am I?

Ok here’s the coolest idea I’ve run across in a while…. Bill Johnson from OneNet in Oklahoma just sent this email to the Megaconference listserv: My H.323 IP address is below, my system is always in “auto-answer” mode and my remote camera control is enabled. Simply dial my IP with your system, select remote camera [...]

David Thornburg’s Keynote

It’s always fun to hear David Thornburg’s keynote presentations. One of the first technologies he showed was Skype & Festoon, which we had just discussed in the Global Collaboration Birds of a Feather, so that was pretty cool. A questions to think about: We spend 13 years on reading & writing. How many years do [...]

Collaboration Birds of a Feather

Paul Hieronymus, Lorain County Distance Learning Consortium, is facilitating this session on collaborative projects. Resources mentioned in the sharing: TWICE Projects page CILC Collaboration Center Collaboration Collage Listserv My classes: Planning Interactive Curriculum Connects & Kid2Kid Connections. SAXophone Internet2 K20 Initiative Projects people have: Paul is doing “storytime” with teachers who haven’t done a VC [...]

Global Collaborations Birds of a Feather

This morning I’m in the birds of a feather session led by Mike Griffiths from Global Leap. We looked through the Global Leap website and how to register our schools and find other classes. We talked quite a bit about the technology and how we could connect. Tools for connecting other than traditional H.323 and [...]

Flying with Butterfly Puppets

Last session of the day! I’m back in the Teaching strand for a videoconference with the Center for Puppetry Arts. We are doing the Butterflies program. This is one of my most favorite videoconferences of all! Patty is great at making the program interactive. She asks questions, getes us to comment, uses student names, and [...]

Creative PD for Teachers

Bringing Teachers on Board with Professional Development by Dave Miller and Paul Heironymus from The Lorain County Distance Learning Consortium. Dave and Paul started their session with an IVDL Jeopardy game that they use with their teachers in training. Dave and Paul have a very creative professional development program going with team teaching projects that [...]

Global Connections

Global Connections: Learning With, not About, People from Other Countries By Atieno Adala (from Kenya) and Deb Hutton, (from Canada) from the Indiana University. Yet another Keystone Conference session. This presentation covers programs done by the International Studies in Schools content provider. They connect US students to international locations, and also allow students to talk [...]

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