KySTE 2008 Advanced Techniques for Integrating KET Encyclomedia Resources & some OMG links

Day 1 of KySTE 2008 - KET session. Standing in a v e r y l o n g l i n e for a good old-fashioned high school lunch of chips, soda, white or wheat with ham or turkey, potato salad and fruit. Hmm, hmm, good. (sarcasm, right off the bat) This was how Day 1 of the Kentucky Society for Technology in Education 2008 Conference began for me.

It could only get better, as it couldn't get much worse. It was difficult to hear the Keynote speaker, Dr. Mike Ribble, co-author of Digital Citizenship in Schools. He struggled with the PA feedback, but finally won out when he played a video that asks "Have you been paying attention?

Most people were eating and talking during his fairly dry talk. Maybe he's a better public speaker, but just didn't have it turned on today. Anyway, he was easier to talk to in person after his address was concluded.

There were plenty of good sessions to choose from today.

I attended Advanced Techniques for Integrating KET Encyclomedia Resources, as the presenter Larry Moore guaranteed me that it would be well in-depth than the session I attended last week at TIS'08 outside of Lexington. The session was touted as training participants to create lessons that connect students to the real world through the creative use of EncycloMedia's features in conjunction with other quality resources and integrative software, such as Word, PowerPoint, Inspiration, PhotoStory, MovieMaker, Whiteboard software and Google Earth.

passcode for the session
kyste2008
encyclomedia

A few KET-related sites used today:
Virtual Physics Lab
The Arts Toolkit Series
Literacy Without Limits
KET Virtual Field Trips

Web 2.0 tools sites

Go2Web20
http://joycevalenzaworkshop.wikispaces.com/

Good photo/video sources, slideshow software, and photo editing sites
KET Encyclomedia
KET
PBS
PBS Kids
Flickr
Creative Commons
New York Public Library
Library of Congress
TeacherTube

Slideshow and photo editing software
Voicethread
Slideshare
Scraplog
Bubbleshare
animoto
graphita

Video in the Classroom
NeedleWorks Pictures

File conversion tool
http://www.zamzar.com

Accessing streaming video from EncycloMedia

1. Go to and login at http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
2. Once there, check out the Atlas tab pictured below.

This should have taken you to http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/hotbox/atlas Downloading streaming video clips from Discovery Education Make sure you go to Tools and check that the Pop-up Blocker is turned off.

1. Right-click the clip
2. Choose to "save target as" (if you are going to link it to a PPT or something else, make sure it is in the same folder as the product you are producing)
3. (don't save too much to your hard drive)
4. Change the "x" in a ".asx" to an "f", as in ".asf" in all cases discussed today.

Access your stuff by using your My Content tab, as well as the School Content tab. Great training resources under the Professional Development tab. Incorporating KET EncyloMedia Resources into MS Word

1. Download your video clip to a folder on your computer that also contains your project materials (PowerPoint, Word doc, Inspiration, etc)
2. Highlight the keyword(s) to act as your a link
3. Choose the video that becomes hyperlinked.
4. To play hyperlinked video, CTRL+click hyperlink

Hyperlinking a Movie Clip in PowerPoint Select PowerPoint slide with an image. Highlight the image Insert/Movies from File (under MS 2003; it's a 'ribbon'-look in MS 2007) go back to slideshow and click image = video plays Embed - lack of control (for student to use) Hyperlink - more control (for teacher to use - ability to stop) With Inspiration (you can only Hyperlink, no Embedding)

1. Using a Web
2. Choose Link
3. Insert a graphic
4. Look for your graphic
5. Hyperlink

Demonstration of an Encyclomedia NING (NING is a social networking software) The New Internet: Web 2.0 and What it Means for Educators, presented by Stephen Smith, was my other session for the day. The session description stated the Internet has once again proven to be a place of constant change. Web 2.0 is best understood as a "second" generation of web-based technologies that offer enhanced interactivity with content and communications. Examples include social networking sites, wikis, blogs, and much more. This session examines the goals of the Web 2.0 movement and its potential for enhancing instruction.