Take a Walk on the Wild Side!

SCASL Pre-conference Session

Storytelling through Pictures–
Take a Walk on the Wild Side

March 11, 2009

9:00-4:00 p.m (It’s over and we had a great day!)

(Donna Goldsmith, Cathy Arnold and Tim Van Heule)

Essential Question: How do I design digital age learning experiences for my students?

9:00– 9:30

  • Meet at Carolina First Convention Center to catch ride to Greenville Zoo
  • Meet and Greet

9:30- 12:30

  • Ride to zoo
  • Meet guides and take tour of zoo

12:30- 1:30

  • Get picked up at Zoo and return to Carolina First Convention Center to receive and eat lunch

1:30- 4:00

  • Participants get a laptop, headphones, etc
  • Presenters share various projects created with different tools
  • Participants are placed in groups and begin to work on their projects
  • Participants share their projects with others
  • Culminating activity: A Wish and A Star

 

Map picture

 

Possible Programs to Resize/Compress Photos:

Picaso

Windows Live Photo Gallery

Microsoft Picture Editor (found on most computers)

Turtle            Turtle

Possible Programs to Share Photos:

Flickr

Shutterfly

Google Photos

Snapfish

ZooBlogheader

 

Examples from session:

Glogster samples:

 http://cybrarian.glogster.com/Giraffes/

 http://cybrarian.glogster.com/E-is-for-Elephant/

http://dgoldsmi.glogster.com/zoovisit/

 

VoiceThread sample:

http://voicethread.com/#q.b335241.i1776698

 

Word sample:

Click here for Word sample

Photo Story sample:

Click here for Photo Story sample

 

PowerPoint sample:

Click here for PowerPoint sample

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Participant Survey

Please Click here to take our survey. 

Thank you for your time

….and we hope you enjoyed your walk on the wild side!

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