Sorry that it took so long, but getting back to another crazy week finds me now, on the Friday might before MRA 2008, catching up on SITE. That said, I have one final set of notes and reflections, and this keynote was a good one. Dr. Antonio Battro, the Chief Education Officer for One Laptop [...]

These are the final three sessions that I will attend at SITE before heading home. I have notes on the keynote and follow-up conversation from this morning that I still need to clean-up and process (as well as a podcast for my presentation from a few days ago). I will get that all done later, [...]

Reflective Digital Media in Teacher Education Timo Portimojarvi, University of Tampere, Finland Developing curriculum of teacher education Cultural view of curriculum and profession Historical, cultural, and political objectives Teachers are social and cultural actors The development of the curriculum is a practice-based research process Three-level curriculum model Personal level – autobiographical and individual process of [...]

A Digital Storytelling Implementation Experience with Early Childhood Students Aslihan Kocaman-Karoglu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey What is digital storytelling? Story telling as an ancient tradition; digital storytelling integrates visual, interactive, and reiterative with constructive ideas “combining the art of telling stories with some mixture of digital graphics, text, recorded audio narration, video…” B. Robin, [...]

Thinking Creatively: Teachers as Designers of Technology, Pedagogy, and Content (TPACK) Punya Mishra and Matthew J. Koehler, Michigan State University Three points to the refrain Teaching with technology is a wicked problem Wicked problems need creative solutions Teachers want to create solutions Teaching It is messy: Teaching is always “about something” — the content Yet [...]

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: The Use of Digital Photography to Enhance Literacy Development in Young Children Lauren Cummins, Regina Rees, and Kelly Bacroft, Youngstown State University What do we know about literacy development? Young children are natural storytellers, and they “write” stories through pictures Children use pictures to help them remember about [...]

Why Do Some Teachers Trust Technology and Some Don’t? Andrea Francis, Michigan State University Reasons for Exclusion Lack of social and institutional support Lack of funding Lack of adwquate training for the task Psychological Factors Fear of using digital technologies Inability to overcome “functional fixedness” Why do some people trust technology and others don’t? Trust [...]

Thanks to those of you who attended my session at SITE 2008 on Project WRITE. As promised, here are links to the items discussed in the session: Project WRITE Wiki Project WRITE Blog Presentation on Slide Share Presentation Podcast Please leave comments here so we can continue the conversation. Thanks, Troy

This week, I am at SITE 2008, preparing for a presentation on Project WRITE tomorrow. Today, I will try to blog from some of the sessions (as wifi will allow). Here are three sessions on digital storytelling that I attended this morning. (I will also cross-post on the Using Technology to Tell Stories Blog): An [...]