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 Per [...]

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 developing a personal and professional identity

Experiential life world

Streams [...]

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, 2006

Purpose of the Study

Outlines [...]

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 every discipline is messy, too — the canon, [...]

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 their story and be [...]

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

Measuring trust: benevolence, reliable, competent, honest, openness; vulnerability and confidence of [...]

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 Instructional [...]