TILT - Teachers Improving Learning with Technology

The Pecha Kucha presentation essentially involves 20 media-rich slides with little or no text voice-narrated for no longer than 20 seconds per slide for a total presentation time of 6 minutes, 40 seconds.  In this episode you'll see an overview of Pecha Kucha and how your students can create Pecha Kucha presentations of their own. Thanks to the following people in my Twitter PLN, friends, and the blogosphere for their expertise and experience which helped me create this: Aaron Ball, @MrAaronBall, Casual Teacher Blog Jeff Johnson, @iLeadCommunity, @iPadEducators Sylvia Tolisano, @Langwitches, Langwitches Blog Post "Presentation21 Make-Over" Dean Shareski, @shareski, Ideas & Thoughts from an Edtech Blog Post "My First Crack at Keynote and Pecha Kucha" Scott Walker, TeacherTechBlog Post "PowerPoint: Students Use Pecha Kucha to Streamline Presentations" Joni Dunlap, Thoughts on Teaching Blog Post "Pecha Kucha, an alternative format for presentations" Pecha Kucha 20 x 20 Here is the PowerPoint presentation I used in the screencast: Using the Pecha Kucha Presentation Technique with Students (6.2MB PPTX File) Right-click to download: Windows Media Version (720 x 480, 31Mb)

Microsoft PowerPoint is software which is present in most of our schools, however it can be used for so much more than presentations. In this episode, you'll see how PowerPoint can be used to create a beautiful classroom magazine. While the screencast demonstrates PowerPoint 2007, 2003 can also be used. Project ideas include: Thematic articles (e.g. poetry magazine, global citizenship magazine) Subject-specific (e.g. math magazine) Student portfolio magazine for each student (e.g. work samples, reflections, interviews, etc.) Cross-class magazine (e.g. collaborative project between two or more classes) Publishing options include: Print copies with services such as HP's MagCloud Online publishing services such as Youblisher Right-click to download: iTunes Version (1280 x 720, 32Mb) Windows Media Version (720 x 480, 13Mb)

Having students create their own graphic organizers with key words or phrases, multimedia, connections, color, and layout can be a great way for them to develop visual literacy and thinking skills, construct and represent knowledge, and show the connections between their ideas and understandings. In this episode, participants will be shown specific examples of three different types of graphic organizers for different purposes: Compare and Contrast Map Concept Map (in the form of an opinion composition) Hierarchy/Classification Map (in the form of a decision tree) These three graphic organizers will be demonstrated using three tools which are free or readily available for most students: PowerPoint (not just a slide show tool anymore!) Prezi zooming presentation tool Glogster EDU multimedia poster tool The ideas shared and discussed with participants will be consistent with the social constructivist classroom in a Universal Design for Learning environment.  Right-click to download: iTunes Version (640 x 480, 29 MB) Windows Media Version (640 x 480, 39 MB)

tweetmeme_url = ''; In this episode, we'll look at four elements of the iPhone which make it a great educational tool for a teacher and students: Still/video camera and apps to edit/enhance photos (00:43) Audio recorder (04:15) iPod/iTunes (05:04) Blogging apps (07:31) Show links: None this episode Right-click to download: iTunes Version (320 x 240, 34 MB MPEG-4) Windows Media Version (640 x 480, 47 MB WMV)

The thought of burning photo slide shows, PowerPoint presentations, and video projects to DVD as a way of sharing schoolwork with home is desirable to many teachers. With Windows XP however, too often it means having to buy software. In this episode, you'll see options for converting these projects and burning them to DVD which are easy and which involve using free, trusted software. Show Links: DVD Flick Website Microsoft Photo Story 3 Windows Media Encoder 9 Large Google Video Version Right-click to download: iTunes Version (320 x 240, 42 MB MPEG-4) Windows Media Version (640 x 480, 38 MB WMV)