Camp Plug and Play 5.0: Screencasting: Tutorials 2.0

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Camp Plug & Play 5.0 offers a world-class professional development experience where participants dive into one of five topics for the week. Strands offered in June are: Get Smart with Your Whiteboard, Screencasting: Tutorials 2.0, Fantastic Films with iMovie ’09, Get Going with Google, and Visuals, Photography & Design. Each strand is taught by knowledgeable and patient trainers who have a strong passion for empowering teachers and students with technology.

Registration includes your own room Monday until Friday and delicious breakfasts, lunches and breaks at the Westward Look Resort. Most importantly, you receive practical instruction and lots of hands-on time so that you leave with new knowledge, skills, and confidence to use what you’ve learned in your classroom.

The week kicks off Monday afternoon with an opening presentation from Hall Davidson, former teacher and PBS producer who is currently the director of the Discovery Education Network. After the keynote, participants meet in their learning strands where they will spend the rest of the week learning, playing, and creating. In addition to direct instruction and work time, Camp Plug & Play offers evening breakout sessions about popular topics like productivity and iPods. Another evening session is Pecha Kucha. Campers are invited to make presentations consisting of exactly 20 slides which are shown on the screen for exactly 20 seconds each. Those that present these fast-paced speeches are entered to win terrific prizes.

To make sure the technology works smoothly, the Arizona K12 Center provides a MacBook for each participant to use during the day. Although you might not be a Macintosh user, what you learn at camp will certainly be applicable to computers running Windows. Watch for email from the Arizona K12 Center in the weeks leading up to Camp Plug & Play for information about the camp's online social network, your learning strand, Pecha Kucha, and breakout sessions.

Camp Plug & Play is a great way to spend some of your summer! This is your opportunity to join a group of Arizona educators who, like you, are passionate about engaging today's students in their learning.

Screencasting: Tutorials 2.0

With the rapid advancement in web-based applications, teachers and students have the opportunity to learn, interact, and communicate using tools that were not available just a few years ago.  In fact, new and exciting online tools pop-up everyday. How can you help your students understand how to use these tools? Make a screencast! 

In this strand you learn how to utilize screencasting, a way to digitally record exactly what you see on your computer's screen and narrate it. Screencasts are a great way for teachers to create tutorials, record lectures, and make podcast episodes because the audience sees exactly what you see! It's not just teachers who might want to create screencasts; students can create screencasts to demonstrate knowledge of a topic, media specialists can create screencasts to demonstrate how to search for information, and administrators and professional developers can make a screencast to train staff.

The first part of this strand is all about exploring new "Web 2.0" tools, like sites where you create your own cartoons, timelines, slide shows, flash cards, or music. You'll pick one of the dozens of sites presented as the topic of your first screencast using the free Jing software. You show the ins-and-outs of the site and share the screencast with fellow campers. For your second screencast, you learn to use the more advanced ScreenFlow software. With ScreenFlow, you can record your computer's screen, your voice, and video from your webcam simultaneously. ScreenFlow has powerful editing tools to give your screencast music, special effects, and slick transitions. By the end of this intense week you will have an arsenal of tools, skills, and examples.

In Screencasting: Tutorial 2.0 you will:

•    Discover and explore a variety of useful Web 2.0 tools.
•    View a variety of screencasts to see how they can be used in schools.
•    Learn how screencasting can give your students 24/7 access to your classroom.
•    Create screencasts using Jing (free for Windows and Macintosh).
•    Create screencasts using ScreenFlow ($99 Mac only software, but there are Windows equivalents).
•    Import screencasts into iMovie for even more flexibility.
•    Investigate ways of distributing your screencasts for student, teacher, and home access.

Note: This strand is an advanced topic and quickly paced. Participants should be familiar with podcasting, have some movie-making experience, and be comfortable exploring new Web 2.0 tools. Participants should investigate their districts' policies and accessibility regarding blocked Web 2.0 sites.

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