Drilling+Down+Digitally

=Drilling Down Digitally - Facilitating Today's Learner= Barbara McLaughlin - Ottawa Carleton District School Board

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Participants will learn the fundamental skills needed to use Voicethread, and related language-rich software such as Bitstrips and Comic Life, to facilitate deep understandings. The goal of this learning experience is to provide hands-on inquiry, reflections on practice and resources that access some K-12 Higher Order Thinking connections.

=But Wait, There's More=

Continue the Conversation at Friday's Bird's of a Feather - come and share your ideas about how these accessible tools can be used for differentiation, demonstration of understanding, motivating reluctant and new language learners, critical thinking and assessing for/as/of learning.

=What You Need to Bring= A laptop Images (don't worry, we'll help you find some if you don't have any)

That's it! Oh, and maybe a little sprinkle of collaboration and fun.

Barbara and Richard Brainstorm Graphic organizers Collaboration
 * ===The Writing Process=== || === The Digital Writing Process === ||
 * **Pre-Writing**

Drafting – text-driven
 * Writing**

Revising – grammar, text Peer/self edit Hand in/read to peers Minimal feedback at this point except for evaluation. || **Pre-Writing** Brainstorm Storyboard templates – Comic Life Script – Comic Life, Bitstrips Collaboration – multi learning styles
 * Post-Writing**

Manipulate images, avatars, Visual Language, text bubbles to make meaning (Comic Life, Bitstrips) Pose questions, respond, present (Voicethreads) Revise (images, frames, gutters) Feedback (Bitstrips, Voicethreads) Edit - colours, shading, fills (Comic Life, Bitstrips) Publish to web, video, print Feedback – web comments ||
 * Writing (Media Construction)**
 * Post-Writing**




 * How to create a Voicethread Account (thanks to http://njea-hth-2010.wikispaces.com/Voicethread+for+Collaborations)**
 * 1) Go to []
 * 2) In the top-right hand corner click on **Register**
 * 3) On the left-hand side, click on **Register**
 * 4) Complete the form - //MAKE SURE TO USE YOUR SCHOOL E-MAIL ADDRESS//
 * 5) Click "**view upgrade options**" on the right-hand side
 * 6) Click on **K-12** on the left
 * 7) Click the link for "**Single Educator**"
 * 8) Scroll down to the bottom-right and the click the grey "**Apply**" button
 * 9) Complete the form
 * 10) Check your mail for the "Verification link" or do that sometime in the next day or so.
 * 11) Click on the **My Voice** tab at the top and you are all set.

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http://ocdsbvoicethread.wikispaces.com/

@http://voicethread.com/



Voicethread Manual

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Bitstrips

Comic Life =Resources=
 * Additional Resources:**
 * 1) []
 * 2) http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/
 * 3) []
 * 4) http://njea-hth-2010.wikispaces.com/Voicethread+for+Collaborations

Thanks to Andrew Churches for the following.



Prensky has a great discussion of verbs (aka Bloom's) vs nouns (aka The Tools)
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 * [[image:Prensky.jpg align="left" link="http://www.amazon.ca/Teaching-Digital-Natives-Partnering-Learning/dp/1412975417/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286934436&sr=1-1"]] || media type="custom" key="7176773" ||