NAEYC 09 – Washington DC
Here are my presentation slides from the Digital Learners in the Early Childhood Education session I presented on 20th November 2009, at Washington DC.
Below are some of the media files and website recommendations I made within the presentation, plus some extra items I couldn’t fit in!
AN INSPIRATIONAL VIDEO! YOU AIN’T GONNA HOLD US BACK!
MARKETING PLAY
If you are interested in this book that I mentioned in my presentation just click on the image and it should take you to the online site of the Early Childhood Australia (NAEYC equivalent) site which publish this book. If not visit, http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/shop/details.cfm?prodid=96
PODCASTING & VODCASTING
If you are interested in downloading the free versions of the software I mentioned in my presentation click on the image below for the relevant software!
EXAMPLES OF HOW THE ABOVE PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN USED IN MY CLASSROOM
Example 1: Listening Post recorded using Audacity
THE LISTENING POST of the beginning reader. You will here me talking through the 3 stages of supporting a beginning reader on this listening post mp3 file. The first read we just encourage the students to look at the visual clues on each page and to have a think about what the story could be about. The second read the students are asked to listen and follow along with their “reading finger”. The final read is when the students are asked to read along with the story using their “reading finger”. The beauty of recording a listening post in a digital format is that you can also email the mp3 to your families to model the way a beginning reader can be supported in their reading efforts. You could even post it in your virtual classroom for your students to access over and over again!
If you remember I demonstrated the BELKIN ROCKSTAR!
Example 2: Using Quicktime to Create Learning Media Files for VCR (year 3)
An example of how you can use Keynote or powerpoint in conjunction with Quicktime to make a learning resource. This is a simple little movie with the spelling words for the week the students of a year 3 class I had a few years ago. I posted this on our class website I had set up so they could access these at home and practice these anywhere they wanted. Likewise the Timestables movie, I made the slides in Keynote and added the music to make the movie. The kids loved it, and asked years later if they could get a copy so they could practice and remember their timetables!
CHILDREN CREATING SIMPLE MOVIES
I talked about the importance of having the children in control of their own documentation and creativity in relation to digital cameras (both still and video). Here are the two examples I gave of children recording video which is meaningful and authentic to them.
Example 1: Here’s what my 4yo daughter Aspen recorded on a flip camera to document her interest in a particular plant during a display garden walk.
Example 2: This is my 8yo son Broderick testing out the new iPod Nano’s video features. This was the fifth clip he had done on the nano. Not bad for a first timer I thought!
ALLOWING THE POWER OF VIDEO TO EXTEND CHILDREN’S LITERACY AND CREATIVITY DEVELOPMENT
Unfortunately I did not get time to show this in my presentation. However, after “playing” with both the iPod Nano’s video features and the FLIP video camera, my son Broderick (8 years old) decided he would write a script for his favourite TV show Primeval and film it. He wrote the script, and then set roles for his 4 year old sister, his father and declared that I was to be the director/cinematographer! This really engaged him not only in creative writing, using a narrative genre, but it also encouraged him to plan, delegate and sequence events. Here is the result…
