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Contemporary digital literacy skills allow students of all ages to demonstrate what they are learning in the form of digital portfolios, blogs, web pages, and multi-media production. Using a wide range of web-based, user friendly, and free digital literacy tools all students have the opportunity to demonstrate learning outcomes in the form of digital stories in all fine art mediums. This session models and demonstrates how teachers can guide students in the development of digital literacy skills in the arts. Specific area digital literacy project designs will be shared. Participants will build a digital story using Microsoft's Photo Story 3 software that will be a model for your students to build their own digital story projects using images of their own work to demonstrate learning. The advantage of these types of projects is that it provides differentiated forms of assessment that integrate technology into the learning process. Participants are strongly encouraged to bring their computers with Wi-Fi access for this session. |
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Bill Sheskey is a lifetime educator with experience as a school district instructional technology specialist, classroom teacher, and athletic coach. Educators now demand dynamic professional development experiences that are hands on in the development of authentic assessment strategies, digital literacy, contemporary content delivery, and web based tools for the classroom. Bill designs and facilitates a series of engaging workshops for educators at national, state, and local education conferences where participants leave the workshop with multimedia tools to immediately engage their students.
In Heidi Hayes Jacobs ASCD book, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, Bill contributed Chapter 12, "Creating Learning Connections with Tech Savvy Students". The chapter goes inside classrooms and shares student work using authentic instructional technology tools. Visit Bill's blog.
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