The Digital Backpack

This week I attended three webinars. Each was full of energy and lots of learning through experience was had by all.

Webinar 1 Digital Storytelling

The first was an ISTE seminar by BernaJean Porter on how to craft a digital story. The archive can be found here. The ides put forth will be very useful when coaching a good story out of students and teachers. Resources from the webinar are found in the following wiki. ISTE are hoping that educators and students will contribute a story to their 30^th Anniversary Project. To learn more, visit www.iste.org/30 and select the “Tell Your Story” tab.

I got a lot from her six elements of telling a digital story. They apply to all stories actually. How to get to the soul of a story and create impact with power messages.

1. Economizing- getting to the essence of your story

2. Unfolding- what was the lesson learnt

3. Developing tension

4. Showing not telling

5. Craftsmanship

6. Living your story

Webinar 2 PRHS Study Skills 1st online session

I was involved in giving the second seminar of my week with the librarian at my school. We held a 7pm study session open to students using wiziq. We left school on Wednesday hoping that at least a few students would show up. It was voluntary and not part of their regular classes. We were both astonished when 18 students were ready and waiting in the online whiteboard session. Now, we really had to do the lesson. It was useful to have two teachers present. One to teach the lesson and the other to moderate the chatroom. The hour flew by and every student thanked us as they left the virtual room. They thought it was “cool” and had not experienced being in a webinar, virtual whiteboard environment before. We are planning another one for this upcoming Wednesday on “websites that can help you study”.

Webinar 3 Live Classroom2.0 on Twitter

This was the regular Saturday lunchtime live classroom session, from the classroom 2.0 ning. This session was about twitter and featured guest was @thecleversheep aka Rodd Lucier. His fab presentation is below (hours of work I’m sure).

I always, always learn something from these sessions. They are also archived here. I enjoy how Peggy George and Lorna let the show unfold. It begins with participation immediately. There are poll questions and a “where are you from” activity. Then it gets into the newbie question of the week. This one had 128 people participating and the chat screen rolled by in a blur. One nice feature is for each subject they create a sharetab of links like this one. The whole experience is a great model that we are trying to emulate in our own beginnings of online sessions. Join us for the next one, I will tweet it out next Saturday. @lindseyb16

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