Moving at the Speed of Creativity - TECSIG agenda released

TECSIG agenda released

Published by Wesley Fryer in edtech on September 23rd, 2005

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I’ll be keynoting the October 13, 2005 TECSIG conference in Austin, as well as presenting several spotlight sessions. The conference agenda is available in PDF format. The descriptions of the sessions I’ll be presenting are:

Keynote: Podcasting as Disruptive Transmediation

As a potentially disruptive technology capable of constructively promoting transmediation, educators have both an opportunity and responsibility to embrace podcasting. Under certain circumstances, podcasting can fundamentally transform the perceptions of students about school, their roles in the learning process, and the value of their daily activities shared via podcasts with a global as well as local audience. In this session we’ll explore transmediation (multimedia communication), disruptive versus sustaining technologies, and the need to help students be rich media producers rather than just consumers in the 21st century classoom.

Spotlight 1: Creative Commons and Free (legal) Multimedia Sources

Creative Commons provides a way for content publishers (both amateur and professional) to share their work with others to be reused, remixed and repurposed. This session explores the ideas of Creative Commons, how your students and teachers can use Creative Commons licenses to publish work, and how to access resources offering free digital content including audio, images, and video files published to share.

Spotlight 2: Podcasting101

Podcasting is analgous to TiVo for Internet radio, and students as well as teachers in your district can and should be creating their own podcasts. This session focuses on tools and techniques for podcasting, explores resources for locating and listening to podcasts as well as creating your own, on either a Windows or Macintosh computer.

Spotlight 3: Getting Started with GarageBand

Students love to create music, and GarageBand is the best free program available today to help them do that. This session explores the basics of creating tracked music in Garageband, using both pre-recorded loops and live instruments including the keyboard, guitar, and voice. Learn to loop tracks, apply filters to transpose recordings, mixdown and share your creations as mp3 files, and even use Garageband to create podcasts.

Please contact me if you are interested in having any of these sessions presented for your conference or school district, either as shorter sessions or full day workshops.