This document provides an overview of a professional development session focused on digital literacy and using technology tools to enhance teaching and learning. It discusses how visuals are processed more quickly than text and the importance of integrating images into instruction. Various tools are presented for finding, editing and sharing images and other digital content, including Compfight, Skitch, Phonto, Haiku Deck, QR code generators, Comic Life and Educreations. Teachers are guided through tasks to create multimedia content and QR codes to share their work.

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5. Our Morning
How has our world changed visually?
Combining Text & Images
Death by PowerPoint - Enter Haiku Deck
A Different Approach to Summarizing
Vocabulary Videos

6. Today’s Apps
Phonto
Skitch
Haiku Deck Qrafter

7. SAMR Model
Puentedura

8. THINK - PAIR - SHARE
1. WHAT HAS CHANGED VISUALLY IN THE LAST 20 YEARS?
2. HOW HAS THIS CHANGED TEACHING AND LEARNING?
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9. Digital Literacy
The Power of
Images & Symbols

10. According to research from 3M,
we process visuals 60,000x faster
than text.

11. “Digital Natives”-Our Students!
Processing Order - Picture, Video, Sound -> Text
“Digital Immigrants”- That’s Us!
Processing Order - Text--> Picture, Video, Sound
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12. “Transfer
(actual learning)
improves 89% when
images are integrated
into the instruction.”
~Dr. Lynell Burmark

13. So, if we know we need
to use images, where
do we get them?

14. So, if we know we need
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15. IMAGE SEARCH OPTIONS
Young Men’s Tools by pj vanf
Compfight Pics4Learning
Multicolr Search Lab

16. Task #1: Digital Literacy Is...
1. Think About Digital Literacy...
2. Use Compfight to find an image that
illustrates digital literacy.
3. Save your image to your photos.

17. Combining Images & Text
4. Using either Skitch or Phonto add the
prompt Digital Literacy Is... to your photo.
Skitch Phonto
5. Email your creation to proj3ctconn3ct@posterous.com
Change the subject line to something that describes your project
as that will be the title of your blog post on Posterous.

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24. App Review
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Skitch Phonto

25. Death By Powerpoint
What other PowerPoint mistakes have you seen?

26. Haiku Deck

27. Task #2 - Create a Presentation
1. Using Haiku Deck
create a 4-5 slide presentation to...

29. What does sharing look like with Haiku Deck?
To Share you have to create an account.
Export - Saves as PPT & emails
Email sends a link to the Haiku Deck website.
From the web site you can get an embed code.
Email your creation to
proj3ctconn3ct@posterous.com
Change the subject line to something that describes your Haiku Deck
as that will be the title of your blog post on Posterous.

30. QR Code Reader:
Qrafter (App)

31. Proj3ct Conn3ct Posterous

32. Create It - Session A

33. Creating QR Codes
qrcode.kaywa.com
Another Option:
QR Stuff - www.qrstuff.com
Creates QR codes linked to plain text, email, web sites, etc.

34. Task 3 -
Create a QR Code for your School
Wires page or Blog.
1. Go to your School Wires Page or Blog in Safari.
2. Copy the URL.
3. In Safari go to qrcode.kawya.com
4. Save the QR Code to your photos.

35. Think - Pair - Share
Discuss ways that QR codes could be utilized in
your classroom.
Add your ideas to the School Wires Discussion
forum under Create It A

37. Task 4 - Use Comic Life to Summarize
1. Create a comic to summarize our day!
What have you learned today? What are
you excited about implementing in your
classroom?
Email your completed comic as a
Standard JPEG to:
proj3ctconn3ct@posterous.com

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40. Task #5 - Vocabulary Video
1. Choose a tier 2 vocabulary Word.
2. Create a 3-5 Page Educreations
Screencast to illustrate your word.
Ideas: Include the definition, use the word in
a sentence and use images to
represent the word. Record your thinking!
Email to: proj3ctconn3ct@posterous.com

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