Margo's presentation covered several topics related to internet safety, digital game-based learning, and educational technology. Some key points included: advising students to avoid responding to online bullying and to tell a trusted authority; using screen names carefully to avoid unwanted attention; and using filtering tools to protect students from inappropriate content. The presentation also discussed how digital games can be effective teaching tools by creating cycles of learning through challenges and success, and highlighted the benefits of teachers gaining expertise in both their subject area and educational technology.

1. Margo’s Amazing Presentation
Constructed by: Margo Hoover
for: Instructional Technology ITEC

2. Internet Safety
• Bullying is incredibly worse in the digital age, one way to deal with the
issue is not to let your student respond to the bullying, save the message,
and tell a trusted authority.
• Be careful how students use online games and social networking, because
they could be connecting with some undesirable people and possibly
predators.
• Aid your student in picking a “smart screenname.” This will protect them
Internet users who might misinterpret their motives if they happen to
choose a screen name like “sexybaby14.”
• There are a multiple security measures you can take to filter and protect
your students from nudity, and other inappropriate material.

3. Digital Game Based Learning
• There are many misnomers regarding the benefits of DGBL.
• “Digital gaming is a $10 billion per year industry,2 and in 2004,
nearly as many digital games were sold as there are people in
the United States (248 million games vs. 293.6 million
residents.” (2, VanEck)
• Situated Cognition: “poses that knowing is inseparable from
doing.” (Wikipedia)
• “Games thrive as teaching tools when they create a
continuous cycle of cognitive disequilibrium and
accommodation while also allowing the player to be
successful.”(5, VanEck)

4. Topics that Resonated
• “Teachers must reach a point where they are exploiting the full benefits of
technology to support their learners . We need to combine subject expertise with
deep knowledge of the technology to become educational technologists or
technological educators.” (Mellow, 474)
• “School programs are sometimes limited by prescribed learning outcomes, lack of
time, and school-based conceptions of what it means to be a student and what it
means to be a teacher. Perhaps for this reason, much of the work in critical youth
media production takes place within community settings rather than schools.”
(Stack, 302)
• Maximum amount of attention a student can give a podcast. “In our survey asking
a similar question, six to ten minutes also emerged as the most reasonable
duration.” (http://isedj.org/6/6/)
• “ At the moment there are too few opportunities for youth and adults within the
educational system to move beyond mere critique of media and to use media as a
way to initiate dialogue about creating a more hopeful and equitable world.”
(Stack,17)

5. Educational Art Related Websites
• www.ubu.com Ubu is a more advanced resource that archives hundreds
of filmmakers. It describes itself as a “completely independent resource
dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider
arts.”
• www.magnumphotos.com Magnum is a collection of the preeminent
photojournalists working in the world, a great resource for media and
photography.
• www.tumblr.com Tumblr is a free blog platform. I like to use it for
archiving my student’s work so they can go back and look at it and share.
• www.youtube.com Famous video posting based website. Always great for
“how-to’s” for your students if your methods of explanation are just not
doing it.