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Welcome to MACUL 2008
Presenters - Bill Schreiter, Bruce White and Peter Dawson Description: 8:00 to 10:00 AM Thursday March 6, 2008 Media Literacy, Visual Literacy, Numeracy, and SmartBoards Bill Schreiter and Bruce White, Technology Learning Coordinators, and Peter Dawson, Vice Principal, Thames Valley District School Board, London, Ontario, Canada The 21st century learner is bombarded with images from morning to night. The SmartBoard can be used to help students decode, synthesize, and evaluate information. Teachers will have an opportunity to work with the SmartBoard to re-create this experience. Agenda:
Introductions and Agenda review - 10 minutes Getting Started with Interactive White Boards
How Does an Interactive White Board Work?
No more than 10 minutes Notebook Software
Smart Notebook Software
No more than 10 minutes Smart Board Tools
Smart Board Tools
SMARTBoard Lessons 75: Creating Commericals & Media Literacy
Contains Smart Notebook file and a lesson related to the Analysis of Commercials. Media Literacy
NCTE - "Shifting" Toward a New Literacy
A post by Will Richardson led me to this from The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Executive Committee (quoted in its entirety for your convenience): Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies. These literacies—from reading online newspapers to participating in virtual classrooms—are multiple, dynamic, and malleable. As in the past, they are inextricably linked with particular histories, life possibilities and social trajectories of individuals and groups. Twenty-first century readers and writers need to There looks like a change in the thinking of the National Council of Teachers of English. Read this blog to see the "new" integration with Technology. Collection Use: Media Literacy
Media literacy, computer literacy, technology literacy, information literacy, science literacy… what does it all mean? What is media literacy and why are there so many different perspectives? This page focuses on media literacy. For information on the larger issue of information literacy, go to Approaches to Information and Communication Literacy at eduScapes Teacher Tap. For related information about visual literacy, read Visual Literacy by Annette Lamb at eduScapes Activate and The On-Line Visual Literacy Project from Pomona College. Great set of resources from Annette Lamb.
What is Media Literacy?
What do the experts have to say about media literacy? What's the difference between media literacy and media education? Here are a few answers. Media Literacy Ideas and Pages Taken directly from their site: TeachWithMovies.com offers Movie Lesson Plans and Learning Guides to 270 movies. "Learning Guides" are flexible tools for teachers providing background, discussion questions, links to the Internet, projects, and vocabulary lists. They allow teachers to quickly and easily create lesson plans suitable for their particular classes. * So far this year we have watched and read: Matilda by: Roald Dahl and Charlotte's Web by: E.B. White. With Matilda we used a Venn Diagram to show the similarities and differences between he book and the movie. I have started collecting movies and books that go together, there are many out there.
Lessons and resources for media education. 30 lesson plans geared to the primary level. There are also five media based games, including: Privacy Playground, which is geared to students 8 -10 years old. The game includes a teachers guide.
Television Commercial Links
Media Literacy - Ideas and Resources Click here for a list of pictures books that can be used to teach media literacy ideas. Click here for a hand-out of containing most of this information and more. Digital
Cameras Enhance Education
Think Literacy Library > Ministry of Education
www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/studentsuccess/thinkliteracy... Think Literacy: Subject-Specific Strategies, Grades 7-12Cross-Curricular Approaches, Grades 7-12
Think Literacy Library > Ministry of Education
www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/studentsuccess/thinkliteracy... Professional Learning
Critical Issue: Using Technology to Enhance Lit...
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 Edyth E. Young, Ph.D., NCREL program director/research, Center for Literacy outlines "Content Literacy" [QuickTime Video and text, information about QuickTime is available]. Free Video to Flash Converter: convert video to...
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The International Visual Literacy Association defines visual literacy as the ability to discriminate and interpret visual actions, objects, and other images, while gaining meaning from them. Reading Images: An Introduction to Visual Literacy - Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skill for students to learn. What is this site all about? This site is for K–8 classroom teachers who are interested in helping children to read and write information, both print and electronic. Visual literacy helps children to learn to read — and to enjoy reading. Examples of visual texts include diagrams, maps, tables, time lines and storyboard. 21st Century SkillsVisual LiteracyVisual literacy is the ability to interpret, use, appreciate, and create images and video using both conventional and 21st century media in ways that advance thinking, decision making, communication, and learning.
The graphic user interface of the World Wide Web and the convergence of voice, video, and data into a common digital format have increased the use of visual imagery dramatically. Through advances such as digital cameras, graphics packages, streaming video, and common standards for imagery, visual imagery is now routinely used in communication. Experts in many fields—from architecture, to medicine, to farming—are now using visualization tools to represent data in ways never before possible. (For example, visuals are used to model phenomena such as population growth, weather and traffic patterns, and the spread of disease.) From three-dimensional representations of data, to geographic information systems, to representation icons, a picture is truly worth a thousand words. Students need good visualization skills to be able to decipher, interpret, detect patterns, and communicate using imagery—especially given the ease with which digitized visuals can be manipulated. Visual
Literacy
in Classrooms by Keith Lightbody Ethics in Digital Photographyby Fred ShowkerIs it getting more difficult to believe news photos these days? Most people haven't noticed, but it's getting more and more difficult to recognize reality in photographic journalism. While the unwary public soaks up newspaper and broadcast news reports which show stark photography, those of us who know what can be done with today's software are taking a more careful look. A recent photo in the local newspaper editorialized the aftermath of a house fire. Most people looked at the story it told. I saw it -- but I also saw the affects of over-sharpening and was alerted that the image had been manipulated. As a journalist myself, I've come to scrutinize the images as much as the content. Visual literacyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search
Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image. Visual literacy is based on the idea that pictures can be “read” and that meaning can be communicated through a process of reading. The term “visual literacy” (VL) is credited to John Debes, who in 1969 offered a tentative definition of the concept: “Visual literacy refers to a group of vision-competencies a human being can develop by seeing and at the same time having and integrating other sensory experiences.”1 However, because multiple disciplines such as education, art history and criticism, rhetoric, semiotics, philosophy, information design, and graphic design make use of the term visual literacy, arriving at a common definition of visual literacy has been contested since its first appearance in professional publications. Since technological advances continue to develop at an unprecedented rate, many educators in the twenty-first century promote the learning of visual literacies as indispensable to life in the information age. Similar to linguistic literacy (meaning making derived from written or oral human language) which is commonly taught in schools, educators are recognizing the importance of helping students develop visual literacies in order to survive and communicate in a highly complex world. Many scholars from the New London Group such as Courtney Cazden, James Gee, Gunther Kress, and Allan Luke advocate against the dichotomy of visual literacy versus linguistic literacy. Instead, they stress the necessity of accepting the co-presence2 of linguistic literacies and visual literacies as interacting and interlacing modalities which complement one another in the meaning making process. Visual literacy is not limited to modern mass media and new technologies. Understanding Comics, a graphic novel discussing the history of the media as well as serving as a "how to" manual for interpreting comics by Scott McCloud, is an exemplar employing the use of visual literacy. Also, animal drawings in ancient caves, such as the one in Lascaux, France, are early forms of visual literacy. Hence, even though the name visual literacy itself as a label dates to the 1960s, the concept of reading signs and symbols is prehistoric. [edit]
 Numeracy
Media literacyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search
Media literacy is the process of accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres and forms. It uses an inquiry-based instructional model that encourages people to ask questions about what they watch, see and read. Media literacy education is one means of developing media literacy. It provides tools to help people critically analyze messages to detect propaganda, censorship, and bias in news and public affairs programming (and the reasons for such), and to understand how structural features -- such as media ownership, or its funding model[1] -- affect the information presented. Media literacy aims to enable people to be skillful creators and producers of media messages, both to facilitate an understanding as to the strengths and limitations of each medium, as well as to create independent media. Media literacy is an expanded conceptualization of literacy. By transforming the process of media consumption into an active and critical process, people gain greater awareness of the potential for misrepresentation and manipulation (especially through commercials and public relations techniques), and understand the role of mass media and participatory media in constructing views of reality.[2][3] NumeracyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search
Numeracy is a portmanteau of "numerical literacy", and refers to an ability to reason with numbers and other mathematical concepts. The word was coined in 1959 by the UK Committee on Education, presided over by Sir Geoffrey Crowther.[1] Innumeracy is a lack of numeracy.[2] In the United States, numeracy it is also known as Quantitative Literacy, and is familiar to math educators and intellectuals. There is also substantial overlap between conceptions of numeracy and conceptions of statistical literacy. The UK's Department for Education and Skills defines numeracy in their National Strategy documents as follows:
SmartBoard Training and Classroom Resources
Teachers' HubWelcome to the Teachers’ Hub – your single destination for all the resources you need to get started. Use the Teachers’ Hub to help you seamlessly integrate your SMART products into your classroom. Each link will open in a new window, so you may want to bookmark this page and refer back to it. Live Online Training
Weekly schedule for February 2008 SMART online training sessions are 30- to 60-minute computer and telephone conferences that offer a quick, no-cost overview of the basics of working with SMART products. Each session is led by a SMART trainer who uses SMART products every day. Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions. Click the session name for a detailed description. SMART Training Center, Training Materials for M...
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Printable Training Materials Quick Links: --Select Section-- Getting Started Intermediate Hands-on Practice Education and Conferencing Software Sympodium Interactive Pen Display AirLiner Wireless SlateGetting Started: Quick Reference Guides The
Basics (PDF 59 KB) Getting Started with the Senteo Interactive Response System (PDF 98 KB) Hardware
Basics for the SMART Board 600i Interactive Whiteboard System (PDF 77 KB) Hardware
Basics for Front-Projection SMART Board™ Interactive Whiteboards (PDF 47
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Basics for Rear Projection SMART Board™ Interactive Whiteboards
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Basics for the SMART Board for Flat-Panel Displays Interactive Whiteboards
(PDF 57 KB) Orienting
the SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard (PDF 159 KB) Intermediate: Quick Reference Guides Using
the SMART Board 600i Interactive Whiteboard System in Stand-alone Mode with
ScratchPad Using
Microsoft Office Applications with SMART Board Software (PDF 43 KB) What’s
New in SMART Board Software 9.7 (PDF 127 KB) Notebook
Software Toolbars (PDF 80 KB) Working
with Notebook Software Gallery Collections (PDF 154 KB) Collecting
and Sharing Content with Notebook Software (PDF 145 KB) SMART
Board Tools (PDF 163 KB) The
Floating Tools Toolbar (PDF 80 KB) SMART
Board Start Center (PDF 78 KB) Using
Microsoft® Visio® software with SMART Board software (PDF 38 KB) Designing an
Assessment Using the Senteo Interactive Response System and Notebook Software
(PDF 179 KB) SMART
Board Interactive Whiteboard Basics (PDF 294 KB) Notebook
Software in the Classroom (PDF 251 KB) Notebook
Software in the Office (PDF 241 KB) Using
Microsoft Word in the Classroom on a SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard
(PDF 160 KB) Using
Microsoft Excel in the Office on a SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard (PDF
191 KB) Using Microsoft
PowerPoint Software on a SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard (PDF 671) NOTE: This exercise requires a PowerPoint presentation. You can use your own presentation or our sample PowerPoint file. If this file opens in your Web browser, save it under a new name and open it in PowerPoint software. SamplePresentation.ppt (PPT 488 KB) Using the Senteo Manager and Setting Up a Class List (PDF 56KB) SMART Ideas Concept-Mapping Software Basics (PDF 55 KB) SMART Ideas Software Menus and Toolbars (PDF 81 KB) SynchronEyes Software - Using it for the First Time (PDF 196 KB) SynchronEyes Software - Monitoring Student Computers (PDF 111 KB) SynchronEyes Software - Controlling Student Computers (PDF 76KB) SynchronEyes Software - Quiz View (PDF 67 KB) SynchronEyes Software Toolbars (PDF 120 KB) Bridgit Conferencing Software – Basics (PDF 89 KB) Bridgit Conferencing Software – Special Features (PDF 89 KB) LinQ Software (PDF 62 KB) Number Cruncher Software (PDF 165 KB) Speller Software (PDF 244 KB) Choose your model from the list below Sympodium ID250 (PDF 257 KB) Sympodium IC150 (PDF 75 KB) Sympodium ID350 and ID370 (PDF 49 KB) Sympodium
DT 770 (PDF 56 KB) AirLiner Wireless Slate: Quick Reference Guides Getting Started with the AirLiner Wireless Slate (PDF 101 KB) Connecting and Customizing Multiple AirLiner Wireless Slates (PDF 157 KB) If a Quick Reference Guide above does not apply to the version of SMART Board software you are currently using, please e-mail training@smarttech.com. We will be happy to e-mail you a Quick Reference Guide that relates to the software you are running, if one is available. If you need help downloading or saving files, please read our PDF Help information. 
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Bring up the term
"media literacy" with a group of people and a dozen different
ideas come to mind. Some people will think of "film studies courses"
where students analyze characters, plot, and cinematography. While others
start complaining about the quality of television. Still others will
recall a middle school class where they learned about advertising techniques
that TV commercials use.
OVERVIEW: Literacy instruction traditionally refers to the teaching
of basic literacy skills—reading, writing, listening, and speaking. In
today's digital world, however, technology has contributed to an 
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