Be a Blogger or MICROblogger--a creator of positive ed news with the most powerful tool, photos and videos! Our brains process visual media faster and better than print so it makes sense to use visual media tell our stories! Easily create stunning photos out of poorly lit or poorly framed photos using APPS. Then share YOUR EDUSTORIES with the world on Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, Pinterest. Photos build community and culture. Parents and students like to see events and learning documented! Ah, memories!

1. Consumer to Creator:
Tell Your Education
Stories to the World!
Laura Gilchrist #MSTA14
Twitter: @lauragilchrist4
LIVE LINK: http://goo.gl/JnaVdL
Be a Blogger or MICROblogger—a creator of positive ed news!
Start taking pictures, documenting your world, editing, and then
TELLING YOUR EDUSTORY!
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2. A little about me!!
Laura Gilchrist
6th grade Science and Social Studies
Educator, 20th year
**Connected educator since Nov 29, 2011!
My husband and I have 18 an 20 year old daughters
And 3 CHIHUAHUAS!
Passions: Nature, Birding, Photography, Bringing people
together in learning and fun to create opportunities for kids!
WELCOME!!
Happy we’re at #MSTA14 together!

3. Connect with me on social media.
Let’s Learn out loud together. ☺
http://http://aboutme.com/lauragilchrist4
Where I blog:
http://lauragilchrist4.com/
Where I Microblog:
Twitter
https://twitter.com/LauraGilchrist4
Instagram:
http://instagram.com/lauragilchrist4
Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gilchristlaura
email me: laura.gilchrist@nkcschools.org
Learn w/me on Twitter
#MOedchat
Thursdays, 9pm
My EdcampKC Microblog Photo Set:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gilchristl
aura/sets/72157646605767124

4. Our goal and agenda!
Agenda/Objectives:
1.Speed Dating—TALK TIME!
https://twitter.com/LauraGilchrist4/status/533278235950583809
1.Why share your stories and why
should you share VISUAL media? I’ll
show ways YOU can share as a
MICROBLOGGER and as a
BLOGGER.
3. My 5 Favorite photo apps--time to
check em out!
4. Go on a PhotoWalk!! SHARE your
pictures to Twitter, Instagram with the
#MSTA2014 hashtag!

5. SPEED DATING!!
1. ON WHAT SOCIAL NETWORKS DO YOU
SHARE your learning or eduStories as a
MICROblogger or blogger? Twitter,
Instagram, Pinterest, your own blog, other?
2. What keeps you from sharing more?
Time? District policies? Familiarity with social media channels, photog?
Interest?
3. How would you describe education
stories/news in the media –
positive, negative, or neutral?
4. Share any Photo Apps you use!
Look at these pictures for insight :
Reflections: Portraits of the Elderly as They Once Were
Our speed dating session kickoff!! Great
group!!

6. 2 Shifts w/tech in all hands:
1.YOU AS CREATOR:
CREATE vs. Consume
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2. Think and Share visually.

7. Become a
Creator of
Visual media…
Tell your stories
Learn out loud
Then guide your
kids to do the same!
~80% of your brain is set up to process visual information
THINK in terms of pictures/videos FIRST to tell stories. It’s a
shift.
Created by Dr. Ken
Corum using the
PHONTO App—free!

8. SHIFT: Think in visuals first.
Pictures naturally guide
us toward big IDEAS
Schools = text
It’s a big shift.
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9. Don’t be shy. Reach out and share your
stories with others!
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10. CREATE vs CONSUME
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Cc licensed (BY NC) flickr photo by gilchristlaura
SHIFT: Educators and Students as CREATORS,
not consumers!

11. CREATE vs CONSUME
“LetyourPowerShine”byGilchristLaura
“Hendrix Poster” by lajon

12. Microblogging:
TWITTER
INSTAGRAM
FLICKR
FACEBOOK
Pinterest
Blogging:
BLOG: http://lauragilchrist4.com
Places to share, connect, and plant positive
Views on EDU-Goodness! Visual sharing on all.

13. My Instagram Storyline:
http://instagram.com/lauragilchrist4
Instagram—share stories!
Photos, videos, & hashtags
--Videos are 15 seconds
--Picture editor built in
--I usually take pics,
edit them first in Snapseed
and THEN Instagram them!
--Examples of sharing school
learning with school hashtag;
and conference events with #!!
(This picture was edited with ToonCamera app!)

14. My Tweetstream Storyline:
https://twitter.com/LauraGilchrist4/media
https://twitter.com/LauraGilchrist4
Twitter—share stories!
Photos, videos, & hashtags
--Picture editor built into Twitter
--I sometimes edit in Twitter and
Post pics OR I take pics,
edit them first in Snapseed or
Other app and THEN Tweet them!
(I tweeted this picture out. See my media
Timeline!)
Redbud Repose

15. My Flickr Photostream
My Starter Flickr Blogpost
I share Flickr albums with colleagues,
parents, kids! Sharing
our school stories.
Kate Delehunt--Water Quality testing Photo Album
KC Pet Project Photo Album
Conner Hazelrigg--solar charger for Haiti
Flickr—1 TB free storage!
Store, Edit, and Share with staff, parents, community

16. A New world of Visual Stories in my BLOG—I’m
STORYTELLING EDUCATION!
Posters—create vs
consume blogpost No more
posters at the teacher store. The kids
splashing our walls with THEM and THEIR
CREATIVITY!
Rachel’s Challenge post
Power of PICTURES and some words
To tell the story of their emotional
Reaction to Rachel’s Challenge
Think outside the box Blogpost
Power of 2 videos and 1 picture to
Tell the story of the lesson!!
Any event is a chance to
tell a story---visual is best!
Look at my first blogpost!! LOL

17. Photo Editing Apps I use to EDIT PICTURES!
Search your app/play store
***Online and Free, KIDS CAN USE***
www.Picmonkey.com
(not on iPads, phones)
My top 5 Photo Editing Apps—phone/ipad
Snapseed FREE. My #1. I use this the most for editing quickly, nicely
Flickr FREE. STORAGE, EDITING, and SHARING; Creative Commons
ToonCamera cool! $1.99
WordFoto cool! $1.99
Diptic collages! FREE
Instagram, Twitter have built in photo
Editors!! You can start there!
Use #MSTA14 hashtag

18. It’s PHOTOWALK TIME--time to be
CREATORS of visual media, learning!
TAKE PICTURES TOGETHER & EDIT!
SHARE on Twitter, Instagram
With #MSTA14 hashtag!
Take pictures of anything around you that catches your eye. It can be lines, angles, people, food!!!
Anything that captures a slice of this conference!
Let’s go out and observe with an artist’s eye and see the world…and then share to any social media channel
you like, with the #MSTA14 hashtag!!

19. How students can use visuals
• Visual Prompts instead of written ones
• 5 picture stories
• VISUAL IDEAS FOR THE CLASSROOM!!! Ways to use pictures. Wes Fryer
• VISUAL WRITING PROMPTS to use/inspiration! Luke Neff
Give kids a theme, like Erosion or water cycle. Kids take pictures.
Create visual presentation or contribute to group photoset in Flickr.
Great example of a photo-story! TELL YOUR STORIES educators! Alan Levine
You will make a difference In education and in the lives of your readers and kids.

20. Connect with me on social media.
Let’s Learn out loud together. ☺
http://http://aboutme.com/lauragilchrist4
Where I blog:
http://lauragilchrist4.com/
Where I Microblog:
Twitter
https://twitter.com/LauraGilchrist4
Instagram:
http://instagram.com/lauragilchrist4
Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gilchristlaura
email me: laura.gilchrist@nkcschools.org
Learn w/me on Twitter
#MOedchat
Thursdays, 9pm
My EdcampKC Microblog Photo Set:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gilchristl
aura/sets/72157646605767124