1. A Day of Digital Storytelling with the DEN
Time Activity
8:30-9:00 AM Registration (Trinidad)
9:00-10:30 AM Beyond Essays: Digital Stories, New Media Narrative and the Emerging Nature of
Literacy with Jason Ohler (Trinidad)
10:35-12:00 PM DEN Workshops – Morning
New Media Literacy and Narrative in Education – Tools, Applications, Assessment
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This session is exclusively for DEN Leadership Council members.
o Jason Ohler (Trinidad)
Spinning a Digital Story with Web 2.0
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o Steve Dembo (Empire A)
Director’s Cut: Making Movies with a Green Screen
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o Matt Monjan (Empire B)
Tying it All Together: MovieMaker, Audacity and DE streaming
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o Jannita Demian (Empire D)
Get Interactive with Glogs, Voicethread & the DE Builders
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o Traci Blazosky and Tom McGee (Empire C)
Lights, Camera, Education! The AFI Curriculum
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This is a three-hour session limited to 15 participants.
o Joe Brennan (Wild Rose A and B)
12:00-1:30 PM Lunch (Trinidad)
1:30-3:00 PM DEN Workshops – Afternoon
New Media Literacy and Narrative in Education – Tools, Applications, Assessment
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This session is open to all attendees.
o Jason Ohler (Trinidad)
Spinning a Digital Story with Web 2.0
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o Steve Dembo (Empire A)
Director’s Cut: Making Movies with a Green Screen
•
o Matt Monjan (Empire B)
Tying it All Together: MovieMaker, Audacity and DE streaming
•
o Jannita Demian (Empire D)
Get Interactive with Glogs, Voicethread & the DE Builders
•
o Traci Blazosky and Tom McGee (Empire C)
Lights, Camera, Education! The AFI Curriculum
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This is a three-hour session limited to 15 participants.
o Joe Brennan (Wild Rose A and B)
3:00-4:00 PM Closing, Announcements and Challenge (Trinidad)

2. Going Beyond Essays: New Kids, New Media and New Literacies
Jason Ohler
It is up to us to help digital kids “write the media they read” so they can be active media
creators rather than just passive media consumers. We need to help them migrate from
text centrism to media collage literacy in creative, thoughtful, ways. We need to help
them cultivate their new media talents, adopt art as the 4th R and use research and
narrative to convey their ideas in rich, compelling ways. We need to help them create
media stories and projects that are articulate, transformative and help them imagine the
world they want to create. And we need to help them collaborate and share their work
and talents within the collaborative community of the social web.
New Media Literacy and Narrative in the Education – Tools, Applications,
Assessment
Jason Ohler
Morning session – reserved for DEN Leadership Council members
Afternoon session – open to all attendees
Following from the keynote, Jason demonstrates practical tools and processes for
implementing new media narrative and digital storytelling projects in educational
activities in exciting, creative ways using largely free digital tools. In addition he
addresses a number of topics, including media assessment, media grammar and the
role of research-based digital stories and media development in the curriculum. This
presentation also offers practical and conceptual ways for students to participate in the
world of Web 2.0 using new media narrative they create for school projects. This
presentation is based on Jason’s book, Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media
Pathways to Literacy, Learning and Creativity (Corwin Press).
Spinning a Digital Story with Web 2.0
Steve Dembo
Join me for an n in-depth overview of the digital media available in Discovery Education
streaming and 50 different ways to tell digital stories using it. DE streaming provides
your classroom access to thousands of videos, images and audio clips. Learn how to
integrate them into cutting edge Web 2.0 sites to make your students' digital stories
come alive!
Director’s Cut: Making Movies with a Green Screen
Matt Monjan
Allow your students to make real-life connections to their learning...literally. Have them
become part of the show. This session will focus on ways to use digital storytelling as an
important instructional tool in any content area using Adobe Premiere Elements, a green
screen and you!

3. Tying it All Together: Moviemaker, Audacity and DE streaming
Jannita Demian
The art of digital storytelling involves narrative, images, and sound. Learn how simple
this can be with free software like MovieMaker and Audactiy. Any teacher can bring
digital storytelling to her class--K-12!--with these great tools. Come learn how to do it,
why it is important to every kind of kid, and how to leverage storytelling for learning.
Get Interactive with Glogs, Voicethread & the DE Builders
Traci Blazosky and Tom McGee
In this session, we will ignite your quot;creative mindquot; using free web2.0 tools such as
Glogster and Voicethread. We'll introduce how an interactive poster can help motivate
and communicate understanding of a topic. Using the Builders within DE streaming, we
will incorporate these tools and model how simple it can be to enrich instruction and
motivate student learning at the same time!
Lights, Camera, Education!
Joe Brennan
This is a three-hour session that will span the morning and afternoon sessions and is
limited to 15 participants.
Become a film maker for a day and add that skill to your teaching toolkit. Learn how to
make standards based videos using the American Film Institute's quot;Lights! Camera!
Education!quot; curriculum based on years of experience with their K-12 Screen Ed program.
Learn to brainstorm, write, film, and edit a polished video that can be applied to any
subject at any grade level. Leave with access to media that builds on what you have
learned. The path to mastery is just a workshop away.