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As a former Media Specialist and English Educator, I have consistently utilized digital tools to bridge the gap between the classroom and the global community. These projects highlight my experience in event production, professional networking, and multimedia storytelling.
As a former Media Specialist and English Educator, I have consistently utilized digital tools to bridge the gap between the classroom and the global community. These projects highlight my experience in event production, professional networking, and multimedia storytelling.
2016-2018
2016-2018
Google Hangouts Global Speaker Series
Google Hangouts Global Speaker Series
Tech Tools Used: Google Hangouts, Today's Meet Backchannel Chat, Promethean Board, Chromebooks
Established a Global Industry Speaker Series, leveraging professional networks to secure virtual engagements with high-level industry leaders including Salvatore Totino (Cinematographer, Spider-Man), Colin Trevorrow (Director, Jurassic World), and Jared Bush (Writer, Zootopia). These sessions served to validate student learning through direct dialogue with global professionals.
Established a Global Industry Speaker Series, leveraging professional networks to secure virtual engagements with high-level industry leaders including Salvatore Totino (Cinematographer, Spider-Man), Colin Trevorrow (Director, Jurassic World), and Jared Bush (Writer, Zootopia). These sessions served to validate student learning through direct dialogue with global professionals.
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Upper: Salvatore Totino (Everest; Spiderman: Homecoming)
Lower: Colin Trevorrow (Jurrasic World; Star Wars IX)
Google Hangouts Speaker Series 2016-17
I love being able to connect students to real world speakers that are professionals doing tremendous things with the skills that students learn in school. I find that it validates a student's learning when they can see how a skill applies to careers! During 2016 & 2017 and on Twitter, I connected with Mr. Justin Bell, a fabulous teacher in Kansas, that invited me to be a part of a global collaborative project which included making connections, via Twitter, to some professionals in the film industry. My students connected with Kansas and Wisconsin schools as well as said professionals and used a back-channel chat website called Today'sMeet.com to ask the professionals questions.
Below: Jared Bush (Zootopia; Moana)
Global Hero's Journey & Red Carpet Event
Global Hero's Journey & Red Carpet Event
Tech Tools Used: Twitter, YouMeScript, Storyboardthat, DoInk Green Screen, WeVideo, Camtasia, Final Cut Pro, GAFE, Chromebooks, iPads, Schoology & Google Classroom
Directed a global collaborative filmmaking project and community showcase. I coordinated an international partnership with four schools via Twitter and managed the 'Red Carpet Night' event, where student-produced films were premiered for local community members and stakeholders.
Directed a global collaborative filmmaking project and community showcase. I coordinated an international partnership with four schools via Twitter and managed the 'Red Carpet Night' event, where student-produced films were premiered for local community members and stakeholders.
Above: Students revising scripts and filming their Hero's Journey Screenplays using DoInk Green Screen Apps on iPads.
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Upper-Students making storyboards based off their collaborative scripts
Lower-A student making a how-to video using Nimbus screencast to show others how to add on and use YouMeScript to Google Docs.
During Fall 2017, students studied the Odyssey, wrote their own hero's journey narratives, collaborated to write a screenplay, designed a storyboard, made a film using green screens, edited their films, and then showcased them for the community at an event called Global Hero's Journey Red Carpet Night. Throughout the entire project, we collaborated on Twitter with four other schools and teachers from around the world.
#NationalPoetry Month Poetry Walk & Sidewalk Poetry Day
#NationalPoetry Month Poetry Walk & Sidewalk Poetry Day
Tech Tools Used: YouTube, ReCap, Canva, QRCode Generator, GAFE
Spearheaded the district’s first interactive poetry walk, integrating QR-code technology and digital scrapbooks to create a multimedia experience for the community. I managed the technical rollout, including professional audio recording and digital design, to produce public-facing literary art.
Spearheaded the district’s first interactive poetry walk, integrating QR-code technology and digital scrapbooks to create a multimedia experience for the community. I managed the technical rollout, including professional audio recording and digital design, to produce public-facing literary art.
Interactive Poetry Pages
During National Poetry Month, students studied poetry, analyzed and applied their learning by making interactive poetry scrapbook pages. Students were given the choice of whether they wanted to make their scrapbook pages digitally physical artistic interpretations. For the students that chose the digital option, I showed them Canva. All student groups read their poems out loud and recorded themselves using Recap.com and then linked the recordings to a QR code and placed them on the scrapbook page. Students lined the halls with poetry and then took it outside by creating Sidewalk Poetry!
Donor's Choose Sphero Ball Literary Coding Project
Donor's Choose Sphero Ball Literary Coding Project
Tech Tools: Donor's Choose Application Process, Sphero Ball, Sphero Ball Apps
Successfully secured external funding through the Donor's Choose grant process to launch the Sphero Ball Literary Coding Project. This initiative focused on the intersection of technical literacy and narrative storytelling, ensuring the program was fully funded through community and corporate support.
Successfully secured external funding through the Donor's Choose grant process to launch the Sphero Ball Literary Coding Project. This initiative focused on the intersection of technical literacy and narrative storytelling, ensuring the program was fully funded through community and corporate support.
Coding Project
The project was fully funded, but it is still work in progress and is a future project for Fall 2017!
Romeo and Juliet BreakoutEDU
Romeo and Juliet BreakoutEDU
Tech Tools Used: Promethean Board for timer, Chromebooks for Online Searches, BYOD, Breakout Boxes(not tech, but a tool)
Library Funimation Anime Voice Acting Event #1
Library Funimation Anime Voice Acting Event #1
Tech Tools Used: Camtasia
Produced the Anime Voice Acting community event, utilizing Camtasia to sync live student performances with digital media. I managed the technical logistics and promotional rollout for this high-engagement community showcase that showcased Anna High School Alumni working in this entertainment industry.
Produced the Anime Voice Acting community event, utilizing Camtasia to sync live student performances with digital media. I managed the technical logistics and promotional rollout for this high-engagement community showcase that showcased Anna High School Alumni working in this entertainment industry.
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