Local District 4 Instructional Technology News

Podcasting Workshop
Apple has been conducting workshops for LA Unified Teachers for the past couple of months on Podcasting. In March, Dave Douglas, an Apple Rep., was at Local District 5 offering a workshop on Podcasting to those individuals that wanted to know what Podcasting is all about. Local District 4 and 5 Technology Coordinators were invited to attend this workshop. In April, Dave Douglas will be at Local District 4 for another introduction to Podcasting Workshop for those Technology Coordinators from Local District 4 that were unable to attend the March session. Local District 3 Tech. Coordinators will also join us. The workshop will be on April 19, 2007 from 3:30 to 5:30 in place of the Technology Coordinator Meeting. Interested participants need to register for the class at http://applela.com/?q=node/197 . This workshop is not limited to Technology Coordinators. Any educator is welcome to attend. Information regarding parking and room number will be sent out through email. If you are not on my email list, send me an email at antonio.hernandez@lausd.net and I will add you to the list.

With the ever growing population of iPods, we need to look at ways to use the technology that most students are using and turn it into a teaching tool. iPods can do much more than just play music and videos (video iPods). Administrators can use them to record meetings, administer professional development and maintain contact information for both students and staff. But the real benefits are in class use. Students can track their calories as a math/science activity, they can record themselves reading, create podcasts, and create digital flash cards that will enable EL students to only hear the word, see a picture of it and listen to the word being used in a sentence. The classroom possibilities are endless.

Digital Voice Awards 2007
Deadline: Monday, April 23, 2007 at 5:00 p.m.
The California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP) Region 11 and Multimedia Services of the Instructional Technology Outreach division at the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) invite K–12 school educators from Los Angeles County to submit exemplary classroom instructional technology projects to the Digital Voice Awards. Student-made curricular projects may be entered in up to two curricular award categories and may be created with a variety of technology tools, which are listed on the entry form. A complete Entry Form, including credits/citations, a lesson objective with California Content Standards correlations, and release for use, must accompany each submission. It is the intent that select projects be posted online as a model for other California educators. http://ctap.lacoe.edu/DVAwards

Inner-City Filmmakers (ICF)
Deadline: April 15. 2007
Inner-City Filmmakers provides low-income and minority youth free year-round artistic, technical, business and life-skills training with high quality teachers and award winning film industry mentors. Entry into ICF is through a Summer Program, 8 weeks and over 450 hours of intensive hands-on training, in July and August at USC and at Lantana Center in Santa Monica. Each student will create, shoot, edit and complete a 5-minute narrative film. Applications are now available for all interested graduating seniors and must be completed by parent/guardian, teacher and student. www.innercityfilmmakers.com

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