This is a unique 2 credit block Digital Media course designed for students interested in Indigenous Education. The focus of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to embrace, document, depict, digitalize all of our cultures while experimenting with digital media. The course is made up of two grade 12 MST courses. In addition to successfully completing this 2 credit course, student with an 80% (or higher) and who meet the articulation agreement, will receive Digital Media credits at the University of Winnipeg. Digital Voices incorporates a variety of materials, techniques, tools, technologies, and skills from various arts disciplines including dance, drama, music, and visual arts. The technologies/ processes used and adapted to create digital media art may be traditional, including, but not limited to, photography, film, sound, animation, and video. The technologies and processes may also be digital: computer software, blogging, networking, game development, digital imaging, digital sound recording, 2D and 3D animation, multimedia production, web 2.0, and web-page design. Two years ago I had a vision of the evolution of the classroom. An opportunity for 21st century learners to embrace their culture, their stories their past and their future through cutting edge technology and inverted pedagogy. Our project is called Digital Voices, please take a look around our site www.digitalvoices.ca, this is the future! I have learned so much from the current generation of digital students. I would like to thank the students for challenging me to change, it has been an honour to be educated by you through the integration mobile devices in the classroom, the collaboration with students around the world, how you challenge educators to examine the ethical and responsible use of social media. How you are demanding a change in how we, the educators, need to prepare future generations for a connected world. As we prepare for the future, it is obvious that next year will be even more revolutionary, exciting and cutting edge. Here is the answer for your demand for change. Our grassroots program is spreading, Digital Voices is going global! I am so excited about our new partnerships which have been formed. In June 2012, 8 educators from around the world have collaborated on the evolution of the Digital Voices platform. We have developed cross curricular activities, inverted resources for 21st century educators and the will for change. I would like to thank educators from the Winnipeg School Division for embracing Digital Voices and becoming a stakeholder in this 21st century pedagogy. I would also like to thank Mr. Marc Dubeau from Osgoode SS in Ottawa and Mr. Frank Machos from the School of the Future in Philadelphia for becoming stakeholders in the Digital Voices program.

Project Overview This project is designed to provide a rich and real context for students to develop their skills in the design of digital content. In this project, students: - identify and research an issue or problem in their local community; - work through the game development cycle to create a game in Adobe Flash which helps solve the problem or raise awareness about the issue; - work collaboratively to make the game; - keep a blog throughout the process to reflect on the process and their learning; - share their work with their local community through an online launch via web conference in Adobe Connect; - publish their finished games online. Design Brief for Students To create a game which helps solve a problem or raise awareness about an issue in your local community. Your game must contain original graphics, animations and sound. Your game is required to have a minimum of three scenes including a title scene, an instructions scene and a game scene. Example Project The game below is an example of what students are required to create. This is a model file I created for use with students to model what is expected. The problem that was identified for the game was that residents in Cairns are not recycling enough of their waste. The game is designed to help residents learn about what items go in the normal waste bin and what items can go in the recycling bin. Developing skills in Flash This project is suitable to do as a full unit of work with students in the Middle and Senior Years of schooling. It is designed for students who have already acquired basic skills in Flash. Students can draw on online tutorials and resources such as those on the Flash Classroom at www.flashclassroom.com to develop further skills to create the interactivity they need for their game.

Human interaction is key to learn a language. Despite of the anytime, anywhere advantages of language courses at the higher education level, still is very challenging to provide with ample opportunities for practice in a space that promotes interaction and authentic communication. We have conducted several pilots with different universities where we have given students the opportunity to practice Spanish with language coaches from Guatemala using Adobe Connect. The results have been amazing, from the students motivational aspects to higher retention in Spanish online courses.

As the proliferation of “cloud” tools grows, it is increasingly easier to integrate these new media tools into academe and to adapt them for our teaching and learning environments. In addition to the usefulness and relatively low-cost of these tools, equal consideration must be given to the effort required to support these tools within our campus environments. The University of Memphis has attempted to build sets of criteria around recommended teaching and learning tools, which include many new and emerging “cloud” or “Web 2.0? tools.

Presenters: Phylise Banner and Phil Ice—American Public University System In order to reach students in the service, specifically the floating fleet, APUS had to find a way to deliver online courses offline. Using the Adobe AIR® desktop client—as well as Adobe Presenter, Flash, Captivate®, Acrobat®, and the Adobe Connect™ meeting interface—the APUS Instructional Design team built a Proof of Concept that delivered five modules from a graduate-level history course. The project showed the possibilities of using Adobe products in the development of rich, interactive personalized teaching and learning environments, for use online, offline, or in a hybrid environment. - Learn about an innovative use of Adobe tools - Join a discussion of the team's creative development process - See a showcase of the final product both in the Adobe Connect live meeting room and through the desktop client-recorded sessions

Presenters: Lee Keller, School District of Palm Beach County; Dave Forrester, Olympia School District These two Adobe Connect evangelists will show how Adobe solutions enable school districts to easily create and deliver media-rich training. They will present an intermediate-level session on the use of Adobe Connect 8 and Presenter 7 for professional development. The session will include: - The art of preparation - What works and what doesn't - Synchronous versus Asynchronous - Recorded sessions - Hands-on activities

This is a two week graduate education assignment designed to teach critical thinking, teamwork and collaboration. Half of the class – as assigned takes the pro side and the other half the con side of debate should I-phones and other mobile devices be allowed in the classroom. Sides can be divided by using the first letter of last name. Each side will find a separate wiki-like space, or e-mail or live chat sessions to organize their groups ideas and then present a collaborative paper supporting their position submitted to a learning management system like Blackboard or Noodle discussion area under a Debate topic heading. As an alternative Connect can be used to conduct a live debate at the end of the second week. During the following week members of the other side of the debate ask rebuttal questions. Personal flaming is not be permitted and is removed from the discussion board. Each group is limited to a total of six sources (including the assigned article), so the students are cautioned to be careful not to use all your references in their opening statements.

The evolution of technology and the Internet has led to innovative opportunities for human interaction, including new methods and tools for collaborative teaching and learning. One example is the extended or virtual classroom. Institutions can now offer learning opportunities to a broader set of students. Educators and students can connect with classrooms around the world. Adobe Connect includes a comprehensive set of tools and features for extending learning beyond the brick and mortar of traditional classrooms. However, when bridging the physical and the virtual worlds, certain challenges need to be overcome. In this guide, we explore three ways to extend your classroom with Adobe Connect and offer best practices and tips for successful online teaching.