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Hosted by Northeast Historic Film with support from the Maine Humanities Council July 26, 2002 The Roundtable was convened to advance discussion of digital video production in the iBook era, starting with technical issues, visual literacy and reuse of archival footage. View the participant roster. This page contains two main sections:
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Below is a list of technical suggestions to assist in planning purchases around digital video for the classroom.
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Detailed List for iMovie Production This section is organized into three categories: |
1. Video Production
For questions about the equipment listed above, please email Rick Barter. |
Using Archival Footage The iMovie software on iBooks provides an excellent opportunity for viewing and working with visual material and sound. There are many moving images available for study and reuse at Northeast Historic Film and the Internet Archive.
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Roundtable I - Participant Roster Rick Barter Conners Emerson School, Bar Harbor, MLTI regional integration mentor A former classroom teacher, grades 4-8. Has been technology specialist in Bar Harbor (K-8) for the past 6 years, dealing with all aspects of educational technology from hardware, software, network, to working with staff and students in the integration of computer technology into curriculum. An iMovie user and fan. Currently MLTI RIM for Region 3 (Hancock County.)
Brodsky & Treadway, International Center for 8mm Film Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway have made little films together for almost thirty years, but mostly they've been helping others to make their little films by writing tech articles and learning the craft of bringing their images to life on the TV screen. If you've watched Public Television's American Experience shows you've seen their work. Eric Chamberlin Boothbay Region Elementary School, MLTI regional integration mentor echamberlin@bres.boothbay.k12.me.us I have been teaching 8th grade Social Studies for 3 years in Boothbay Harbor. Last year, I wrote a grant to acquire resources to help incorporate technology into my classroom. This included a Powerbook G4 laptop, digital projector, Canon ZR10 DV camcorder, speakers, and other peripherals. In January, I was selected as the Regional Integration Mentor for the state's laptop initiative. Our school has been an exploration site with 74 7th graders using the iBook computers since March. I have used iMovie with classroom instruction as well as projects. Gail Garthwait UM School of Education, Instructional Technology Gail is an Assistant Professor of Education and teaches in the Master's of Instructional Technology Program (University of Maine). In a former life she was an elementary school library media specialist and has maintained her interests in student-centered education, exciting instructional use of technology, and preserving our history in a variety of formats. Last year she served on Bette Manchester's Professional Development Design Team.
Mt. Ararat Middle School, Topsham, Technology Literacy Integrator I've been in education off and on since 1972 (30 years!) teaching mostly Language Arts at the upper elementary and middle school level. In the last 6 or 7 years I've been very involved with technology in education and I'm currently a Literacy/Technology Integrator at Mt. Ararat Middle School in Topsham, Maine, where my students are beginning to experiment with video production using iMovie. I'm also a SEED (Spreading Educator to Educator Development) Technology Learning Leader and have spent a good deal of this summer training teachers and helping them get ready for the MLTI which will bring one-to-one computing to every 7th grade classroom in Maine this September. James S. Henderson State Archivist Maine State Archivist, administrative head of the State Archives. Directs Maine's Historical Records Advisory Board, Northeast Historic Film board member. Ph.D. in political science from Emory University. Media Educator Huey, an independent filmmaker from Portland, Maine, has been working as an artist-in-residence in K - 12 schools since 1975. He has done workshops for teachers and students in animation, video production, and editing using iMovie from Machias, Maine, to San Francisco. He is the director of the Maine Student Film and Video Festival, which held its 25th Festival in July 2002. Sonja Hyde-Moyer Museum of Science, Boston, Manager of Web & New Media Sonja has been developing online experiences for kids since 1995. In 1997, she launched the first website for YTV, at the time Canada's only network aimed at kids. She has also worked for the National Film Board of Canada as Manager of E-Business. In her own time, she created and maintains an educational website about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot which generated over 1,000,000 hits last November. Jo Israelson University of Maryland firehousestudio@mindspring.com Janna Jones University of South Florida, Communication & English I am a university professor and my research focuses on cinematic culture and preservation. I am currently conducting research for a book about the cultural implications of moving image preservation. My book about movie theater preservation entitled The Southern Movie Palace: Rise, Fall, and Resurrection (University Press of Florida) will be out in the spring of 2003. Bette Manchester Maine Department of Education, MLTI, Distinguished Educator Previously, Principal at Mt. Ararat Middle School, Topsham, Maine, and now the Director of staff development and content for the MLTI project. I am contracted through MSAD#75 to do this work. Judy McGeorge The Learning Barn, Blue Hill, Executive Director Judy McGeorge is the Executive Director of The Learning Barn, a Maine nonprofit educational organization established to put into practice the research of Dr. Seymour Papert. Papert was one of the co-founders of MIT’s Media Lab and is known as the inventor of the LOGO programming language, often used in elementary and secondary education. Papert’s career has been devoted to the intersection of learning and digital technologies. He and Governor Angus King initiated the Maine Learning Technology Initiative ("Laptop Initiative"), which will provide an Apple Ibook to every seventh and eighth grade student and teacher in the public schools of the state of Maine. The Learning Barn is supporting the implementation of the Laptop Initiative in several ways. Together with the University of Maine we are organizing a conference: Learners, Laptops, and Powerful Ideas to be held at Orono August 13-16, 2002. Dr Papert has written weekly columns for the Bangor Daily News and he has spoken at many local conferences focusing on the Laptop initiative. Shaun Meredith Apple Shaun Meredith is the Senior Project Manager for Apple assigned to the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI). His roles and responsibilities include all aspects of the project including but not limited to timing and coordination of activities, logistics of hardware and software delivery, assigning resources in terms of manpower and budgets, business process and engineering feedback, maintaining the highest levels of customer satisfaction, and ensuring fulfillment of all contractual obligations. Mark Neumann Department of Communication, University of South Florida See his presentations from past Northeast Historic Film Symposiums in the Symposiums and Essays Archive.
Rick Prelinger The Internet Archive and Prelinger Archives, San Francisco Visit Prelinger Archives digitized movies at http://www.archive.org/movies/. He spoke on "Amateur Film and New Media" at the 2002 Northeast Historic Film Symposium, addressing how emerging media can promote greater public access to cultural resources and encourage public authorship, active reading and reuse of historical and cultural material. John M. Robbins Technology Integrators & Collaborators, Bowdoinham, Executive Director johnr@technologyintegrators.org After teaching 7th grade science for 5 years in Maine, John is currently founder and director of Technology Integrators & Collaborators, a non-profit organization established to facilitate education through new media technologies. Collaborating with educational organizations (e.g., Maine State Museum, Chewonki Foundation, Theater Project, Maine Math & Science Alliance) to bring content rich digital video for iMovie (web, CD or VHS) integration workshops for Maine's school- based educators. In addition, John is a workshop facilitator for Apple & the MLTI project, as well as a SEED Technology Learning Leader. Marko Schmitt Marko taught high school and college English in New York City. He later founded a software company in Palo Alto, CA. which specialized in web based educational media for corporations in Silicon Valley. Marko and his wife, Dede, moved to Maine in 1999. Karan Sheldon Co-founder, Northeast Historic Film Co-founder of Northeast Historic Film with David Weiss. Co-producer of From Stump to Ship: A 1930 Logging Film reconstruction and 22-site outreach program for the University of Maine Orono. Served as co-chair for the Committee on the U.S. National Moving Image Preservation Plans, advising the Library of Congress. Kim Smallidge Conners Emerson School, Bar Harbor 7th grade teacher and iMovie user.
Northeast Historic Film, Archivist Graduate of L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, George Eastman House. Also M.A. in American Studies, B.A. in History. Expertise in research on historic photographs and authors leading to the development of digital collections; bibliographic searches in OCLC, MUMS and CARL databases and the World Wide Web. Indexed more than 2,000 videotapes and films using FileMaker Pro software, developed indexing system for CD-ROM databases of historic prints and photographs, indexed approximately 15,000 prints and photographs using ARGUS and ImageBASE automated systems. Toni Treadway Brodsky & Treadway, International Center for 8mm Film Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway have made little films together for almost thirty years, but mostly they've been helping others to make their little films by writing tech articles and learning the craft of bringing their images to life on the TV screen. If you've watched Public Television's American Experience shows you've seen their work. |
Thanks to all for participating. The Tech group was chaired by Rick Barter, with recording by Dwight Swanson. The Using Historical Footage group was chaired by Karan Sheldon, with recording by Jo Israelson. John Robbins was timekeeper. Morning screenings were presented by Eric Chamberlin, Huey, Barbara Greenstone and Rick Prelinger. |
