Presentation for MOREnet conference on Oct 14, 2013. *Be a CREATOR and Storyteller. Take, edit, and share YOUR pictures and stories!* My kickoff: 1. WE have the tools and social networks to CREATE and connect/share our stories with others. 2. Our brains are set up largely to process visuals over text. So, why are we as educators largely consumers of media and why do we still rely mainly on text in education? Time to SHIFT. SHIFT to visual thinking and sharing of our stories. We can spread the POSITIVE stories in education and help other educators and kids. Before educators can encourage kids to do the same, it's best if they have DONE it themselves! Our focus was educator learning, doing, creating, and sharing. Our goal was to take pictures, edit them with different apps, and then share them to a group page on my Flickr account--via my Flickr email. Every person on Flickr gets an email address to use for emailing pictures. Many educators in the session had not edited pictures and said they rarely took pictures and told the stories of their edu-journeys with kids! By the end of the session, we enjoyed seeing the pictures of our conference PHOTWALK pop up on my Flickr page. One person used WordFoto and many of us liked it so much, we bought it, too. :) I showed my blog, Instagram, Twitter media stream, and Flickr account to show examples of the power of telling stories.

1. MoreNet 2013
#2013M3
Picture
Perfect.
#EdcampKC coming up Nov 9
Start taking pictures, documenting your
world, editing, and then TELLING YOUR
EDUSTORY!

2. WELCOME!! Happy we’re at
#2013M3 together!
A little about me!!
Laura Gilchrist
6th grade Science and Social Studies
Educator, 19th year
**Connected educator since Nov 29, 2011!
My husband and I have 17 and 19 year old daughters
and a PUG and CHIHUAHUA!
Passions: Nature, Birding, Photography, Bringing people
together in learning and fun to create opportunities for kids!
Voted best storyteller by my kids last year.  My focus
this year Is visual storytelling and TELLING THE STORY
OF MY students and our LEARNING and ADVENTURES!

3. Our goal and agenda!
Agenda:
1.9:30-10:20
My story, our story
and why tell visual
stories as educators?
2. 10:20-10:45 PhotoWalk!
3. 10:45-11:20 EDIT your photos
And EMAIL to my Flickr email address—
to our big group photo album/story.
Extend: SHARE your story of today in
pictures on Twitter, IG, Blog, #2013M3

4. 1.YOU AS CREATOR:
CREATE vs. Consume
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo by Laihiu
2 Shifts w/tech in all hands:
2. Think and Share visually.

5. Talk time!!
1.ON WHAT SOCIAL NETWORKS DO YOU
SHARE Your learning or eduStories?
2. WHY ARE Pictures/Videos SO EFFECTIVE
IN COMMUNICATING MEANING?
Look at these pictures for insight :
Reflections: Portraits of the Elderly as They Once Were

6. TALK Time!!
3. DO YOU BLOG? Why or why not? Who
Could benefit from YOU SHARING
your edu-world?
4. How often do you TAKE PICTURES
IN YOUR CLASSROOM or use pictures for
Instruction?
5. Are there more negative stories in
Education or positive stories?
Can we help change that?

7. Become a
Creator of
Visual media…
Tell your stories
Learn out loud
Then guide your
kids to do the same!
Created by Dr. Ken
Corum using the
PHONTO App—free!
~80% of your brain is set up to process visual information
THINK in terms of pictures/videos FIRST to tell stories. It’s a
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10. Places to share, connect, and plant positive
Views on EDU-Goodness! Visual sharing on all.
TWITTER: @LAURAGILCHRIST4
INSTAGRAM: @LAURAGILCHRIST4
FLICKR: LAURAGILCHRIST4
FACEBOOK: GILCHRISTLAURA
BLOG: http://lauragilchrist.blogspot.com

11. Maker Spaces
SHIFT: Ts and Ss as CREATORS, not consumers!
vs
CONSUME
Coffee art by Maleny_Steve
CREATE
Cc licensed (BY NC) flickr photo by gilchristlaura

12. Maker Spaces
vs
CONSUME
“Let your Power Shine” by GilchristLaura
CREATE
“Hendrix Poster” by lajon

13. A New world of Visual Stories
in my BLOG—I’m
STORYTELLING EDUCATION!
Any event is a chance to
tell a story---visual is best!
Rachel’s Challenge post
Look at my first blogpost!! LOL
Think outside the box Blogpost
Power of 2 videos and 1 picture to
Tell the story of the lesson!!
Power of PICTURES and some words
To tell the story of their emotional
Reaction to Rachel’s Challenge
Posters—create vs consum
No more posters at the teacher store. The
kids splashing our walls with THEM and
THEIR CREATIVITY!

14. Instagram—share stories!
Photos, videos, & hashtags
My Instagram Storyline:
http://instagram.com/lauragilchrist4
--Videos are 15 seconds
--Picture editor built in
--I usually take pics,
edit them first in Snapseed
and THEN Instagram them!
--Examples of sharing school
learning with school hashtag;
and conference events with #!!
(This picture was edited with ToonCamera app!)

15. Twitter—share stories!
Photos, videos, & hashtags
My Tweetstream Storyline:
https://twitter.com/LauraGilchrist4/media
https://twitter.com/LauraGilchrist4
--Picture editor built into Twitter
--I sometimes edit in Twitter and
Post pics OR I take pics,
edit them first in Snapseed or
Other app and THEN Tweet them!
(I tweeted this picture out. See my media
Timeline!)
Redbud Repose

16. Flickr—My #1 Visual Tool!
Store, Edit, Share, Community
My Flickr Photostream!
EdcampKC Flickr Set 2012—made by only ME
#2013M3 Flickr Set – WE will make this together!
What we’re doing at EdcampKC 2013 w/Flickr!
My Starter Flickr Blogpost

17. FLICKR.com
1
1 TB Storage—FREE
200 MB/picture; 3 minutes/video
2
Copyright your pictures or use any of the 6
Creative Commons
3
Edit, Add Text, Store, Create products
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by LEOL30:
http://flickr.com/photos/lwr/32063556/
4
Share pictures many ways, places
Your Flickr email address gives you group photo-storytelling opportunities.
5
Follow educators on Flickr and learn VISUALLY WITH THEM! (Check out
who I follow, you may recognize some educators!)
http://www.flickr.com/groups/858082@N25/pool/

18. Your Flickr EMAIL!!
Have kids, colleagues email you pictures from event!
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Keep them all in one place. Edit them once they’re in!
How to find your Flickr email:
Hover over your picture in upper right, click on
Settings, and click on Emails and Notifications. Cool
thing: You can CHANGE your Flickr email. If you
give a group your email or tweet out the email, no
worries about people having YOUR Flickr email
address and photo-bombing you so to speak. :) You
can change it whenever you want.
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo
by LEOL30 :http://flickr.com/photos/lwr/32063556/

19. 4 things we’ll DO
to become visual creators
and sharers!
1 PhotoWalk—Pictures
2
Wikipedia: Photowalking
Ken Shelton's PhotoWalk Flickr Set
Edit pictures—for story/effect
Crop, add effects, blur tool, fix poor lighting!
3
Email to group Flickr set!
Instagram Photo vai @nashworld
Share FLICKR highlights and CREATIVE COMMONS settings!
4
Learn out loud: Tweet,
Instagram, blog, or Flickr your visual
learning

20. PHOTOWALK:
TAKE PICTURES
TOGETHER!
Take pictures of anything around you that catches your eye. It can be lines, angles, people, food!!!
Anything that captures a slice of this conference!
You could go out with a theme in mind. Let’s go out and observe with an artist’s eye and see the world
BE BACK HERE IN 25 minutes. Begin editing photos. Add text.
Make collages.
SEND IT TO MY FLICKR EMAIL with your title andyour name

21. Photo Editing Apps I use to EDIT PICTURES!
Search your app/play store
*Snapseed —I use this the most for editing quickly, nicely
*FLICKR---STORAGE, EDITING, and SHARING; Creative Commons Searching
*ToonCamera --cool!
*WordFoto --cool!
*Phonto --TEXT
*InStatus--TEXT
*PicCollage
PicStitch
Diptic
Use #2013M3 hashtag
Online and Free: www.Picmonkey.com
(not on iPads)

22. CREATIVE COMMONS SEARCHING
http://search.creativecommons.org/
I use this to find Music to use in my iMovie creations
I use it to find Pictures and much more. Check it out.
Takes you to CC searching on my websites, including FLICKR.
Flickr gives you attribution text/links for all pictures and videos. SO EASY!
FLICKR: Find CC pics!!
Decide on your CC settings in Flickr: Go
to Settings, Privacy, Permissions
•My creative commons settings are:
Attribution, Non-commercial, Share-alike
You can select All Rights Reserved

23. How students can use visuals
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Visual Prompts instead of written ones
5 picture stories on Flickr
VISUAL IDEAS FOR THE CLASSROOM!!! Ways to use pictures. Wes Fryer
VISUAL WRITING PROMPTS to use/inspiration! Luke Neff
Give kids a theme, like Erosion or water cycle. Kids take pictures.
Create visual presentation or contribute to group photoset in Flickr.
Great example of a photo-story! TELL YOUR STORIES educators! Alan Levine
You will make a difference In education and in the lives of your readers and kids.

24. Share your stories.
See our group Flickr Set!
Laura Gilchrist
Educator of 6th graders in the realms of science,
social studies and life. 