wow204282009

**Show #: 112**
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 * GUEST:** **Karin Muller and Take2


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Jen (jenw0424) Sharon (eebee1) Cheri (drctedd) Peggy (pgeorge1)
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Our delicious tag for tonight: wow2_20090428


 * Sharon:** http://moodlecommons.org/, http://newmedialiteracies.org/ Conference

Women Who Tech [] Tooting Your Own Horn - 2008 presentation from Women Who Tech []
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 * Jen:

Peggy:** (1) http://poetrycollaboration.wikispaces.com/ Fantastic collaborative poetry project created by Lisa Parisi and Christine Southard based on the book __Love That Dog__ by Sharon Creech. The students used Skype to collaborate with a class in Oregon, CoverItLive and Voicethread. Students from around the world are invited to join the collaborative project. Level 1 participants contribute to the VoiceThread, Level 2 participants partner with a class to create, share, respond. (2) http://discoverychange.pbwiki.com/Writers%27-Workshop Incredible student project wiki page by Jackie Gerstein's students from Writer's Workshop. Their fantastic work is fully integrated with technology and includes original books created on TikaTok, original theme songs for their books, photos uploaded to PhotoPeach, and explanation of the project. Students created Readers Theatre scripts on Word, rehearsed them and created podcasts and created storyboards using Storytop. Jackie has also included a Slideshare presentation on Digital Storytelling on the site.

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Karin Muller has produced several major documentary series for National Geographic and PBS: //Along the Inca Road,// a seven-month odyssey into the heart of the ancient Inca Empire; //Japanland,// a four-hour series on traditional Japan;and //Hitchhiking Vietnam.// She has authored three books that have been widely reviewed and translated into eight languages and is a regular on the professional lecture circuit as an expert on Japan, Vietnam, Peru and Tanzania. Karin graduated Williams College Magna Cum Laude with a degree in economics and has run Firelight Productions, Inc, a successful media production company, since 1999. Over the past two years Karin has filmed undercover in Cuba and most recently spent three months documenting the war in Chad and genocide in Sudan. Currently, Karin Muller is handling all day-to-day business as well as field production for //Take 2//. For examples of prior work, please go to: [] [|http://www./pbs.org/hitchhikingvietnam] [] For books and DVDs of Karin's documentary series, go to: [] What We Do Each year //Take 2// shoots 2-3 months of high-definition footage in a different conflict region, creates extensive supporting and background documentation, and then licenses the package free of charge to qualified educational institutions throughout North America and Europe. Participating schools will complete one small task to help grow //Take 2//’s infrastructure and undertake at least one advocacy event using their projects.
 * Website**: http://take2videos.org/

Who We are //Take 2: The Student's Point of View// is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young people to become global citizens through the use of digital media, and to support young people in educating a broader public through their creative products.


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