Innovation

=** Grand Opening for Innovation InfoIsland **=

**October 3, 2009**
=Innovation in Education= Post Event Machinima by Valerie Hill LISD School Librarian Texas Woman's University media type="custom" key="5762783" [|valibrarian] October 04, 2009

//**Panel Discussion**//
// **Knowclue Kidd (Marianne Malmstrom)** technology teacher and machinimatographer. Kidd will discuss "Machinama in Education." //
 * Valibrarian Gregg (Valerie Hill)** school librarian and doctoral student at Texas Woman's University School of Library and Information Studies. Gregg will discuss "Innovative Librarianship."
 * Alexandria Knight (Esther Grassian)** adjunct lecturer at UCLA Dept. of Information Studies & an Information Literacy Librarian at the UCLA College Library. Knight will discuss "Innovative Literacy."
 * Celestia Cazalet (Elain Pybon)** chemistry teacher and Instructional Technology Specialist in Texas. Pybon will discuss "Innovative Immerging Technology Trends."
 * Sheila Yashikawa** (Sheila Webber) senior lecturer at the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK. Webber will discuss "Innovative Media Literacy."
 * Larry Klugman (Keith Mitchell)** coordinator of the Technology Initiative - University of Texas in Austin. Klugman will discuss "Virtual Reality in Education."

= What is Machinima? =

It's video created using 3D virtual worlds or games.
= Virtual Worlds & Machinima =

Developing 21st Century Media Skills & Literacies
//The Elisabeth Morrow School's Private Estate on the Teen Grid//

=1. Machinima=

Exploration - Time laps record of students' first day on "ToMorrow Island"
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= = =2. Machinima=

Virtual Worlds - Short film created by 8th grader to describe virtual worlds
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=3. Machinima=

Aphrodite - Political commercial created collaboratively with 6th & 8th graders
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=//** Additionally: **//=

"No Future Left Behind"
Collaboratiion between Suffern Middle School & The Elisabeth Morrow School media type="youtube" key="kra_z9vMnHo" height="344" width="425"

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