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=Welcome to the Alliance for Teacher Excellence Wiki at Phoenix Country Day School in Arizona.= This is a work in progress, so be sure to check back for updates, revisions, etc.

Shelby and Eric, Alliance Instructors, are providing here a focal point to share a few sites, musings, guidelines, and resources along your journey toward creating engaging digital content for your students. Please feel free to weigh in and share a greeting, a gripe, or a word of wisdom. Here's Eric's page and Shelby's Alliance Page.

Please go to the November Session Page Please go to the December 6th Session Page Please visit the January - February Page.

Visit the Final Presentations page for requirements and guidelines.

Click on the Alliance 07 Community link at left to visit other participants' pages.

For the Alliance Project, you'll need the following Project Proposal Template. One has the first three parts as a minimum. The second one listed has the full plan with all of its components.

If you wish, you may also create your presentation from the following template. We encourage you to make it your own!

First is a site where a photographic designer at Harvard is making science more comprehensible through precise imagery. This type of thinking is empowered by the ever emerging use of visual technology. http://www.imageandmeaning.org/

There are many sources to help understand what digital stories are and how they have become such an important mode of expression. Here are just a few:
 * http://www.storycenter.org/whatis.html
 * http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/introduction.htm
 * http://www.teachingteachers.com/story.htm
 * http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/learnshops/digital/examples.php

Here's a Rubric for Digital Storytelling, pre-made from the [|Rubristar] website:

Editing Movies iMovie [|From the University of Texas] Jason Molin & Libby Peterek

Link to the Haiku project page: Digital Haiku Project Page

Other Pages Alliance Evaluations