2025 Professional Development and Conference Sessions

Upcoming:  March 2025  CUE conference, Palm Springs, CA
                      June 2025 ISTElive 2025, San Antonio, TX

* January 2025   Palm Springs Unified professional developement
​                                          Intro to WeVideo
                                         Intro to Eduprotocols for a UDL Classroom  (2 day training)
​                                         Leveraging AI for a UDL Classoom   (2 day training)

2024  Professional Development and Conference Sessions

 * June 2024, Denver, CO.  ISTE Live 2024
Sessions included: Storytelling Done Digitally to Showcase Voices, Views and Perspectives
                                    Cultivating Creativity and Lifting Student Voices
                                    Sound Pedagogy: Crafting and Curating Podcasts for Professional Development
                                     Leveraging AI to Create a Universally Designed Classroom
​                                     "Be You" a creation lab co-presented with Paul Reynolds

* April 2024   PSUSD professional development
Classes included:  Intro to WeVideo
                                 Intro to Eduprotocols for a UDL Classroom
                                  Leveraging AI to Create a Universally Designed Classroom

Education Week Article about our ISTE 2023 session
www.edweek.org/technology/want-to-help-students-develop-empathy-try-making-movies/2023/07

2023 Speaking Opportunities


  • ​March 16th, CUE Conference, Palm Springs, CA.  "Moviemaking Mini-Lessons for More Creative Communicators"
  • April 12th, Palm Springs Unified School District, Palm Springs, CA. "UDL and Moviemaking." 
  • April 13th-14th, Palm Springs Unified School District, Palm Springs, CA. "EduProtocols and UDL."
  • June 25-28th,  ISTE Conference, Philadelphia, PA.  "Are You Ready for Your Close-Up? UDL and Moviemaking," "Moviemaking Mini-Lessons for More Creative Communicators," and "Culturally Relevant Storytelling: Moviemaking to Lift Student Voices."
  • WeVideo PD Palooza, July 2023: "Storytelling Saves the World"

Where We've Presented . . .

  • October 15, 2022 - ISTE Creative Constructor Lab, " Moviemaking Mini-lessons for More Creative Communicators"  9:55 - 10:45 am
  • October 15, 2022 - CASE Palm Springs, "Storytelling Saves the World: Using Moviemaking as Assessment" 1:00-2:30
  • November 5, 2022 CMC Math Palm Springs, " Ready for your Close-up? Using Moviemaking as Assessment" 10:30 am
  • September 27, 2022 WeVideo Webinar
  • June 26-29, 2022 - ISTE Live, New Orleans, LA. "Storytelling for All: Equity and SEL Through Moviemaking" (Monday, June 27, 5:00-6:00 PM)
  • June 26-29, 2022 - ISTE Live, New Orleans, LA."Contents Under Pressure: Using Digital Storytelling and the SODAS Frame to Address SEL" (Monday, June 27, 2:00-3:00 PM). Also appearing and facilitating in the Digital Storytelling Playground (activities, talks, times TBA).
  • March 17-19, 2022 -CUE conference, Palm Springs, CA. "Storytelling for All: Equity and SEL Through Moviemaking" on Saturday, March 19th, at 10:05 AM in the Primrose C Ballroom. *This is a hybrid conference session, also available for live viewing through Zoom.
  • October 16, 2021 - ISTE Creator Constructor Lab 
  • October  21-22, 2021 California STEAM Symposium 
  • June 2021 - ISTE, "Storytelling Saves the World" Creator Lab workshop
  • June 2021 - ISTE "Film Festival in a Box" Poster Session
  • June 2021 - ISTE Digital Storytelling Network Playground, "In My Time Project"
  • July 2021 - Arizona Department of Education Title IV Conference, "Lifting Student Voices Through Moviemaking"
  • September 2021 - ISTE Digital Storytelling Network Webinar, "Rethink Lesson Design with Movie-Making in Mind."
  • March 2021: Spring CUE Conference, "Storytelling Saves the World: Harnessing the Power of Student Voices" session.
  • March 2021: Spring CUE Conference, "Rethink Lesson Design with Movie-Making in Mind" session. 
  • December 2020: ISTE National Conference, Online Blended Learning Playground Presenters, "Video Haiku as Formative Assessment"
  • December 2020: ISTE National Conference, Digital Storytelling Playground Presenters, "Bringing Poetry to Life"
  • October 2020: ISTE CCL National Conference, Digital Storytelling Playground Presenters, "Bringing Poetry to Life"
  • August 2020: ISTE Digital Storytelling Network Webinar, "DSN Summit Recap" panel discussion
  • June 2020: ISTE Digital Storytelling Network Virtual Summit, "Storytelling Saves the World: Harnessing the Power of Student Voices" session
  • "June 2020: ISTE Digital Storytelling Network Virtual Summit, "Can Storytelling Save the World? Removing Barriers from Storytelling" session

What  Workshop Participants Say. . .

Session Resources for  the 2021 ISTE  Conference


Academic Research: Digital Storytelling: A District Initiative for Academic Literacy Improvement, published in the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2019. ​
DSL Engineer Report:​ YouTube Channel
Jessica Pack's Classroom YouTube Channel
Click around this Bitmoji Classroom in order to access various digital storytelling resources:

University of California, Irvine research on digital storytelling and literacy

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