99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos by
The research is clear: online learning works best whenfaculty build regular, positive, and interactive relationships withstudents. A strategy that helps forgesuch a relationship is the use of videos. Student satisfaction and courseengagement levels also increase with the use of instructor-generated videos -the subject of this book. Beginning by outlining the different types of videos you cancreate, and what the research says about their effectiveness, Karen Costaexplains how they can be designed to reinforce learning, to align with andpromote course outcomes, and to save you time across your courses. She thendescribes how to create successful videos with commonly available technologiessuch as your smartphone, and without a major investment of time, demonstratingthe simple steps she took to develop her bank of videos and build herconfidence to deliver short, straightforward learning aids that are effectiveand personal. EmbeddedQR codes in the text enable you to view sample videos and screencasts thatbring the book's advice to life as you read. If you've been wanting to include videos in your teachingbut haven't found the time or confidence, this book will help you to develop asimple and sustainable video development process, supporting both your successand the success of your students.
Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Days to Launch Edtech Missions in Your Classroom by
"Innovative, Brilliant, and Meaningful" - George Couros Why in the age of the most powerful education technology ever known do studies often suggest that technology integration in school is not improving student achievement? Technology is less about the tools and more about the strategy In Hacking Digital Learning Strategies, international EdTech presenter and NAPW Woman of the Year Shelly Sanchez Terrell demonstrates the power of EdTech Missions--lessons and projects that inspire learners to use web tools and social media to innovate, research, collaborate, problem-solve, campaign, crowd fund, crowdsource, and publish. EdTech Missions empower teachers and learners One of the first truly connected educators, Shelly Sanchez Terrell, gracefully aligns tech tools and social media with strategies and concepts. Not only does Terrell demonstrate EdTech missions that solve everyday education problems, she provides clear, detailed steps, examples, and templates for overcoming obstacles that may arise in any tech-driven classroom. BONUS: 38-page Mission Toolkit Helps You Blast Off Immediately The 10 Missions in Hacking DLS are more than enough to transform how teachers integrate technology, but there's also much more here. Included in the book is a 38-page Mission Toolkit, complete with reproducible mission cards, badges, polls, and other handouts that you can copy and distribute to students immediately. Your Mission Plan Read Hacking DLS. Choose any of these EdTech Missions, grab a resource from the Mission Toolkit, share the mission and the resources with students, and watch learning soar to new heights: Design a Game Walkthrough--Create a tutorial and teach others how to play Go on a Selfie Adventure--Define yourself through images Create a Fictional Social Media Profile--Manage your digital footprint more purposefully Remix Learning Into a Digital Textbook--Produce and publish an engaging online book Debate Issues, Don't Diss People--Argue differences of opinion respectfully Seek and Preserve the Truth--Share digital news responsibly and learn to identify fake news Assemble a Global Class Meetup-Join the world community and discuss a pressing issue Enlighten the World as a Citizen Scientist--Conduct real-world field research Appreciate Others with a Digital Badge--Recognize values, not just grades Crowdfund Innovation to Find Solutions--Engage social media to fundraise for a cause Your Global Leader in EdTech Integration Shelly Sanchez Terrell is a Microsoft Education Hero and Bammy Award winner and has presented best practices in EdTech in over 20 countries. If you want to innovate with technology like never before, Terrell's EdTech Missions are your go-to resource. Launch EdTech Missions Today Scroll up and grab Hacking Digital Learning Strategies and the EdTech Missions Toolkit now.
Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College by
Chalkboards and projectors are familiar tools for most college faculty, but when new technologies become available, instructors aren't always sure how to integrate them into their teaching in meaningful ways. For faculty interested in supporting student learning, determining what's possible and what's useful can be challenging in the changing landscape of technology. Arguing that teaching and learning goals should drive instructors' technology use, not the other way around, Intentional Tech explores seven research-based principles for matching technology to pedagogy. Through stories of instructors who creatively and effectively use educational technology, author Derek Bruff approaches technology not by asking "How to?" but by posing a more fundamental question: "Why?"
Metaliteracy in a Connected World: Developing Learners as Producers by
Foreword by Jako Olivier, UNESCO Chair on Multimodal Learning, and OER Professor in Multimodal Learning, North-West University, South Africa In this newest book in their series, the authors carefully examine the central role of learners as producers of information, a foundational idea for the metaliteracy framework and one that's more important than ever in our current media and information environment. They emphasize the active role today's learners play as individual and collaborative metaliterate producers of information in various forms, including writing, digital stories, digital artifacts, and multimedia productions. The authors explore a range of connected social settings from online courses to social media to open learning environments. Featuring a new metaliteracy diagram that defines the core components of metaliteracy as well as several illustrative case studies, this book offers an overview of the development of the metaliterate producer through metaliteracy's goals, learning objectives, learning domains, active learner roles, and associated characteristics; examines the ethical responsibilities of creating information and building connected communities of trust; explores the ways in which metaliteracy provides scaffolding for open pedagogical settings, encouraging students to understand and embrace their active roles; analyzes the conjunctions of metaliteracy and open pedagogy in courses with disparate permutations pertinent to the courses' learning objectives; shows how to embed metaliteracy learning activities in blended and online learning environments, illustrated through descriptive examples from several courses; and provides customizable learning activities designed to advance dispositions important to metaliterate producers, such as an open mindset, critical thinking, and embracing digital citizenship.