Ann E. Barron

Discover how digital content creation supports 21st-century learning, providing new insights into organizing, synthesizing, and evaluating information. This practical guide will make it easy for you to engage your students through this powerful communications medium.Digital content creation supports the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and 21st-century learning skills by helping students use their knowledge to analyze, create, solve problems, communicate, collaborate, and innovate. This update of the popular Multimedia Projects in Education, Fourth Edition emphasizes digital content creation and the use of the CCSS as benchmarks to help you create cutting-edge classroom instruction.The book begins by presenting research on student learning through multimedia and digital content creation. This introduction is followed by outlines of each stage of the practical, easy-to-use Decide, Design, Develop, and Evaluate (DDD-E) model, which is designed specifically for classroom use. Content also includes discussion of multiple intelligences, constructivist learning, and cooperative grouping; blackline masters to guide you and your students through the DDD-E process; and assessment and management strategies. In addition, you'll find sample activities using an array of development tools, information on mobile and web apps, and numerous other resources to support digital projects in your classroom. The book, which is most applicable to students in grades 4 through 12, will also serve as an ideal resource for media specialists who work with teachers and students.

This practical and easy-to-use resource will help teachers and library media specialists effectively integrate multimedia projects into their curriculum.Like the three earlier editions, Multimedia Projects in Education: Designing, Producing, and Assessing, Fourth Edition addresses the need to help students use their knowledge to analyze, create, solve problems, communicate, collaborate, and innovate. With 40 percent new materials and updates to everything else, it offers the perfect, hands-on approach to using multimedia in everyday practice.The book is centered around the easy-to-use DDD-E model—Decide, Design, Develop, and Evaluate—coupled with practical advice on how to effectively integrate the development of multimedia projects into classrooms. Focus is on student learning outcomes and such issues as classroom management, grouping alternatives, computer scheduling options, design stages, and assessments. Readers will learn how to select and plan multimedia projects; use hypermedia programs and presentation and development tools; manage graphics, audio, and digital video; and create webpages. Project suggestions come complete with a scenario, overview, topics, and reproducible worksheets, and can be easily adapted for different grade levels.Includes 40 percent new material and updates to all of the previous informationAn original model (DDD-E) for planning, producing, and assessing multimedia projectsMore than 45 blackline masters to support instructionMultiple figures and tables for clarity and as examplesNew laptop and online project ideasAssessment rubrics A glossary of key terms and numerous references and resources

This fifth edition of a well-known and respected book provides the latest information on a variety of educational technology topics (with a new chapter featuring PDAs) and demonstrates how technologies can best be applied in educational settings. The book has been completely revised and updated to reflect today's technologies available to educators. Chapters include: Teaching With Technology; Digital Audio; Digital Video; Computer Graphics; Telecommunications; Distance Learning and others.

Students can explore a variety of subjects with these cross-curricular Internet activities. Designed for educators and students, this guide to telecommunications and the Internet demystifies the technology and provides relevant, feasible, and easy-to-implement ideas and activities for the classroom. Expanded coverage of Web resources and cross-curricular activities are available in this new edition. Projects (arranged by subject area), encourage students to explore the Internet and help them learn in a variety of areas. All activities are presented in reproducible format and are readily integrated into the curriculum. The authors also give a basic overview of Internet access and navigation. A glossary, index, Internet resource list, and illustrations complete the work.