Product Description: Place Your Students At The Forefront of 21st Century Media Production All education hinges on effective communication. This book shows how student mastery of media literacy and creation is the key to demonstrating learning in the 21st Century...read more

Product Description: "This timely and innovative book encourages us to ‘flip the classroom’ and empower our students to become content creators. Through creating digital media, they will not only improve their communication skills, but also gain a deeper understanding of core scientific concepts...read more

Product Description: Building on her award-winning research (featured in Playing Their Way into Literacies) which emphasizes that play is an early literacy, Wohlwend has developed a curricular framework for children ages 3 to 8. The Literacy Playshop curriculum engages children in creating their own multimedia productions, positioning them as media makers rather than passive recipients of media messages...read more

This volume incorporates essays questioning the meta-analyses of computer-based instruction research, Robert Kozma's counterpoint theory of learning with media, science-based technology verus experience-based craft and science-based authentic technologies.

Product Description: This text provides practical information on how to use current technology to improve the quality of physical education classes. Written specially for technology novices, this primer explains classroom applications for: fitness training equipment, camcorders and video recorders, and computers...read more

This highly praised handbook presents proven strategies for incorporating multimedia projects into the curriculum. The authors use the DDD-E model (DECIDE, DESIGN, DEVELOP, EVALUATE) to show how to select and plan multimedia projects, use prsentation and development tools, manage graphics, audio, and digital video, and evaluate student work.Significantly updated and expanded, the second edition of this highly praised handbook presents proven strategies and ideas for incorporating multimedia projects into the curriculum. With a strong focus on student learning, the authors show how to plan and implement multimedia activities and effectively engage students in expressing themselves through a variety of media. Using the DDD-E model (DECIDE, DESIGN, DEVELOP, EVALUATE), educators learn how to select and plan multimedia projects, use presentation and development tools, manage graphics, audio, and digital video, create a Web page, and evaluate student work. In addition, the authors offer numerous examples of projects involving such tools as PowerPoint, HyperStudio, and HTML. Project suggestions come complete with a scenario, an overview, topics, and reproducible worksheets, and can easily be adapted to different grade levels.

Product Description: This book allows you to team teach with a science specialist to drive home key library and media curriculum goals. Eight detailed chapters provide background and complete lesson plans that cover both library and general science skills and benchmarks...read more

A handbook on the management of a school media center includes discussions of budgeting, personnel, selection policies, computers, and networking

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Suggests seasonal and holiday activities relating to the media center and includes ideas for bulletin boards, storytelling, and art projects

Describes a process, techniques, and a conceptual model intended to conceptualize media programs and develop more sophisticated management tools for improving the capability of media personnel

Cites standards for developing and instituting audiovisual programs and multimedia learning centers