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Creating Content With Your Tablet

Confidently plan and manage effective mobile technology lessons in photography, ePublishing and beyond with this detailed, must-have resource and transform your students into content creators!

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781452271835
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2014
  • Page Count: 136
  • Publication date: January 14, 2014

Price: $30.95

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Description

Description

Transform students from content consumers to content creators!

This comprehensive guide gets to the heart of effective mobile technology use in today’s classroom. Internationally recognized education expert Susan Brooks-Young provides manageable, research-based strategies to help teachers and administrators:

  • Confidently plan and manage mobile technology activities across grade levels
  • Explore new uses and applications for multiple devices
  • Use rubrics and checklists to evaluate appropriate, cross-platform educational apps
  • Manage content-specific tablet use in learning centers or small groups
  • Tap student ingenuity and improve critical thinking skills

Time-saving tips cover a wide range of apps to help busy teachers easily incorporate tablets into daily classroom use. Includes step-by-step instructions across content areas for digital photography, video, ePublishing, QR codes and more. Transform students from content consumers to content creators with this must-have resource!

“Creating Content With Your Tablet provides educators with simple, easy steps to implement tablet technology with the Common Core Standards. I am encouraged to try the apps in this book. It makes the connection between modern technology and what teachers are already doing in the classroom seem seamless.”
—Michelle Strom, Language Arts Teacher
Fort Riley Middle School, KS

“Very practical. The discussion questions at the end of each chapter are excellent for a book study or district that is moving towards tablet implementation.”
—David Fife, Vice Principal
Tweedsmuir Public School, London, Ontario, Canada


Key features

Each chapter in Section II discusses one strategy for creating content using a tablet and includes a list of resources. Discussion questions which can be used in a variety of adult learning situations are also provided.

The final section of the book focuses on practical strategies for developing learning activities that rely on use of one or more mobile apps to create content. This chapter includes a discussion of general management concerns and provides a lesson planning model. Because this field is rapidly changing, the model is open-ended to insure applicability for some time to come.

Author(s)

Author(s)

Susan J. Brooks-Young photo

Susan J. Brooks-Young
Susan Brooks-Young has been involved in the field of instructional technology since 1979. She was one of the original technology users in the district where she taught and has continued to explore ways in which technology can be used to facilitate student learning. She has worked as computer mentor, technology trainer, and technology curriculum specialist. Prior to establishing her own consulting firm, Susan was a teacher, site administrator, and technology specialist in a county office of education in a career that spanned more than 23 years. Since 1986, she has published articles and software reviews in a variety of education journals. She is also author of a number of books which focus on effective use of technology in schools. Susan works with educators internationally, focusing on practical technology-based strategies for personal productivity and effective technology implementation in classrooms. Two current areas of particular interest for Susan are mobile technology and BYOT programs.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

About the Author

Publisher's Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. There's an App for That!

Apps - An Overview

How Will Apps Be Used?

Finding the Right App

App and File Management

Discussion Points

Additional Resources

2. Photography and Tablets

Visual Literacy

Camera Basics

Camera Apps

Strategies for Classroom Use

Activity Suggestions

Discussion Points

Additional Resources

3. Video and Tablets

Consuming and Creating Video

Video Basics

Video Apps

Strategies for Classroom Use

Activity Suggestions

Discussion Points

Additional Resources

4. Using Tablets to Enhance Speaking and Listening

Listening and Speaking - Skills for Life

Audio Recording Basics

Apps for Recording Audio

Strategies for Classroom Use

Activity Suggestions

Discussion Points

Additional Resources

5. Student Authors - Compose and Publish

The Case for Student Writing

ePublishing - An Overview

Tools and Apps for Writing and Publishing

Tools and Apps for Publishing eBooks

Apps for Reading eBooks

Strategies for Classroom Use

Activity Suggestions

Discussion Points

Additional Resources

6. QR Codes in the Classroom

QR Codes Defined

Generating QR Codes

Scanning QR Codes

Strategies for Classroom Use

Activity Suggestions

Discussion Points

Additional Resources

7. More Ideas for Creating Content

Drawing

Screencasting

Animating

Discussion Points

Additional Resources

8. Incorporating Tablets Into Instruction

What's an Apptivity?

Apptivity Planning

In Summary

Discussion Points

Additional Resources

Reviews

Reviews

Quote by David Fife, Vice Principal, Tweedsmuir Public School, London, Ontario, Canada:

"Very practical for a classroom teacher. The discussion questions at the end of each chapter are excellent for a book study or district that is moving towards tablet implementation."

"Very practical for a classroom teacher. The discussion questions at the end of each chapter are excellent for a book study or district that is moving towards tablet implementation."

David Fife, Vice Principal
Tweedsmuir Public School, London, Ontario, Canada
Quote by Kendra Hanzlik, Teacher/ Instructional Coach, Prairie Heights Elementary, Cedar Rapids, IA: "The planning guide in Chapter 8 was especially helpful. It will provide a scaffold for teachers to help them plan lessons while at the same time reminding them of quality lesson design principles."
"The planning guide in Chapter 8 was especially helpful. It will provide a scaffold for teachers to help them plan lessons while at the same time reminding them of quality lesson design principles."
Kendra Hanzlik, Teacher/ Instructional Coach
Prairie Heights Elementary, Cedar Rapids, IA
Quote by Michelle Strom, Language Arts Teacher, NBCT, Fort Riley Middle School, Fort Riley, KS: "Creating Content With Your Tablet provides educators with simple, easy steps to implement tablet technology with the Common Core Standards. I am encouraged to try the apps in this book. It makes the connection between modern technology and what teachers are already doing in the classroom seem seamless. "
"Creating Content With Your Tablet provides educators with simple, easy steps to implement tablet technology with the Common Core Standards. I am encouraged to try the apps in this book. It makes the connection between modern technology and what teachers are already doing in the classroom seem seamless. "
Michelle Strom, Language Arts Teacher, NBCT
Fort Riley Middle School, Fort Riley, KS
Quote by Marsha Daniels, Director, South Central Service Cooperative, Camden, AR: “Susan is a master teacher whom I’ve personally watched as she guided experienced and inexperienced teachers and helped them learn how to incorporate tablet technology very effectively into a preschool environment. Creating Content With Your Tablet is just one more top-notch example of Susan’s skill as a teacher who provides clear, precise, targeted instruction with living examples for those who are trying to implement a new teaching tool. The Common Core State Standards for Literacy place a strong emphasis on content creation on the part of students. Teachers, with the help of authors like Susan Brooks-Young, will be empowered when they read her book to lead students to the level of content creation.”
“Susan is a master teacher whom I’ve personally watched as she guided experienced and inexperienced teachers and helped them learn how to incorporate tablet technology very effectively into a preschool environment. Creating Content With Your Tablet is just one more top-notch example of Susan’s skill as a teacher who provides clear, precise, targeted instruction with living examples for those who are trying to implement a new teaching tool. The Common Core State Standards for Literacy place a strong emphasis on content creation on the part of students. Teachers, with the help of authors like Susan Brooks-Young, will be empowered when they read her book to lead students to the level of content creation.”
Marsha Daniels, Director
South Central Service Cooperative, Camden, AR

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