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Multimedia Projects in the Classroom

A Guide to Development and Evaluation

By: Timothy D. Green, Abbie Brown

Here are the step-by-step secrets you need to make multimedia work for you, your students, and your curriculum. Topics include

Integrating curriculum content into multimedia production
Developing multimedia projects in the classroom
Evaluating multimedia projects
Producing professional multimedia

Learn to understand the process, include it in your own work, and incorporate student-produced multimedia projects into the curriculum—all with the help of this exciting and innovative book that covers the basics you need to know, the projects you can use, and the evaluation process that pulls it all together. Addresses standards set by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761978534
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2002
Page Count: 72
Publication date: February 19, 2002

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"This book provides an informative and easy-to-use guide to teachers on how to successfully integrate technology into their current curriculum even if the teachers' background in technology is limited."
Bridget Weishaar, Technology Instructor
The Latin School of Chicago
Chicago, IL

The "how-to" guide that can take you and your students to the next level of multimedia presentation!

Teachers have been working with multimedia for years—slides shows, recordings, even "chalk talks" are multimedia. But with the advent of personal computers and sophisticated graphics software, multimedia has taken on a whole new look and feel— and now two experts in education and multimedia share the step-by-step secrets on making multimedia work for you, your students, and your curriculum.

Multimedia Projects in the Classroom can help teachers understand how the multimedia development process works, and how it can be used by teachers, as well as by students working on their own projects. Subjects include

Integrating curriculum content into multimedia production
Developing multimedia projects in the classroom
Evaluating multimedia projects
Producing professional multimedia

Learn to understand the process, include it in your own work, and incorporate student-produced multimedia projects into the curriculum—all with the help of this exciting and innovative book. Addresses standards set for classroom multimedia production developed by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)— National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NET-S) and National Educational Technology for Teachers (NET-T).

Author(s)

Timothy D. Green

Timothy D. Green holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology and Curriculum and Instruction from Indiana University. He is co-author of Multimedia Projects in the Classroom: A Guide to Development and Evaluation (Corwin Press) and the author of PowerPoint Made Very Easy! (Scholastic). He has taught fourth grade and junior high school. His expertise is in multimedia design, the integration of technology into the teaching and learning process, and pedagogy. He is an assistant professor at California Sate University, Fullerton in the department of Elementary and Bilingual Education. Currently, he is the university’s Director of Distance Education.

Abbie Brown

Abbie H. Brown holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University and an MA from Teachers College at Columbia University. He is currently an associate professor at California State University, Fullerton in the department of Elementary and Bilingual Education. He is co-author of Multimedia Projects in the Classroom: A Guide to Development and Evaluation (Corwin Press), and a contributing author to Teaching Strategies: A Guide to Effective Instruction (Houghton Mifflin). He has taught at the Bank Street School for Children in New York City and George Washington Middle School in Ridgewood, New Jersey. He has received awards for outstanding teaching and curriculum design from the New Jersey Department of Education and is an experienced computer-based instructional media producer.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

1. What is Multimedia?

2. Integrating Curriculum Content Into Multimedia Production

3. Multimedia Projects in the Classroom

4. Evaluating Multimedia Projects

5. How Professional Multimedia Is Produced

Appendix: A History of Multimedia

Glossary

Index

Reviews

"This book provides an informative and easy-to-use guide to teachers on how to successfully integrate technology into their current curriculum even if the teachers’ background in technology is limited."

Bridget Weishaar, Technology Instructor
The Latin School of Chicago; Chicago, IL

Other Titles in: Mathematics | Classroom Applications of Technology

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