How Awesome is Teaching!

The really cool thing about educational technology courses, to me, is the amount of content that can be taught/learned in each lesson. For example, students in ED 510 just completed a module covering digital presentations. In this module, not only did they learn to create a presentation, they learned so much more - 

For example, in the Digital Storytelling Presentation featured below, the student learned:

1. Digital design best practices (how to effectively design a presentation)
2. Presentation best practices (how to effectively deliver the presentation - voice, tone, engaging the audience)
3. How to use Prezi
4. How to use lecture capture software
5. How to upload a presentation to server space
6. How to generate a public URL for publishing the video
   
7. Creativity - in the design process
   
8. Information processing skills - this particular student learned about teaching/learning using “digital storytelling”
1. How to gather information
2. Organize the information
3. Present findings

 
M Baker - Digital Storytelling

What are Partnering Pedagogies?

Partnering Pedagogies??? What's that??

Many educators are unfamiliar with this term. To answer the question, watch these video presentations, created by ED 307 students, which present overviews of different types of partnering pedagogies used in K12 classrooms.

Community Service Learning by J Dews



 Team Based Learning by K Gargus



Gamification by D Guinn




Challenge-Based Learning by M Whetstone


Global Collaboration Project by J Howard

An investigation into a Partnering Pedagogy

Students in ED 307 have been investigating partnering in the classroom, as discussed by Mark Prensky

The final part of this module included students creating investigative reports about various partnering methodologies. The following video is an excellent investigative report about guided discovery, by B Ellison. Enjoy!