Creating Content With Your Tablet - Softcover

Brooks-Young, Susan J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452271836 ISBN 13: 9781452271835

Publisher: Corwin, 2014

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

This practical resource enables teachers to confidently plan and manage effective mobile technology lessons, with step-by-step instructions for digital photography, video, ePublishing and more so that students are transformed into content creators.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1452271836
• ISBN 13: 9781452271835
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136