Creating Book Reports With Cool New Digital Tools
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Author | : Gina Hagler |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1477718397 |
Readers learn how to create and present book reports with software applications.
Author | : Gina Hagler |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1477718451 |
With Web 2.0 tools, students have creative options for book reports that go beyond the traditional plot summaries and dioramas. Teens can use digital storytelling tools to share information about their books and generate enthusiasm for reading. The author discusses a variety of options for creating book reports with digital tools, including using movie-making programs to create exciting book trailers, crafting multimedia slide shows, making original animations starring an avatar, and more. Projects fulfill numerous Common Core Standards, including determining a text’s theme and showing how it is conveyed through details, and incorporating multimedia components in presentations to clarify information.
Author | : Susan Henneberg |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1477718362 |
A science fair project is an opportunity for teens to choose a subject of interest, investigate it using the scientific method, and share their findings. While the scientific method never goes out of date, much about science fair research and presentation has changed with the advent of digital tools. Readers learn how they can use digital tools to brainstorm a question, research and take notes, collaborate with teammates, record and organize data, and create presentations using multimedia. As required by the Common Core, readers learn to use technology to produce and publish their work and to collaborate with others.
Author | : Joe Greek |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1477718354 |
In the not-too-distant past, students were expected to turn in only handwritten or typed papers. However, with today's ease of access to the Internet and free applications, teachers are now expecting students to go beyond the confines of text-only productions. Various online programs make it possible to create multi-layered term papers that are rich in images, audio, and even video. And most of these tools are free to use! Students can now access their work from nearly anywhere that has an Internet connection. In the case of collaborative research projects, this same technology allows team members to work with each other even when they are in different locations. A wide variety of online and offline tools, techniques, and tips to help students research, write, edit, prepare, and present term papers are discussed and explained here. This revelatory guidebook to the latest in term paper technology also supports Common Core Standards for the reading of technical accounts and texts.
Author | : Susan Meyer |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1477718370 |
A student doesn't have to be a programming whiz kid to use innovative technology and tools to make a great multimedia presentation, demonstration, or collaborative learning project. Many digital programs and software are easy to use and help students find the best way to package and present their information. New social networking tools can also help students reach a larger and more targeted audience with their message. There are so many cool new Web sites, software, apps, and other digital tools designed just for creating, improving, facilitating, and showcasing multimedia presentations, demonstrations, and collaborative learning experiences, and they are discussed in great detail here. Any student can create an amazing presentation or speech. All that is required is imagination, creativity, a little help from the latest digital technology, and this superb guidebook to the readily available tools and their astounding capabilities. This text supports Common Core Standards for the reading of technical accounts and texts.
Author | : Barbara Gottfried Hollander |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1477718494 |
Many teens enjoy theater arts and debate and grow intellectually, creatively, and socially from their experiences in these areas. Today technological tools offer exciting options for play, skit, and debate participation. Readers learn how to use digital tools to help them research, plan, write, and present their own theater and debate material. The author presents easy-to-use, inexpensive apps and tools they can use throughout the process, from brainstorming ideas to tracking audience responses. Further, digitally savvy actors and debaters fulfill the Common Core Standard of using technology to interact and collaborate with others and to produce and publish their writing.
Author | : Matt Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-04-13 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781946444257 |
Textbooks are symbols of centuries-old education. They're often outdated as soon as they hit students' desks. Acting "by the textbook" implies compliance and a lack of creativity. It's time to ditch those textbooks--and those textbook assumptions about learning In Ditch That Textbook, teacher and blogger Matt Miller encourages educators to throw out meaningless, pedestrian teaching and learning practices. He empowers them to evolve and improve on old, standard, teaching methods. Ditch That Textbook is a support system, toolbox, and manifesto to help educators free their teaching and revolutionize their classrooms.
Author | : Sandra Dallas |
Publisher | : Sleeping Bear Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1534122915 |
2019 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Juvenile Book Winner 2019 Spur Award - Western Writer's of America Finalist In 1910, after losing their farm in Iowa, the Martin family moves to Mingo, Colorado, to start anew. The US government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders. All they have to do is live on the land for five years and farm it. So twelve-year-old Belle Martin, along with her mother and six siblings, moves west to join her father. But while the land is free, farming is difficult and it's a hardscrabble life. Natural disasters such as storms and locusts threaten their success. And heartbreaking losses challenge their faith. Do the Martins have what it takes to not only survive but thrive in their new prairie life? Told through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl, this new middle-grade novel from New York Times-bestselling author Sandra Dallas explores one family's homesteading efforts in 1900s Colorado.
Author | : Ask a Tech Teacher |
Publisher | : Structured Learning LLC |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 2014-05-20 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Students write, plan, revise, edit a book report using QR codes, GE literary tour, audio, and video tools. Grades 2-5, CCSS and ISTE aligned
Author | : Steve Johnson |
Publisher | : Maupin House Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1934338842 |
In this Web 2.0 world, your students are communicating, customizing, and creating like never before. It's no surprise, therefore, that standards for the twenty-first century classroom recognize the value of teaching with digital tools. Knowing how to effectively teach with them is another matter altogether. In Digital Tools for Teaching, educator and self-proclaimed techno-geek Steve Johnson shows you how to transform 30 cutting-edge e-tools into powerful vehicles for teaching--and learning. You will find: An array of low-to-no-cost digital tools ranging in complexity and all focused on educational merit; Step-by-step instructions that take the mystery out of using each e-tool; Lesson connections and lists of classroom-proven ideas for applying each e-tool across the curriculum; Backdoor links to the special services and discounts available to teachers for many of the digital tools profiled in this book; Standards-based assessment rubrics and strategies (including how to implement digital portfolios) to help you meet twenty-first century classroom instructional goals; and Links to Steve Johnson's website and blog for news and updates on incorporating technology-based activities into your lessons. Complete and ready-to-use, Digital Tools for Teaching shows you how to connect your teaching to the e-tools that are relevant to your students' lives. Whether you're already an advanced e-tool user or a newbie, Digital Tools for Teaching will increase your confidence using digital tools, broaden your perspective, and give you new teaching strategies that you can use tomorrow.