In the course EDIM 504 Digital Storytelling, one of the weekly assignments encourages students to look at the stories told in some of the most pervasive genres around: commercials, public service announcements and movie trailers. Students are then asked to adapt one of these formats to topics to what they are teaching their students in their schools. This is a project from Kevin Adams.

For one of three main projects in EDIM 508, students are challenged to illustrate a powerful strategy for having students communicate their understanding of a concept or topic by tapping into their desire to create their own content. For this project they select a topic or concept that they teach and model Howard Gardner's concept of the creating mind for their students by developing a "glog" that can be used an instructional tool.

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One assignment had students watching four short videos all dealing with some aspect of the use of technology in support of teaching and learning. Each class member had an assigned role (teacher, student, parent, administrator, and tech coordinator) and had to watch and respond to the videos through the eyes of their role. The second part of the assignment was to create a public service announcement, again through the eyes of their assigned role.

Julie Boushehry, as an administrator, created this humorous video to help convince classroom teachers of the power of using the new tools to support instruction and engage students!

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As the culminating project in EDIM 502 students collaborated to produce a digital research product. The task immersed students in a real-world project-based learning challenge, during which they were able to employ 21st century communication, authoring, publishing, and project management tools such as: Skype, wikis, Google Docs, collaborative mind maps, podcasts, digital video editors, Google Earth, and multimedia mashups.

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In the course Digital Media in the Classroom: EDIM 508, students are challenged to develop a "virtual field trip" using Google Earth. In this project, teachers are able to provide their students with the opportunity to develop their respectful and ethical minds. This sample about "Holidays Around the World" incorporates a rich variety of digital media content, online activities and assessment components.

The Google Earth file is available for download.