Author: ChristopherBergeron
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Google Apps for Education Workshop
Audience: K12 teachers Format: live in person 2-hours An introduction to Google Apps as collaborative writing and presentation tools including how to use it to foster collaboration between teachers, between students, and between students and teachers. Learning Objectives: 1. Set Up their Google accounts 2. Demonstrate an ability effectively use the Google office suite 3.…
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Classroom Use of Web 2.0 Tools Workshop
Audience: K12 teachers Format: live in person 2-hours An exploratory workshop outlining and describing web 2.0 tools as they fit within the context of Bloom’s taxonomy. This workshop identifies tools that can be used for the different levels of Bloom’s and discusses how the instructional goals should be the driver for tool selection. SAMR model…
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Intro to Zotero Workshop
Audience: K12 & higher education faculty Format: live in person 4-hours An introductory workshop on the setup and basic use of the Zotero citation manager. A longer session covers the synchronization, sharing, and other advanced Zotero features. Learning Objectives: Install and configure Zotero Sign up for a free account Set up synchronization Overview of tool…
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Intro to Online Reference Databases Workshop
Audience: K12 teachers Format: live in person 1-hour An introductory workshop on finding relevant peer-reviewed journals on ERIC and EBSCO Host. The workshop covers navigation and use of the tools as well as the setting up of automatic notifications for search results. Learning Objectives: 1. Logging in, database options, and search techniques. 2. Setting up…
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iOS Video Production Workshop
Audience: K12 teachers Format: live in person 4-hours An introductory workshop on recording and editing video using iMovie for the iPad. This course covers how video production can be integrated into a variety of learning activities with students at various levels of complexity. From idea generation, through scripting/storyboarding, through video production, and video editing. Learning…
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Journals in the Field of Instructional Technology and Distance Education
This past December I completed my doctorate in instructional technology and distance education from Nova Southeastern University. One thing I did not do while I was there was much in the way of publishing. I was, for the most part, overly focused on my dissertation. Now that I am finished my mind has turned to…
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An Introduction to Adobe Spark
Over the past few months I have really fallen in love with with Adobe Spark. Adobe Spark is a free tool from Adobe that enables rapid development of images, simple webpages, and videos. This translates into a quick and easy way to produce portfolios and presentations. The video is the briefest of introductions to the…
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Multimedia Presentation Toolkit
One of the things I always enjoy is watching students produce rather than consume media. Below are my go to list of tools for a quick bit of audio editing, video editing, or image editing. These are not the tools for major media production for that I have the Adobe Creative Cloud suite but for…
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Where to find free audio effects and music for classroom use!
Recently I shared a list of sites where students and teachers can find free images for using in presentations. A related question that came up for me personally was where to find free audio for presentations and video.There are some fantastic resources in my two favorite video editing tools (iMovie & WeVideo) however there are…
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Zotero PDF Metadata
In this video, I will show you how you can quickly pull down the citation information for PDF files that are in your Zotero library but un-attached. Over the past few years, I have collected a few PDFs that are in Zotero of different articles from here and there. Finding them can be a…
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