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Books

Storytelling With Purpose: Digital Projects to Ignite Student Curiosity
This book brings together 20 years of in-the-classroom experience to help educators solve our most existential challenges in education today. By using storytelling projects as a framework for learning, we can leverage curiosity and passion to bring joy and wonder back to learning.
(ISTE/ASCD)

Creating Digital Books on Mac & iPad
I co-authored this comprehensive guide to publishing digital books with Apple Pages that helps teachers create professional-looking books for their learning space. Learn tips and tricks about design, see examples from teachers, and find out the specifics about how to get your work on 
Apple Books.
Client: Apple

Podcasting For the Classroom
This free ebook is a step-by-step guide to producing podcasts in classrooms of all grade levels, from planning to publishing. Hear examples and insights from teachers who have successfully integrated podcasts in their learning spaces.

Human Geography Digital Storytelling Project
This free ebook documents a teacher training I led to Guatemala where educators learned to make documentaries. See their projects and hear reflections on the process. Lesson plan included. 

Book Creator for the High School Classroom
This free ebook discusses how middle and high school educators can use digital book authoring in their classrooms and in their learning spaces. Examples from each subject area are included.
Client: BookCreator
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Art of the Video Interview
A multitouch book & practical guide to producing and recording interviews with video.  Available on the iBooks Store.

Living History: Video Documentaries For The Classroom
This free ebook walks you through the process of how to produce student-created documentaries as part of experiential learning projects.

Cinematic Storytelling
​A multi-touch book that guides students and teachers of all subject areas through the process of creating short videos. Available on the iBooks Store.

Articles

Education Week

• Keep kids from using AI for cheating by creating meaningful assessments

Edutopia

• Guiding Students to use Storytelling Across The Curriculum
• Guiding Students to Create PLNs To Prepare For Their Future
• Empowering Students Through Multimedia Storytelling
• Evaluating Project-Based Learning
• Social Justice Projects In The Classroom

EL Magazine (ASCD)

• Uncheatable assignments students want to complete
• The Power of Digital Storytelling and Uncheatable Assessments

International Literacy Association

• Social Justice Through Digital Storytelling
• Teaching Literature Through Film

Edsurge

• Why and How To Teach Students To Write For An Online Audience
• Guide To Producing Student Digital Storytellers

PBS

• ​Service Learning Leads to Personalized Learning

Closing The Gap

• What Four Deaf Students Taught Me About Being A Good Teacher

JEA Digital Media

• Diversify Your News Coverage
• Put 'Journalism' Back In Broadcast Journalism

Curriculum

Uncheatable Assessments
Artificial intelligence and low student engagement have educators wondering how to design meaningful, equitable assessments. with over two hours of video content, a 70 page workbook, and hands on activities, this self-paced online course  shares research-based, classroom tested ways to redesign assignments to encourage academic integirty.
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Media Literacy for the Classroom
A self-paced online course for teachers to help you integrate media literacy in classes of all subject areas.

Oral History Projects
Use voice memos, research, and interviews to help students make connections between the past and present. Client: Apple

Interstellar Lesson Plans
Lessons that accompany the Christopher Nolan Sci-Fi film. Client: Google

Video Time Capsule Lesson Plan
Lesson plan to design a multimedia project that explores past, present and future. Client: Adobe

Video Journalism for Social Change
A free iTunesU course that teaches students how to use video to tell compelling non-fiction stories.

Photojournalism for Social Change
A free iTunesU course that teaches students how to use photography to tell compelling stories about their community.