ISKME GoPro Learning Challenge: Education’s Digital Media Uprising

ISKME GoPro Learning Challenge: Education’s Digital Media Uprising

by | Jan 30, 2014 | Blog

The capture and use of video was a rare activity for most of us until recently. Shooting video was reserved for momentous events, and was not widely considered a tool for everyday life and learning. Enter new tools like the GoPro Hero 4, the iPhone, and the Flip camera. Combined with easy-to-use editing software and resources, such as ISKME’s OER Commons, for posting and sharing video, we can use video anywhere and anytime to document and share our lives with the world.

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ISKME’s Teachers as Makers Academy

ISKME’s Teachers as Makers Academy

by | Mar 20, 2012 | Blog

ISKME’s Teachers as Makers Academy stimulates teachers’ creation of Open Educational Resources (OER), freely available online learning materials, in a collaborative format that covers the basics of finding and evaluating OER; and leads teachers through the design and remix of new projects to share. We view teachers as makers of learning and strive to support innovation in their teaching by leading them through a dynamic two-day Academy that stretches their creativity in terms of how and what they teach.
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