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Too Late to Apologize and other teaching resources
How could you not love this? I want to embed it everywhere and I want to use it as a model for student projects.
E-book creators, Soomo Publishing describes Too Late To Apologize: a Declaration by Tim Alden Grant, as
our first satirical video project and is part of our ongoing effort to facilitate learning in creative, innovative ways.
It was that brilliant music video remix of the Timbaland song that drew me into their e-book site.
Though aimed at the college classroom, the folks at Soomo invite high school teachers to sign up for their online learning resources. (They tell me that they currently have a number of AP teachers enrolled.)
Among the resources currently available, or in development, are:
- American Government
- Biology
- Busines
- Comparative Government
- English Composition
- International Relations
- Latin American Culture
- World History
The What we do page explains:
We work closely with instructors, departments and publishers to create customized collections of compelling assignments. As we have crafted the ideal resources for each instructor and set of students we’ve worked with, we have developed a broad, diverse, and distinctive set of resources that ultimately appeal to most instructors. Unlike the generic resources created to serve a hypothetical instructor with average imaginary students, ours are meatier, more straightforward, and less flashy.
I signed up as a professor for Americans Governing. After setting up the account, I was able to specify a related textbook. Courses are ready-to-go as displayed, but instructors are invited to edit their courses–to resequence, change titles and images, create new assignments, upload content. Go nuts.
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The Americans Governing course offered convenient access to a variety of news feeds:
Each assignment links learners to relevant primary sources and media resources. Instructors manage (subscribed) student progress in a notebook. Many of the multiple choice and short answer questions measure basic comprehension. But among the mix of questions regarding the 13-minute health care video, were open-ended questions like:
The video implies a relationship between the people and their representatives in Congress. Describe the relationship that you think exists between constituents and their representatives.
Assessments appear easy to edit and enhance to inspire more critical thinking.
The site offers a wide variety of valuable teaching resources to educators free of charge. $25 student subscriptions offer access to all of the content, including the instructor-added materials, for six months.
I know my 11th and 12th grade teachers will find this content very useful.
Tim Alden Grant, could we have more of those videos, please?!
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About Joyce Valenza
Joyce is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Rutgers University School of Information and Communication, a technology writer, speaker, blogger and learner. Follow her on Twitter: @joycevalenza
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