How do you get kids to become content creators rather than just content users? Check out this interview with Chadd Rosenberg, who details his venture into guiding his students to use available technology to create paper and ebooks.

Concepts

desktop publishing

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Additional Tags

classroom support

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Instructional Ideas

• Present the video at department meetings and have members brainstorm how the approach can be used in their subject area

Classroom Considerations

• Having trouble getting the video to play smoothly? Clicking the blue HD letters in the lower right corner will play the video at a lower resolution and decrease buffering time

Pros

• As a language arts teacher, the focus of Rosenberg's lessons is on publishing a story; however, the process he describes could easily be applied to any subject area 

Cons

• None