Authorship 2.0

Here are some sample curriculum materials involving authorship that I have authored over the years:

Online curriculum materials

Shades of History: The Montgomery Boycott/Beyond Black and White, a WebQuest

Creative Multimedia, a teaching resource

Model exhibits for PBS TeacherLine/ISTE Capstone Program

I created these exhibits of classroom practice (as well as the curriculum materials referenced within them) using an online portfolio tool we developed at PBS TeacherLine for the PBS TeacherLine/ISTE Certificate of Proficiency Capstone Program program. The purpose of these exhibits is to demonstrate proficiency in ISTE’s National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS•T) as part of an online professional development program that I designed and developed with PBS TeacherLine and ISTE.

Capstone I Exhibit: Teaching with Technology – Shades of History
Capstone II Exhibit: Empowering Students with Technology – Multimedia Haiku

Sample technology-enhanced humanities lessons
I documented these lessons using FreshPond.net, an online lesson database we created at FreshPond Education. We used this tool in our professional development sessions on curriculum and technology integration with school based “design teams,” as explained in an article I wrote for the Journal of Staff Development called A network that puts the net to work (MPalombo JSD Winter 2003).

Culture and Identity Essays
Who Wrote First?
What’s in the News?
• 1: What is newsworthy?
• 2: What makes a news story good?
• 3: How do you keep them reading?
where was cummings coming from?
• 1: where (in his mind) was cummings coming from?
• 2: where (in the world) was cummings coming from?

Humanities lessons developed for NEH EDSITEment web site

I developed these lessons for EDSITEment using their template and materials from their collection of approved web sites.
American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins
The Federalist Debates: Balancing Power Between State and Federal Governments
The President’s Roles and Responsibilities: Communicating with the President

Multimedia teaching case developed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

As instructors for a course in Developing Curriculum for Deep Learning with New Technologies, we created Dynamic Earth: A Case of Teaching for Understanding. We designed this multimedia teaching case to use as an instructional tool with graduate students learning about authoring curriculum using Project Zero’s Teaching for Understanding Framework.

Webinar sponsored by the Center for Innovation and Instruction for Diverse Learners at the University of Louisville

I led a Webinar with Chris Dede entitled Authorship 2.0: Teaching Composition with Web 2.0 Media.