Course Trailers Revisited

Teaching in Higher Ed

Rob Parke shares about a course trailer he made for his making smart devices course on episode 451 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Students have a lot of opportunity to build really cool things, but there is not always a lot of encouragement or opportunity to think about someone other than themselves that they want to build for.
-Rob Parke

I market my class every semester.
-Rob Parke

Video is a great medium of communication.
-Rob Parke

I am trying to convey to students who I am and what they can do in my class.
-Rob Parke

How are students going to benefit from your class?
-Rob Parke

Resources

• Course Trailer: Making Smart Devices – Introduction to Wearable Devices
• Smart Devices course site
• Creating Accessible Open Educational Resources, by Rob Parke
• Making Smart Devices, OER by Rob Parke
• Peace to the People (Jackie Parke’s video course)
• GitHub
• Markdown
• Arduino
• Derek Bruff on Episode 277: Intentional Tech
• A Time for Telling, Schwartz and Bransford
• SparkFun
• Episode 38 with Steve Wheeler: Learning with ‘E’s (when he spoke about banana pies and other devices)
• Still | Late Migrations – A Natural History of Love and Loss, by Margaret Renkl

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