AWESOME SAUCE
Create Videos to Inspire Students, Engage Parents and Save You Time
Josh Stock
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Stock, Joshua, author.
Title: Awesome sauce : create videos to inspire students, engage parents and save you time / Joshua Stock.
Description: First edition. | Portland, OR : International Society for Technology in Education, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “The ability to use video to communicate has become a basic element of literacy - inside and outside the classroom. This playful, fun-to-read book by award-winning educator Josh Stock shows educators how to make simple videos that explain assignments, welcome students to new schools and grades, differentiate lessons for a range of learning levels and more. The book also helps teachers use video to address common issues like enhancing classroom culture and managing parent communication. Structured like a cookbook, Awesome Sauce discusses both the “why” and the “how” behind the strategies. Each section begins with the story of why Stock uses the strategy, demonstrating what teachers will get out of trying it with their students. These explanations are followed by “how-to” recipes that guide readers in creating the “awesome sauce” their videos will become”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020004996 (print) | LCCN 2020004997 (ebook) | ISBN 9781564848499 (paperback) | ISBN 9781564848475 (epub) | ISBN 9781564848468 (mobi) | ISBN 9781564848482 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Video tapes in education | Teaching--Methodology. | Effective teaching. | Teacher-student relationships.
Classification: LCC LB1044.75 .S76 2020 (print) | LCC LB1044.75 (ebook) | DDC 371.33/5--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020004996
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First Edition
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Josh Stock is a sixth-grade language arts teacher at Santa Fe Trail Middle School in Olathe, Kansas, and an Awesomeness Expert. He has served on the Building Leadership Team through the Mercury phase of the school’s Kansans Can School Redesign project. Along with the school redesign project, he hosts Kansas Moonshot, a podcast highlighting the amazing things educators are doing in their classrooms across the state of Kansas.
Josh has written for websites such as Edutopia, is a contributing author in The Best Lesson Series: Literature, and also writes on his blog, mrstockrocks.com. He does consultant work for Kansas University through a series of projects pairing technology with writing strategies.
Josh was selected as one of the National School Board Association’s “20 to Watch” educational tech leaders in 2016, an International Society for Technology in Education Making IT Happen award recipient in 2017, an ISTE Emerging Young Educator award recipient in 2018, and an Outstanding Recent Graduate from Emporia State University in 2019.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am thankful to ISTE for giving me the opportunity to author this book and for Valerie Witte and Stephanie Argy for walking me through the process of publishing.
DEDICATION
Thank you to my wife, Jenica, for always believing in me, encouraging me to take risks, and supporting me in all my random ideas. And to our kids, Brooklyn and Oliver, for participating in all of my silliness, pausing vacations to record videos for the classroom, and being all-around amazing kids.
Thank you to my high school creative writing teacher, Ms. H, for helping me find my voice in my writing.
Thank you to Amber Rowland for mentoring me, encouraging me to share my ideas with others, and adding the term “Awesome Sauce” to my vocabulary.
Thank you to my mom for encouraging my writing and my dad for teaching me how to tell a great story.
Contents
TABLE OF Awesomeness