Ahmad Zorkani
Manager, Instructional Video Services & Multimedia. Instructor, Graduate School of Education. AUC
American University in Cairo
He has been in various classroom technology support roles since 1997. Since 2008 focused on Teaching/Learning technologies coupled with acquiring considerable knowledge of Pedagogy as he is a holder of an MA in International & Comparative Education and is an instructor in the Professional Educator Diploma at AUC where he taught more than 30 courses. He also worked as Technology Assistant in several AUC courses focusing on using Multimedia Content Production as a form of assessment and student engagement, which he incorporates in his courses as well. Ahmad has been the Webcasting coordinator for the AMICAL annual conference since 2015, and has presented and organized workshops at five AMICAL conferences he attended regularly since 2010. In addition to co-organizing two AMICAL workshops, one at AUC in 2012 titled: International Collaborative Learning Technologies Workshop, and one in 2014 titled: Engage Students in Creative Multimedia Production at AUK - Kosovo. From 2012 to 2014 he was a member of the AMICAL advisory committee for Videoconferencing and Virtual Course Collaboration. He has also helped AUP and AUR as a consultant for them to build their first videoconferencing enhanced classroom. He holds a BA in Business Administration, and a Diploma in Management of Information Systems. Finally, out of a passion for Education, he founded a company in 2017 aimed at providing Teacher professional development, student creativity-enhancing programs, and Parenting training.
Interests: Flipped-classrooms, blended-learning, cooperative-learning, multimedia, video-conferencing, assessment, professional-development, digital humanities, film production.
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Sessions
- The ins and outs of online instructional video production
- Implementing student multimedia content production
- Student multimedia content production: An alternative form of assessment
- Engage students in creative multimedia content production: A new model of faculty-IT-student collaboration in a learning intensive world
Event attendance
- AMICAL 2023 · May 24–26, 2023
- AMICAL 2019 · Mar 29 – Apr 1, 2019
- AMICAL 2018 · May 4–7, 2018
- AMICAL 2017 · May 17–20, 2017
- AMICAL 2016 · May 12–14, 2016
- Digital Pedagogy Lab Cairo: An AMICAL Institute · Mar 20–22, 2016
- AMICAL 2015 · Apr 27 – May 30, 2015
- AMICAL 2014 · May 14–17, 2014
- Engage students in creative multimedia content production · Mar 21–22, 2014
- AMICAL 2013 · Jun 12–15, 2013
- AMICAL 2012 · Apr 4–7, 2012
- AMICAL 2011 · Apr 27, 2011