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TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION FOR MEANINGFUL CLASSROOM USE
= Unit Plan Template  = Unit Title: Digital Storytelling || Related Lessons: Best Advice Project || Grade: 9th || Subject(s): Reading/Research || GOALS || The student will write a draft appropriate to the topic, audience, and purpose. The student engages in the writing process and writes to communicate ideas and experiences. The student develops and demonstrates creative writing.  1 Creativity and innovation 2 Communication and collaboration 3 Research and information fluency ||  4 Critical thinking, problem-solving, & decision-making 5 Digital citizenship 6 Technology operations and concepts || The students will create a digital story surrounding an area that they are giving advice for in their Best Advice Project. The objective is to communicate an example of a problem and a solution in story form. They will be using their critical thinking skills to develop a scenario that they can use digital tools to create an artifact from. ACTION<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Date || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Schedule of lessons || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Materials & Resources needed || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Day 1 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Day 2 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Day 3 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Day 4 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I will instruct the students to pick one of their areas from the Best Advice Project. They are to write a story surrounding the situation <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The students will write their stories digitally, combining the power of images, narration, music, and text to illustrate their point. They will be told to add digital pictures after their story is formed not the other way around. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The students will be using Microsoft Movie Maker to combine and assemble their digital story. It provides tools for recording and editing audio; compiling and editing images; adding captions, transitions, and effects; and assembling all the content into a video. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Students will continue to work on digital story. For many students this is a first time project of this sort and there is a learning curve. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Pencil and Paper <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Computer Lab and hard copy of their story <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Software programs: Microsoft Movie Maker <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || MONITOR || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Assessment(s): The summative assessment on this project is the digital story itself. I will be conducting several formative assessments as I check on the students and see how they are coming along as they traverse this new landscape of creating a digital story. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Accommodations and extensions: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">There will be some students who will feel like using technology in this form is very difficult. I will have the students that are excelling help the students who are struggling. I will also extend the time on the project by two days for the students who need the extra time.
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