Plan

TITLE: Tell a Story

SUBJECT: English

LESSON TITLE: Daily Activities, the Simple Present Tense

THE TEACHER AND THE SCHOOL: Seçim Atagün
                                                             Ahmet Barındırır Ortaokulu
AGE OF THE STUDENTS: 11

LEVEL: 5th Grade -Elementary

APPROXIMATE TIME: 14 Hours

MATERIALS AND RESOURCES REQUIRED FOR LESSON;
Camera, Computer, Digital Camera, Printer, Multi-Media Projector, Scanner, IPad, Video Camera, Web tools, iTEC Widget Store, team Up, ReFlex, mind mapping tools; post-it notes, Popplet, Mindmeister ,Web Page Creation, Movie Maker, Podcasting, Printed Materials Textbooks, curriculum guides, story books, and so forth.
TARGETED CONTENT: narration and digital storytelling

STUDENT OBJECTIVES;
The students will be able to

- learn how to tell a story

- learn how to make meaningful videos

- explore and work the creative digital tools

-learn collaboration on a project

-express their creativity by creating movies

-improve their imaginations

-talk about daily activities

-use specific words and phrases about daily life
LESSON DETAILS:
PREREQUISITE SKILLS: Basic vocabulary about daily activitie, Using simple web tools

PREPARATION FOR LEARNING: Teacher creates a class blog and shows the students how to create a blog, how to edit, how to upload the documents. The teacher guides the students for creating their team blogs.

ACTIVITIES:
DREAM; Teacher presents a design brief, the learning activities process and the schedule.

The teacher shows a few inspiring video stories, such as
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrneuQnVQok my Pet juliet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcfSQx0aN0g Daily Routine stop motion video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JeWkZ5irA8 English with Sound and Light

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr5XEtsqWLQ Fun English conversation

The teacher suggests possible target audiences. The students decide targeted audiences.
The teacher asks the students to think about the subject of their video stories, motivates the students by letting them shape their own task
Students choose their favourite topics and create teams via team up tool.
REFLECT;
The teacher introduces the ReFlex tool and asks students to record their first reflection about their plans and the challenges they might have.
EXPLORE:
The teacher asks the teams to search for collecting similar examples and to collect them on their blogs. The teacher inspires them by showing online resources.
The teacher guides their search and the qualification of their material
Teams record a reflection about their findings.
The teacher reviews the work of each team, their reflection recordings and blog entries, then gives feedback for them
MAP;
The teacher introduces the teams some of the digital mind-mapping tools such as post-it notes, Popplet, Mindmeister .Students create mind maps for their video stories.
The teacher guides and asks them to show the locations, sound information and descriptions of the actors, the sentences for the dialogue, expression and movement.
The teams record reflections.
The teacher gives feedback for their mid maps.
MAKE – The students start their video production using their mobile phones and digital cameras. They share ideas and documents, for editing their stories; they use free web-based software.
The teacher guides, while editing their stories and asks the students to grade their teammates’ contributions.
ASK AND COLLABORATION: (optional)
The teacher builds collaboration with outside experts
The students can show their prototypes and ask their reflections and can discuss with teachers and experts.
They remake their productions according to the feedbacks.
SHOW:
The teams prepare presentations and present their stories to their classmates.
They share this documentation with other iTEC students via facebook, their parents and their identified audience, to transfer their learning.
ASSESSMENT SUMMARY AND EVULATON; The teacher always offers advice and guidance to the students, reviews the work of each team, their reflection recordings and blog entries, to ensure everyone explored, collected examples and contributed to the project during the learning activities. The teacher considers students’ interests, gives feedback including suggestions and open ended questions for them.
At the end of the project the teacher evaluates the students’ achievements based on designed criteria and uses the student grades to help form the assessment.

Evaluation Criteria;
Contribution: 20 points
Creativity: 20 points
Use of technology: 20 points
Use of language 20 points
Teammates’ grade: 20 points
Total Task Point: 100 points