Module+4+Multimedia+Project

**Reading Assignment** **Read these two articles on media literacy. ** **Also search through the NETS and Wisconsin standard links. Review the standards for the classes you teach. With your lesson plan you will need to include one technology standard and one content standard with an explanation of how your lesson relates to the chosen standard.** **Orchestrating the media collage** **Media literacy**

**Action Assignment #4** I chose to do a video project. Please see this at my @Lesson Plan page. **Lesson plan w/ Multimedia Project ** **Must include a rubric/ checklist **

**Multimedia Project (Choose one) **
 * **Must include at least one alternate activity for MI **
 * **One technology based standard and one content area standard **
 * **ITL (Information Technology Literacy)** **, ****NETS for Students****<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">, ****NETS for Teachers**
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Your Content area Standard (math, science, physical education, etc.) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sources Cited if used **


 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Interactive PowerPoint **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hyperlink **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Slides **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Websites **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Video **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">appropriate sounds **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">files **
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2-5 minute video using Moviemaker or iMovie **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Pictures **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Video **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Title/Conclusion **
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">PhotoStory Movie **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Slides **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Pictures **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Appropriate sound **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Transitions **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Titles **
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create a Glogster **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hyperlink to website **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Pictures **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Video **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Audio **
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Text **

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Discussion Questions #4.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What is your reaction to the media literacy articles? Post your responses to the questions in the discussion area.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Remember to respond to two other students. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">After reading both articles, one statement kept repeating itself in my head over and over again, partially because this is an issue that I personally have faced at the high school level with my students. The following statement appears in Orchestrating the Media Collage by Jason in a: "We want our students to use technology not only effectively and creatively, but also wisely, to be concerned with not just how to use digital tools, but also when to use them and why."

While most of my students are not afraid to delve in and try new technologies, the majority of them do not know how to use them appropriately, nor do they know why they should be learning to use them. My main battle every year is to get students to understand that when they are at school they are technically in a professional environment where they are not only learning facts, information, and knowledge, but also where they are learning skills for the real world as well as learning how to behave and perform in an appropriate manner.

I think part of the problem stems from the fact that they are bored at school and not used to having a teacher try new things with them, as well as the fact that there are so many restrictions placed on them that they feel that we (teachers, administrators, and adults in general) just don't plain trust them to correctly use technology.

The truth is, the need for incorporating technology is a must, and we have to realize that in order for our students to be successful tomorrow we need to teach them how to properly use what is out there. Yes, we are going to have to make contracts, keep a close eye on them, show them how to correctly and professionally express themselves, etc., but we too have to not be afraid to take on this task. If we don't, I think we are going to lose more and more students.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You must also respond to at least 2 other classmates

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In response to Deb Norton: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Deb. I also love the idea of the teacher being the "guide on the side rather than the technician magician." Students don't want us to know it all about technology, they just want us to use it and help them learn how to use it! I have experienced this with my high school students, and I have really been even more aware of this since I started this Mater's program. High schoolers are tired of the same old book learning, they are tired of the way we teach, and they do truly yearn for a different way of learning. I found that when I used technology in my lessons or when I used a new technology with them as a project, they really were interested in what we were learning! When I had them use glogster (even though certain features were blocked), I found that they put forth the most effort they had all year. When i talked to them about the different things I was learning in my Master's and when I showed them different Web 2.0 resources I had learned about, they were truly intrigued and interested by it all. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I have found a new hope in teaching our future, one that is technology based.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In response to Christy Thompson: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I agree that getting all teachers on board is key, and in my building alone there is a lot of opposition to the new direction that education is taking. There are so many teachers, even within my department, that do not view technology as the key to bettering student learning. In fact, there have even been teachers that have said that technology is the problem: students rely on it too much that theyare not learing the basics! Perhaps the basics are changing. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">However, there are also so many teachers that want to use more technology but are overwhelmed from very demanding and extensive curriculum, as well as overwhelmed from lack of time and training to learn these new skills.