Week+7

We will meet online this week on Tue night. Click on Online Meetings in the navigation bar to go to Adobe Connect online meeting environment. =Readings= [|Instructional Strategies] [|Instructional Design-ADDIE Model]

=Instructional Video=

Create an instructional video for your grade level and content area using Windows Movie Maker* (*This application is what you will most likely encounter in K-12 as it is free on all PCs running Windows. However, if you are not going into K-12 or wish for other reasons to use iMovie for this assignment, you may do so). Here are some instructions:

Your video should be approximately 2 - 4 minutes long and should address something specific to your field.

The video should be instructional/informative in nature and should directly align with your future career (i.e., if you are going to teach, it should address content/instructional objectives for your specific grade level/content area. If you are not going to teach, it should provide useful information regarding your field. This can be as specific or broad as you like). **This is another assignment that will greatly enhance your professional portfolio/website if you take time to produce a quality product - start NOW!!!)**

**Visuals:** You may use still shots (either from a digital camera or graphics from your computer), video clips, screen capture recordings, or a combination of any of these elements. Don't forget the design principles when you're creating visuals!

**Audio:** The video will need to include audio (this could be background music, sounds effects, music from live video recording, your voice dubbed over the action, etc.) You are to export the final file it as a .wmv file (MovieMaker only - not aplicable for iMovie)

Rubrics: 5 pts. Title 5 pts. Author 10 pts. Transitions 10 pts. Video Effects 10 pts. Credits 15 pts. Visuals: pictures, graphics, motion video, and/or screen capture 15 pts. Sounds: effects, voice, and/or music 20 pts. Instructional content for your grade level/content area 10 pts. Movie is uploaded to teachertube.com and a URL is provided on BB

__* If you have continuously been experiencing problems with uploading to teachertube.com, choose Youtube instead. __

**Helpful Tips/Resources**

Windows MovieMaker comes pre-installed on all Windows machines. If you do not have access to this application, you may use the lab computers in the CTC. You can find a number of useful tutorials on YouTube via WindowsVideos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZZij3NNyV

There are tutorials for the older version (for Windows XP) available here: @http://www.atomiclearning.com/moviemaker2

Tutorials for iMovie can be found at http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/#intro

__Visuals__
 * If you want to save PowerPoint slides as images, go to Save As and select JPEG from the File Type drop-down menu. You can save all of the slides or just the current slide. Then you can import the slide images into MovieMaker/iMovie.
 * Don't forget that you can use Pixlr.com and Picmonkey.com to edit/create images to import into your movie as well.
 * The lab has video and digital cameras that you can check out for free!
 * If you want to record something that is happening on your computer screen, you can download Cam Studio from here @http://camstudio.org/ This will create screen capture videos in AVI format that you can import just like any other video into MovieMaker.

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 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Now that you know how to use Audacity, you can create a voiceover track or edit sound effects to go with your movie. You can also record a voiceover in MovieMaker while the movie plays.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">You can use http://findsounds.com/ to download sound effects.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Check out @http://freeplaymusic.com/ for royalty free background music.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Go to “Save Project As…” while you are editing your movie and use “Save Movie File” when finished to save it in .wmv format (MovieMaker).

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Don’t forget to credit all of your sources at the end of your movie!!!

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**Productivity Tools** [|Crocodoc] [|Scribd] [|Slideshare]

=Lesson Plan= In this week, you will design a lesson plan for a class that you plan to teach and upload it to one of the productivity applications. Alternatively, if you are not planning to be a teacher, find a topic in a content area that you are interested in and design a lesson plan to educate the topic to the general public. //Here are some tips on how to write a lesson plan:// [|Teaching Guide: Writing Lesson Plans] [|Using Active Verbs in your Learning Objectives] [|Avoid Common Mistakes in Making Lesson Plans]

I've talked about this in our online meeting. Click HERE to access the PPT.
 * Writing an appropriate Learning Objective**

As far as the content goes, your lesson plan should include the following components:
 * What to Cover in my Lesson Plan**
 * Lesson Plan Title 5'
 * Instructor's name 5'
 * Lesson duration: describe the time frame of the class. i.e a 50min class 5'
 * Learning Objectives/Goals/Outcomes 5'
 * Lesson Summary /Overview: briefly describe how are you going to teach, what are the major instructional components are in the your lesson and who you're teaching for 10'
 * Materials: textbook, or any text and materials you're using, technologies incorporation 10'
 * Instructional Procedures/Classroom Activities: present a step-by-step procedures of what would take place in the class. For each activity, add some description to it and explain the activity. Provide some prepared prompts and instructional materials you will demonstrate. Make sure the activities have some structure. 30'
 * Evaluation/assessments: evaluation plans can be an assignment, an in-class quiz/test, worksheets, performance tasks, etc. 30'
 * Additional Resources (optional)

Note: Make sure you have the above components but don't let it restrict your thinking. These components don't have be listed in the same sequence, nor you have to use the exactly the same wording for each content component in the lesson plan. Write a lesson plan in a way that makes sense to you and incorporates the required components. You can add more components if you feel the need. Your lesson plan should be as specific as possible.

You will be graded both on its instructional value and the visual design. Make sure you change the visual elements, such as font, font size, and color of the page and make it look aesthetically appealing (consider this work as something you will present to your future employers and make it outstanding!) *** Do NOT give me a list that has the items I have in this list.**

These are lesson plans to give you an idea how it may look like. They aren't standard or perfect examples though. Example 1 Example 2 Example 3
 * Examples **


 * Upon the completion of your lesson plan, save it as a PDF, upload the PDF to Scribd and embed it on this @Lesson Plan Gallery. **

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 * If you don't know how to embed a Scribd file on a wiki page, watch the video below. **

=Recording= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">[]

=Blog #7= We've gone through seven weeks' class at this point. Again I want you to kind of pause a little bit and think about what we have learned until now. You may consider the following questions when you do your reflective journal:


 * What do you think about the class so far? Have your opinions changed over time?
 * What have you learned from this class until now?
 * Among all the readings/activities/assignments/projects that we've done so far, which one(s) are most beneficial to you and which ones are the least beneficial?
 * Do you have any questions and concerns about this class at this point that you haven't fully expressed?
 * What changes you'd like to see in the second half of the semester?

=Checklist= 1. Instructional Movie 2. Lesson Plan 3. Blog 4. Your mid-term presentation project (See the "Projects" link located in the navigation bar- you will present on Mar11) All work due at 5pm March 9th.