6th graders 4th cycle plan

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TITLE: Telling a story
SUBJECT: English 
LESSON TITLE: Digital Storytelling about ourcurriculum 
THE TEACHER AND THE SCHOOL: Onur Kalafat-Dağlıca Secondary School
AGE OF THE STUDENTS: 12 
LEVEL: 6th Grade -Elementary 
APPROXIMATE TIME: 16 hours 
CLASS BLOG: http://itecdaglica.wikispaces.com/itec4thcycledaglica
MATERIALS AND RESOURCES REQUIRED FOR LESSON; 
Camera, Computer, Digital Camera, Printer, Multi-Media Projector, Scanner, Video Camera, Web tools, iTEC Widget Store, team Up, ReFlex, mind mapping tools; post-it notes, Popplet, Mindmeister ,Weebly, wikispaces, Movie Maker, Podcasting, Printed Materials Textbooks, curriculum guides, story books, and so forth. 
TARGETED CONTENT: narration and digital storytelling 
TARGETED AUDIENCE: 4th classes; students are going to present their Works to 4th graders of students
STUDENT OBJECTIVES; 
The students will be able to 
- learn how to make meaningful videos according to their school curriculum
- 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 
-to address large audiance out of class and gain confidence for their future practices
-to convey their ideas and messages using ICT and 2.0 and 3.0 web tools
LESSON DETAILS: 
Prerequisite Skills: Basic vocabulary about their subject The teacher divide class to groups according to students choices. Teams are established by the team up tool. 
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. All team blogs links are published at the homepage of 4th cycle school blog.
ACTIVITIES: 
DREAM; Teacher presents a design brief, the learning activities process and the schedule. 
The teacher shows a few inspiring video stories about holidays and different places. Every group chooses a subject from the topics on the related units.

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 The teacher introduces the ReFlex tool and asks students to record their first reflection about their plans and the challenges they might have .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 mind 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. Such as bitstrips, prezi, goanimate,voicethread, etc.
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 and preferably edmodo and their group blogs 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. 

Tasks
Points / Team points

Collaboration
10 /

creativity
10 /

Use of technology (ict,2.0 tools)
20 /

Use of language
20 /

Overall presentation
40 /
Total : 100

 

Conclusion
Discuss the following questions with the class,

-What were the challenges you as a group confronted during the work process? 

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- What are three important things you have learned about this lesson that will be useful for

Other students in the class and at school?

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-What was the most important fact you learned about teaching grammar and speaking?

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-Did you have any difficulties in working with your team members?

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-Was your group able to compromise on decisions being made ,such as

arrangements,suggestions,timing,role sharing and collaboration?

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