ITEC CYCLE 4 –TELL A STORY TITLE: Tell a Story SUBJECT: English LESSON TITLE: Past activites –Simple past tense THE TEACHER AND THE SCHOOL: İnci ASLAN Karacaoğlan Ortaokulu AGE OF THE STUDENTS: 13 years old LEVEL: 7th Grade -Elementary APPROXIMATE TIME: 14 Hours 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 ,Web Page Creation, Movie Maker, Podcasting, Printed Materials Textbooks, curriculum guides, story boks. TARGETED CONTENT: narration and digital storytelling STUDENT OBJECTIVES; The students will be able to: - explore and work the creative digital tools -learn how to tell past events, - learn how to make meaningful videos, -learn working on a common work -improve their imaginations -talk about past habits ,social life and events -use specific words about simple past tens LESSON DETAILS: Prerequisite Skills: Basic vocabularyand rules about simple past tense 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 and every group decide a group name and give the group name their blog also .Teacher and students take a gmail account to send documentaries each other ACTIVITIES: DREAM; Teacher presents a design brief, the learning activities process and the schedule. The teacher shows a few inspiring videos.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 difficulties 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 materials. Students explore new tools for telling a story such as storyjumper,bitstrips,comic creator ,voki,and site-pal etcTeams 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 Bubble.us,CmapTools and Freemind.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 computer . 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 friends from other classrooms. 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; Collobration: 20 points Creativity: 20 points Use of technology: 20 points Use of language 20 points Overall presantation : 20 points Total Task Point: 100 points Conclusion Discuss the following questions with the class: -What were the diffuculties during working process? ...................................................................................................................................... - What are three the most important things you like? ................................................................................................................................... -What was the most important thing you learned for English lesson? .................................................................................................................................... -Did you have any difficulties in working with your team members?.................................................................................................................................... -Was your group able to compromise on common tasks? ....................................................................................................................... İnci ASLAN İnci Aslan English Language Teacher