Assignments

1) Weekly Reflections, Activities (discussion forum on my Lesley or your E-portfolio/ E-workplace(blog, wiki, webpage,etc.) The links and attachments listed under my.lesley. Not all readings and activites listed are required. Please explore the links and tasks and complete them as needed for your digital media assignments. If you need to figure out how to create a gif animation, you will try one of the tasks 041a, 041b, or 041c. They are listed under a new tab called activities in my.lesley. You send at the end of each week a link to your e-workspace and let me know what activites you explored, completed, struggled with.
 * **Projects and Activities** || Due date || % ||
 * Weekly Reflections, Assignments (discussion forum on my Lesley) || Ongoing || 20 ||
 * Media Literacy Project- (Podcast/ videocast)- Class activities || Sept 10-11 || 20 ||
 * Key Assignment- Digital Storytelling Project(e.g. Photostory) || Sept 24 || 20 ||
 * Curriculum Project: Aligned to state and national standards || Oct 8 || 10 ||
 * Online Presentation (i.e Jing/Prezi/Slideshare/or Voicethread) || Oct 20-21 || 10 ||
 * Final Reflection (Process) Paper || Oct 21 || 10 ||
 * Attendance and participation, disposition || Ongoing || 10 ||
 * Extra points: ||  ||   ||

Reading **Viewing ** Reflections **Each week (6-8) you will receive a reading/ viewing package. ** **Please respond on discussion forum. ** **For each entry, you will receive 1-2points. ** **No evidence (0) Writes a reflective entry (1) Writes a reflective entry and responds to others (2) **

Reading 1**- Najjar, L. J. (1996). Multimedia information and learning. Journal of Educational Multimedia ** **and Hypermedia, 5, 129-150. Available: ftp://ftp.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gvu/tr/1995/95-28.pdf **

Here are suggested items you can include in your weekly entry (one or more of the following).

 a) Weekly accomplishments/ struggles about your project. Things you discovered, not able to complete yet.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> b) Response to your readings/ viewing video assignments posted for you. (Please remember not all of them required. It is up to you to choose the ones you want to reflect upon.) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">§ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Key Points ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: These are what you perceive as **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the author’s main points ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; key points must be in your own words. If you need to quote the author first, do so, but then rewrite the point in your own words. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">§ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Talking Points ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Talking Points are ideas, points, and/or arguments of the author that you think are so important that you want to be sure that your peers took note of them as well. They can also be ideas, points, and/or arguments that need clarification or that you disagree with and would like to discuss further. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">§ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personal Response ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: The Personal Response should address how this reading relates to your classroom and curriculum project you would like to work on. 2) Media Literacy Project- (Podcast/ videocast)
 * Audio Program AND planning Script (podcast)**


 * I would like these assignments to help you in your teaching or in your work place. Please email if you need have a topic in mind that you would like to explore.**


 * Here are some suggestions.**
 * 1) who am I? your teaching philosophy, your educational experiences, etc.**
 * 2) The role of media in education, defining digital media literacy for 21st century.**
 * 3) Creating a Public Service Announcement for your school.**
 * 4) The power of Media Education in addressing multiple literacies.**
 * 5) Commercialism in Education.**
 * 6) Interview you may conduct with an author, journalist, teacher, etc. about social media in Education.**


 * 1) Write a script and 2) produce an educational or curricular Audio Program.**
 * (60 second minimum).**
 * Include a minimum of three (3) segments.**


 * Suggested method: Use the Communicating with Sound ripping, recording, editing and mixing skills to produce a Master Program Audio Folder.**


 * Step 1. Write Script**


 * Step 2. Pre-record Segments**
 * A. Record and save each music clip, sound effect and narration.**


 * Step 3. Edit and/or Mix Segments to Create Final Audio Program**
 * A. Create and save a program file for each segment by mixing and/or inserting each pre-recorded sound file in the sequence outlined in the script.**


 * Step 4. Create Yodio.com podcast**

3) Key Assignment- Digital Video Project (Required)

Please visit Dr. Blakeslee's Cluster F for details- http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/gblakesl/6016on/Cluster_F/Cluster_F.html

Context: School of Education is instituting a new program Assessment Framework for the M.Ed. programs. This framework will encourage students to collect assignments that document their academic work, enable them to demonstrate professional growth over time, provide evidence that they are meeting required state and professional standards, and confirm that Lesley University’s programs are meeting stated outcomes. While the framework will improve our support of students’ self-evaluation, it will also enable the School of Education to perform institutional review of its M.Ed. programs. This, in turn, will allow for streamlined processes for program endorsement by both state and national accrediting agencies. Process: Here is how the new Assessment Framework operates: · **Each course in every M.Ed. program now has at least one //Key Assignment//** that is designed to evaluate candidate progress toward particular outcomes of the program. The Key Assignment is assessed using a corresponding //Rubric// that has been aligned to the program’s stated outcomes as well as the standards set by a state and/or a professional content organization (e.g. IRA, CEC, NAEYC, NETS-T etc.). · The Key Assignment and its corresponding Rubric are standardized. All candidates taking a given course, whether it is on campus, off campus, or online, complete the same Key Assignment for that course and are evaluated with the same assignment Rubric. · **Continuing students** must complete and submit their Key Assignment for each course to their instructor in an electronic format (such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.). The instructor will grade the work using the usual grading policy for the class AND the instructor will also evaluate the assignment using the Rubric. Rubric:
 * KEY ASSIGNMENT for e-Portfolio ** (revised as of Sept 20, 2010)
 * 6016 Photostory or Video Project ** : Create a video or photo story of 1 – 3 minutes, excluding credits. Select a curriculum related topic and develop a Storyboard or Screen Play (as appropriate) that includes an introductory paragraph describing the Curricular Relevance - Rationale, Goals and Objectives of the project. Use the skills developed in recording, sequencing, editing and rendering - to record and produce the Video Program. Task = Create a Video Program: A) Planning: Purpose and Script; B) Preparation: recording scenes, narration, soundtracks; C) Production: sequencing, editing and rendering; and D) Publication (Blog and/or Vodcast, or website)

** Photo Story or Video Project Assessment Rubric **


 * || ** Specification ** || ** Does Not Meet **
 * Specification ** || ** Partially Meets **
 * Specification ** || ** Meets Specification ** || ** Exceeds **
 * Specification ** ||
 * ** Specification 1 **

Structure || Title scene || No Title || Missing Title || Title || Meets specification ||
 * ^  || 5 or more Content scenes || - No Content Scenes || - Missing Content, or || 5 Content scenes || Includes additional content scenes ||
 * ^  || Credit scene || No Credits || Missing Credits || Credits || captions ||
 * ** Specification 2 **

Academics || Credit information || No Credit information || Partial Credit information || Complete Credit information || Meets specification Credit scene effects ||
 * ** Specification 3. **

Planning, Curricular Relevance, and

Content || Storyboard or Screen Play (as appropriate) provides viewer with Curricular Relevance and thematically complete content information (tells an understandable ‘story’) || No Storyboard or Screen Play (as appropriate)

No Curricular Relevance

No thematically complete content information || Storyboard or Screen Play (as appropriate), Curricular Relevance, and/or Content information is incomplete, or ‘Story’ not fully developed || Storyboard or Screen Play (as appropriate), Curricular Relevance, and Content information tell a consistent, coherent, fully developed ‘story’ || Meets specification

Storyboard or Screen Play (as appropriate), Curricular Relevance, and Content information tell multiple fully developed ‘stories’ ||
 * ** Specification 4. **

Multimedia (minimums**__)__**:

(**__per scene__** ) || 1 image or video clip per scene (scan, captured, download, camera) 1 sound per scene (recorded, download, captured) May be single sound track (**__per project__** ) - 1 Narration - 1 Transition and/or Effect || Single visual for all scenes no sound No narration No transitions or effects || Some scenes share same visual Some sound No narration No transitions or effects || Appropriate visual for each scene Appropriate sound for each scene Appropriate narration - Appropriate transition or effect for each scene || Meets specification multiple visuals multiple sounds multiple narrations multiple effects creative captionin ||



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 * Assignments**


 * Instructional Content and Technical Skills of media production**


 * 1- Who am I presentation (using voicethread, prezi, slideshare, slide.net, etc.)**
 * Introduce yourself to us as a 5-10 slideshow.**


 * 2- Graphic Layout and Design Poster**
 * Create an educational Poster (8.5” x 11”)**
 * Choose an educational or curricular inspirational quotation or important concept that you might**
 * post in your classroom or school.**
 * Design a backgrounds, add illustrations and layout - to create a poster to communicate the text message with impact.**
 * Use the principles of foreground, middle groundand background to place the media components in effective relationship to one another.**
 * Convert the document to JPG Image format.**
 * Post JPG Poster on myLesley Discussion Board to share with your class members and on Your Blog or portfolio.**


 * 3- Frame Animation**
 * Choose a process, subject, topic or theme.**
 * Using animation techniques prepare eight (8) or more drawn or edited image frames.**
 * Use Movies12 to animate the image sequence.**


 * Post Animation as an attachment on myLesley Discussion Board and on Your Blog**


 * For each entry, you will receive 3 points.**
 * No evidence (0) Need improvement (1-2) Completes the assignment (3)**

Projects
 * Media Literacy Project- (Podcast/ videocast) **

4) Curriculum Project: **Aligned to state and national standards**
 * Create a lesson idea/plan. You can use Jing/Screecast to present your project.**


 * First step is to create a powerpoint and use JING screen capture**
 * Post the Screencast.com URL link on myLesley Discussion Board and on Your Blog to share with us.**


 * You can pick any topic that you are teaching or planning to teach and integrate digital media into the lesson.**
 * Please send me your proposal and discuss your idea first.**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Try to answer each section as much as you can. Please post your proposal on your EW as part of your weekly entry and send me a link.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are the sections you must include in your research based mini-unit. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Objectives <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Standards (Local and National Commoncore and/or ISTE) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Technology used <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Adoptations for ELL learners and special education students. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Resources/ References

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rubric for the CP- http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&rubric_id=1003578&

<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">You are learning a variety of ways to use digital media in educational contexts. <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Of the possible uses, the most powerful are those in which students create their own media.

<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">This course project will require you to use the knowledge you have gained to create something useful for your classroom. <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> For your course project, you will create a mini-unit containing lessons that you will teach in your classroom integrating multimedia and multiliteracies. <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> The mini-unit must be grounded in your classroom curriculum and require students to create a multimedia product. This must clearly engage your students in using digital media for the acquisition, analysis, construction, and presentation of knowledge.

<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">For the first part of the project, create a preliminary description that that contains the following:

<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Briefly address the following questions: <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> 1. What is your chosen subject area, theme or topic? <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> 2. Who is your intended audience? (Please briefly describe your students) <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> 3. What standards are you addressing from your curriculum? <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> 4. What are the educational goal(s) and objective(s)? <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> 5. What is the specific problem or question you will pose? <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> 6. What will be the specific assignment the students must accomplish? <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> 7. What is the expected outcome of the lesson?

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Your project needs to focus on integrating literacy and/ or media production into the curriculum. Please add state and national standards. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Include the following items in your Proposal. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Name <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Expected time/ timeline to complete the project <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Tentative title/ theme <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Goals/ Objectives; Be as specific as possible. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Rationale : (Why you picked this topic? How will it improve your teaching/ parenting, etc? <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Medium (Which form you will create your project. Livetext, website, URL address, Videotape, Burned CD, file attachment, in the mail, etc.) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Target Audience <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Lesson ideas or lesson plans that you searched in this topic. For instance, provide URL links. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Teaching Strategies and Methods <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Evaluation Methods: Assessment strategies: How will you assess your students outcome? <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Resources/ Credits: the print material, electronic resources, websites you already found. APA style.
 * <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Proposal for ****<span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Course Project **

Example: Project Based Learning <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Curriculum Project/ Key Assignment idea- Here is a restaurant project <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.bie.org/tools/video/my_restaurant_project

5) Presentation **(i.e Jing/Prezi/Slideshare/or Voicethread)** Please let me know how you would like to present your project(s). You can put all your projects into your e-portfolio/ e-workspace and give us the link to view it.



6) Final Reflection **(Process) Paper and portfolio** (blog, wiki, weebly, google sites, etc.)** (Required) **
 * Here are the parts you include in your final reflections. **


 * 1. Posters- How have/might you use Posters with students for learning and/or teaching? **


 * 2. Edited Images: How have/might you use Edited Images with students for learning and/or teaching? **


 * 3. Audio Programs (Podcasts)- How have/might you use Audio Programs with students for learning and/or teaching? **


 * 4. Animation. How have/might you use Animation with students for learning and/or teaching? **


 * 5. JING video capture- How have/might you use JING with students for learning and/or teaching? **


 * 6. PhotoStory or Movies. How have/might you use Video with students for learning and/or teaching? **


 * 7. Digital Story tool such as Voicethread. How have/might you use digital story with students for learning and/or teaching? **


 * Please use Najjar’s research summary to build on the ideas in our text.


 * Write your process paper including the following sections as much as you can or relates to your projects. **


 * 1- ** Civic Engagement ** - what actions your students will take to better the world? **
 * 2- ** Motivation ** - Slide presentation/ website- introduction to the topic/ fun facts/maps/ graphics/ cartoons/ statistics/ animations/ video clips **
 * 3- ** Integration- ** Connecting to the family/ school (librarians)/ world community about expending the topic **
 * A) Audience as self learner- individualized instruction How this topic relates to the K12 students? Make connections **
 * B) multicultural education as a national perspective **
 * C) global literacy including international perspective on the chosen topic/ theme for your Curriculum (Deep Learning) Project **


 * RESPOND after your lesson presentation: **
 * 4- ** Reactions to Lesson Presentation and Future Considerations ** : How will you alter this lesson? Please respond to peer suggestion and rubric and comments by the instructor. **
 * 5- ** Primary and Secondary Resources ** : In your project, have a reference/ work cited section to list each picture, music, lesson you used or adopted in your project in APA style. Suggest to []or []