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 * ** Name: Rick Connors ** || ** Lesson No: 5 ** ||
 * ** Subject: Media ** || ** School: Wanganui Park Secondary College ** ||
 * ** Topic: Using audio for digital stories ** || ** Grade: Year 7 ** ||
 * ** Date: 03/11/10 ** || ** Duration: 1.5 hours ** ||

// How will I – and they- know that they have met the learning intention  // // How did you establish prior knowledge and utilise it in the lesson? // // Identify and include literacy/numeracy skills which are a focus of the lesson  // // What classroom activities will help my students to meet the learning intentions? // // How will you ensure that the student receives feedback about progress towards the learning intention? // // Give some information on how you arrived at the need to use these resources and how you accessed them  // // Reflect on student learning in terms of the learning intention and the way the lesson was structured. // || ** Learning intention / focus: ** Using audio with a digital story
 * // What I want my students to learn?  //

Use music and text to enhance a digital story Students are familiar with stories and some software. Students have set up a basic digital story.
 * Success criteria: **
 * Students’ Prior Knowledge: **


 * VELS dimensions incorporated into the lesson: **

· thoughtful questioning when comprehending, exploring or elaborating alternative views · selection of appropriate domain-based strategies to complete set work · development of study habits to assist learning; for example, diary keeping, organisation, a homework routine · monitoring and evaluation of progress toward achieving short and long-term learning goals · use of feedback that is gathered and given, to inform judgments about the development of a design · commentary on possible social and/or environmental impacts of their own and others’ products/systems
 * Strand - Disciplined based learning: **
 * Domain – Personal Learning: **
 * Standards – The individual learner**
 * Standards – Managing personal learning**
 * Strand – Interdisciplinary learning: **
 * Domain – Design, Creativity and Technology: **
 * Standards – Investigating and designing **
 * Standards – Analysing and evaluating **

Tell me about your digital story. How do you think we can use digital stories to tell a story? What would be a good story and what would be a bad story? Can you tell me what you would create a story on? What kind of audio could you use for a story? Sound effects? Text?
 * Lesson Plan **
 * ** Introduction **

Show students how to add music to a story. Show the use of text and how it can be fast or slow. Show some sound effects.
 * ** Steps /activities – including plans for catering for individual differences **

Students will add special effects, audio and text to their digital stories.
 * ** Conclusion **

Formative assessment Adding audio to their films. Questions to ask: Why did you choose that song? What kind of effects can you use? Does it work with your images? What else can you use? Does it give the effect you want?
 * Assessment for Learning: **

Summative assessment: Students to complete a presentation with audio and text.

Sheets of paper Computers Digital projector
 * Resources needed: **

Review if all students engaged and on task. View pages to see if students have completed work. Provide feedback to students.
 * Self Evaluation: **


 * Supervising teacher’s comments: ** ||