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 * ** Name: Rick Connors ** || ** Lesson No: 3 ** ||
 * ** Subject: Media ** || ** School: Wanganui Park Secondary College ** ||
 * ** Topic: Basic digital stories ** || ** Grade: Year 7 ** ||
 * ** Date: 20/10/10 ** || ** 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: ** Learn to write a digital story.
 * // What I want my students to learn?  //

To begin to write a digital story.
 * Success criteria: **

Students are familiar with stories and some software.
 * 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 favourite movie. Beginning, middle and end Tell me about the characters? What kind of struggle did they have during the movie? What was the resolution for them?
 * Lesson Plan **
 * ** Introduction **

Handouts during the short film. What is the story, beginning, middle and end? Who are the characters? What props, method and locations were used?
 * ** Steps /activities – including plans for catering for individual differences **

Students will begin to establish ideas to create their own digital story.
 * ** Conclusion **

A rubric will be designed to assess students on this task. Formative assessment Students will be asked about creating a profile and how they log into Ning, designing their home page and uploading images. Questions to ask: Why have you chosen the colours? How do you login to the social networking site?
 * Assessment for Learning: **

What changes do you think you could make to your design?

Summative assessment: Students will have a completed social network page with photo own profile, videos, surveys,

Sheets of paper - butchers 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: ** ||