Artifact #1
Artifact 1: Picture Stories
Context:
This web page was created as a part of my Integrating Media into the
Classroom course at Appalachian State University. This is an online
lesson plan for third graders in which they use pictures to develop the
story for a creative writing assignment. After studying the pictures
on the web page the students will place the pictures in the order that
they
believe is correct. Next the students will arrange the pictures and
develop a creative story to go along with the pictures.
Impact:
This web page corresponds to the NC Standard Course of Study for both
Language Arts and Technology; competencies addressed can be found in the
lesson plan. As a web page, this lesson plan will be available to
other teachers.
Alignment:
The web page includes a lesson plan that helps to teach an aspect of
media literacy and creative writing through sequencing. By using
their creativity and technology, the student’s will sequence the events
and making up a creative story to accompany the pictures. The finishing
product will be produced on a word processing program so that students
will be able to display their work in the classroom or throughout the school.
As a part of evaluating this project, I will be looking to see if the
students can copy and paste effectively (Tech
Comp 10.1). When they have finished they will write up the directions
for copying and pasting (Tech Comp 10.5).
This activity uses technology to facilitate teaching strategies specific
to the discipline of Language Arts because the web page encourages creative
writing. Even though the students’ pictures are not in the same order
the students use logical progression to create an open-ended story (Tech
Comp 11.4). In this lesson plan I have created a website
that can be used as future reference for others and this lesson plan will
assess the students ability to copy and paste effectively (Tech
Comp 10.4). The students’ ability to copy and paste effectively
and their ability to write up directions for the activity in which they
are to complete will be assessed informally and formally (INTASC
#8).