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Multimedia Lesson Plan URL

Hey everyone, here's the URL to my website which contains my ASSURE multimedia lesson plan. ENJOY!

http://ssblas.doodlekit.com

Going Digital

When I first heard about having to make a multimedia lesson plan, I had one idea that I just couldn’t get out of my head; stories being told using Microsoft PowerPoint. I have used this method to tell stories in the past because I would have a big group of student and such a small book. I asked myself “How could they possibly see the pictures in the book?” I know for a fact that one of best parts of a book for children are the pictures and that sometimes the words do not make so much sense without them. I decided that I needed to be able to find a way to enable all the children to see the pictures; scan the book, put it onto a PowerPoint, use a projector as a visual, and I had just created a digital story book.

As defined by Dictionary.com Multimedia is “… relating to the combined use of several media” (Dictionary…). That would mean I’d have to use more than two types of media. I had originally planned on having students create pictures using the Microsoft Paint, but then I realized that it would be difficult to do as a group assignment and that I needed another type of media besides the computer and the projector. I decided to have them take pictures of themselves using digital cameras to use as pictures for the story; they could have fun with it and all group members will be involved. Plus, that would be one more media tool that they will learn to use and operate.

To be honest, I had the idea ready to go in my head, the lesson plan was there, but the scary part for me was creating a web page to showcase my work. I have never made one before so this would be the first. I tried to incorporate as much tools as I could; authorstream.com and a tool that I have just newly discovered called scribd.com. I love this new tool that I have discovered because it enables me to upload Word documents and embed them online. It saved me because the web creator I used, doodlekit, would only allow me to create four pages, not enough for A-S-S-U-R-E, so I had to find a way to post my whole lesson plan on one page and Scribd worked out awesomely.

The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS•T) for Teachers standard 1A is to “promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness” (International Society…) and through the lesson plan I created, I am doing just that. I am promoting student learning through integrating other subject areas into computer science. I am supporting students in their efforts to work cooperatively and learn as a group. I am modeling creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness by exposing students to different forms of media and enabling them to explore and use these tools to create projects.

I would have never thought that using media in the classroom could sound like so much fun. I am not very computer savvy, but I feel that I have learned a lot in this course and that I could be going digital and soon I will be able to share some knowledge with others, especially my future students. If there is one thing that I have learned through creating this particular lesson plan is that it is very important to discover tools online. I did it and I’m glad that I did, otherwise I would have had a much more difficult time completing this assignment.

Sources Cited:

International Society for Technology in Education. (2008). NETS for Teacher 2008. Standard 1A. Retrieved April12, 2009. From International Society for Technology in Education. Website: http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_for_Teachers_2008.htm

Dictionary.com. (2009). Dictionary.com. Multimedia. Retrieved April 12, 2009. From Dictionary.com. Website: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=multimedia