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Name: Alyssa Wills

PART A: Describe how students could create and publish an original movie, audio file, podcast, or vodcast in order to achieve
required learning standards. Challenge: For an A provide an idea where the learning activity reaches a LoTi level 4a or
above. To do this you will have to design a project where students engage in higher-order thinking and publish their work to an
audience that will use or care about the results. Broad feedback for their work is also a great way to boost interest and
performance.
Grade Level: Grade 1
Content Area: Science
Technology Used (check all that apply):
Movie
Audio
Podcast
Vodcast
Other: (list)
Content Area/Grade/Standards/Topics Addressed: S1L1: students will investigate the characteristics and basic needs of
plants and animals.
a. Identify the basic needs of a plant. 1. Air, 2. Water, 3. Light, 4. Nutrients
c. Identify the parts of a plantroot, stem, leaf, and flower.

Brief Description of Learning Experience: What learning standards will be addressed? What will students and
teachers do? How will the project be introduced? How long will it take to complete? What audience will use/care about
the multimedia projects students are creating? How broad is this audience? How will student work be assessed and by
whom? Who will provide feedback to students about their work?
The students would use their prior knowledge of how Movie Maker works and would put together their own movie over
something that we were learning. The students would be assessed over how well their movie teaches what we were learning in
class.
Student Engagement/Higher-Order Thinking: What LoTi level would this lesson be and Why? Which indicators of
Engaged Learning are strong and why?
This activity would reach level 5 on the LoTi scale. The students are taking all their knowledge and applying it and refining it
into something else that can teach the information that they learned.
Importance of technology: Why is using a multimedia authoring tools critical to the project? Could the project be
completed without this technology? What would be lost without using it? What other types of technology, if any, are
going to be used in the learning experience?
Using movie maker for this project is important because it helps the students think hard about what they have learned. It
gets their creative juices flowing to put all their knowledge and effort together to come up with a fun and exciting movie
that teaches what they have learned.
Inspiration (optional): If you used existing multimedia projects as a model for your project (whether in part or whole),
include the URL(s) so we can visit. Explain what concepts you borrowed from others.

Internet Safety and Student Privacy: Briefly discuss some possible issues surrounding internet safety and student
privacy that could arise while implementing this learning experience and explain how youd minimize risks to
students/yourself, alleviate any fears by parents/administrators, and follow school districts Internet Safety/Use Policy.
To minimize the risks in this project I would have the students submit their movie to a secure place so that I was the only one
with access to use it.

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