General+Technology+Lesson

The following lesson is designed to integrate technology into teachers' daily lesson plans. There are a few general guidelines listed that will help students create multimedia projects, such as iMovies. If the following guidelines are used, students should be able to create or produce a video or PowerPoint on any given topic. For example, the guidelines listed below could be applied to a unit on Black History Month, and students could create their projects on different African Americans who have contributed to history. Furthermore, the same guidelines could be applied to have students create a movie on a math or science concept.

Guidelines:

1. Choose 10 pictures that relate to or symbolize your topic in some way. 2. Go to wikipedia and find at least 10 facts about your topic to include in your script. 3. Write a 2 minute script that narrates or explains the significance of each picture included. 4. Edit the script and match up the timing of the pictures. 5. The projects will be completed in groups of 3. //Although the students will work collaboratively on the entire project,// //Roles of group members will be rotated on the next project, so that each group member is responsible for each individual task at some point//
 * Pictures must be at least 400 x 400 in size.
 * Students will choose images from a folder on the server, that they must access
 * One member is responsible for finding the images
 * One group member is responsible for script
 * One is responsible for reading and doing the audio recording of the script

FYI: I have posted several tutorials for iMovie, so the directions above will be more clear to the students... See the menu to the left for links on different topics covered on this wikispace.