Multi-Media Technologyin High School English Classes

Why?

How?

Multi-Media: Product and CollaborationVoiceThread

Multi-Media: Collaboration and InstructionBlogs

Multi-Media: ProductPhotoStory/MovieMaker

Multi-Media: ProductPhotoStory/MovieMaker

Collaboration

• Teachers and Media Specialists

• Students:– Small Group Work – Cooperative Learning– VoiceThreads– Blogs

Visualization

Why?

Visualization - Artwork

Visualization - Cartoons

Visualization - Movie

Satire Lesson/Unit

• http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/4646

• Students read satires - classics

• Students read, view, listen to satires (visualization, multi-media)

• Students evaluate and comment on satire (collaboration)

• Students create satirical films, songs, cartoons, etc. (multi-media)

Poetry Unit – Creative Writing

• Students read Visions in Poetry classics and “sell” the series (visualization)

• Students find images to match a poem of choice (visualization/analysis)

• Students create a VoiceThread of the poem with matching images (multi-media product)

• Students evaluate peer VoiceThreads (collaboration)

Poetry Unit – Creative Writing

• Students write poetry

• Students create a film with music and narration of their own poetry (visualization and multi-media creation)

• Students post poetry portfolio films

• Students comment on poetry portfolios (collaboration)

Handout/Links

• Satire• Wikis and Blogs• Poetry• PhotoStory• MovieMaker• Images and Sound