Multimedia+Lessons

**HOW TO ADD TO THE WIKI** **Please make sure to you add your name, subject and a brief reflection.**
 * 1) Click on the lesson page on the right side
 * 2) Click on the pencil with EDITv
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**Swantz** - Keynote - This is a short description of a lesson I taught with Cathy Shaw on Keynote. **Reflection:** I think I rushed several places - the kids couldn't remember all the steps. I should have had a little handout with some of the most used steps.

**E. Cavanagh--English 9** This is a project created with my student teacher. Reflection: The prezi presentations ended up working out well in the end for most of the groups. One problem we ran into was we wanted the group members to be able to edit/create the prezi at the same time. If students didn't open their own student prezi account, this was sometimes an issue. It would be nice if our students had an education email to use for projects like this.

Students research a specific poet from the Romantic Era and create a PowerPoint presentation which includes information about the poet's life, works and critics' reaction to his work. They then choose two poems by their poet to teach to the class and add pictures to the slides to reflect the varying stanzas. Once the pictures are in place, they find composers of the period, listen to their music and choose a piece of music that reflects the mood of each poem. They add this music to the slides so that when they read the poem aloud, the music will play in the background, enhancing the mood. Following each reading, the presenter asks critical analysis questions to the audience to explore each poem's meaning REFLECTION: The students enjoyed finding the pictures and the music, but in two presentations, the music did not come on when the poem was being read. On one presentation, it came on for one slide, then stopped. With every new technology component, there's bound to be a learning curve!
 * Romantic Poets Presentation** T.McClintock--British Literature

To end the 1950's Unit students were asked to create a 1950's style commericial or Public Service Announcement. We emphasized the importance of TV during this time period. Advertisement boomed with TV and the Government also used TV to announce important issues to the public. The students were required to do the following: 1. Write a script and plan for a one minute commericial or Public Service Announcement - PSA topics were determined by Mr. Ryan. Each commerical had to have vocab from the 1950's (a list was provided) and pick a topic relevant to the era. 2. Film the commerical/PSA with the school cameras 3. Download film to Windows Movie Maker and Edit movie. We suggest certain format to make it look authentic 1950's (Black and White, etc..) 4. Student could add music or text. 5. Students were graded with Rubric developed by Mr. Ryan.
 * 1950's Movie Project - Pete Cavanagh/Patrick Ryan - U.S. History**

For our final project in term 1 Learning Strategies, I had the kids experiment with creating a Prezi. They are very familiar with Powerpoint and very few had ever worked with a Prezi. Personally, I had never worked on a Prezi so I worked through it was well. The assignment was pretty flexible in terms of topics for the Prezi. Kids did a lot of trial and error and I had a couple students that were able to actually teach others how to do a Prezi. I think it was a good start with Prezi, but I need to continue to work on them as well so I get more comfortable.
 * Learning Strategies Prezi - Marc Pennington - Learning Strategies**

After reading the book titled The Great Typo Hunt, I decided to incorporate this idea in my Adv. Comp. class. The idea is for students to find misspelled words in their environment. They could use the local paper (easy to find typos) or anywhere they traveled. For instance, one student found a sign at Walmart that read "Haff Off". They took a picture of the sign and uploaded it onto a class power point. By the end, we had 21 different slides with 21 errors found in the area. Students either used their cell phone or scanned the project to make their slide. I hope to continue this project so that by the end of the year, we will have approximately 60 some different examples of typos.
 * The Great Typo Hunt - Sue Schweinfurth - Advanced Composition**

Familia & Review Jeopardy - Edye Freeman - MS Spanish