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can present my stories and/or poems in the form of a Kid Pix slide show,
PowerPoint presentation or HyperStudio presentation.
INTRODUCTION:
This lesson is designed to guide
teachers through creating a visual poetry presentation in which students will
create some sort or multimedia slideshow to go with a poem that either they
wrote or written by another author. This lesson will also work for creating
a slideshow multimedia presentation for a story.
explain their preferences for
specific authors, genres, types of print, visuals, and media
use questioning, predicting, summarizing,
inferring, skimming or scanning, and graphic organizers to accomplish specific
purposes for reading, viewing, and listening
use text and electronic media
features, including indices, tables of contents, and keyword searches, to
locate specific information or material
identify and represent the main
ideas or events in stories, poetry, informational material, videos, and other
media
use information they have read,
heard, or viewed to develop questions and activities that will extend their
understanding
organize details and information
they have read, heard, or viewed using a variety of written and graphic forms,
including charts, webs, and maps
describe information provided
in simple and direct illustrations, maps, charts, or other graphic representations
develop personal responses to
materials and support their responses with reasons, examples, and details
use grammatically correct language
when writing and speaking
locate, gather, select, and record
information for specific purposes from various human, print, and electronic
sources
create various personal and transactional
communications, including real and invented narratives, poems or lyrics, summaries
or retellings, descriptions, letters, informal oral presentations, charts,
and posters
COMPUTER SCOPE AND
SEQUENCE:
Write a simple caption or story
to accompany a picture.
Save, name and retrieve files.
Change the line attributes (thickness,
pattern, arrows).
Change brush shape/size and spray
size.
Create a simple drawing with
the pencil/paint brush in a paint program
Apply principles of effective
communication and good design.
Use special effects in multimedia
presentations to influence a message.
Create basic animations and other
visuals.
Create multimedia documents using
a variety of electronic sources.
Create simple slide show presentations
(e.g. Hypercard, ClarisWorks).
Incorporate digital graphics
into documents (e.g. scanned images).
Understand concepts of communicating
using multimedia.
Become conversant with terminology.
Operate basic software.
Navigate a variety of multimedia
documents (e.g. Hypercard, Kidpix, HTML).
Access and use a variety of multimedia
accessories (e.g. scanner, digital camera).
LESSONS:
1. In the classroom
you will have created either a story or a poem that you would like to work with
in the computer lab. If you need some ideas for poetry projects try this site:http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Eleslieob/pizzaz.html
You may wish to
start with a shorter poem unless students are already good with the program
that you have decided to use (PowerPoint, Kid Pix or Hyperstudio).
For the poetry project
students need to think about colours and pictures that will go with the mood
and theme of their poem. On the storyboard they should demonstrate that they
have some idea of the pictures/images they would like to use.
For the story writers,
they will need to sketch out the pictures that will go with their stories and
outline how much of the story will be presented on each slide.
3. In the computer
lab students will begin to create their final product. Students who are writing
stories should be encouraged to finish their typing before they add their pictures.
Poetry writers can type their poems in before they start on pictures as well.
