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RILS Final Project

Relevant and Innovative Learning Scenario

Ana Gonzalez

Brief Overview: Students will be using an interactive tool to create an animated digital story. Students will learn to choose a setting and character to build a story. Students will use a Web 2.0 tool Go Animate.

1. Target Audience- Second Grade Bilingual class

2. Materials– Teacher and students will need access to:

ü  computer

ü  internet

ü  interactive whiteboard

3. Objectives– Students will create a digital story from their own background knowledge. Students will identify story elements. Students will evaluate other digital stories from their classmates.

4.         Procedure–

§  Teachers need to create a GoAnimate.com account.

§  Create accounts for the students.

§  Discussion about character traits.

§  Using a smart board demonstrate how to create an animated character.

§  Then teacher creates and animated story.

§  Discuss the steps to create the story.

§  Have students identify character traits.

§  Students will create their own digital story telling.

§  Students will share their stories.

§  Students will get feedback from their classmates.

§  Encourage students to keep creating more stories.

5.         Web 2.0 Tool– goanimate.com – An animation tool to create a digital story with voice, actions, movement, gestures and presentation.

6.         Social Participation/Social Learning– Students will collaborate with partner to create their digital story. They will also give feedback to others about their creations.

7.         Making Connections– Students will create an animation using their creativity and background knowledge about characters. Using this tool will allow to connect, communicate and collaborate with others. It develops critical thinking skills to connect them to their world and their own experiences.

8.         Create/Produce – Students will create and share their animated interactive characters through digital story.

9.         Assessment –Rubric

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Duration	The storytelling lasts 2 minutes.	The storytelling lasts 2 minutes.	The storytelling lasts 1 minute.	The storytelling lasts less than 1 minute.
Connections Transitions	Connections between events, ideas, and feelings in the story are creative, clearly expressed and appropriate.	Connections between events, ideas, and feelings in the story are clearly expressed and appropriate.	Connections between events, ideas, and feelings in the story are sometimes hard to figure out. More detail or better transitions are needed.	The story seems very disconnected and it is very difficult to figure out the story.

10.       Reflection –

a.     Students will be provided a survey to see what they have learned and see how engaged they were before, during and after their project.

b.     The teacher will conference with students as they begin and complete their digital story. This will help to change or revise the project to better assist the students in a positive learning experience.

Persuasive Message:

Learning begins when students are creative and engaging with what they are learning.

PE5_GoAnimate

When it comes to making connections and social participation, the students will be able to provided feedback through gaggle email.  It is important for students to provide feedback to their classmates, this will help with retention and understanding of the concept taught. Students will be taught on how to provide appropriate comments to their classmates. As the students complete their animations they will share them with their classmates via presentation style and email. This will give the students the opportunity to build a social group.

GoAnimate.com: homework by angonzalez

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

PE4_GoAnimate

I have registered my account using my school (work) email. I had to go in and create a couple of animations to be able to explain to the students what they will doing. It is really friendly to navigate. It goes through a tutorial when you start creating your animation. Teachers can go in to the dashboard that highlights student's work and allows to access the different parts of the site to browse content or create their own animations to teach a new concept. I have really enjoyed this tool and I know for sure that my students will enjoy using to create their digital story telling. I have included a short story. I will let you know how this activity goes.

GoAnimate.com: Animation by angonzalez

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

BP7_GoAnimate

Here is my Go Animate Web 2.0 tool commercial.

(Screen shots were taken from GoAnimate.com)

Please feel free to leave a comment and/or suggestion.

BP6_Del's Blog

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BP5_Experiencing Learning

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BP4_Prezi

If you have not experienced Prezi, it is time you do. It is an interactive tool, which you can include text, images, video and more. Learners will get engaged in creating presentations. These presentations can be about any skill or concept the student has learned and wants to share in a different manner.
Here is an example of a Prezi created by me. Click below:

http://prezi.com/w4c02jtcgua5/copy-of-first/?auth_key=2498827f5d94b3ca27e53b1ddd99e90a963de92b
(images are pre-licensed for use in Prezi)

It takes time and practice in completing the project. Prezi provides a simple tutorial that you can watch on how to do a presentation. First, you have decide what you are going to start with text or image. Then you use the zoom button to enlarge or make smaller. There is an insert button to add images, a frame button to frame everything you need to frame, you also add a path on how you want your presentation to go.
I have enjoyed using Prezi and I know I have to continue practicing so I can get better at using it. There is also an educational license of Prezi for teachers to use. You will need to use your school email to get the educational license.

PE3_iMovie

I completed in watching the iMovie Essential Training in Lynda.com. There are many features that I was aware of that now I can use to better my iMovie projects. I really enjoyed the course and the instructor did a fine job in the presentation.

I created an iMovie project with a couple of the features I learned in the iMovie course. I trimmed the thumbnail, added different transitions, and added the sound of birds. I did some other tweaks in my video. I know that this project is not a great one, but tried to add as many features that I could recall from the course to see how much I remembered. So watch the video and see if you can pick out the features I used to create this video. Here is my video. Enjoy!

Even though I completed the iMovie course, I still have much to learn and practice. Actually, the key word is PRACTICE, PRACTICE, and PRACTICE. This is how I plan to get better in the iMovie application. 

PE2_iMovie

The training has gone well. I have learned many new things, I did not know existed.
Organizing tools, which help with rating your clips, tagging your thumbnails for future use or to find the easier. I did not know that iMovie has a feature to faces of people, what a neat feature. Also, how you can move events from your Mac to en external hard drive to help space.

Learning all the new editing tools to create a great project. Where did these tools come from? You select the clips you want to add to your project and learning how to trim, fine-tune, split, crop and rotate. Where were all these tools? Now, I am learning how I can improve in my personal filmmaking movies. I can't wait to keep learning more about iMovie.

PE1_iMovie

I have started my iMovie '11 Essential Training through Lynda.com and I have learned some new things from this application.
The first thing I learned was to import different videos from different devices.
Also, there are icons in the toolbar that I did not know what they were for.

The camera icon serves to import video from a connected camera. I learned about the flip icon so, if I need more space to work on my project. The slider helps you see the thumbnails smaller or larger. Instead of using the hand to drag the image, I can just hit a button and it moves into my project. I can also mute the audio will I am skimming.

These are just essential items that can assist when starting a project. I hope to learn more from the iMovie Essential Training, so I can make better quality movies.

BP2_GoAnimate

I chose one of the approved Web 2.0 tools my district allows us to use. GoAnimte could be used for story telling by creating a character.
To create your own account you go to www.goanimate.com, but if you are a teacher you can create your account at www.goanimate4school.com, you just need you school email address.
Once you have an account and you login, you start with you first animation. The site will guide you step by step in creating your first animation.
First, you choose your setting, second, your character, third, you add voice by typing what you want the character to say, and then you can choose to movement of the character.
Enjoy a sample animation I created! Click on the link below.

http://goanimate.com/movie/01EfR5qnZC00?utm_source=linkshare&uid=03kNNCdie3cM

It is an easy to use animation tool. It is a creative way to animate stories. The students would enjoy making their own stories and presenting them to their class. It would bring out the collaboration in a project. There could be group discussion about the animated story.
This is one of the Web 2.0 tools I would use with my class.
I hope you learned something new, I know I did. Please feel free to comment or give suggestions.

BP3_iGoogleScreenShots

I finished creating my Google Home Page following my assignment guidelines, and now I am sharing it with you.

Here is my Home Page:

Following is the FSO/CBR page:

Finally my ETC Page:

Please feel free to provided any type of feedback. Thank you in advance.