Changes+for+Next+Year  


 * Next year I will do some things differently.**

There will be a greater emphasis on a theme to the project.

I will require the written portion/narration to be completed before the students get on the computers. They will use the knowledge gained throughout the unit to create this narration. At this point I will read the narrations, offer comments, and be sure they are sticking with their theme. I will also require them to use the voice over option for at least half of their movie. This year, they were given the option of captions or voice over. None of the students chose to do a voice over, but many struggled to make their captions readable over their images. I also think an edited version of their script will cut down on many of the errors and typos (if they do captions) that were overly abundant this year.

I will create a modified bibliography sheet for the students to complete. The time required to work with the GP students on full MLA citations really slowed down the forward momentum of this project. Sophomore students are generally introduced to citations in Language Arts at the end of the year. The students will still be held accountable for their sources, but not the full citation format.

As we now have the mac labs in the school I will be doing this from my room, rather than in the library computer lab, and students will use iMovie rather than Photo Story. I still intend to invite the librarian to class to show student the databases for their image searches.

Small adjustments will be made to the rubric. Once I started grading I shifted the point values up one for each category.

I will develop the peer evaluation portion of the lesson plan. As the project required signifcantly more time than I had originally budgeted, this year I did not incorporate the peer evaluations on the Wiki.