How does ANLC make the news?

1. How does ANLC make the news? Art Eklund Unit Portfolio Presentation

2. Unit Summary Students will be creating videos to be used during morning announcements. These videos will consist of PSAs, commercials, music videos, and news stories. Student roles will vary with each project but will similarly consist of a producer, videographer, script writer, actors, and editors.

3. Curriculum-Framing Questions Essential Question • Why do we communicate? Unit Questions • How did your topic relate to our communities as a whole? • What role does media communication play in our community? • What point of view best helped deliver your topic?

4. Curriculum Framing Questions Content Questions • Who is your audience? • Is your project appropriate for your audience? • What way did you address your audiences (persuade, inform, and entertain)? • What do you want your audience to learn/understand from watching your video?

5. Why is media communications important to You? This project will help my students develop 21st century skills through: • Using multiple media communication tools to determine what is important for our community. • Working collaboratively in small groups to discuss, develop, and produce a product using media technology. • Research on the Internet to find information • Evaluation of the accuracy and relevance of the information. Blogs Wikis

6. Gauging Student Needs Assessment • Purpose of the Anticipation Guide Pre-Assessment • To gather information about what students think about the Essential and Unit questions related to the content—to activate their prior knowledge and stimulate interest in the topic. • Purpose of the K-W-L Pre-Assessment • To determine student prior knowledge regarding unit content • What I want to learn from my students? • What do students know about why and how we communicate with people of our own community? • How I have tried to promote higher-order thinking? • The anticipation guide asks students to evaluate, apply, and judge based on their own opinions and experiences. The K-W-L chart will be used to help students determine what they need to research about their topics.

7. Gauging Student Needs Assessment How the assessment information helps me and my students plan for upcoming activities in the unit? • If students do not have any knowledge of the topic, I will know if I need to direct them to a specific websites rather than allow them to search for information without guidance. • Students will be able to use the K-W-L to create questions for upcoming topics and to gauge their own understanding of communication.

8. My Goals for the Course • Help students understand how media communications affect the world around us. • Help students consider the audience and format of a project and determine if they work to present the proper message. • Learn about videos, wikis, and blogs and how it can help students become aware of how media can be used easily to create bias/show one side of an issue.

9. Goals for My Students • To think like reporters by: • Exploring multiple events and determine what is viable to their audience • Looking at multiple perspectives of these events • Identifying the best way to present events • To improve their technology and research skills by: • Asking questions about reliability and accuracy of websites and information sources • Learning to create videos for different purposes • Use a news formatting program to create a news show that is content-rich yet emotionally moving

10. Request for Feedback • How do I provide opportunities for these students to master production skills with very limited time and recourses?

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