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A PBL Documentary (Middle School M & M)

March 12, 2024

    1. Sign in and stow your phones out of sight. Log into a Chromebook and complete the WYAW activities.

    2. Catching up..... A) Copyright - Fair Use Reasoning documents B) Narration and crunchy words
    3. Narration should be:
      • Clear, well paced, and audible (no mumbling, please!)
      • Crunchy.....(What?) Crunchy Words help when writing a script.

        Small Group Activity:
        "Crunchy" words.
        In small groups, use crunchy words to describe either photo two or three. (CC0 - Pixabay).

        "majestic, towering Appalachians"
        or
        "tall mountains"
        Crunchy words? Crunchy words? Crunchy words?
        sunflower sunray scream
        Crunchy words? Crunchy words? Crunchy words?


    4. Moving on..... Multimodal. What does this mean, exactly? Vote by tables - Which one works best for you? Why?
      1 2 3
      "Multimodal literacy explores the design of discourse by investigating the contributions of different semiotic resources (for example, language, gesture, images) co-deployed across various modalities (for example, visual, aural, somatic) as well as their interaction and integration in constructing a coherent text." https://multimodalstudies.wordpress.com/what-is-multimodal-literacy/    

      Or are you a more visual learner?

      		 Multimodal literacy is "the strategic use of two or more communication modes to make meaning, for example image, gesture, music, spoken language, and written language....multimodal literacy is strongly associated with the growth of digital communication technologies, multimodal is not synonymous with digital."
      http://creatingmultimodaltexts.com/

    5. Switching channels for screening stories to look at students' creation of multimodal pieces. As you watch these examples, think about the differences in digital storytelling between stories created by adults and those of children.
      Some questions to consider:
      • What might you need to do as a teacher to prepare kids to tell digital stories?
      • What might the constraints be both creatively and technically?
      • What other kinds of multimodal communication projects can you do with students? Individual? Small Group? Whole group?

    6. Some examples of "kid stories" - Digital Stories/M & Ms created by elementary students

    7. M&M Response: Let's watch the PSA from a small group and their teacher on How to Be a Good Friend. Using the Vintage boards and the Whiteboard Relay, write a word or phrase that responds to this PSA video.

    8. PSA EXAMPLES.....

    9. SMALL GROUP WORK: In your small group determined randomly, follow the directions on your storyboard template to create a storyboard for a PSA you will create on Thursday using an iPad video app.