Final Project
November 10, 2009

Objective:
Be able to engage students by incorporating technology into a lesson plan.

Learning Outcomes:
As a result of the lecture, demonstration, and lab practice regarding image manipulation, students should be able to:

• Reference state core standards.
• Create a portable lesson plan (something that you can hand to any teacher and they will be able to go from there).
• Incorporate technology into the lesson that will engage Digital Natives in the classroom.

Coursework Procedure:
I would like you to create a complete lesson around some core standard of your choice. This lesson should be engaging to the student and incorporate some form of technology we covered in this course.

How you plan to accomplish this is up to you. You may choose to have the students accomplish some sort of task using technology that helps them learn the objective or you may choose some form of technology as a delivery method of the lesson. Regardless, the goal is to keep the student engaged on on-task.

You need to make this lesson portable in the sense that any teacher should be able to take this lesson from you and present it to a class of students. This means that there are at least three components to this project:

1. Some kind of written instructions that outline the standard/objective that you are addressing and give direction on the process, procedure, and technology used. (I don't necessarily need a print out, a Word document included with your technology described below will be sufficient).
2. The technology itself. If you choose to use technology as a delivery method, then you must include that technology, whether it is a video, an audio file, a PowerPoint presentation, or whatever. If it is an activity using technology, please include a sample that you created of what you expect the students to accomplish.
3. Be prepared to 'teach' this lesson to the rest of the class as if we were your students.

Some clarifications:

1. The lesson can be either an activity using the technology you learned in the class that the students can engage in, or it can be something interactive, or it can be something that is presented to the students. Regardless, your final project MUST be accompanied by a lesson plan.
2. I will consider accepting as your final project a PowerPoint ONLY if it contains the following:
   • It MUST contain images you created in GIMP or Photoshop.
   • It MUST contain at least one audio file you created in Audacity
   • Note: For the purposes of this course, PowerPoint is not part of the curriculum and is only a medium to present the technology you learned in class.
3. I will accept PhotoStory3 assignments only as a Windows Media file (file extention should be .wmv).
4. You may submit you project to Blackboard, email, or bring to class on a USB drive or burned to disk. Whatever seems to work for you. Be sure that you have a copy for yourself to use as a presentation and one for me to keep.

Assignment Due:
To get credit for this assignment, you may need to provide your finished lesson as described above to me either burned to a CD/DVD or bring to class on a flash drive to transfer to my computer (the file size may be too large to email or too large for Blackboard) by Tuesday, November 17, 2009.

NOTE: You will be teaching this lesson to the class on either Tuesday, November 17th or Tuesday, December 1st.