Final Project Tentative Study!

While planning my Final Project, I had two important goals; 

- one was having more motivated students,

- and the other one was to increase  the exposure to the target language because my students do not have much chance to do this.

In order to reach my goal I have aimed to:

•   Create a group where we can keep the contact about the course given.

•   Tutor the students to create blogs as I will ask them to publish every product related to the course – I will also ask them to comment about each others' studies-.

•   Guide the students to choose a short story to read, if they have problem in choosing a story I planned to direct them to http://www.classicshorts.com/

• Introduce the students with the Microsoft Photo Story 3 which is a Digital Storytelling Software.

•   Create a rubric for the need of the classroom.

•   When the students are ready I will ask them to present it on powerpoint presentation.

•   Then the students will be asked to post their presentation to their blog page and write the whole story about how they prepared the study.

•   The last part of the Project will be asking the other students to comment on at least two studies.

As for the application / planning of the Project, this week every student in the course started to work on the Project.  I personally moved on few steps as for ;

-          Ceating a classwiki

-          Cerating a nicenet class

-          Preparing a rubric for the planned product-I can edit the rubric according to the needs of the classroom when I actually start to apply my plan to my students-.

In order to get the comments of my fellow coursemates, I would like to share my rubric. http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&module=Rubistar&rubric_id=2288181&

I would like to share the rubric in my blog just incase of a difficulty in seeing it on the “Rubistar" page.

Digital Storytelling : Teaching English Through Literature II

CATEGORY	4  Highly Effective  ƒ	3   Effective	2   Moderately  Effective	1   Ineffective
Point of View - Awareness of Audience	Strong awareness of audience in the design. Students can clearly explain why they felt the vocabulary, audio and graphics chosen fit the target audience.	Some awareness of audience in the design. Students can partially explain why they felt the vocabulary, audio and graphics chosen fit the target audience.	Some awareness of audience in the design. Students find it difficult to explain how the vocabulary, audio and graphics chosen fit the target audience.	Limited awareness of the needs and interests of the target audience.
Soundtrack - Emotion	Music stirs a rich emotional response that matches the story line well.	Music stirs a rich emotional response that somewhat matches the story line.	Music is ok, and not distracting, but it does not add much to the story.	Music is distracting, inappropriate, OR was not used.
Images	Images create a distinct atmosphere or tone that matches different parts of the story. The images may communicate symbolism and/or metaphors.	Images create an atmosphere or tone that matches some parts of the story. The images may communicate symbolism and/or metaphors.	An attempt was made to use images to create an atmosphere/tone but it needed more work. Image choice is logical.	Little or no attempt to use images to create an appropriate atmosphere/tone.
Economy	The story is told with exactly the right amount of detail throughout. It does not seem too short nor does it seem too long.	The story composition is typically good, though it seems to drag somewhat OR need slightly more detail in one or two sections.	The story seems to need more editing. It is noticeably too long or too short in more than one section.	The story needs extensive editing. It is too long or too short to be interesting.
Duration of Presentation	Length of presentation was 4 minutes.	Length of presentation was 3 minutes.	Length of presentation was 2 minutes.	Presentation was less than 2 minutes long OR more than 4 minutes.
Grammar	Grammar and usage were correct (for the dialect chosen) and contributed to clarity, style and character development.	Grammar and usage were typically correct (for the dialect chosen) and errors did not detract from the story.	Grammar and usage were typically correct but errors detracted from story.	Repeated errors in grammar and usage distracted greatly from the story.
Point of View - Purpose	Establishes a purpose early on and maintains a clear focus throughout.	Establishes a purpose early on and maintains focus for most of the presentation.	There are a few lapses in focus, but the purpose is fairly clear.	It is difficult to figure out the purpose of the presentation.