Civil War Multimedia Report
This lesson has several steps to it. It is meant to be completed over an extended period of time. At the beginning of the assignment, teachers should present a checklist for each step of the assignment and a rubric for the final presentation.
  1. Students look through clip art and gather 3-5 pictures. With Windows, move the mouse over the picture, right click, select, "save picture as", and then tell the computer where to save the file. With Apple, move the mouse over the image, click and hold. Then select, "download the picture to a disk". Tell the computer where to save the picture.
  2. Students research the themes of their clip art using a variety of media (books, web pages, encyclopedia).
  3. Teachers then conference with each student to make sure they have enough/accurate info.
  4. Students then make a storyboard/drawing of their page layout. Teachers must show students how to design each one of their slides (powerpoint), cards (hyperstudio), html pages (website), or documents from a word processor. Students draw, with paper and pencil, a picture of how they want each page to look on the computer, including the location of and the content of their text.
  5. Students then review each other's storyboards and make suggestions.
  6. Teacher conference to make sure layout and information is ready to publish.
  7. Student can begin using the computer to create his/her project. 
  8. Students then present their reports to the class. During the reports, students judge each other based on the rubric.

 

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