1) Creators/Authors of the Media Project.

   - Alaina Latella

2) Indentified Grade(s) Level

   - Grade 1

3) Brief Introduction of the media project – What is the value of using this type of media project in education? What specific literacy issues will this media project help address? What impact on student learning do you foresee occurring with the use of this media project in the classroom setting? What ethical or social issues might be of concern? Will this media project encourage use of problem solving skills by the learner?

   - The project was to create a PhotoStory and a VoiceThread.  These projects allow students to creatively visualize the information that the teacher is trying to convey.  These projects help the students to read if there are comments on the slides and then write if the project calls for it.  I think that the students will learn different ways they can be creative and it will allow them to learn without realizing it as much.  I would love to have my students be creative and create their own PhotoStory.

4) Specifically identify one or two goals/objectives

   - Students will be able to identify seasons based on seeing their pictures.

5) Subject matter – What is (are) the subject matter(s)? Does integration of subject matters take place? How has this media project addressed cultural responsiveness teaching? (See this document for help in this area http://education.cortland.edu/~studentteach/forms/diversity_assignment.pdf )

   - This VoiceThread will be using social studies.  It does not really incorporate any other subject matters into the project.  It addresses cultural responsiveness because the pictures can be identified by anybody.

6) What learning styles will most likely be attracted to this media creation? (This might be a nice refresher for you on learning styles, use this only as a guide. http://nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/styles.html)

   - This will mostly help visual learners but can also help auditory learners.

7) What instructional strategies have been utilized? (This list is somewhat exhaustive and here are a couple sites to use as guides. http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/PD/instr/alpha.html

or http://glossary.plasmalink.com/glossary.html

   - The instructional strategies these projects can utilize are compare and contrast, computer assisted instruction, and listen and visualize.

8) Is this a self-paced or teacher-directed media project?

   - These are self-paced projects.

9) Would an individual or group use this media project?

   - An individual would use these projects.

10) What type of learning assessment will be used? Has learning transfer been thought about in your media creation and if yes how? (There are many articles on transfer of learning here is one to get you started.

   - The teacher would collect the written part of the VoiceThread.

http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/learning/transfer.html