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Video Lessons       

Digital Productions

Why did this project start?  As with all projects we researched the possibilities.  We started this project as an information source for students, parents, teachers, and community.  We use the presentations for Open House and student presentations.  In the past we have created video portfolios, book talks for the library, interviews with students in character, to record field trips and extension activities and to introduce and orient students to new activities.  We used video because kid's love video.  Was this just fun?  Did it have a purpose?

   Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D., psychologist and author of the book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, describes what schools and parents can do to promote optimal learning experiences. 4/11/2002

 

Our Assessment Rubric for Digital Productions

 

California Standards met with Digital Productions

Reading

2.0 Reading Comprehension

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Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They describe and connect the essential ideas, arguments and perspectives of the text by using their knowledge of text structure, organization and purpose.

Writing

1.0 Writing Strategies: Research and Technology

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1.4 Plan and conduct multi-step information searches by using computer networks and modems.

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1.5 Achieve and effective balance between researched information and original ideas.

2.0 Writing Applications:

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2.1 Write biographies, autobiographies, short stories, or narratives

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2.3 Write research reports
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2.3.b Record important ideas, concepts, and direct quotations from significant information sources and paraphrase and summarize all perspectives on the topic, as appropriate

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2.3.d Organize and display information on charts, maps, graphs

Written and Oral English Language Conventions

1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions: Grammar

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1.4 Edit written manuscripts to ensure that correct grammar is used

1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions: Punctuation and Capitalization

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1.5 Use correct punctuation and capitalization

1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions: Spelling

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1.6 Use correct spelling conventions

Listening and Speaking

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies: Comprehension

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1.2 Paraphrase a speaker's purpose and point of view and ask relevant questions concerning the speaker's content, delivery and purpose.

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies: Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication

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1.5 Use precise language, action verbs, sensory details, appropriate and colorful modifiers, and the active rather than the passive voice in ways that enliven oral presentations.

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1.6 Use appropriate grammar, word choice, enunciation and pace during formal presentations

2.0 Speaking Applications

2.1 Deliver narrative presentations

2.2 Deliver oral responses to literature

2.3 Deliver research presentations

 

 

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