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Lesson Plan for Digital Storytelling Project
**Unit title**: Individual presentations/First week activity

**Lesson title:** Digital Storytelling presentation of “Who are you?”

**Length of lesson**: 45 minutes.

**Grade level**: 9-12th grade.

**Curriculum area:** Spanish 1-AP/IB Spanish

**Sunshine State Standards**:

FL.A.1.4.2 Rephrases and uses indirect expressions to communicate a message in the target language. FL.A.1.3.1 Exchanges information with peers and familiar adults orally and in writting about topics of common interest and about target culture (e.g., personal relationships, events in the past, or academic and cultural interests). FL.A.3.3.1 Writes various types of texts (e.g., simple letters and essays) for a defined audience (e.g., teacher, peers, or pen pal) about topics of personal interest or experience (in terms of, e.g., ideas, opinions, attitudes, and feelings). FL.C.1.3.2 Uses sources in the target language to assemble specific information about topics of personal interest in connection with ideas being studied in another class. FL.C.2.4.2 Uses a concept or skill learned in the foreign-language class to communicate information to students in other content-area classes.

**National Education Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S) Covered in lesson**:


 * 1. || Creativity and Innovation ||
 * || Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. |||| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create original works as a means of personal or group expression. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Communication and Collaboration ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students: ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media. ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">c. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Research and Information Fluency ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students: ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">c. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Digital Citizenship ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students: ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology. ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">c. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">d. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship. ||  ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students: ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology. ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">c. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">d. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship. ||  ||


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lesson description: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During this lesson students will be introduced to their teacher (me) through my digital story presentation (on Empress). Afterwards students will be told that instead of having to do individual presentations in class this week, all introductions (beyond name and grade level) will be done next week through individual digital story presentations. At this point the students will be given a rubric. We will go over each item in the rubric verbally, as well as visually using my presentation as an example. I will then give the students access to my curriculum page with full instructions, the rubric, the example, and a slew of web sites that will help the students put their digital storytelling projects together. We will spend the rest of the week going over vocabulary that can be helpful for the presentation (different classes will use different levels of vocabulary and their individual rubrics will reflect that), technology tools, and any questions that may come up as the project develops. We will also discuss the National technology standards and how to avoid plagiarism and copyright infringement while creating each digital storytelling.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Technology integration**:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During the time needed for students to complete the objectives of this lesson they (the students) will have used several forms of technology including web based tools to create a new product that reflects their life and their personality so as to present it to a target audience. Students will be conscious of the use of technology and the legality of using several forms of media (pictures, clipart, music, etc.) to create an original product. At the completion of this project, students will also have used a removable media tool (USB, CD/DVD, etc.) to transport and present the ‘hard copy’ of their project for grading by the instructor.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Research component: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Star, L. (2000) PowerPoint – Creating classroom presentations. Retrieved from [] on November 26, 2010.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sonshine51. (2009, November 17). The classroom of tomorrow, today – Part 1. [Web blog message]. Retrieved from [] on November 28, 2010.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wartoft, M. (2010) Free Doodle, Art and Photo Editing web sites –Freeware! Retrieved from [] on November 28, 2010.