Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant

Learning Experience

LE Title: PowerPoint and the Art and Literature of the WWI era.

Author(s): Christopher J. Connolly and Brian Wilcox

Grade Level: 10th

School: Dolgeville Central School

Topic/Subject Area: Global History II

School Address: Slawson Street Ext, Dolgeville NY 13329

Email: cconnolly@dolgeville.k12.ny.us
bwilcox@dolgeville.k12.ny.us

School Phone: 315-429-3155
School Fax:315-429-8473

Website: www.dolgeville.k12.ny.us

LEARNING CONTEXT

Students will utilize Microsoft PowerPoint to create a presentation that shows the many effects the war had.  This will include a variety of examples including, lithographs, art styles, war posters, diary entries, and photographs. 

Standards: SS 2 - World History Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their under-standing of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.

Standards: SS 3 - Geography - Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live - local, national, and global - including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth's surface.

Standards: MST 5 - Technology - Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Standards: MST 7 - Technology - Students will apply the knowledge and thinking skills of mathematics, science, and technology to address real life problems.

* All standards are addressed but not necessarily assessed.

CONTENT KNOWLEDGE

Declarative

Procedural

Students will understand the basic skills of Microsoft PowerPoint. 

As result of this experience, students will be able to select, align, and change the appearance of text and be able to change the slide's color scheme.

Students will be able to effectively use the school's network to login to their home directory to store data.

As result of this experience, students will be able to copy text formatting and move and copy text.

Students will be able to multi task between applications.

As result of this experience, students will be able to create a chart or table along with using drawing graphic objects to enhance their slide(s).


 

Procedure

Students will be introduced to the new skills with "notes".  The teacher will use a LCD device to show students the new skills.

See chart below for list of skills that students will learn.

Students will be given the opportunity to utilize the new skills and have the opportunity to clarify problems with the teacher.

ENHANCE SLIDES, WORK WITH TEXT OBJECTS

# 1

Select, Align, Change Appearance of Text, Change a Slide’s Color Scheme

# 2

Copy text Formatting, Move and Copy text, Increase / Decrease Paragraph Formatting, Move and Size Placeholders

# 3

Draw Graphic Objects, Use AutoShapes, Create Text objects, Group and Ungroup Objects, Layer Objects

# 4

Create a Chart, Table, or an Excel Worksheet on a Slide

WORK WITH SLIDE SHOWS

# 5

Show a Presentation, Add Transitions, Sound, and Timing

# 6

Animate Text and Objects, Animation Effects Toolbar, Preset Animation for Bulleted lists, Custom Animation

# 7

The Annotator, Create Continuously Running Presentations, Set Up a Slide Show

# 8

Create Notes Pages and handouts, Notes Master and Handout Master, Print Notes Master and Handout Master

Instructional/Environmental Modifications

To accommodate all students the teacher, after presenting the new skills, will circulate the room and provide additional instructional time and provide additional mini lessons where needed.

Time Required

This should take one class period (an 80-minute block).

Resources

Computers - Microsoft and Novell applications.

Assessment Plan

Students PowerPoint presentations will be analyzed and critiqued by students.

Created presentations will be collected and scored based on readability, style, formatting options, and proper timings of slides.

Scoring Rubric

5

Thoroughly addresses all aspects of the task by accurately analyzing and interpreting most of the documents

Incorporates relevant outside information

Richly supports essay with relevant facts, examples, and details

Writes a well developed essay, consistently demonstrating a logical and clear plan of organization

Uses information from the documents in the body of the essay, but does not copy the document

Includes a strong introduction and conclusion

4

Addresses all aspects of the task by accurately analyzing and interpreting most of the documents

Incorporates relevant outside information

Includes relevant facts, examples, and details, but discussion may be more descriptive than analytical

Writes a well developed essay, demonstrating a logical and clear plan of organization

Includes a good introduction and conclusion

3

Addresses most aspects of the task or addresses all aspects in a limited way; uses some of the documents

Incorporates limited or no relevant outside information

Uses some facts, examples, and details, but discussion is more descriptive than analytical

Writes a satisfactorily developed essay, demonstrating a general plan of organization

Restates the theme in the introduction and concludes with a simple restatement of the theme

2

Attempts to address some aspects of the task, making limited use of the documents

No relevant outside information

Presents few facts, examples, and details; simply restates contents of the documents

Writes a poorly organized essay, lacking focus

Has vague or missing introduction and/or conclusion

1

Shows limited understanding of the task with vague, unclear references to the documents

Presents no relevant outside information

Attempts to complete the task, but essay demonstrates a major weakness in organization

Uses little or no accurate or relevant facts, details, or examples

Has vague or missing introduction and/or conclusion

0

Fails to address the task

Is illegible

Blank paper

Reflection

After reviewing this learning experience the teachers found that it would be beneficial if both teachers had more background knowledge of the other teacher's subject area.