Instructional Technology Final
Project:
Cause and Effect Movie Maker
Activity
Claire DeRose
Towson University
Learning Problem
• HCPS Language Arts Curriculum is dry
• Anthology use does not motivate students
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Solution:
• Use of novels!
– Get invested in characters, plot, and conflict
• Creative activities that strengthen student’s
knowledge of literary elements and reading
strategies while engaging them in language
arts material.
Teaching Cause and Effect with
Windows Movie Maker
Students will learn what
cause and effect is and
how to find it in a story by
creating a movie that has
five cause and effect
scenes from a class novel,
Among the Hidden.
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Learning Environment
• Audience: 7th grade
students at Fallston Middle
School
• Learning styles:
– Visual (movie)
– Verbal (talking with group,
talking in movie)
– Interpersonal (group work)
– Kinesthetic (acting out
scenes)
• Teaching styles:
– TPACK
• Teaching via group project
• Using multiple forms of
technology
• Using ILA curriculum content
– Kids are engaged
– Kids have choice
• Technology Integration:
Windows Movie Maker
• Theories:
– Constructivist viewpoint
– “Learners actively
constructing their own
knowledge with teachers
being coaches, facilitators”
(Alessi, S.& Trollip.S., 2001).
Instructional Design:
ADDIE
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ADDIE : Analysis
• Learners: 7th grade Language Arts students
• Characteristics: low to average ability
– Unmotivated
• Student needs: chunking, review of Windows
Movie Maker
• Constraints: computer lab availability
Analysis Timeline
Day
1
Activity
Assessment
PowerPoint on Cause and Effect; students take notes. Students get into groups of four
Exit Slip: What is one cause and effect in Among the
(teacher selected in advance). Students work in groups to make a list of cause and effect
Hidden?
events in Among the Hidden.
2
Students narrow cause and effect list to the five most significant events in the story.
Compare with class what five scenes were picked and
Students start to plan how the five events will be displayed in scenes for their movie
why.
(characters, dialogue, setting, etc.)
3
Students use flip cams to record five scenes.
Collect checklist for how many scenes each group
recorded.
4
Students use flip cams to record five scenes. Students will complete a movie maker
Collect movie maker questionnaire.
questionnaire to gage how many are familiar with the program.
5
6
Computer lab technician and teacher will give a tutorial on how to use Windows Movie
Check students’ progress with movie by looking at them
Maker. A step by step guide will also be handed out. Students will upload scenes into
on the classes shared drive. Make notes to talk to specific
Windows Movie Maker and begin to create their movie in the computer lab.
groups if needed.
Students will finish creating their movie in the computer lab.
Check students’ progress with movie by looking at them
on the classes shared drive. Make notes to talk to specific
groups if needed.
7
Groups will introduce their movie and then show it. Classmates will evaluate each other’s Collect student rubrics. Collect project survey.
movies using the project rubric.
Grade each group’s movie using rubric.
ADDIE: Design
Learning objectives:
• Students will:
– define cause and effect
– analyze Among the Hidden to
find cause and effect examples
– evaluate cause and effect
examples to determine
significant events
– plan cause and effect scenes to
put in their movie
– create a movie to display five
significant cause and effect
events in Among the Hidden
– share their movies with the
class and evaluate peers’
movies.
• Assessments:
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Exit slip
Checklists
Teacher monitoring
Rubric for peer review and
teacher grade
• Content:
– Cause and effect in Among the
Hidden
• Media Used:
– PowerPoint
– Flip Cam
– Windows Movie Maker
ADDIE: Development
• Created a PowerPoint to explain cause and
effect
• Created a rubric to explain how the project
would be graded
• Created an example movie
ADDIE: Implementation
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Sign out Flip Cams
Reserve computer lab
Re-familiarize with Windows Media Maker
Go over basics of Windows Media Maker with
students first day of computer lab to review
ADDIE: Evaluation
Formative
Summative
• Exit slip: What is one cause and
effect in Among the Hidden?
• Brief class discussion: Compare
with class what five scenes were
picked and why.
• Checklist: how many scenes each
group recorded
• Movie maker questionnaire
• Teacher monitoring group’s
progress with movie- conferences
with groups that need it
• Rubrics for students to use when
peer evaluating movies
• Project rubric
• Project survey
Cause and Effect Example Movie