Project Planning Sheet

Shelbi Burnett

Video Assignment

Goals:

Through this movie project we are attempting to tie together various ideas and topics from ED 245 into something relevant to our professional growth, teaching, and/or the students we will educate. This assignment will help us expand our knowledge of this particular media tool (iMovie or Windows Movie Maker) in addition to demonstrating its effectiveness in the classroom setting. With our movie we are demonstrating the importance of fair use and its relevance to students and education today. During our time in ED 245 and through discussions, we have realized we were not knowledgeable about the topic of fair use. This video could be an effective tool for representing the general lack of awareness around this topic as well as educating students about fair use in general.

Content Standards:

This assignment follows and meets the InTASC Core Teaching Standards, the National Educational Technology Standards as well as the Performance Indicators for teachers in particular:

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:

a.	promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
b.	engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
c.	promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
d.	model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S. Teachers:

a.	design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
b.	develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress.
c.	customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.
d.	provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.

3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning

Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society. Teachers:

a.	demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations.
b.	collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation.
c.	communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital-age media and formats.
d.	model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.

4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices. Teachers:

a.	advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources.
b.	address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources.
c.	promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information.
d.	develop and model cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital-age communication and collaboration tools.

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers:

a.	participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning.
b.	exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others.
c.	evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning.
d.	contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community.

Description of Assignment:

By using a movie making program, we will make a product that displays particular aspects of fair use for our class, other students, teachers and parents to view.  It will be creative and fun way to show the content we are covering concerning the relevance of fair use. The video itself, shows our comfort as instructors with using these types of programs and that we encourage interactive learning in our classroom.

We compiled media by interviewing other students about their knowledge of fair use as well as recording ourselves in a creative fashion. We found media about fair use via the website YouTube to incorporate into our project to demonstrate the unique features of the media. Using the program iMovie we integrated this media together into a video offering both information about fair use, and propagating the general feel of the lack of knowledge about the topic.

We hope this video is a funny and creative method that can be used in classrooms or completed by other students to convey information about an important subject.

Human Subjects, Media, and Copyright Plan

We plan to film students at Butler University in addition to ourselves. These students have verbally committed to being filmed and are aware that their interview will be used for the purpose of this assignment. The questions they were asked were approved before hand and they were prepped for the process of filming.

In addition to this we have incorporated a clip from the website YouTube explaining fair use. It is in accordance with the fair use policy that we use this media because our projects are for the purposes of education and will be viewed by only other class members as well as our Professor (the media created by this assignment is not intended for the general public). Also, we do not plan to claim any of the material provided in this film as our own, all sites will be cited appropriately and documented effectively.

Our plan is to present an informative, comical, and accurate description of fair use through this video.  We begin by representing a news station “Wiki World News” and then cutting to our different interviewers. These interviews then complete the interviews of the subjects (asking the preapproved questions) and this is then complied into the video. Cutting back to “the studio” we then call on advice from the “experts.” This is where we have integrated the YouTube video into our project.  Finally we cut back to the studio to conclude the presentation.

Reflection

Overall this project provided a unique way for us to incorporate all that we have learned about technology this year into one final assignment. I am very pleased with the work that our group did and I think this video is something I would be comfortable using in my classroom in the future as a learning tool.

Throughout this course we have learned the importance of integrating media into the classroom setting. This video proves we are comfortable using media and we value it as a tool for education. I am happy with the work our group performed to assemble this project.  We worked well and incorporated many ideas to compile something that reflects our knowledge of the application of various media tools.  I enjoyed this project because it both modeled learning/projects that I could see myself assigning to students in the future and proved to be something useful for my own learning about fair use.

In many ways, this assignment was similar to our photo montage. We used “dumb” technology to produce a piece of media that displays something important. We had to provide all the information, but the technology provided by the program iMovie helped us to integrate various aspects of our media into one final video.  It was a unique assignment and I really could appreciate the many aspects that had to come together to make our video a success.

My hope is when we show this to the class it can be an accurate demonstration of fair use as well as display our comfort with using media of this type in the classroom.

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