kristich

=Kathy Kristich= Kathy.Kristich@rcsdk12.org

Application Project Plan (APP)
Briefly describe your tentative Application Project or how you think you might incorporate media literacy into the work that you do with teachers and/or students.

Tentative Title:
A Moment in Time

Target Audience:
11th graders (some 10th, some 12th)

Curriculum Goals:
Students will become more familiar with the Mac computers by using them to access the internet, create a powerpoint presentation and finally an imovie about their moment in time. They will learn about how media and history shape each other by analyzing what facts were presented in the media of the time period and how we perceive that event today. They will change history and be able to extrapolate that event into today, expressing how they think the event would shape modern culture and the entertainment industry.

Media Literacy Goals:
Understand and analyze how historical events are depicted in the media and movies and how media can shape an event or it's outcome and/or how entertainment has grown and changed with history and how it has also impacted history.

Proposed Activities:
Choose a significant moment in world or US history and research that event through newspaper articles, history books, movies of the event and other media of the time. Compile the information into a 5-7 minute presentation on the event and its significance in history, ending with how that event impacted our society today. Then the student will change the event and create a 5-7 minute presentation explaining how the event differs from the actual event and how it will change the course of history. They will need to change a newspaper or magazine article of the actual event adding in their details. They will create and perform a news broadcast of the event in a "GMA News Special Report," and write a treatment for a film script depicting the events.

(What technology will be used -if any?)

Assessment/Evaluation:
students will feel very comfortable building a presentation on the Mac, recoding themselves on camera and using the computer to help create their presentations. They will understand and express how one moment in history can change many moments in the future and how film and TV influence history by the repoting of and recording of events.

(how will you know your APP works to meet your goals?):

Resources/Support:
Things to help you in the development of your APP including any technology support you may require:

Difficulties/Obstacles:
The concept may be too big to accomplish and I have to keep the focus on Scriptwriting and Video Production. I may have to limit history to th 1900's and after when film production began to keep a better focus.

Any troubles in developing your APP:

Planning Steps:

 * 1) start