1. STEPHANIE PAPAK Using PhotoStory 3 to describe families in Spanish

2. What is PhotoStory 3? It is a free application that you can download from the internet that allows users/students to create a digital story from photographs. Users can incorporate effects, narration, music, and text into their stories.

3. Lesson Objectives Students will be able to create “their” family tree and describe family members in Spanish. They will be able to present this information in video format using PhotoStory 3.

4. Student NETS Standard Alignment Student NETS Standard 1a: Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. Student NETS Standard 1b: Create original works as a means of personal or group expression. Student NETS Standard 3b: Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media. Student NETS Standard 4b: Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project. Student NETS Standard 5a: Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology. Student NETS Standard 6a: Understand and use technology systems. Student NETS Standard 6c: Troubleshoot systems and applications.

5. Materials Needed Computers (with internet) for each student PhotoStory 3 Personal or downloadable music selections Microphones for each computer Flash drives Handouts of project description Scanner SMARTBoard

6. Lesson Procedure

7. Beginning: Warm-up The lesson will start off with a warm-up activity in which students respond to questions in Spanish (using family vocabulary) about the family tree of TV’s Family Guy. This will help students to practice more with the vocabulary before starting the project. This should take no more than ten minutes. The Family Guy family tree PowerPoint activity can be found on the Repurposed Lesson Plans page on the Wiki underneath my lesson plan

8. Introduction After the warm-up activity, the project handout is passed out and read through as a class. The distinction between the two projects is clarified. This should take about five minutes (including time for questions as well). The project handout can be found on the Repurposed Lesson Plans page on the Wiki underneath my lesson plan.

9. Introduction (cont.) Brief modeling will be done to remind students how to use the technology. A “mini” PhotoStory (using two photos as an example) will be created to show students how to:  Google and save photos to H:Drive  Upload photos to PhotoStory 3 and create transitions, narrations, text titles  Use soundzabound.com or a similar site to download and save music to H:Drive and upload it to PhotoStory  Create a credits page using PowerPoint and saving slides as JPEG images to import into PhotoStory  Save their PhotoStory projects This should take no more than ten minutes.

10. Implementation Students will work individually in the computer lab for the remainder of that class day and two subsequent days creating their projects. Students will also have the opportunity to take projects home to put finishing touches on projects if they choose to do so, however it is not required and students will be provided enough time in class to finish.

11. Finishing up The last day in the computer lab (this is the third day) all projects will be collected on a flash drive (so they can be used later for grading purposes and to make the presentation process easier). This should be done as students finish the entire last day in the lab.

12. Presentation Students will present their projects to the class by playing them through the teacher computer and watch via the SMARTBoard in the classroom. This will take the entirety of the fourth day.

13. Credits Picture 1 – PhotoStory display - microsoft-photo- story.en.softonic.com microsoft-photo- story.en.softonic.com Picture 2 – Simpson’s family tree - www.englishexercises.orgwww.englishexercises.org Picture 3 – Modern Family family tree - www.screened.comwww.screened.com Picture 4 – computer lab - tarangiti.com tarangiti.com Picture 1 – step by step - www.freepsddaily.com www.freepsddaily.com Picture 2 – created by me (snapshot of PowerPoint) Picture 3 – created by me (snapshot of lesson handout) Picture 4 – PhotoStory - www.staff.olympia.orgwww.staff.olympia.org Picture 5 – flash drive - www.flashdrive-repair.com www.flashdrive-repair.com Picture 6 – watching movies - tcmr.net tcmr.net