Class Project End of Term Assembly Authors: Sheridan Glenister, Jane Hill, Holly Hyde and Amanda Parr

Class Assembly Brief overview on Assembly Item Brief overview on Assembly Item Lesson Plans Lesson Plans Google Calendar Google Calendar Pivot Stickfigure Animator Pivot Stickfigure Animator Glogster Glogster Wikispaces Wikispaces

Fairytale Play Fairytale Play The class assembly item is going to be the students remake of a classic fairytale. You as the teacher will read the students two fairytale stories and the students will then decide which story they want to show for the assembly. The work leading up to the final performance will give the students the opportunity to practice their creative, organisational and technological skills.

Lesson Plans Lesson one: Read two fairytales to the children. A couple of suggestions would be My Treasury of Fairytales and Fairytale Treasury both books have several fairytales in them and are quite nice books. Lesson one: Read two fairytales to the children. A couple of suggestions would be My Treasury of Fairytales and Fairytale Treasury both books have several fairytales in them and are quite nice books. Lesson two: As a whole class, discuss and decide on the script for the assembly item, decide who is to play which character and what type of costumes the actors will wear. Lesson two: As a whole class, discuss and decide on the script for the assembly item, decide who is to play which character and what type of costumes the actors will wear.

Lesson Plans Cont. Lesson three-four: Divide the students into four groups Lesson three-four: Divide the students into four groups Group 1: Make posters using Glogster EDU Group 2: Create stage directions for the actors using Pivot Stickfigure Animator (a great program that allows the students to use stick people and move them around a stage)

Lesson Plans cont. Group 3: Make a timeline using Google Calendar. This will be to organise when they need to practice and what they will focus on each practice session (this will help work on the students organisation skills) Group 4: Create a class website to display the final product of the class assembly (video and pictures) and the work they have been putting in during the build up eg. poster art work, stage directions and the timeline they have created. I would suggest you make the website password protected to keep the privacy of the children and only hand out the password to the children’s parents. Also don’t forget to check permission with parents to show children’s photos first.

Lesson Plans Cont. Lessons five-eight: Students will use these lessons to practice their assembly piece they will have already decided which part they will practice through each lesson. Lessons five-eight: Students will use these lessons to practice their assembly piece they will have already decided which part they will practice through each lesson. Lessons nine-ten: Lessons nine-ten: Students will write a reflection on what they did and how it turned out these will then be put up on their website for parents to their website for parents to read along with the timeline, read along with the timeline, stage directions, posters, final production pictures and the video of the performance.

Google Calendar Google Calendar is a tool students are able to use to keep track of what they are up to in an assignment and when something is due. It allows you to insert events and alarms, which will then be sent to your inbox. On the wiki we have created there is an attached document which shows a step by step example of how to use Google Calendar.

Pivot Pivot is a stick figure animator which your students can use to figure out stage directions. The software can be downloaded for free from animator.en.softonic.com/. animator.en.softonic.com/ animator.en.softonic.com/ There are some videos on our wiki page that will help to show how to use the animator. The first one shows you how to create a new figure type. For this task, a stage would be necessary which is what I have modelled in the video. The next video is a quick example of how to move the figures and make it look almost realistic. Show these videos to the children so that they can see what they need to do and how to do it. This would be a great activity to do using an electronic whiteboard if you have one available to you.

Glogster EDU The students will be using Glogster EDU to create a poster to take home to their parents and put up on the students website. Glogster EDU is a special version of Gloster which has been created for teachers and their students. Glogster EDU Glogster EDU Glogser is a great site students can add pictures, change backgrounds, add sound and movies to the posters made. Glogster EDU ranges in price from free (which includes 50 students) up to $99 a year (includes 200 students) or a whole school from $2 a year per student depending on what services you are looking for. Brief video: users guide users guideusers guide

Wiki Wiki’s are a tool that allow multiple users/authors to create, add, change and share their work all at the same time. We thought, for this reason, a wiki would be a great tool to demonstrate our work, as all members of the group can add their part, as well as see, add and correct any other group members work. For this assignment we used ‘Wikispaces’, which is a very easy to use, basic site for creating wikis. It shows, collectively, what the group has accomplished, having a page for each different technology looked at, Pivot, Glogster and Google Calendar. On these pages the technological tool in question is explained, and demonstrated. The wiki also includes an outline of lesson plans, and references used.

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