Information Literacy Lesson Plan (CWalton)

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Information Literacy Lesson Plan

Candice Walton

FRIT 7136

Dr. Stephanie Jones

Spring 2010

Pathfinder URL:

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Information Literacy Lesson Plan

Grade: Teacher (s): 6th Grade Language Arts: Mrs. Bush; Media Specialist: Candice Walton

Content Topic: Propaganda/Persuasive Techniques

Standards For The 21st Century Learner Goals

Standard 3: Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our

democratic society.

Skills Indicator (s): 3.1.2 & 3.1.4

3.1.2- Participate and collaborate as members of a social and intellectual network of learners.

3.1.4 - Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and

understanding in ways that others can view, use, and assess.

Benchmark 3.1.2

Offer information and opinions at appropriate times in group discussions.

Encourage team members to share ideas and opinions.

Use interactive tools to exchange data collected, collaborate to design products or solve

problems, and learn curricular.

Benchmark -3.1.4

Use appropriate media and formats to design and develop products that clearly and coherently

display new understanding.

Dispositions Indicator (s): 2.2.4 & 3.2.3

2.2.4- Demonstrate personal productivity by completing products to express learning.

3.2.3- Demonstrate teamwork by working productively with others.

Responsibilities Indicator (s): 3.3.4

3.3.4- Create products that apply to authentic, real-world experiences.

Self-Assessment Strategies Indicator (s):

What are multimedia presentations?

What questions can I ask to learn about multimedia presentations?

What are the differences between superior and mediocre multimedia presentations?


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Can my questions be answered through the process of learning how to create multimedia

presentations?

CONNECTION TO LOCAL OR STATE STANDARDS

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Grade GPS Standards for Unit:

ELA6W3: The student uses research and technology to support writing; the student

b. Produces brief research projects (compositions, multimedia presentations, graphic

organizers, and projects, etc.)

OVERVIEW: In this unit, students will be introduced to the persuasive genre. They will

examine propaganda/ persuasive techniques that are utilized by the media, such as bandwagon,

testimonials, hero appeal, word play, and emotions. Students will analyze and discuss examples

of media advertisements utilizing these techniques. Students will then work with a partner to

create an advertisement. The advertisement will be developed through the use of multimedia.They will create a PowerPoint presentation that contains images.

The media specialist and the classroom teacher will play an integral role in the completion of the

task. The classroom teacher will explain and discuss the persuasive techniques with the students.

The media specialist will help the students examine the purpose of multimedia presentations as

well as teach them how to create multimedia PowerPoint presentations that contains images

taken from the internet.

FINAL PRODUCT: A multimedia PowerPoint presentation that includes images and creates an

advertisement for a particular product using either the persuasive technique of bandwagon,

testimonials, hero appeal, word play, or emotions.

LIBRARY LESSON (S): The media specialist will teach students about multimedia

presentations and their purposes. Most importantly, the media specialist will explain to students

how to create a multimedia PowerPoint presentation that contains images taken from the internet.

These tasks will be implemented through lectures, graphic organizers, and demonstrations via the

internet with the aid of the Promethean board. Additionally, the media specialist will create a

pathfinder to aid the students.

ASSESSMENT

Product

In partners, students will create a multimedia PowerPoint presentation that includes images taken

from the internet and develop an advertisement for a particular product using either the

persuasive techniques of bandwagon, testimonials, hero appeal, word play, or emotions.

Process


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The media specialist will use oral questions to prompt students to discuss multimedia

presentations.

The media specialist and students will use graphic organizers to facilitate students

understanding of multimedia presentations.

The media specialist will model strategies to create multimedia presentations to students.

The media specialist will observe students individually and in groups to monitor their

collaborative processes and ability to organize information.

Student self-questioning

Students will review their graphic organizers to learn the 5 Ws of multimedia presentations.

What are they? When do people use them? Why do people use them? ; Etc.

Students will reflect on their learning.

Students will check their multimedia PowerPoint presentations against their rubrics before

submitting them.

INSTRUCTIONAL PLAN:

DAY ONE

1. Activating Strategy

The media specialist will pose two questions to the students. What is a multimedia

presentation? What are their purposes? The students will receive approximately five minutesto generate ideas and complete a K-W-L-H chart about multimedia presentations. They will

only complete the K and W columns. The media specialist will begin to discuss students

answers as well as multimedia presentations with them.

2. Activity One

Using the projector and promethean board, the media specialist will display a brief

multimedia PowerPoint presentation that includes images and persuasive advertisements. The

presentation can be found at

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/powerpoints/persuasive_adverts_key.swf. Next,

the students will receive a handout on how to create a multimedia PowerPoint presentation

that includes taking images from the internet. Also, the media specialist will use the previous

presentation to model the steps for creating a presentation and for taking images from the

internet and placing them in a presentation.
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3. Activity Two

The media specialist will briefly use the Promethean Board to show the students the

pathfinder, which will contain resources that can be utilized in creating their presentations.

The pathfinder can be found athttp://cwaltonpathfinderpersuasive.pbworks.com/Candice-

Walton.

4. Activity Three

The students will work in partners to choose an item to advertise and create a multimedia

PowerPoint presentation on the item using bandwagon, testimonials, hero appeal, word play,

or emotions. The presentation must consist of at least 3 slides, advertise an object, use a

persuasive technique, and each slide must contain an image. While students are working, the

media specialist will walk around to assist them.

5. Wrapping it UP

The groups will save their presentations to a flash drive. The students will also complete their

H and L columns of their K-W-L-H charts. The chart will constitute as their ticket out the

door.

Resources students will use:

Online subscription database (s): www.galileo.com; Kids Search powered by EBSCO

host found at: http://web.ebscohost.com/srck5/search?vid=1&hid=6&sid=d9622cf4-139f-

48a9-a668-999f8cde9481%40sessionmgr12.

Web sites: http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1kwlh.htm ;

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/647;

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tutorials/ew_ppt.htm;

http://www.actden.com/PP/print/unit1.htm;

http://www.education.ucsb.edu/ucsbpt3/afield/teacher_projects/geometry_hunt/your_pow

er_point.html

Instruction/Activities:

Direct Instruction:
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The media specialist will provide students with graphic organizers to facilitate their

learning.

The media specialist will use the Promethean Board to share graphic organizers such asthe K-W-L-H chart.

The media specialist will use the Promethean Board to model how to create a multimedia

presentation with images and to introduce the pathfinder to students.

Modeling and guided practice:

The media specialist will guide students in determining what they know about

multimedia presentations.

The media specialist will use the Promethean Board to model how to use the computer to

create multimedia PowerPoint presentations with images.

The media specialist will introduce students to the pathfinder and explain its importance.

Independent Practice:

Students will work in pairs to discuss which persuasive strategy to use in order to develop

their advertisements.

Students will work in pairs to organize their presentations.

Students will work in pairs to create their presentations.

Sharing and Reflecting:

Students will complete their K-W-L-H charts in sections in which they share what they

know, what to know, what they have learned, and how to research to learn more about the

topic.


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Students will orally discuss the pros and cons of the learning process with the media

specialist.

If time permits, students will share their presentations.

Lesson Materials and Equipment

~Promethean Board & Projector

~Checkout 15 laptops from the Media Center

~Graphic Organizers

~Handouts

~Examples of multimedia presentations

~Pathfinder with Resources


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K-W-L-H Chart

Before learning about multimedia presentations, complete the know and need to

know columns. Fill in the last two columns after completing the multimedia

presentation.

Name: Topic: Multimedia Presentations

What I Know What I Need to

Know

What Ive Learned How I can Learn

More


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Creating Your Power Point Presentation

Students will use the handout to create the PowerPoint presentations with added emphasison the categories that pertains to images.

To Open Power Point:

Click on the PowerPoint icon

Choose Blank

Presentation

Choose Title Slide

layout

Click on the box and

type a title for yourpresentation

To add Background Pattern:

Click Format

Click Background

Click Fill Effects

Click Pattern tab

Click the pattern youwant

Click OK

Click Apply

To get the Next Slide:

Click the New Slidebutton or go to toolbar

> Insert > New Slide

Choose a layout

Type and add images

Continue this process

until all of the written

information you want toSHOW is on slides

To get more stuff on the

Toolbars:

Click View on thetoolbar

Click on Toolbars

Choose the tools you

want to use so they will

show on your screen(animation, pictures,

etc)

To add Shapes:

Click Autoshape Button

Choose a shape

To make the shape

larger or smaller dragthe resizing handle

Hold down the shift keyas you drag or you will

distort the shape

Adding Color to a Textbox:

Click text box

On Drawing Toolbar,click the arrow beside

the Fill Color button

Pick the color you want

To Copy and Image from theInternet:

Go to an Internet site

Put the cursor on the

picture and hold

A pop-up menu will

To Outline a Box:

Click on the Text Box

Click on line colorbutton

Click on the color

To select Background Color:

Click Format

Click Background

Click on list box to

open


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show

Select Copy Image

Return to the clip art

page

Click where you want

the picture

Go the Edit on toolbar

Paste

Click the Line Style

button

Click More

Choose color

Click Apply

To add Animation:

Click the slide view

button to bring up theslide you want to

animate

Go to Slide View

On the Formatting

Toolbar click the

Animation EffectsToolbar

Choose the animation

To add CD music:

Display the slide

Click Insert menu

Point to Movies and

Sounds

Choose the CD audio

track you want

Enter the music track

number in the start and

end track boxes

To play, double click

the CD icon

To add Sound:

In Slide View, select

the object you want toadd sound to

Click the Slide Show

menu

Click Custom

Animation

Under Entry Animation, select

Sound

To Spellcheck:

Check the toolbar box

with the square that hasthe ABC's in it

To add Clip Art:

Go to toolbar

Go to Insert

Find the Clip Art

To Crop an Image:

On the picture toolbar,

click the Crop Icon

Put the icon on the corner of

the picture and drag it in until

you've cut the picture to the

size you want


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To add Texture:

Click on Fill Effects

Click on Texture

Choose your texture


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AdvertisementPresentation

Rubric

CATEGORY 4 3 2 1

Content -Accuracy

All contentthroughout thepresentation isaccurate, and thepresentationeffectively uses apersuasive strategy.

Most of the content isaccurate, and thepresentationmoderately uses apersuasive strategy.

The content isgenerally accurate,and the persuasivestrategy is not clearlyutilized.

Content is typicallyconfusing, and thepresentation doesnot include the use ofa persuasivestrategy.

Use of Graphics All 3 or moregraphics areattractive (size andcolors) and supportthe theme/content ofthe presentation.

Two or less graphicsare not attractive butall support thetheme/content of thepresentation.

Two or less graphicare attractive butthey do not seem tosupport thetheme/content of thepresentation.

The presentations

does not contain any

graphics related the

content of the

presentation.

Effectiveness Project includes allmaterial needed togain a comfortableunderstanding of thetopic, and it isextremelypersuasive.

Project includes mostmaterial needed togain a comfortableunderstanding of thematerial but islacking one or twokey elements. It is

adequatelypersuasive.

Project is missingmore than two keyelements. It wouldmake an incompletepersuasive ad.

Project is lacking

several key elements

and has no

persuasive appeal.

Originality Presentation showsconsiderableoriginality andinventiveness. Thecontent and ideasare presented in aunique andinteresting way.

Presentation showssome originality andinventiveness. Thecontent and ideasare presented in aninteresting way.

Presentation showsan attempt atoriginality andinventiveness on 1-2cards.

Presentation is a

rehash of other

people's ideas and/or

graphics and shows

very little attempt at

original thought.


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Reflection

Creating this lesson with a fellow colleague was awesome. I learned a lot throughout the

process. Initially, I met with a sixth grade teacher to discuss technology concerns of her students.

She stated that many of her students are in awe whenever she uses PowerPoint presentations that

include images. The students make comments such as, That is a cool picture! She wants to

teach them how to create multimedia presentations that includes images, but she rarely has the

time to incorporate technology in her lessons. I informed her that I am currently enrolled in

school, and I needed to collaborate with a classroom teacher on creating an information literacy

lesson plan. I further explained that she would continue to function as the Language arts and

reading teacher while I would take on the role of the media specialist.

We were excited to get to work. I asked to view a copy of her sixth grade Georgia

Language Arts and reading standards, and I found the perfect standard to use in the

implementation of the information literacy lesson plan. The standard is ELA6W3. In this

standard, the student uses research and technology to support writing; the student (b.) Produces

brief research projects (compositions, multimedia presentations, graphic organizers, and projects,

etc.).

Furthermore, we needed to decide on how we would create an engaging and exciting

lesson that related to the standard. She informed me that she was in the process of reviewing

persuasive techniques. Once she said persuasive, the light bulb immediately began to shine. I

thought about using the persuasive techniques to allow students to create a PowerPoint

presentation that uses images to develop an advertisement. I explained my thoughts to her, and

she was willing to collaborate on the lesson plan.

However, the actual collaboration mainly took place after school. Since we have different

planning periods, it was difficult to collaborate with her during school hours. Nonetheless, she

was willing to stay an hour after school on Wednesdays and Thursdays, so we could work

together. In our collaborative meetings, I explained to her that the lesson would be for only one

class period. Because the teacher had introduced and explained the persuasive strategies to the

students, I would only need to model how to create the advertisement presentation.

Once we designed the lesson, we established a day that I could come to her classroom to

teach the lesson. We were able to successfully establish a meeting day. The teacher served as a

facilitator, and I taught the actual lesson. The teaching of the lesson went extremely well. The

students were actively engaged, and they were well behaved. Having the main teacher as a

facilitator was extremely helpful. The students successfully completed their graphic organizers,

and they were thrilled to create a presentation that involved images. It was remarkable to see


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their faces light up. At the conclusion of the lesson, the students had truly learned how to create

and navigate PowerPoint presentations.

Although the lesson was engaging and informing, there are a few changes that I would

have made. First, I would have allotted at least 2 class periods to implement the lesson. With

more time, I could have shown the students how to include animation as well as audio. Second, Iwould have liked to incorporate this lesson as a school wide plan. Many of the students are not

familiar with using PowerPoint presentations, and it would be beneficial for them to be able to

effectively utilize them. Third, I could have taught the students copyright rules and fair use, so

they would be aware of which images they could use without copyright infringement.

Overall, this was a great learning experience. I enjoyed working with another teacher in

designing the lesson. It is a lot easier to develop lessons when each individual has a specific

element to design. We were able to put our ideas together, so we could introduce students to

needed information literacy skills. We designed the lesson to reflect students differences. For

example, I began the lesson by lecturing to the students about the purpose of multimediapresentations. Next, I allowed them to complete a graphic organizer. Then, I appealed to visual

learners via the Promethean Board. Last, I allowed the students to work in groups.

In conclusion, this experience taught me that media specialists have several hats. They

are teachers, librarians, and change agents. It was difficult for the teacher and me to design a

specific day and time to collaborate during school hours. We had to work after school. Imagine

the difficulties of a media specialist trying to collaborate with the teachers in his or her school. I

have so much more respect for media specialists. Yes, they need to collaborate with teachers in

order to implement information literacy skills, but teachers need to assist them. Having the

classroom teacher introduce students to the different types of persuasive techniques and to howthey are used in the media allowed me more time to focus on teaching students how to create the

presentations.

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