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Link to Classroom Wiki Who Will Win? Which Black-Eyed Susan Nominee for Picture Books will win?

MASL sponsors a contest for students to select a book to receive the Black-Eyed Susan award each year. The children read or are read to a selection of pre-determined books. There are four categories--Picture Books, Books for grades 4-6, Books for grades 6-9 and books for high school. This year, I read the picture books to most of the classes. I then created a power point with the covers of the nominees to use when the students voted. Before voting, they watched the power point and a brief summary of the book to refresh their minds. Then they were shown the covers again so that they could vote for their favorite. Each student received one vote to cast. To record the vote, I alternated between the power point and the document camera to record the votes on the tally.
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Equipment used: digital camera and document camera

Teacher Standards I. Information Access, Evaluation, Processing and Application - Access, evaluate, process and apply information efficiently and effectively. II. Communication - Use technology effectively and appropriately to interact electronically II. Communication - Use technology to communicate information in a variety of formats. III. Legal, Social, and Ethical Issues - Demonstrate an understanding of the legal, social, and ethical issues related to technology use. IV. Assessment for Administration and Instruction - Use technology to analyze problems and develop data-driven solutions for instructional and school improvement. V. Integrating Technology into the Curriculum and Instruction - Design, implement, and assess learning experiences that incorporate use of technology in a curriculum-related instructional activity to support understanding, inquiry, problem-solving, communication and/or collaboration. VI. Assistive Technology - Understand human, equity, and developmental issues surrounding the use of assistive technology to enhance student learning performance and apply that understanding to practice. VII. Professional Growth - Develop professional practices that support continual learning and professional growth in technology.
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Student Technology Standards: Standard 3.0--Technology for Learning and Collaboration: Using a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration A. Learning 1. Use and understand how technology enhances learning a) Use technology tools, including software and hardware, from a range of teacher-selected options to learn new content or reinforce skills B. Encourage Collaboration 1. Use and explain how selected technology tools encourage collaboration a) Use technology tools to work collaboratively within the classroom Standard 4.0-Technology for Communication and Expression: Use technology to communicate information and express ideas using various media formats A. Communication 1. Use and explain how technology is used for communication c) Present information, independently or with assistance, to various audiences including school and community A. Communication 1. Use technology for communication b) Present information independently to various audiences B. Expression 1. Select and use technology to express ideas b) Present ideas and information in formats such as electronic presentations, web pages, graphic organizers, or spreadsheets that are appropriate to a specific audience

MSDE Voluntary State Curriculum Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate an appreciation of literature as a reflection of human experience and reading as a pleasurable activity. Content Standard 6: Students will be able to communicate findings/conclusions by producing materials in an appropriate format to support written, oral and multimedia presentations

Maryland Library Media Learning Outcomes Outcome 6: Demonstrate an appreciation of literature and other creative expressions as a source of information and recreation. Outcome 7: Create materials in various formats.

AASL/AECT: Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning Standard 5: The student who is an independent learner appreciates literature and other creative expressions of information. Srandard 3: The student who is information literate uses information accurately and creatively. Standard 9: The student who contributes positively to the learning community and to society in information literate and participates effectively in groups to pursue and generate information.


 * Reflection **

Photographing the covers for the power point was interesting as I had a difficult time photographing without glare on the books. Most of the books have a shiny book jacket and light reflected off the covers. I did manage to get pictures without much glare. The students enjoyed the use of the power point to help them remember the stories so that they could vote for their favorite book.


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Who Will Win? Which Black-Eyed Susan nominee for Grades 4-6 will win?

Description

The students chose a Black-Eyed Susan nominee from the Grades 4-6 selection. Then they created a short blurb about why you should vote for their book. The blurb was videoed. The video clip was shown to those students who had read at least three of the books and the votes were tallied using the document camera to show the votes. Equipment used: Flip video camera and the document camera

Technology Standards: Standard 3.0--Technology for Learning and Collaboration: Using a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration B. Collaboration 1. Use and explain how technology tools work encourage collaboration b) Use technology tools to exchange ideas with individuals or groups outside the classroom B. Encourage Collaboration 1. Select and use technology tools to encourage collaboration b) Present ideas and information in formats such as elecyronic presentations, web pages, graphic organizers, or spreadsheets that are appropriate to a specific audience Standard 4.0-Technology for Communication and Expression: Use technology to communicate information and express ideas using various media formats A. Communication 1. Use technology for communication b) Use technology tools identified by the teacher to communicate with various audiences c) Present information, independently or with assistance, to various audiences including school and community B. Expression 1. Use and explain how the technology can be used to express ideas b) Present ideas and information in formats such as electronic presentations, web pages, or graphic organizers that are appropriate audience b) Present ideas and information in formats such as electronic presentations, web pages, graphic organizers, or spreadsheets that are appropriate to a specific audience

MSDE Voluntary State Curriculum Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate an appreciation of literature as a reflection of human experience and reading as a pleasurable activity. Content Standard 6: Students will be able to communicate findings/conclusions by producing materials in an appropriate format to support written, oral and multimedia presentations

Maryland Library Media Learning Outcomes Outcome 6: Demonstrate an appreciation of literature and other creative expressions as a source of information and recreation.

AASL/AECT: Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning Standard 2: The student who is information literate access information efficiently and effectively Standard 5: The student who is an independent learner appreciates literature and other creative expressions of information.

Comments by Brandi on her Black-Eyed Susan nominee media type="file" key="Copy of VID00013.AVI"

Comments by Yanni on his Black-Eyed Susan nominee media type="file" key="Copy of VID00014.AVI"

Comments by Melissa on her Black-Eyed Susan nominee media type="file" key="Copy of VID00016.AVI"

Comments by Wendy on her Black-Eyed Susan nominee media type="file" key="VID00019.AVI"

Reflection The students were excited about videoing their blurbs. When they saw their finished video, some were surprised by how their voices sounded. I was not able to use all of the video clips the students made because some of them were to long and could not be embedded. When planning to use video clips, I will have to make sure that they are short enough to be embedded.