8P24 Week 3

Media Studies 1

Agenda

• Professional Learning Conversations • Storing resources: Diigo• Characteristics of Effective Blogs• Assignment: Blog Creation– Rubric

• Questioning: Lego man in Space – Q-Chart

Media Creation

• Haiku poetry• PicCollage• App smashing: ThingLink • Connections to Ontario Curriculum Language

• Professional Readings: 3 R response– Meet with Literacy Leaders

Professional Learning Conversation

• Resources to support Media Literacy

Curation of Resources

Characteristics of Effective Educational Blog Posts

• Consult your notes from this week’s online question

• As a table, list features of an educational blog post that should be incorporated into your own blog posts for each strand

• List these features on the paper provided

Blog Post Assignment

• Structure

• Success Criteria– Compare with your table group charts

• Sample blog post http://missnkrikke.blogspot.ca/search/label/Language%20and%20Literacy

Lego Man

• https://youtu.be/Lum1DMTdccE

Haiku

• Line 1: 5 syllables• Line 2: 7 syllables• Line 3: 5 syllables

Haiku for winter

Frosty winter’s dayBare white limbs on creaking treesImperfection, grace

Chris Hadfield Tweet from Space

• Original tweet: “Mining town in northern China – the open pits gleam with blue from space”

• As haiku poem:Northern China mines (5)Open pits gleam blue from space (7)Rich reserves of ore (5)

Your Task

• Pic Collage app on iPads • Select a Chris Hadfield tweet from space

(handout)– Rewrite it to fit the haiku form (5/7/5)– Conduct any research needed to clarify the tweet– Using Pic Collage:

• Select appropriate online images and arrange as a collage• Select a background• Type the haiku into a text box• Save to photos

Tutorials (links on Sakai page for Week 3)

• PicCollage

Take it to the next level by “app smashing” via • ThingLink

Ontario Curriculum

• How does this poetry/media activity address specific expectations in the Ontario Curriculum: Language?

• What other subject areas are also addressed?

Professional Reading

Evans, J. (2015). More verbs, fewer nouns. Educational Leadership, 72(8), 10-16.

3 R’s • 3R (Recovery of Meaning, Reconstruction of Meaning, Reflection on

Meaning) • Write 3 short paragraphs in response to the reading using the 3R framework:

• 1. Recovery of Meaning: Concise message about the key messages in the reading

• 2. Reconstruction of Meaning: How the message of the reading will impact your personal literacy learning and teaching in your practicum.

• 3. Reflection on Meaning: How you think the reading will have impact on literacy teacher education for both pre-service and in-service teachers.