TL202 – Presentation (Cartoon Production)
Ages: 8-16
Length: 16-20 sessions, 1 hour each
Description
Part 1 Presenter: In this course, students will have public speaking lessons to integrate research and technology skills. An inquiry-based approach is used to formulate and investigate a question. The topic is researched, and facts are organized in a bulleted list and table. To prepare for public speaking, students follow instructions to write a set of notes that accompany each slide. Upon completion, findings are communicated to an audience in an oral presentation. Additional teaching ideas explain how to collaborate with a partner, insert a video, create a graphic organizer, or animate text.
Part 2 Cartoon: Inspire reluctant writers with visual storytelling lesson plans. Elementary and middle school students use their imaginations to create a story that looks like a cartoon or animated comic strip. Upon completion, the graphic story is published as a link with the slides set to play automatically. Challenging digital storytelling optional activities support learning with optional assignments such as animation techniques, collaborative peer-editing, or screen casting.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Develop public speaking skills
- Understand copyright and plagiarism
- Formulate a question and investigate findings
- Research using informational text
- Present to an audience using a slide show as a visual aid
- Communicate facts using a bulleted list
- Build a table to sort facts into categories
- Enhance slides with images, shapes, or word art
- Document information sources
- Add speaker notes to slides to add extra details
- Select and organize story ideas
- Produce an original digital story
- Revise a story to improve quality
- Publish a digital story to share with others
- Save a digital story as other file types
- Format slide background for story backdrop
- Express ideas creatively
- Illustrate events with images and objects
- Divide story action by applying transitions
- Animate slide objects to sequence events