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Elementary Education (Grades 3-5) Community Building Homeroom About Me Get To Know Your Classmates WeVideo ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Standards for Students: Standard 1b - Creativity and Innovation (Create original works as a means of personal or group expression.) Students will learn how to use WeVideo, an online video-editing program. The students will also gain more experience with public speaking and turn-taking while listening to each others presentations. Additionally, students will learn more about their classmates and their teacher. This also allows teachers to incorporate the information observed about their students and add this information into teacher lesson plans. Materials needed would be a computer, internet access, and photographs that describe them such as photographs of their themselves, family, pets, hobbies, etc. Objective 1: Students will learn how to use technology to express themselves by creating a WeVideo. Objective 2: Students will gain confidence in their own public speaking skills by and feel more comfortable in front of audiences after introducing themselves and presenting their WeVideo to the class. Objective 3: Students will learn to be more attentive and focused listeners as they watch their classmates WeVideos and personal introductions. Objective 4: Students will gain personal knowledge about their classmates and teacher, and develop personal connections with their peers and instructor after learning this information. To prepare the students for the lesson, they will watch a brief how to video about WeVideo and learn what all of the tools are used for. Students will be learning through all levels of Blooms Taxonomy: 1. Knowledge: Students will be able to recognize classmates and identify them by name. 2. Understand: Students will relate to one another based on similar characteristics, hobbies, and interests. 3. Apply: After students are given a brief tutorial on WeVideo, they will be able to effectively experiment with the program. 4. Analyze: Students will classify their classmates into groups based on similar hobbies/interests. 5. Evaluate: Students will select partners, finding classmates with similar subject area interests.

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6. Create: Students will formulate a short oral presentation about their partner to share with the class. 1. Take students to the computer lab. Have each student make a WeVideo account. Then instruct students on the different features of the program and how to use it. 2. Have children bring photos to school on a USB flash-drive,upload to Google Drive or Dropbox, or you can have parents e-mail photos to the teacher. Students will need pictures of themselves, their family, hobbies/interests, etc. 3. Have students make their own unique WeVideo; have them include information that they want their fellow peers to know about them. 4. Give students a rubric, so they know what you expect of them. In the rubric, incorporate the use of audio, text, pictures, etc. 5. After each student has completed a video, have them write an introductory statement to recite to the class before presenting the video. 6. Then students will present their video to the teacher and fellow classmates. 7. To evaluate your students, have them compose a short oral presentation (roughly 3 facts in length) about a randomly selected partner partner to share with the class. After all of these presentations are completed, students will play a class-wide game in which the teacher reads off a fact that is specific to one particular student and the rest of the class gets to guess which student that is. To measure success, students will be graded on if they can present three facts about a fellow classmate. This will help reinforce students newly acquired knowledge of their classmates. It will also help to create and foster new relationships amongst the students in the class.

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