Syllabus

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Instructor: Temeka Butts Email: temekabutts@macon.k12.ga.us Phone: 478-472-7045 ext. 4008 Office Hours: 3:00-4:00 (Mon.-Thurs.)/ 10:30-11:30 (Fri.) *Please allow 24 hours for response to email questions.

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Course Description
This course offers an introduction to the production of digital stories using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. Participants get hands-on experience with multimedia tools and produce their own digital stories. Course topics include digital storytelling, assessing digital stories, the art and practice of using PowerPoint to make digital stories, the media production process, and copyright and fair use in education.

Course Standards, Objectives, and Goals
= Standard:CCGPS ELACC6SL5: Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, images, music, and sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify information. =

media type="custom" key="22860052" Objective 1: Students will acquire basic knowledge and skills of multimedia/presentation software and copyright/ fair use guidelines. Students will

1. Become familiar with multimedia/presentation graphics terminology. 2. Plan and design basic presentations. 3. Create, save, and view basic presentations. 4. Apply animation to slides 5. Learn the rules and apply the rules of copyright/fair use in regards to using other’s media.

media type="custom" key="22860060" Objective 2: Students will be able to create a digital story using PowerPoint 2010. Students will

1. Create a PowerPoint presentation using PowerPoint 2010. 2. Save their presentations as movie files and not presentation files. 3. Add images and sound to digital movies. 4. Add transitions to the digital movies that do not distract but enhance end product. 5. After finishing modules, students will be able to create digital stories using PowerPoint. 6. Display and critique movie with peers using rubric and reflect upon the learning process.

Course Activities
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**Story****bo** ** ard 101 ** : Students will learn to create storyboards to organize the information that they are compiling to produce in their digital stories.

**Digital Story Production**: Students will produce a digital story that has audio, images, and transitions that succinctly tells a story using PowerPoint 2010.

**Peer and Self-Evaluation of Digital Story**: Students will use a rubric to evaluate their own digital stories and evaluate the work of their peers.

**Reflection**: Students will write a reflective essay to describe what they have learned throughout the course and have taken from peer feedback and personal evaluation of the course in pertaining to digital storytelling and PowerPoint 2010.

**Discussions**: Students will use the note area in Edmodo as a discussion board for class introductions, posting their digital stories for peer feedback, and answering questions posted in the discussion activity and responding to at least one classmate’s post throughout the course. Responses have to be longer than one sentence and must include why you agree or disagree with a student’s response. *Netiquette (visit [] for more information)must be used at all times: respectful language, courtesy, and practice the golden rule of treating others as you would like to be treated.

Course Assignments
For this course, the week begins on Monday and ends on Friday. All assignments are due by 5:00 pm Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

Introductory Activity (considered part of Discussion grade): 3/29 Storyboard Assignment: 4/4 Digital Story (submitted via discussion board): 4/12 Peer Feedback/Self-Assessment of Digital Stories (considered part of Discussion Grade): 4/19 Final Submission of Digital Story: 4/22 Reflective Essay: 4/26

Grading
Reflection - 20% Digital Story - 40% Discussions (include Introductory Activity, Peer Feedbacks) - 25% Storyboard- 25%

Grading Scale
97 – 100% A+ 84 – 86% B 70 – 73% C- 0 – 59% F 94 – 96% A 80 – 83% B- 67 – 69% D+  90 – 93% A- 77 – 79% C+ 64 – 66% D  87 – 89% B+ 74 – 76% C 60 – 63% D-

Any assignment turned in after the deadline will be considered late and immediately drops a letter grade.Grades for this course include multimedia production AND online storytelling. Grades will be based on a mix of assignment completion, deadlines, and quality of work based on rubrics.

Academic Dishonesty
Plagiarism and using other people’s copyrighted materials that violate fair use guidelines will result in automatic failing grade for this course. Students have to abide by Macon County Middle School policy on cheating and all students are subjected to the same rules as a traditional classroom setting.

Technology Requirements
media type="custom" key="22860122" Since this course is 100% completed online, students will need access to the Internet, and computers with Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 installed. Students should use Internet Explorer and not Google Chrome for this class because of the plug ins needed (for example: Windows Media Video and Windows Media Audio). Students will be gathering images from online and will not need a digital camera to complete assignments. Students will need to have access to some voice recording software (Audacity or Sound Recorder: pre-installed on most computers), a microphone, or a laptop that has a built in microphone for recording narration for the completion of digital stories. Students will be using the [|Edmodo] and http://mcmsmedia.wikispaces.com/; students will be given account information via student share folder at school.

Expectation for Student use of Technology **
media type="custom" key="22860078" Students will be required to exhibit appropriate online behavior (netiquette) and submit items to the discussion board that contains politeness, consideration, and the knowledge that all comments will be published on the web and any conversation that is bullying, offensive, or derogatory will result in appropriate disciplinary actions. Students are to respond to at least one person’s discussion and peer evaluate another student’s digital story. Discussion activities are monitored. An adult will be supervising students while they work on the Internet in completing the modules. However when students are not using the Internet, no supervision is required. Cyber safety and school rules prohibit students from divulging full names, locations, and any other personal identifying information such as pictures and phone numbers. Students may work on their digital stories at home with parental guidance; however, all projects must be completed by students.