VuVoxx+(Music+7)

Tool: vuvox.com VUVOX is an easy to use production and instant sharing service that allows you to mix, create and blend your personal media – video, photos and music into rich personal expressions.

Lesson: This project includes: Filling out and detailed research guide on their composer and creating a timeline the contains important facts, relavant pictures, and is creative colorful and neat.

Length of time: 2 days of research in the media center. Students are then required to finish their research independently, using the school librarian as a resource during study halls, before and after school. Students then spend one week in the computer lab learning about and creating their vuvox presentations

Brief Description:

Handouts:

Standards: Common Core: CC.7.R.I.1 Key Ideas and Details: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. CC.7.R.I.4 Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone. CC.7.R.L.2 Key Ideas and Details: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. CC.7.SL.5 Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.

AASL: 1.1.4 Find, evaluate, and select appropriate sources to answer questions. 1.1.5 Evaluate information found in selected sources on the basis of accuracy, validity, appropriateness to needs, importance, and social and cultural context. 4.1.2 Read widely and fluently to make connections with own self, the world, and previous reading. 1.2.3 Demonstrate creativity by using multiple resources and formats. 2.1.6 Use the writing process, media and visual literacy, and technology skills to create products that express new understandings. 3.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view, use, and assess. 3.3.4 Create products that apply to authentic, real-world contexts. 3.4.2 Assess the quality and effectiveness of the learning product.

Positives: Students are able to create their own accounts and utilize the tool outside of the classroom. Images and text can be uploaded into the program.

Negatives: Vuvox has periodically frozen during class time as students were using it. We have not figured out what the problem might be, but suggest opening Mozilla Firefox instead of Internet Explorer when utilizing the program. This tends to minimize the problem.

Challenges with Technology: Please see above.