Literacy+Tasks


 * media type="youtube" key="6Q6cR2BB3cw" height="390" width="480" || This task was a response to the need to improve multi-media presentations. The students analysed earlier work and created success criteria for an effective presentation for an audience by focusing on the balance of sound, visual image selection and voice over to impart their message.Once completed they then evaluated their work against the success criteria and what would improve future presentations.

These students were of mixed abilities and chose their group and selected their poem from a number of given poems.

Briefly the learning intentions included: reading aloud for an audience; and combining sound and images effectively.

The key competencies included: using language, text and symbols; thinking; managing self; relating to others; participating and contributing. || The story included a problem, solutions and ending that provided a simple, amusing, satisfying twist. ||
 * media type="youtube" key="qinuCookzwU" height="390" width="480" || This student told his story by combining sound and moving images. Effective use of camera level placement, transitions, playback speed, music selection combined to give a sense of drama and successfully engage the viewer.
 * media type="custom" key="8344998" || Kazane arrived from Japan at the beginning of the year with some previous English learning, however, she was not using it. To support her she was partnered with an English speaking student and together they used 'Voicethreads' to complete a reading presentation. Her first efforts were inaudible but over time she was reading clearly and with expression. ||
 * media type="custom" key="8345458" || This student completed a reading task that required the writing of a blurb following the analysis of what makes a good blurb. ||
 * media type="custom" key="8345042" || These students have completed a social science assessment task that demonstrates what they had learnt about the NZ influenza epidemic of 1918 and the impact that it had on children of their age group. ||
 * media type="custom" key="8345428" || These students are making connections with the text to their own experiences. ||
 * media type="custom" key="8345444" || This is a book analysis including a summary, character development by the author, making connections and personal responses. ||
 * media type="custom" key="8345418" || This is another blurb analysis and rewrite for the book 'Firesong'. ||
 * media type="custom" key="8345180" || Selecting a reading for others; stating the reasons for the selection then presenting the reading. ||
 * media type="custom" key="8345200" || Selecting a reading for others; stating the reasons for the selection then presenting the reading. ||
 * media type="custom" key="8345212" ||  ||